Silas Hsu
Assistant Professor at California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo
California, United States
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolSilas Hsu is an Assistant Professor and HCI researcher with 11 years of software engineering experience, combining academic rigor from a PhD in Computer Science with hands-on systems work. He has improved performance-critical visualization code (speeding a Hi-C JavaScript front end by over 100x) and built production services at scale (integrating an Amazon-backed REST service with IMDb). Comfortable across research and engineering, he leverages machine learning, front-end optimization, and backend Java systems to translate complex data into usable tools. A trained pianist with a background in both computer science and music, he brings a multidisciplinary perspective to human-centered computing and teaching. Based in California, he maintains an active academic presence and a personal website showcasing his HCI work.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignMaster's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at Washington University in St. LouisMetro Academic and Classical High School
English, Chinese, Spanish
Github Skills (18)
visualization10
converter9
browser9
javascript7
gateway7
mutate5
typescript5
slack-bot4
matrix3
cmyk3
hsl3
hsv2
css2
hex2
chatbot2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
smhsu/placebo-rewrite
Apr 2020 - Jul 2023
Contributions:94 pushes, 11 branches in 3 years 2 months
smhsu/webstacToCal
Dec 2014 - Jul 2022
WUSTL WebSTAC to Google Calendar converter
Contributions:133 commits, 3 PRs, 115 pushes in 7 years 8 months
javascriptcalendargoogle-calendarconverter
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.