PhD dissertation cover

Doctor of Sciences — ETH Zürich

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.

August 5, 2023 · 1 min · Gene Ting-Chun Kao
PhD defense celebration

I Defended My PhD at ETH Zürich!

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. ...

March 13, 2023 · 2 min · Gene Ting-Chun Kao
Emacs Org Mode

Emacs Org Mode export to pdf

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. ...

November 10, 2020 · 2 min · Gene Ting-Chun Kao

oh-my-phd

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 ...

November 9, 2020 · 1 min · Gene Ting-Chun Kao