TAO LIN 林涛

Education

• (2012- ) College of Computer Science and Technology, Zhejiang University, China
• (2012- ) Chu KoChen Honors College, Zhejiang University, China
• (2010-2012) Xiaoshi High School, Ningbo, Zhejiang, China

Research Interests

• Visual Analytics, Information Visualization, Scientific Visualization
• Distributed Computing for Large-scale Data
• Computer Graphics, Computer Vision

Statistics

• Overall GPA: 3.96/4.0 (92.45/100)
• The third year GPA: 4/4.0 (94.43/100)
• TOEFL^® iBT: 105

  Reading	29
  Listening	27
  Speaking	22
  Writing	27

• GRE^® revised General Test:

  Verbal Reasoning	154
  Quantitative Reasoning	170
  Analytical Writing	3.5

• Programming Ability Test: Score 100/100, Rank 1/802
• College English Test (Band 6): 610/710

Awards

• Google Excellence Scholarship, Google Inc., 2015
  (One of 58 bachelor and master's students in Mainland China)
• National Scholarship, Ministry of Education, China, 2014-2015 (Top 1% students)
• First-Class Scholarship for Outstanding Students, Zhejiang University, 2013-2014, 2014-2015 (Top 3% students)
• Honorable Mention, Interdisciplinary Contest In Modeling, 2015
• Second Prize, Zhejiang University Programming Contest, 2014
• Third Prize, ACM-ICPC China Zhejiang Provincial Programming Contest, 2014

Publications

[Google Scholar Profile]

	Mobility Viewer: A Eulerian Approach for Studying Urban Crowd Flow. Yuxin Ma, Tao Lin, Zhendong Cao, Chen Li, Wei Chen. IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems. Accepted, 2015. [PDF] [Video]
	TieVis: Visual Analytics of Evolution of Interpersonal Ties Tao Lin, Fangzhou Guo, Yingcai Wu, Wei Chen, Biao Zhu, Sidong Wang, Huamin Qu DAVis 2016: Workshop on Intelligent Data Analytics and Visualization. Submitted. [PDF] [Video] [Code]

Research Experience

Visual Analytics Group

• From summer of 2013 Joined the Visual Analytics Group in State Key Lab of CAD&CG at Zhejiang University. The mentor is Professor Wei Chen.
• July, 2013 Learning basics of visualization from the Summer Seminar on Data Visualization.
• From September, 2013 Take park in the weekly seminar of the Visual Analytics Group, and learn about the latest progress of the study.
• From May, 2014 Joined Student Research Training Program (SRTP) with the project Visual Analysis of Library Data as a team leader.
• From May, 2014 Joined the project Visual Analysis of Mobile Station Record in Visual Analytics Group.
• April, 2015 Attended IEEE Pacific Visualization 2015 in Hangzhou, China.
• From May, 2015 A new project about large graph visualization. Changed to TieVis later.

Multimedia Technology Research Center

• From September 2015 to February 2016 Working as a visiting intern in Multimedia Technology Research Center (Mtrec), The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. Worked with a team that has been developing Streamphony, a next-generation streaming cloud for large-scale high bit-rate applications over the global Internet. Implemented the forward error correction (FEC) module with Reed-Solomon codes. Currently developing a data analysis system for the proxy records with HBase.

Technical Qualifications

Some of the programs can be viewed on GitHub.

Program Development

• Experience with C and C++. Solve problems about data structures and numerical analysis. Project: a graphical game, a simple database system.
• Experience with Java. Project: a web spider, a simple browser, a graphical game.
• Experience with Python. Process text information; Django back-end framework.

Front-end

• Experience with HTML, CSS, JavaScript. Libraries like Backbone, D3. Project: display query result about traffic flow on Baidu Map in the Mobile Station Record Project.

Distributed Computing

• Experience with processing large-scale data on cluster with Hadoop, especially Hive and Spark. Project: doing most of cleaning and calculating job to the raw data in the Mobile Station Record Project.

Computer Graphics and Computer Vision

• Experience with OpenGL and OpenCV. Toke the related courses and did the programming homework. Project: a simple 3D game and a realization of "Precomputed Shadow Fields for Dynamic Scenes".

Websites I Visit

• GitHub
• Weibo
• Zhihu