Qifan Xi

"If I make my website really plain, maybe I'll be mistaken as an academic"

University of Waterloo
Computer Science class of 2013
260 Westcourt Place, Waterloo, ON
Ring: 519-721-7965
Ping: khyew at khyew dot com

Curriculum Vitae

I graduate in August 2013 with a Bachelor of Computer Science from the University of Waterloo.
You can find my full resume here. Some highlights:

Amazon: Implemented the back-end service for audio format selection on the Amazon.com retail site.
Hulu: Wrote an ActionScript2 to Javascript compiler for Hulu Plus using the ANTLR grammar framework.
Google: Data reporting tools and UI prototyping for the Google Toolbar.
Microsoft: Project Management at Bing Maps.

I like computer graphics and information security. Drop me a line if you think I have something to offer!

Raytracer.
Playing around with tilt-shift blurring (a la Instagram) via a selective Gaussian blur in MATLAB.
Ninja Throw, an accelerometer-based HTML5 mobile game where the objective is to throw your phone without breaking it.
xwax UI mod. A better layout and colouring scheme for the xwax open-source DJing software.
Lunar Lander 3D final project for CS 488. Three-dimensional remake of the Lunar Lander arcade game with random terrain generation, Newtonian physics, particle effects, and GPU shadows!

I do some photography.
When is the next UW Parkour meet?
For my Quantum Information Processing course, I wrote a paper review of quantum cryptography techniques (specifically quantum fingerprinting and digital signatures).