I’m happy to share that I’m now part of Synopsys Inc as the Ansys team joins Synopsys. I’ll be continuing my work in computational geometry, geometry processing, and meshing, focusing on geometric algorithms for CAD kernels and simulation solvers — and I’m also excited about future opportunities in EDA.
Happy to be featured in the latest episode of the University of Stuttgart’s Made in Science podcast! 🎙️ It was a pleasure discussing the intersection of 3D computational geometry and architecture, and sharing my journey as a designer, engineer, and scientist. I also enjoyed talking about a few of my personal hobbies and how they connect to my work. Dr Gene Ting-Chun Kao, an R&D engineer from Stockholm and ITECH alumnus, discusses 3D computational geometry, architecture, and how engineering is like cooking and art. ...
One year ago, we experienced something unimaginable: our beloved Genie left us. The shock and feeling of helplessness were too overwhelming. From his happy morning jumps to his sudden collapse in the park across from our home, we never expected that night would be without him. Maybe it was the sudden departure, or perhaps it was because he was only three years old, and we always felt there were so many more enjoyable moments we could experience together. But regardless of the reasons, the sadness and the suffocating feeling were indescribable, and everything seemed meaningless without him around. ...
Finally! After a long journey, I now officially hold the title of Doctor of Sciences (Dr. sc. ETH Zürich). My PhD dissertation, titled “Stability Assessment of Discrete Shell Structures during Assembly,” is now available online and can be freely accessed. Read the dissertation → Thanks to my supervisors and reviewers: Philippe, Stelian, Tom, and Jan for their guidance. My family members Bonnie and Genie for their endless support. More thanks in the acknowledgement section of the thesis.
I am happy to share that I defended my PhD research at ETH Zürich last Thursday, March 9th! Many thanks to all my supervisors and reviewers — Prof. Dr Philippe Block, Prof. Dr Stelian Coros, Dr Tom Van Mele, and Prof. Dr Jan Knippers — for their endless support! Time flies! It has been a wonderful 4.5 years since I joined the Block Research Group, ETH Zurich in September 2018. I gained rich experience, learnt so much knowledge, and overcame several challenges. I enjoyed doing advanced interdisciplinary research in NCCR Digital Fabrication and Institute of Technology in Architecture, ETH Zurich. I was also fascinated by the courses I took during my Computer Science CAS degree at D-INFK, ETH Zürich, parallel to my PhD studies. ...
I’m happy to share that I’m starting a new position as R&D Engineer II at Ansys! I will be working in the Meshing Development Unit, focusing on 3D Geometry Processing and Computational Geometry topics. I am incredibly excited to be part of a team dedicated to cutting-edge research and development in these fields. After 4.5 wonderful years in Zürich — first at ETH Zürich pursuing my PhD on the stability assessment of discrete shell structures, and then defending it successfully in March 2023 — this move to Stockholm marks an exciting new chapter both professionally and personally. ...
Emacs Org Mode is a perfect tool to do almost anything! I particularly like its slogan and design concept: Organize Your Life In Plain Text! I use Org Mode for many things, which includes writing a to-do list, building a study plan, writing blog posts (including this one), scribbling documents to organise my thoughts (you can also run code in Org Mode, how cool is that!), and planning a research paper. ...
I am doing my PhD study at ETH Zurich. I try to document what I have been learning here in this Github repo. Oh My PhD! Hi Welcome to Oh My PhD! I will document some interesting and useful things I learn during my PhD study at ETH here. Writings My org-mode templates for latex-style writing This repo contains different templates as a starter code to write org-mode which can later be exported to latex and pdf - orgmode-latex-templates ...
Here is how I set up my PyCharm IDE to program in Rhino Mac, so I can have a nice autocompletion functionality for the RhinoCommon and rhinoscriptsyntax. First, I install the python stubs to my created conda environment. This makes sure that we will have the autocomplete for the RhinoCommon API. $ conda create -n your-env-name $ conda activate your-env-name $ pip install Rhino-stubs To use specific environment in PyCharm, we will have to select the right environment for the project. This can be set in PyCharm -> Preferences -> Project: your-project-name -> Python Interpreter. Normally, our environment python is located at ~/anaconda3/envs/your-env-name/bin/python. ...
I wrote a Git tutorial a while ago and share it on the GitHub. Now I would like to share it again here on my website. To see some of my other notes, please have a look at my programming-notes. Table of Contents Git vs GitHub vs GitLab Set up your Git Basic commands Review a repo’s history Add commit to a repo Tagging, branching, merging Experiments using checkout Undoing changes Collaborating and syncing with GitLab Other useful commands Development pipeline, branching model and discussion Appendix A. Git Bash setup B. Cygwin setup ...