Albert Y. C. Chen

Ph.D. Candidate
Computer Science & Engineering
University at Buffalo, The State University of New York

e-mail: aychen (AT) buffalo.edu

Short Bio

Albert Yen-Cheng Chen is a Ph.D. candidate at the department of Computer Science and Engineering, University at Buffalo, SUNY. He currently works in the Vision and Perceptual Machines Lab (VPML) as a research assistant. He was a summer research intern at Siemens Medical Solutions, USA from 05/2008 - 08/2008. He received his Master of Computer Science degree from National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan in the year 2007, and B.S. in Computer Science from National Tsing-Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan in 2004. Chen has been an active member of Dr. Jason J. Corso’s Vision and Perceptual Machines Lab (VPML) at SUNY-Buffalo since 08/2007. He was a member of the Visualization and Image Processing (VIP) lab at NTNU from 07/2005 - 07/2007.

Education

Ph.D. in Computer Science, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York (est. 2012)

Advisor: Dr. Jason J. Corso

Master of Computer Science, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, TAIWAN, 2007

Advisor: Prof. Greg. C. Lee
Thesis (in English): Obscure Video Shot Boundary Determination via Protagonist Trajectory Analysis

B.S. in Computer Science, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, TAIWAN, 2004

Research Activities

Research Assistant, Vision and Perceptual Machines Lab, University at Buffalo, SUNY (05/2009 - now)

Adaptive-Hierarchy-based Natural Image Labeling (Joint Segmentation and Classification)
Efficient Spatiotemporal MRF Construction and Video Labeling using Adaptive hierarchies

Summer Research Intern, Siemens Medical Solutions, Malvern, PA (05/2008 - 08/2008)

Ground Glass Nodule Segmentation and Detection in high-resolution CT images using a mixture of 3D texture and intensity descriptors.

Supervised Research Projects, Vision and Perceptual Machines Lab, University at Buffalo, SUNY

Research Assistant, Visualization & Image Processing Lab, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, TAIWAN

Video Object Tracking and Segmentation (05/2006 - 06/2007)
Content Based Image Retrieval and Image Indexing (09/2005 - 02/2006)
Gesture and Human Motion Recognition (02/2006 - 05/2006)

Undergraduate Research Project, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, TAIWAN

Image Compression using Vector Quantization Techniques (02/2003 - 01/2004)

Teaching Activities

Courses and classes I've tought as an Instructor

Instructor, CSE-111 Great Ideas in Computer Science @ University at Buffalo, SUNY (Summer 2009)

Course Website (Topics: coding, binary decimal conversion and arithmetic, digital logic design, algorithm design, and programming)

Guest Lecturer, CSE-555 Pattern Recognition @ University at Buffalo, SUNY (Spring 2009)

Topic: K-means, K-means++ Clustering and the User's Dilemma

Guest Lecturer, CSE-111 Great Ideas in Computer Science @ University at Buffalo, SUNY (Fall 2008)

Topic: A Gentle Introduction to Object-Oriented Thinking and Computer Science Research Areas.

Student Lecturer, Computer Science Summer Camp @ National Tsing Hua University, TAIWAN (Summer 2001)

Topic: Dialup and Broadband Internet - Theory and Applications

Courses I've tought as a Teaching Assistant

Teaching Assistant, CSE-555 Pattern Recognition @ University at Buffalo, SUNY (Spring 2009)

Duty Includes: Weekly office hours to help with lecture slides, homework and programming assignments.

Teaching Assistant, CSE-111 Great Ideas in Computer Science @ University at Buffalo, SUNY (Fall 2008)

Duty Includes: Lecture review classes and Karol the Robot programming labs, hold weekly office hours, grade HW's, projects, and exams.

Teaching Assistant, CSE-111 Great Ideas in Computer Science @ University at Buffalo, SUNY (Spring 2008)

Duty Includes: Lecture review classes and Karol the Robot programming labs, hold weekly office hours, grade HW's, projects, and exams.

Teaching Assistant, CSE-111 Great Ideas in Computer Science @ University at Buffalo, SUNY (Fall 2007)

Duty Includes: Lecture review classes and Karol the Robot programming labs, hold weekly office hours, grade HW's, projects, and exams.

Teaching Assistant, Programming Skills (for ACM Collegeate Programming Contest) @ National Taiwan Normal University (Spring 2007)
Teaching Assistant, Linear Algebra @ National Taiwan Normal University (Fall 2006)

Duty Includes: Organize and lecture MATLAB labs, lecture review classes, hold weekly office hours, grade HW's, projects, and exams.

Courses I've tought as an Instructor, outside the academia

English Teacher @ Wen-Hsin Children's Cram School, Wen-Shan District, Taipei (Summer & Fall 2005)
English Tutor @ High school level courses, Hsinchu, Taiwan (Fall 2004)
Student Lecturer @ Debate Club, National Tsing Hua University, TAIWAN (2001-2004)
Computer Science Tutor (lectured in English to two French Kids) @ Hsinchu, Taiwan (Summer 2002)

Topics: Introduction to Computer Architecture, Communication Theories, C++ Programming and Webpage design

English Teacher @ Koahsiung YMCA Children's English Class (Spring & Summer 2000)

Other Academic Activities

Staff, ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest, Taipei Station 2005
Staff, IEEE International Conf. on Advanced Learning Technologies, 2005

Receptionist & Local Chair Prof. C. T. Yang's special assistant

Student Member of ACM since Dec. 2005
Student Member of IEEE Computer Society since Jan. 2007

Honors & Awards

International Association of Pattern Recognition Travel Stipend, (elective, only 40 awarded out of 1600+ participants) (2008)
Award for Outstanding Graduate Students (Scholarship), National Taiwan Normal University (2006)

Presentation and Talks

Graph-Shifts, HOPS, and Temporal Graph-Shifts @ Siemens Medical Solutions, May 2008. [ slides ]
HOPS: Efficient region labeling using higher order proxy neighborhoods @ ICPR 2008. [ slides ]

Publications

Thesis
[0]	A. Y. C. Chen. Obscure Video Shot Boundary Determination via Protagonist Trajectory Analysis. National Taiwan Normal University. July 2007.
	[ slides \| video \| paper ]
Peer-Reviewed Conference and Workshop Publications (Full Papers)
[1]	A. Y. C. Chen, J. J. Corso, and L. Wang. HOPS: Efficient region labeling using higher order proxy neighborhoods. In Proceedings of International Conference on Pattern Recognition, 2008. (Oral)
	[ slides \| paper ]
[2]	Y. Tao, L. Lu, D. Maneesh, A. Y. C. Chen, J. J. Corso, J. Xuan, M. Salganicoff, and A. Krishnan. Multi-level Ground Glass Nodule Detection and Segmentation in CT Lung Images. MICCAI 2009. (summer intern work at Siemens)
	[ paper ]
Other Papers (Abstract Review or No Review)