Meng-wei Chang
Principal Research Engineer at Uncharted Software
Mississauga, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolMeng-wei Chang is a Principal Research Engineer with 14 years of experience specializing in data visualization, HCI, graphics, and applied machine learning, currently leading research engineering at Uncharted Software. He designs and builds tools for complex time-series, social-media, and geo-data analysis—covering trend detection, clustering, correlation analysis, and forecasting—using a broad stack including JavaScript/TypeScript, Go, Java, R, Elasticsearch and SQL. Prior roles include leading front-end development for the ICGC Data Portal at the Ontario Institute for Cancer Research and academic research on visualization and reading-assistive interfaces, reflecting a strong blend of research and production engineering. Known for tinkering at the intersection of visualization and ML, he pairs rigorous data engineering with usable, prototype-driven interfaces. Based in Mississauga, Ontario, he brings both enterprise-scale system experience from finance and consulting and an academic foundation (MSc, BMath) that informs practical, user-centered analytic tools.
14 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
MSc, Computer Science, MSc, Computer Science at UOITBMath, Computer Science, BMath, Computer Science at University of Waterloo
Chinese, English
Github Skills (61)
portal10
rendering9
trend9
multi-touch9
jupyter-kernels9
causal8
snapping8
charts8
svg8
gestures8
jupyterlab8
rotate8
analytics8
visualization8
jupyter7
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
mwdchang/dotfiles
Nov 2017 - Jan 2025
Contributions:33 pushes, 3 branches in 7 years 3 months
BD2KGenomics/dcc-portal
Sep 2014 - Aug 2015
Contributions:1015 commits in 11 months
dccdatadata-portalportalicgc
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