
Timeline
About me
Lightspeed TD at Pixar Animation Studios
Education

Texas a&m university
2010 - 2014Bachelor of science - bs electrical and electronics engineering
Texas a&m university
2018 - 2020Master of science - ms visualization
Experience

Texas a&m university
May 2012 - Aug 2012Student assistant (research)Assisted in research on highspeed CMOS analog-to-digital converters.

Amd
Aug 2012 - Dec 2012Product development engineer co-opStatistical analysis with the Product Engineering group.

Texas a&m university
Aug 2013 - May 2014Peer teacherHelped transition into a restructured, centralized curriculum; assisted students from varying engineering backgrounds with numerous programming-based projects and assignments.

Amd
Jul 2014 - Aug 2018Product development engineer i/iiPrimary owner of SLT characterization; created power models for product definition. Analyzed correlation data to improve robustness of the production pipeline and anticipate potential issues with new technology.

Texas a&m university
Aug 2018 - Jul 2020Create digital illustrations that enrich the understanding of high-level research across multiple fields and help communicate complex concepts. Provide one-on-one collaborative tutoring in writing and speaking with native and ELL students from freshman to graduate level across a broad range of subjects and literary genres.
Illustrator GANT
Jan 2019 - Jul 2020Writing Consultant
Aug 2018 - Jan 2020
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Department of visualization, texas a&m university (viz lab)
Jan 2020 - Aug 2020Educated students on animation pipeline practices and navigating the temporary cloud-based workflow, scope out potential solutions to gaps in the school pipeline, and be a line of communication between ITS and the department. IoR for the sophomore section of animation vertical studio (~20 students) and assisted the main lecturer with all combined sections (~50 students). After transitioning to a remote structure, I helped set up a cloud-based pipeline to keep student projects going.
Program Aide
May 2020 - Aug 2020Instructor of Record
Jan 2020 - May 2020

Pixar animation studios
Sept 2020 - nowTBA Project Elio (2024)Elemental (2023)Lightyear (2022) Turning Red (2022)Luca (2021)
Lead Technical Director
Oct 2023 - nowTechnical Director
Jul 2021 - Oct 2023Technical Director - Resident
Dec 2020 - Jul 2021Technical Director - Intern
Sept 2020 - Dec 2020
Licenses & Certifications

Ittpc level 2
College reading & learning associationMay 2019
Certificate of publication
ElsevierMay 2020
Honors & Awards
- Awarded to Chia-an FuBest in VR - Oct 2019 Special recognition awarded in the 2019 Chillennium game jam.Link to project: https://vizardry.itch.io/ey-n-handy
- Awarded to Chia-an FuAMD Spotlight Award - Aug 2016 In recognition of exemplary work in the semi-custom group.
- Awarded to Chia-an FuBP Scholarship - Aug 2012 A merit-based scholarship awarded through the College of Engineering.
Languages
- enEnglish
- maMandarin chinese
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