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
• Assistant Research Scholar, National Center for Theoretical Sciences, 2009-2012
  in Physics Division focus on theoretical biophysics
• Part-Time Faculty, Department of Physics, National Tsing Hua University, 2011-2012
  teaching Computation for Physics in Springs
• Research Scientist, Institute of Physics, Academia Sinica, 2013-2019
  Active and Biological Systems group
• Postdoctoral Researcher, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, 2019-present
  with Prof. Cheng-Chang Lien on theoretical and computational neuroscience
• Adjunct Asistant Professor, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, 2020-present
  teaching Computational Neuroscience in Autumns, Data Analysis for Neuroscience in Springs

Research Topics

• Computational
  modeling of spiking neuronal networks; artificial neural networks; restricted Boltzmann machines; Monte Carlo simulations; coarse-grained polymer modeling; statistical modeling; differential equation systems, agent-based modeling
• Biophysics
  computational neuroscience; neural plasticity; evolutionary dynamics
• 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 Skills

• Programming: C++, C, Java, FORTRAN, Pascal
• GUI toolkit: GTK+, gtkmm, OpenGL, WebGL
• Scripting: Python, BASH, JavaScript, PHP, Perl
• Computing: MPI, HDF5, GNU autotools, PBS(Torque), Condor
• Scientific: MATLAB, Mathmetica, MCell
• Other: HTML5, Drupal, XSLT, AJAX, MySQL

Extra Curriculum

• President, Electronics Industry Study Club, Taipei Municipal Chien Kuo High School, 1986-1987
• Student Lecturer, Computer Study Club, National Taiwan University, 1988-1991
  Subjects: programming, data structure, algorithmics
• Student 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