Tzu-Han Hung

Curriculum Vitae

EDUCATION

• Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
  Ph.D. in Computer Science, 2007 - present
  Advisor: Prof. David I. August
  
  
• National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
  M.S. in Computer Science and Information Engineering, June 2004
  Advisor: Prof. Chuen-Liang Chen
  Thesis Title: Extended Escape Analysis for Java
  
  
• National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
  B.S. in Computer Science and Information Engineering, June 2002
  
  

EXPERIENCE

• Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
  Liberty Research Group, Department of Computer Science
  Research Assistant, September 2007 to present
  
  • Implemented a frontend IR translator (LLVM to Impact64)
  • Performed experiments on parallelism extraction
• Google Inc., Seattle, WA
  Infrastructure
  Software Engineering (Intern), June 2007 to August 2007
  
  • Manager: Shih-Wei Liao
  • Participated in SmartyExplorer project
  • Collected profiles and built machine learning models to predict the optimal setting of system tunables
• National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan
  Compilation Technology Group, Department of Computer Science
  Research Assistant, July 2006 to July 2007
  
  • Collaborated with Andes Technology Corporation on the development of embedded system software
  • Designed and implemented a static/dynamic ARM-to-MIPS binary translation system
  • Developed translation optimizations for ARM-specific features (e.g., conditional codes, shifter operands)
• Ankang Computer Center, Taipei, Taiwan
  Information Division
  Second Lieutenant, July 2004 to December 2005
  
  • Conducted binary code analysis with disassembler and debugger
  • Exploited cryptographic schemes to protect programs from unauthorized use
• National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
  Compiler Group, Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering
  Research Assistant, September 2002 to June 2004
  
  • Researched on escape analysis for Java
  • Devised an inter-procedural algorithm to analyze the lifetime of escaped objects
  • Exploited hybrid approach, i.e., static escape analysis and runtime stack allocation, to improve the performance of heap management in JVM

TEACHING

• Mathematical Analysis of Algorithms
  Teaching Assistant, Spring 2004, National Taiwan University
  
  • Held office hours and graded assignments
• Advanced Compiler
  Teaching Assistant, Fall 2003, National Taiwan University
  
  • Held office hours and graded assignments

RECOGNITION

• Scholarship awarded by Ministry of Education, Taiwan, 2008 (3 recipients in EE/CS)
• First year Graduate Fellowship awarded by Princeton University, 2007

SKILLS

• Specialties: Java, C/C++, assembly languages, Perl
• Languages: Taiwanese, Chinese, English

REFERENCES

• Available upon request

PUBLICATIONS