alex::chia

Alexander Chia

I'm a researcher / software developer / innovator passionate about science, technology, and quantitative methods.

I've completed my M.S. in Computer Science at Stanford University and did my B.S. in Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University.

My interests in a broad sense include: GPGPU and Real time rendering techniques; bioinformatics and genomics; and quantitative and statistical methods in scientific computing and financial markets.

You are welcome to visit my projects page to have a look at some of the work I've done or view my resume.

I'm currently working with Teza Technologies in Chicago as a Quantitative Researcher, working on developing new high frequency trading strategies.

Something I'm rather proud of - a novel fully interactive real time renderer that I developed recently for a mini game-demo.

- Consistent 14-15fps
- dynamic viewpoints
- dynamic lighting
- dynamic scene graph/objects
- motion blur.

Physics implemented with PhysX by nVidia.
Parallel computation with nVidia's CUDA.
(Disclaimer: I have no affiliation with nVidia.)

Relevant concepts: Monte Carlo, GPGPU, Interpolation, Spherical harmonics, Hierarchical data structures for the GPU, Photon Mapping

~ Alex