Wallace, Wai-Ho Mak

Lecturer
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Email: wallace [at] cse.cuhk.edu.hk
Office: Room 328, 3/F, Pi Ch'iu Building, CUHK

About me

Well, I love programming, dogs, and memes. :)

Services

I currently serve as the head coach of the CUHK programming team. If you are a CUHK UG student who is interested in competitive programming and making friends with like-minded people, consider showing off your skills in our team selection test contest which is usually held in late August! Externally, I also serve in the advisory board of the Hong Kong Olympiad in Informatics committee.

Awards

• Department Exemplary Teaching Award (2024), CSE, CUHK
• Excellent Coach Award, The 2023 ICPC Asia East Continent Final Contest (Disclaimer: I was simply carried by the excellent programming team I happened to help manage as our students got high ranks in the contest.)

Teaching

I teach the following courses in CUHK.

• ENGG1003: Digital Literacy and Computational Thinking - P (Fall 2022, Spring 2023, Fall 2023, Spring 2024, Fall 2024, Spring 2025, Fall 2025)
• ENGG1004: Digital Literacy and Computational Thinking - R (Fall 2022, Spring 2025)
• CSCI2740: Competitive Programming (Fall 2023, Fall 2024, Fall 2025)
• CSCI3180: Principles of Programming Languages (Spring 2023, Spring 2024)
• CMSC5727: Computer Game Software Production (Fall 2025)

Academic background

I studied and did research in HKUST.

• MPhil, Computer Science and Engineering, HKUST
• BEng, Computer Science (Honors Track, Minor in Mathematics), HKUST (First-class Honors)

For academia, I have published the following on Computer Graphics and Visualization research topics.

• Wai-Ho Mak, Yingcai Wu, Ming-Yuen Chan, Huamin Qu. "Visibility-Aware Direct Volume Rendering". Journal of Computer Science and Technology, vol. 26, no. 2, Mar. 2011.
• Wing-Yi Chan, Huamin Qu, Wai-Ho Mak. "Visualizing the Semantic Structure in Classical Music Works". IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, vol. 16, no. 1, Jan.-Feb. 2010.
• Ming-Yuen Chan, Yingcai Wu, Wai-Ho Mak, Wei Chen, Huamin Qu. "Perception-Based Transparency Optimization for Direct Volume Rendering". IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (Proceedings of Visualization / Information Visualization 2009), vol. 15, no. 6, Nov.-Dec. 2009.
• Wai-Ho Mak, Yingcai Wu, Ming-Yuen Chan, Huamin Qu. "Visibility-Aware Direct Volume Rendering with Animations". Workshop on Visualization Applications (VisWorkshop'09), Beijing, China, 2009.
• Wai-Ho Mak, Ming-Yuen Chan, Yingcai Wu, Ka-Kei Chung, Huamin Qu. "VoxelBars: An Informative Interface for Volume Visualization". International Symposium on Visual Computing (ISVC'08), Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, Dec 1-3, 2008.
• Ming-Yuen Chan, Wai-Ho Mak, Huamin Qu. "An Efficient Quality-Based Camera Path Planning Method for Volume Exploration". International Symposium on Visual Computing (ISVC'08), Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, Dec 1-3, 2008.
• Ming-Yuen Chan, Huamin Qu, Ka-Kei Chung, Wai-Ho Mak, and Yingcai Wu. "Relation-Aware Volume Exploration Pipeline". IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (Proceedings of Visualization / Information Visualization 2008), vol. 14, no. 6, Nov.-Dec. 2008.
• Yingcai Wu, Huamin Qu, Ka-Kei Chung, Wai-Ho Mak, and Anbang Xu. "Quantitative Effectiveness Metrics for Direct Volume Rendering". Poster session of IEEE Visualization 2007.