Chen, Chun-Chung

Education

• Ph.D. in Physics, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA, 2002
  Thesis: Understand avalanche systems through underlying interface dynamics
  Advisor: Prof. Marcel den Nijs
• M.S. in Physics, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA, 1996
• B.S. in Physics, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, 1992
  Advisor: Prof. Ting-Wai Chiu

Employments

• Undergraduate Research Assistant, National Taiwan University, 1991-1992
  with Prof. Ting-Wai Chiu on Dirac propagators in external fields
• Second Lieutenant, R.O.C. Army, Taiwan, 1992-1994
  Maintenance officer of Nike Hercules missile system
• Graduate Teaching Assistant, University of Washington, 1994-2002
  Lab instructor for freshman labs, electronics lab, and modern physics lab
  Grader for freshman physics, statistical mechanics, advanced quantum, and advanced classical mechanics
• Graduate Research Assistant, University of Washington, 1997-2002
  with Prof. Marcel den Nijs on interface growth models and self-organized criticality
• Research Associate, Case Western Reserve University, 2003-2006
  with Prof. Elena E. Dormidontova on statistical physics of reversibly associated polymers
• Research Associate, University of Pittsburgh, 2006-2009
  with Prof. David Jasnow on theoretical biophysics
• Staff Scientist, National Center for Theoretical Sciences, 2009-present
  in Physics Division focus on theoretical biophysics

Research Topics

• Biophysics
  network of spiking neurons; neural plasticity
• Polymer
  ring-chain equilibrium; metallosupramolecular polymers; polymer brushes; targeting polymer nanoparticles; exchange kinetics of diblock copolymer micelles
• Physics
  non-equilibrium critical phenomena; direct percolation; interface growth models; contact processes; self-organized criticality; granular avalanches
• Computational
  Monte Carlo simulations; coarse-grained polymer modeling; transfer matrix evaluation; Hartree-Fork self-consistent calculation; differential equation systems

Computational Skills

• Programming: C++, C, Java, FORTRAN, Pascal
• GUI toolkit: GTK+, gtkmm, OpenGL
• Scripting: BASH, Perl, Python, Javascript, PHP
• Graphics: Blender, Geomview, GIMP, gnuplot, Grace, Inkscape
• Debugging: GDB, valgrind, gprof
• Revision: GIT, Subversion, CVS
• Computing: MPI, HDF5, automake, Libtool, PBS(Torque), Condor
• Server: Apache, SMTP, IMAP, BIND9, NFSv4, DHCP
• Scientific: Maxima, Mathmetica, Mcell
• Platform: Linux, OpenSolaris, QEMU, VMware
• Setup: PXE, HPC cluster, dd-wrt, IPv6, DDNS, SSL certification
• Other: XHTML, XSLT, Ajax, MySQL

Extra Curriculum

• President, Electronics Study Club, Taipei Municipal Chien Kuo High School, 1986-1987
• Lecturer, Computer Study Club, National Taiwan University, 1988-1991
  Subjects: programming, data structure, algorithmics
• Lecturer, Rocket Club, National Taiwan University, 1990-1991
  Subject: electronics
• Editor, Space Time, the periodical of the Society of Physics Students, National Taiwan University, 1991
• Communication Officer, Web Master, Chinese Social Betterment Society, University of Washington, 1994-1996

References

Available upon request