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Me
About Terminal 2

The theme of this website was inspired by a train station terminal, because train stations help connect people much like the Internet does. Signages in train stations are beautifully minimalist, legible, and intuitive, which are characteristics that I admire and attempt to employ in my designs.

About Me

I am a self-taught photographer and web designer with an educational background in electrical engineering and optics. I currently reside in Rancho Cucamonga, California, and am employed as a graphic and web designer, programmer, and online marketing specialist at Design Element. I am not accepting new contract projects at the moment.

Resume
Employment Objective
Projects applying concepts in optics, computer vision, graphic arts, photography, web design, and/or signal processing to solve practical problems.
Education

Graduate

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Optics
Sep. 2008 - Oct. 2009 (Left EECS Ph.D. program, no degree obtained)
Cumulative GPA: 7.062
GPA Scale: A+ = 9; A = 8; A- = 7; B+ = 6; B = 5; B- = 4

Undergraduate

Rice University, Houston, TX
Bachelor of Science, Electrical Engineering
Aug. 2005 - May 2008
Cumulative GPA: 3.71
GPA Scale: A+ = 4.33; A = 4; A- = 3.67; B+ = 3.33; B = 3; B- = 2.67

Secondary

Westside High School, Houston, TX
Aug. 2001 - May 2005
Cumulative GPA 4.83/4.00
GPA Scale (Standard Courses): A = 4; B = 3; C = 2
GPA Scale (AP Courses): A = 5; B = 4; C = 3
Rank: 1/500+
Leadership and Awards

Leadership

  • Japanese language class organizer for semimonthly lunch meetings Fall 2006/Spring 2007
  • AMD sort-8 contest, building a hex sorter with Xilinx FPGA hardware, Fall 2006, rank 3/4 teams (team members: Tianhe Yang and Kriti Charan)

Awards

Publications, Articles, and Presentations
  1. Hybrid Diode-Microresonator Laser Presentation
    Tianhe Yang, Matthew Tomes, Carl C. Aleksoff, and Tal Carmon
    Frontiers in Optics, OSA Technical Digest (CD) (Optical Society of America, 2009), paper FThO5.
  2. Exploring High Dynamic Range Imaging
    Taylor Johnson, Robert Ortman, Sarah McGee, Tianhe Yang
    Class project for ELEC 301 course at Rice University (2008)
  3. Reduction of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotube Bundling Via Density Gradient Ultracentrifugation Separation
    Tianhe Yang, W.D. Rice, E.H. Haroz, Junichiro Kono
    Rice Quantum Institute Annual Research Colloquium 2007
Computer and Language Skills

Software

  • Windows, OS X, Linux (Ubuntu, openSuSE)
  • GIMP
  • Rawtherapee
  • Macromedia/Adobe Dreamweaver/Fireworks
  • Adobe Photoshop
  • Adobe InDesign
  • OpenOffice, Microsoft Office

Programming

  • HTML/CSS/jQuery
  • LaTeX
  • Intermediate MATLAB
  • gnuplot
  • Mathematica
  • Beginner Scheme
  • Intermediate JAVA
  • Beginner C#
  • GTK 2.x Theming

Language

  • Chinese Conversation (Mandarin and Shanghai dialect)
  • Japanese Conversation
Experience

Academic

  • Frontiers in Optics Conference Oral Presenter, San Jose, CA, 2009
  • RQI Poster Day Participant, 2006, 2007
  • ICYS Summer School on Nanomaterials in Tsukuba, Japan, 2007
  • ELEC 301 Digital Signal Processing Tutor, Fall 2007
  • Freshman mentor, Fall 2007
  • NanoJapan 2006, nanostructure imaging in Tokyo, Japan at Keio University

Artistic

Volunteering

  • Northwood Community Center (Ann Arbor) ESL Classroom Partner (2011)
  • Northwood Community Center ESL conversation partner, referral upon request (2009-2011)
  • Northwood Community Center ESL Social Hour Volunteer (2009-2010)
  • English conversation leader for graduate students, referrals upon request (2009 Fall)
  • National Honor Society (2004-2005)
Hobbies
  • Photography
  • Drawing
  • Computers/Technology
  • Road Cycling
  • Badminton
  • Travelling
  • Walking
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