Hello There!
I'm Shi Yin
A recent Masters graduate, a Coder, a Gamer, and an Experiencer.
About Me
My name is Shi Yin.
I'm a recent M.S. graduate in Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
Before transferring to the Master's program, I conducted post-graduate research at the Electronic Visualization Laboratory for multiple years under the supervision of Prof. Andrew Johnson.
My research topics ranged from Virtual Reality, Spatio-temporal Data Visualization, and Large High-Resolution Displays.
I also worked on data-driven projects in areas such as urban planning, transportation analysis, and social media analysis, with major focus on web-based visualization and visual analytics systems.
Before coming to the U.S., I received my Bachelor's Degree in Information and Computation Science at the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China.
In personal life, my largest interest lies in playing video games. I also play sports, watch movies, read books, and experience anything good (and bad sometimes) in the world.
Projects
My skill set includes: Python (Pandas, Flask), HTML/CSS/JavaScript (jQuery, D3.js, React.js), Java, C#, C/C++, OpenGL/GLSL, Processing, SQL/NoSQL.
View All ProjectsGames
"I am a gamer. Not because I don't have a life, but because I choose to have many."
Playing
Since the end of 2013, my focus has turned to playing games on my Xbox One, but I keep playing on PC as well. Currently playing Grand Theft Auto V, Assassin's Creed: Syndicate, and The Witness.
Full ListPlayed
I started playing video games when I was 5. I've played a variety of games from AAA titles to indie games — FPS, RPG, action, sports, strategy — from both Western and Eastern developers.
Full ListMultiplayer
I started multiplayer in 2009 with Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2. That's also when I discovered Steam. After coming to the U.S., I played Battlefield 3 until DOTA 2's beta release.
Full ListBlog
I built a blog using Jekyll with Bootstrap, which helps me focus on writing instead of the miscellaneous tasks I dealt with when using WordPress.
Chinese Blog
Thoughts, translations, and life tips.
- Sep 2015虚拟现实101 (III)
- Jun 2015时未寒「明将军」系列
- Aug 2013"蓝眼睛和红眼睛"问题分析
- Mar 2013mitbbs包子自动抓取器完成了
- Feb 2013CentOS 5升级python版本
English Blog
Technical articles, research summaries, and tutorials.
- Mar 2016Setting up Github for Unity projects
- May 2015Configuring Geo-spatial Stack on Amazon Linux
- Jan 2015Install Nginx PHP MySQL Flask on EC2
- Feb 2014LaTeX Support for Jekyll Blog