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. :)

Teaching

Currently, I am teaching the following courses in CUHK.

• ENGG1003: Digital Literacy and Computational Thinking - P
• ENGG1004: Digital Literacy and Computational Thinking - R
• CSCI3180: Principles of Programming Languages

Before I join CUHK, I taught in HKUST the following courses of diverse computer science topics including various programming languages.

• 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.