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I'm Shi Yin

A recent Masters graduate, a Coder, a Gamer, and an Experiencer.

Shi Yin

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.

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Games

"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.

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Played

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.

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Multiplayer

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.

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Blog

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.