Education

Employment

2014/Aug - Present: Associate Professor, San Diego State University (SDSU)
2012 - 2014: Associate Research Scientist, University of Maryland/ESSIC and NASA/GSFC
2006 - 2012: Assistant Research Scientist, University of Maryland/ESSIC and NASA/GSFC
1999 - 2006: Senior Software Engineer (Research Scientist), Science Application International Corporation (SAIC) and NASA/GSFC
1998 - 1999: Research Scientist, North Carolina State University (NCSU)
1995 - 1998: Research Assistant (part time), NCSU
1994 - 1995: Research Assistant, National Central University (NCU), Taiwan
1992 - 1994: Meteorological Officer (Unix System Application Developer and Administrator, military service), Weather Center of Weather Wing, Taiwan
1990-1992: Teaching and Research Assistant (part time), NCU, Taiwan

Jobs-related Training

Completions of “Introduction to MPI”, “Introduction to PVM”, “Introduction to High performance Fortran”, at North Carolina Supercomputing Center, Triangle Park, NC, 1996-1997.
Completion of “TCP/IP programming” at Institute for Information Industry, Taipei, Taiwan, 1994
Completion of “Introduction to Unix system,” “Introduction to Unix system administration,” “Advanced Unix system administration,” and “Unix shell programming” by CDC (Control Data Corp.), Taipei, Taiwan, 1993
Completion of “Cray UNICOS User Training” at National Taiwan Univ., Taipei, Taiwan, 1990.

Computer Experience

Development and Integrations of Real-Time applications: the NASA GMM (or fvGCM) Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP) Suite at 1/2, 1/4, and 1/8 degree resolutions, Meteorological Information Service System operated at AFWC, Taiwan.
Supercomputing (Parallel/Distributed/Cluster Computing): MPI (Message Passing Interface), MPI-2 remote memory access, MLP (Multi-Level Parallelism), OpenMP, ESMF (Earth Science Modeling Framework), POSIX Threads, and JAVA Threads. Knowledge of Gird computing.
Unix System and Network Programming: Unix curses, device control (serial I/O), file system control, inter-process communication (pipes, semaphore, shared memory, TCP/IP sockets), process control, signal handling.
System Administration: Unix/Linux/MS windows system installation.
Software: Fortran (F77/F90/F95), OOP (Object Oriented Programming), C/C++, JAVA, Basic, Pascal, UNIX Shells, UNIX m4 script, PERL, Python, PHP, R,HTML, XML, XHTML, CGI, AWK. CVS (Concurrent Version System), GNU Make, gdb, LaTex, MATLAB, VMWARE, Secure Shell, MS-Office, VIS5D, AVS, GrADS, NCAR Graphics, GEMPAK.