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 early September! (and maybe also take my course in competitive programming ;)) Externally, I also serve in the advisory board of the Hong Kong Olympiad in Informatics committee.
Teaching
I am teaching the following courses in CUHK.
- ENGG1003: Digital Literacy and Computational Thinking - P
- ENGG1004: Digital Literacy and Computational Thinking - R
- CSCI2740: Competitive Programming
- CSCI3180: Principles of Programming Languages
Before I join CUHK, I had the opportunity to teach in HKUST thousands of UG students, elite/honors UG students, and MSc PG students. The following is a list of courses I taught on various programming languages and diverse computer science topics.
- COMP1021: Introduction to Computer Science
- COMP1022P: Introduction to Computing with Java
- COMP1022Q: Introduction to Computing with Excel VBA
- COMP1029C: C Programming Bridging Course
- COMP1029J: Java Programming Bridging Course
- COMP1029P: Python Programming Bridging Course
- COMP1029V: Excel VBA Programming Bridging Course
- COMP2011: Programming with C++
- COMP2012: Object-Oriented Programming and Data Structures
- COMP2611: Computer Organization
- COMP2711: Discrete Mathematical Tools for Computer Science
- COMP4311: Principles of Database Design
- COMP101: Exploring Multimedia and Internet Computing
- COMP102: Computer and Programming Fundamental I
- COMP104H: Programming Fundamentals and Methodologies (Honors Study)
- COMP171H: Data Structures and Algorithms (Honors Study)
- COMP201: Java Programming
- COMP252: Operating System
- COMP341: Computer Graphics
- CSIT5110: Multimedia Development for MSc in IT
- CSIT5400: Computer Graphics for MSc in IT
- CSIT5800: Introduction to Big Data for MSc in IT
- USTM16: Linux Systems Administration
- USTM17: Linux Network Administration
- USTM18: Windows Server Administration
- Summer Mathematics Course for Direct Entry Students
- D002: Python for Everyone (offered to secondary school students by CDGT)
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.
