Tsung-Hsiang Chang
vgod _AT_ mit.edu

Research Interests

The area overlapping between Human-Computer Interaction and Software Engineering: End-User Programming, Programming by Demonstration.
Intelligent User Interfaces, Human Computation, Game Design.

Education

2008-present Ph.D. candidate in CSAIL (Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab), Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2005-2007 M.S. in Dept. of Computer Science and Information Enerigineering, National Taiwan University
2001-2005 B.S. in Dept. of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Taiwan University
1998-2001 National Taichung First Senior High School

Honors

Best Student Paper Award, ACM UIST 2009
Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award, CSIE, NTU. 2006 & 2007
Distinction Award, "Intelligent Cane - A Partner for the Visually Impaired," National Taiwan University Engineering Technology Contest 2005
2nd Place, National Collegiate Programming Contest 2002
1st Place, 2nd NTU-NCTU(National Chiao Tung University) Friendship Programming Contest 2002
National Representative in Participating Intel International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF) 2001
Bronze Medal, International Olympia in Informatics (IOI) 2000
2nd Place, National Computer Science Competition of Senior High School 2000

Publications

Tsung-Hsiang Chang, Tom Yeh, Robert C. Miller. GUI Testing Using Computer Vision. In Proceedings of CHI 2010: ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems., April 2010.
Tom Yeh, Tsung-Hsiang Chang, Robert C. Miller. Sikuli: Using GUI Screenshots for Search and Automation. In Proceedings of UIST 2009: ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology, October 2009. (Best Student Paper Award)
Tom Yeh, Tsung-Hsiang Chang, Robert C. Miller. Obtaining Help on GUI Elements Using Screenshots. In Adjunct Proceedings of UIST 2008: ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology, October 2008.
Wenn-Chieh Tsai, Yuan-Hsiang Lee, Tsung-Hsiang Chang, Chien-Ju Ho, Jane Yung-jen Hsu. Designing human-computer multi-agent collaboration in productive multi-player games. In Proceedings of 7th International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2008), Vol. 3, May 2008.
Tsung-Hsiang Chang, Chien-Ju Ho, Jane Yung-jen Hsu. The PhotoSlap Game: Play to Annotate. In Proceedings of the Twenty-Second Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-07), July 2007.
Chien-Ju Ho, Tsung-Hsiang Chang, Jane Yung-jen Hsu. PhotoSlap: A Multi-player Online Game for Semantic Annotation. In Proceedings of the Twenty-Second Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-07), July 2007.
Jane Yung-jen Hsu, Kwei-Jay Lin, Tsung-Hsiang Chang, Chien-Ju Ho, Han-Shen Huang, Wan-rong Jih. Parameter learning of personalized trust models in broker-based distributed trust management. Information Systems Frontiers, Special Issue on Web and Distributed Information Systems, Springer Publishers, 8(4):321-333, September 2006.
Tsung-Hsiang Chang, Chien-Ju Ho, David Chawei Hsu, Yuan-Hsiang Lee, Min-Shieh Tsai, Mu-Chun Wang, Jane Yung-jen Hsu. iCane - A Partner for the Visually Impaired. In Embedded and Ubiquitous Computing (EUC) Workshops, December 2005.

Professional Experience

Jun, 10 - Sep, 10 Software Engineering Intern, Google, Mountain View, California, USA.
Jan, 10 - May, 10 Teaching Assistant of 6.831/6.813 User Interface Design and Implementation, MIT CSAIL, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Jan, 10 - present Lead Developer, Project SIKULI
Sep, 08 - present Research Assistant, MIT CSAIL, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
May, 07 - Jul, 07 Software Engineering Intern, Google, Taipei, Taiwan.
1. Designed and implemented a Google application running on several mobile or portable platforms.
2. Co-worked with a team member to implement our own HTTP server for customized services.
3. Designed and implemented 4 service adapters connecting to existing Google services and integrated them to our HTTP server architecture.
May, 05 - May, 07 Core Developer, The OpenVanilla Project
1. Developed a Chinese input method module, Array30, for OpenVanilla, the most popular open source text entry and processing architecture on Mac OS X.
2. Improved the performance by 15% after redesigning the algorithm of the parser of generic input method files.
3. Port the OpenVanilla platform to X11 by developing a bridge module for Smart Common Input Method (SCIM) on Linux.
Sep, 06 - Jan, 07 Teaching Assistant of "Introduction to Computer Science," CSIE, NTU.
Feb, 06 - Jun, 06 Teaching Assistant of "Introduction to Computer Science," NTU.
1. Gave a weekly 1 hour laboratory session to teach practical knowledge of Computer Science.
2. Held 2 hours of weekly office hours to answer student's questions.
May, 03 - Jun, 05 Part-time Engineer and Consultant, QIC SYSTEMS CORP, Taipei, Taiwan.
1. Designed and implemented a general purpose packet sniffer to rebuild TCP connections and parsing modules for monitoring HTTP, SMTP, POP3, MSN activities in an enterprise network.
2. Developed an anti-spam mail gateway for enterprises, and designed/implemented the underlying filering system, which used Perl to glue several open source solutions, such as Postfix, amavisd-new, SpamAssassin, procmail.
Sep, 01 - Jun, 07 Consultant and Linux System Administrator, Workstation Lab, CSIE, NTU.
1. Administrated and maintained 15 Linux workstations and mail, web, NFS, NIS servers for CSIE, NTU (about 3500 users).
2. Used Perl and Bash shell scripts to automatically manage and process system configuration files.

Other Experience

May, 09 - May, 11 IT Officer, Ashdown House, MIT, USA.
Jul, 07 - Jun, 08 System Engineering Corporal, the compulsory military service of R.O.C. Air Force, Taiwan.
Sep, 05 - Jun, 07 Information Technology Officer, IEEE NTU Student Branch.
Sep, 99 - Sep, 00 Vice President & Lecturer, Computer Information Researching Club, Taichung First Senior High School.

Invited Talk

May, 10

"Sikuli: Using Screenshots for GUI Automation and Testing," Google Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.

Skills

Programming Languages: C, C++, Java, Perl, Python, Javascript, Ruby, Flash Actionscript
Software Development: Object-Oriented Analysis & Design, Design Patterns, Agile Software Development
Web Development: HTML, CSS, AJAX, Ruby on Rails, Turbogears
System Administration: Debian GNU/Linux, Mac OS X, Apache, Postfix
Others: SQL, Bash shell script, GNU Make, GDB, Subversion, Bazaar, Vim