Elliott Wen
Senior Lecturer at University of Auckland
New Zealand
Summary
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Top SchoolElliott Wen is a Senior Lecturer and computer scientist with 12 years of experience bridging mobile sensing, software engineering, and computer networking through research and teaching at the University of Auckland. He holds a PhD in Computer Science and combines academic rigor with hands-on systems work—his open-source contributions include backend improvements and WebAssembly integrations for the SwiftLaTeX browser-based LaTeX editor, touching networked resource fetching and low-level file-format code. Comfortable moving between research prototypes and production-grade code, he also explores compilers, OS kernels, and RISC-V CPU design in his spare time, bringing uncommon low-level insight to higher-level distributed and mobile systems problems. Based in New Zealand, Elliott balances deep technical curiosity with practical impact in both education and collaborative software projects.
12 years of coding experience
Master's Degree Computer Science, Master's Degree Computer Science at The Hong Kong Polytechnic UniversityDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science at University of Auckland
Github Skills (12)
c1710
javascript10
latex10
webassembly10
c1110
webrequest9
http-request9
editor9
net9
editors9
caching8
xml5
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
SwiftLaTeX/SwiftLaTeX
Dec 2019 - Jul 2022
SwiftLaTeX, a WYSIWYG Browser-based LaTeX Editor
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 releases, 277 commits, 22 PRs in 2 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Elliott primarily focused on improving the file searching logic and network interactions within the WebAssembly-based LaTeX editor. Their work involved modifying JavaScript files to fetch resources from a remote server, caching files, and implementing network requests. Additionally, the user updated C code related to file format conversion and path handling within the dvipdfm and pdftex modules, contributing to the core functionality of the LaTeX rendering process. Several commits addressed URL configurations for fetching resources from a remote TexLive server.
latex-editortext-editingbrowserwysiwygwebassembly
elliott-wen/homepage
Jun 2021 - Mar 2025
Contributions:39 pushes, 4 branches in 3 years 9 months
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