2008-Current: Oakmapper 2.0

Summary: Oaks across California are threatened by a disease known as Sudden Oak Death (SOD), caused by the pathogen Phytophthora ramorum. Oakmapper.org was developed in a collaboration between the Geospatial Innovation Facility (GIF) and the California Oak Mortality Task Force to map and monitor the spread of SOD. At this site you can report suspected cases of SOD and view locations of confirmed cases.

5/2006-8/2007: Taoit (later known as GoodGuide)

Summary: A continuation of the iBuyRight project except with the emphasis on real content gathering and creating a functioning prototype that could actually scan the barcode and obtain information from the server. For this version, J2ME was used as the coding platform as it provisioned access to the onboard camera.

8/2005-5/2006: iBuyRight Mobile Phone Application – Master’s Project

Summary:  Collaborated with 3 Master’s students, a Ph.D. and a professor to design and build an application to provide product information, especially social, environmental, and health information, to consumers at the point of purchase. The application is built using Flash and Symbian (C++) for Nokia 7610 Smart Phones, the application can scan a barcode with the on-board camera, retrieve data from a server, and present information with a carefully designed UI.

8/2005-12/2005: Emergency Communication

Summary: Using the New Product Development process to create a prototype for the emergency communication service leveraging on the SMS technology. The team was consisted of one Information School student (me), one Electrical Engineering student, one MBA student, two students from School of the Arts in SF, and one consultant.

1/2005-5/2005: Simsters Peer-to-Peer Network

Summary: A secure peer-to-peer (a.k.a. friend-to-friend) networking software using Java socket and multi-threading technology in a team of four. For this exercise, we were required to propose security standards for the network software and discuss them in class.