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Meng Yang

3650 Chestnut St. Rm???/Bx???, Philadelphia, PA 19104 • mengyang at seas dot upenn dot edu

EDUCATION
- University of Pennsylvania. Expected Graduation Date: May 2007
  B.S.E:Candidate in Digital Media Design / Computer Science & Engineering
  B.A.: Candidate in Mathematics (Potential)
  Advisor: Prof. Norman I. Badler

University of Pennsylvania
- Information Technology Advisor, College House Computing (2003 - 2004)
  - Staff the College House computer lab and provide computing support to users inside/outside the lab
  - Monitor and respond to the queue of service requests gathered by the online problem tracker
  - Provide training services to house residents and help with special IT projects
- IT Specialist for Wharton Management Department (Spring 2004)
Wuhan University of Technology, China
- Piano Accompanist for the Faculty Chorus (2002 - 2003)
- Programmer for Computer Graphics and Imaging Lab (2000 - 2003)
  - 2D and Pseudo 3D Game engine Design
Other
- Web Designer for Energy-Quest (Fall 2004 - Spring 2005)
- Web Programmer for Fuel Five Media Co. USA (Fall 2004)
- English / Chinese Interpreter for Global Connections VI Seminar, China (Spring 2002)

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
- Electronic Arts
  - Manipulating Universal Capture dataflow to generate stylized and realistic facial animation (Summer 2006)
- Center for Human Modeling and Simulation, University of Pennsylvania
  - Research on Image Color Quantization (Fall 2004 - Current)
  - 3D Modeling in the Archaeology Project Tracking Uruk in the Near East (Fall 2004)
  - Work on a Seakeeping project funded by Lockheed-Martin (Summer 2004)
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
- CSE 262 (Automata, Complexity and Computability) under Prof. Sudipto Guha (Fall 2005 - Current)

SKILLS
- Programming Language: Java, C++/C#/C/MFC, GPU HLSL, .Net, PHP
- Scripting Languages: OpenGL, Maya Mel, JavaScript, HTML CSS, LATEX
- 3D Graphics: Maya, UniversalCapture, MotionCapture, Hardware Shader
- Art Design: PhotoShop, Illustrator, Traditional Drawing & Painting
- Web Design: Dreamweaver, FrontPage, Fireworks
- Operating Systems: Windows, Linux, Unix, Max OS
- Languages: Mandarin Chinese (native), English (fluent)

ACTIVITIES
- Penn ACM SIGGRAPH Student Chapter, Game Dept (Fall 2003 – Current)
- Penn Science and Technology Wing Residential Program (09/2003 – 05/2004)
- Penn International Student Ambassador (10/2003 – Recent)
- High School Summer Camp between Mainland China and Taiwan (03/2002)

SELECTED PAPERS & PUBLICATIONS
- “A Skeleton-Based Approach for Developing 2D+ PC Games” (Paper), Accepted for publication of 2003 International Multi-Conference in Computer Science and Engineering, Nevada, USA, 05/2003
- “Snowlotus”(Fiction), Published in the 4 th China National New Concept Writing Competition, Featured Collection, Zuojia Press, ISRC:7506326418
- “Game•Life” (Essay), Published in POPSOFT, 2002 Iss.02