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Lichan Hong
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Lichan Hong
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Lichan Hong is currently a research scientist at the Palo Alto Research Center's Augmented Social Cognition Group. Lichan received his PhD degree in computer science from the State University of New York at Stony Brook in 1997. At Stony Brook, he worked on scientific visualization and medical visualization, leading the creation of the 3D virtual colonoscopy system. A startup company, Viatronix, was subsequently founded to commercialize this technology.
From Oct 1997 to May 2000, Lichan was a member of the technical staff at the Software Production Research Department of Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies (now part of Alcatel-Lucent). At Bell Labs, he continued to conduct research on 3D visualization and computer graphics. He also worked on projects to support web-based information visualization, using Java, VRML, and Java3D.
After that, Lichan had a short stint at a startup in Silicon Valley, helping to build a commercial system for virtual garment fitting. As a principal engineer, he mainly focused on cloth simulation and mesh rendering. Although the startup didn't last long, the experience provided him with an eye-opening opportunity to learn what it takes to turn an idea into a profitable product.
Since joining PARC in May 2001, Lichan has been working primarily on information visualization and 3D user interfaces. He served as the project lead of the 3Book system, a scalable 3D electronic book reader including features to dynamically reorganize the back-of-the-book index for exploratory search and highlight text snippets on the pages for accelerated skimming. Recently, he became interested in the areas of social computing and Web 2.0. He is currently leading the development of SparTag.us, a social annotation tool using AJAX to support low cost, in situ, paragraph-level tagging and highlighting of web content.
Web 2.0
Social Computing
Information Visualization
3D User Interfaces
Computer Graphics
L. Hong, E. Chi, R. Budiu, P. Pirolli, and L. Nelson (2008).
"SparTag.us: A Low Cost Tagging System
for Foraging of Web Content". International Working Conference on
Advanced Visual Interfaces (AVI), pages 65-72, May 2008.
E. Chi, L. Hong, J. Heiser, S. Card, and M. Gumbrecht (2007).
"ScentIndex and ScentHighlights:
Productive Reading Techniques for Conceptually Reorganizing Subject Indexes
and Highlighting Passages". Journal of Information Visualization,
Vol. 6, No. 1, pages 32-47, Spring 2007.
L. Hong, S. Card, and J. Chen (2006).
"Turning Pages of 3D Eletronic Books".
Proc. IEEE Symposium on 3D User Interfaces, pages 159-165, March 2006.
L. Hong, E. Chi, and S. Card (2005).
"Annotating 3D Eletronic Books".
Conference Companion of ACM CHI, pages 1463-1466, April 2005.
S. Card, L. Hong, J. Mackinlay, and E. Chi (2004).
"3Book: A Scalable 3D Virtual Book".
Extended Abstracts of ACM CHI, pages 1095-1098, April 2004.
T. He, L. Hong, D. Chen, and Z. Liang (2001).
"Reliable Path for Virtual Endoscopy: Ensuring Complete
Examination Of Human Organs".
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG),
Vol. 7, No. 4, pages 333-342, October-December 2001.
L. Hong and A. Kaufman (1999).
"Fast Projection-Based Ray-Casting Algorithm for
Rendering Curvilinear Volumes".
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG),
Vol. 5, No. 4, pages 322-332, October-December 1999.
L. Hong, S. Muraki, A. Kaufman, D. Bartz, and T. He (1997).
"Virtual Voyage: Interactive Navigation
in the Human Colon".
Proc. ACM SIGGRAPH, pages 27-34, August 1997.
T. He, L. Hong, A. Kaufman, and H. Pfister (1996).
"Generation of Transfer Functions with Stochastic Search Techniques".
Proc. IEEE Visualization, pages 227-234, October 1996.
T. He, L. Hong, A. Varshney, and S. Wang (1996).
"Controlled Topology Simplification''.
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG),
Vol. 2, No. 2, pages 171-184, June 1996.
L. Hong, A. Kaufman, Y. Wei, A. Viswambharan, M. Wax, and Z. Liang
(1995).
"3D Virtual Colonoscopy".
Proc. IEEE Biomedical Visualization Symposium, pages 26-32, October 1995.
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PhD, Computer Science, SUNY at Stony Brook, 1997
MS, Computer Science, SUNY at Stony Brook, 1995
BS, Computer Science, University of Science and Technology of China, 1990