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 (47)
validating10
portal10
rendering9
generative-adversarial-network9
visualization9
analytics9
multi-touch9
jupyter-kernels9
svg8
probabilistic-models8
image-filters8
drag-and-drop8
tensorflowjs8
jupyter7
image-effects7
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
mwdchang/VehicleVis
Feb 2012 - Feb 2021
Vehicle complaints visualization: Exploring entities with non-photorealistic rendering.
Contributions:141 commits, 3 pushes in 9 years 1 month
renderingvisualizationanalyticsnon-photorealistic-renderingtext-visualization
BD2KGenomics/dcc-portal
Sep 2014 - Aug 2015
Contributions:1015 commits in 11 months
dccdatadata-portalportalicgc
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