CV
Although my first name is Jun and the second is Hu, being a Chinese, I can't help being pleased if someone call me hujun /who june/. I am from Jiangsu Province, the southeast of china, where the Yangtze River opens to the sea.I started my university life as a Math student who was more interested in computer science. Graduated with a bachelor degree in Computational Mathematics, I taught myself programming and worked for an oil exploration company and then a construction machinery company, under qualified titles of Senior Programmer and System Analyst. For 6 years, I was working on digital signal processing algorithms and software packages, management information systems and networks, and computer aid design systems. In 1996, I decided to go back to the university to refactor my knowledge on computer science so that I could "make things better". During the 3-year study, I also worked as a research assistant for professors and a team leader of a group of programmers. Among several other projects, a system for facial reconstruction from a skull and a 3D visualization system for virtual medical operations were my favorite. The final work for the Master's degree, Content-based Retrieval on a Medical Image Database, used images to search similar images in a huge database. The result was promising and it had been used by the doctors in a hospital happily ever after.
However when I finished my computer science study, I found the most important was not just to make things better, but to make people's life easier. So I moved to Holland in 1999, and joined the 2-year postmaster program User-system Interaction here in TU/e. My final project, Distributed Interfaces for a Time-based Media Application, was done at Philips Research. As the best from the USI program that year, this project was nominated for the OCE prize, although it did not make to the top prize at the end. I was so interested in interactive media that I decided to continue the research as a PhD project, focusing on the design of the software architecture for distritributed interactive media, especially for home environments.
I started teaching at ID in 2003. Since then I had been involved in project and competency coaching, and also worked as the 1st year coordinator for the communication unit. I am now a researcher for the designed intelligence group, and a coach for the home domain. I am giving two assignments "Object Oriented Animals" and "Gooey: Soft and Sticky", and running a master's module "Formal Specification".
Aside from my professional life, I am a relatively good Chinese calligrapher, inheriting some calligraphing genes from my father. I don't have much taste of music, but I do like Jazz and Blues very much, and hate Urban and Hiphop stuff. Digital photographing is also a lot of fun for me. I sometimes pretend to be a professional table-tennis player, if there is no one really professional around.
Qualifications
2003 |
Assistant Professor |
Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands |
1996 |
System Analyst (Senior Engineer) |
Electronic Industry Ministry of China |
1994 |
Senior Programmer (Engineer) |
Personnel Ministry of China |
1991 |
Assistant Engineer |
Personnel Ministry of Jiangsu Province, China |
Education
Since Sept 2001 |
PhD candidate |
Philips Research, in cooperation with Department of Industrial Design, Eindhoven University of Technology |
Sept 1999-Aug 2001 |
PDEng (Professional Doctorate in Engineering) |
User-System Interaction, Centre for User-System Interaction(IPO), Eindhoven University of Technology |
Sept 1996-July 1999 |
Master of Engineering in Artificial Intelligence & Information System |
Institute of Visualization, Northwest University |
Sept 1986-July 1990 |
Bachelor of Science in Computational Mathematics & Application Software |
Department of Mathematics, Northwest University |
Work Experience
Since Sept. 2003 |
Assistant Professor |
Department of Industrial Design, Eindhoven University of Technology |
Since Nov 2000 |
Research associate |
Meida Interaction Group, Philips Research Eindhoven |
1998-1999 |
system analyst and software designer |
Huachang SciTech Co. Ltd., Beijing |
April 1998 |
visitor |
Media Lab of Science & Engineering Dept., Nihon University, Tokyo |
1996-1999 |
system analyst, project manager, designer and programmer |
Institute of Visualization, Northwest University (Xi'an, China) |
1994-1996 |
system analyst, software designer, network administrator |
Computer and Information Center, Shannxi Construction Machinery Co. Ltd (Xi'an, China) |
1990-1994 |
programmer, researcher |
Software Approach Section, Geology Science Academy, Jiangsu Petroleum Exploration Co. (Nanjing, China) |
Projects
2005 |
Culture influence on Presence experience in distributed movies |
2004 |
The Interview: An interactive movie |
2001-2003 |
EU project "ICE-CREAM" |
Since 2002 |
PhD project "Distributed Interfaces for immersive media", in the context of EU project ICECream |
2000-2001 |
EU project " NexTV" |
2000-2001 |
Final USI project "Distributed Interfaces for a time-based media application" |
1998-1999 |
commercial software "Multivariate-modelling real-time seismic parameter design system" |
1995-1999 |
"Computer-aided facial reconstruction of forensic anthropology skull", sponsored by the National Ninth Five Year Plan Key Project Foundation |
1998 |
Commercial website "Northwest real-estate information network" - unfortunately the website has been shutdown |
1997 |
CAI software "Multi-media human brain anatomy" |
1997 |
"Drivers & automobiles information system for Shannxi province" |
1996-1997 |
"3-D medical visualisation analysis platform" |
1996-1997 |
"3-D stratigraphic modelling system for Huabei Oil Field" |
1996-1997 |
"Automobiles and drivers information system for Xi'an city" |
1994-1996 |
Management information system (JSMIS) |
1994 |
Parameterised machinery CAD system(JSCAD) |
1992-1993 |
3H(high resolution, high signal-to-noise ratio, and high fidelity) processing of seismic data |
1991-1992 |
Varied wavelet multi-layered medium AVO seismic simulation system |