Phokgoan Chioh

Experience

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  Ministry of Health and Welfare, Taiwan

  Apr 2007 - Mar 2008

  Medical Military Servant at the Department of Public Relations

  • Assisted in news dissemination.• Handled duties of public relations.• Organized press conferences.• Managed servers and filed public health videos produced by the Ministry of Health and Welfare.• Maintained IT technical support for the department.

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  National Taiwan University

  Jul 2008 - Feb 2009

  Research Assistant at the Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering

  • Worked on a national project, which included compiling a corpus of Taiwanese-language documents, including traditional writings, dictionaries, and school textbooks for creating parse tree.• Organized research materials and submitted quarterly reports of research findings to the Ministry of Education.

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  Nature Enthusiast

  Feb 2010 - now

  National Park Collector / Photographer

  • Currently have collected 38/59 US NPs, 8 NPs of Japan, Germany, Netherlands and Poland, and many other parks.• Visited 11 NPs, 7NMs, and 6 other NPS parks within a month, traveled over 8,000 miles among 11 western states on my own.• Visited 5 NPs, 8 states, and many NPS parks in DC within 10 days, traveled over 2,500 miles on my own.• Met awesome people and amazing wildlife.

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  Information Sciences Institute

  Apr 2011 - Jun 2014

  Research Programmer

  • Developed image-processing programs for geographic information extraction and document understanding. -- Skills applied: C#, OpenCV, EmguCV, Xamarin, Image Processing• Developed websites of CGSMD and PAGE projects on the top of Pegasus, our division's scientific workflow management system. -- Skills applied: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, jQuery, PHP, MySQL, Linux Shell• Developed software and website to extract and visualize statistical data from clinical records. -- Skills applied: Python, Natural Language Processing, NLTK, HTML, XML, CSS, Google App Engine• Did researches on UMLS medical terminology database and its API, and used those terminologies to help improve our medical and clinical Natural Language Processing (NLP) tasks. -- Skills applied: Python, Java, Natural Language Processing, UMLS• Helped generating the preliminary results to get a research grant from NIH. Worked on that project, GWASTools, which aims on generating GWAS Catalogs automatically with NLP, machine learning, and data visualization techniques. -- Skills applied: Python• Helped on a collaborative project of computer vision with Caltech that aims at detecting mitochondrial fusion, fission, and other movement activities. -- Skills applied: Java, Matlab, Eclipse, Image Processing• Developed image-processing software for high-throughput drug screening on a collaborative project with USC Keck School, McGill University, NIH, and NCATS. -- Skills applied: Java, Matlab, Eclipse, Image Processing Show less

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  Viren Technologies

  Sept 2014 - May 2015

  Principal Algorithm Engineer

  Video surveillance team leader• Designed and studied for the proposal of the Cloud Surveillance System. Integrated the computer vision and other related algorithms for the project.• Developed search-by-image algorithm and the corresponding app.• Built web bots crawling over e-commerce websites.• Hosted and managed network services for colleagues.• Supported colleagues with technical aids on development.

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  ThroughTek Co., Ltd.

  Jun 2015 - Mar 2018

  Sr. Software Engineer

  • Developed video player that works with the company's IOTC (network) and AV (multimedia) protocols for various platforms including Windows, Mac OSX, Linux, Android & iOS.• Worked on refactoring the company's AVAPI multimedia transmission module.• Ported the company's AV modules to various embedded systems.• Developed audio/video transcoding libraries and extensions for the company's multimedia module.• Developed streaming libraries/extensions for the company's platform.• Designed and developed KalayImage, which serves as the company’s multi-platform core image processing and computer graphics library, and built interfaces for Android and iOS.• Containerized the company’s core services, build and test environments, and example programs into Docker images, and guided other teams to make the best use of them.• Designed, developed, and implemented IoT and related security protocols (i.e. LwM2M and DTLS) for customer’s product.• Integrated multiple online payment systems into one of the company’s core product VSaaS, and remodeled the financial module of the backend system.• Remodeled the company’s server log crawler/parser and the data flow system by refactoring the code and also redesigned the flow into more flexible, scalable, and stable micro-services. Show less

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  Ideas Lab

  Apr 2017 - now

  Co-Founder
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  Scientia Inc.

  Apr 2018 - now

  Founder