Welcome

Hello! I am a fourth year Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Informatics at UC Irvine co-advised by Gary Olson and David Redmiles. They, together with Gina Venolia, form my dissertation committee. Gillian Hayes and Peter Krapp are the remaining members of my candidacy committee. They provide me with inspirations and fresh perspectives. Most importantly, they help to keep me sane and grounded throughout the Ph.D. process.

I share the same laboratory spaces with many wonderful colleagues, including Ellie Harmon and Fernando M. Figueira Filho at the Hana Haven, and Gerald Bortis, Roberto Silva Filho, Benjamin Köhne, Nilmax Moura, Tiago Proença, Wiwat Ruengmee, Francisco Servant, and Erik Trainer at the Continuous Coordination Lab.

My closest collaborators are David Nguyen, Matthew Bietz, and Judy Olson.

Currently, I am researching on GroupMind.

Site last modified: September 24, 2009

Education

Prior to coming to UC Irvine, I received a M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering - Information Networking from Carnegie Mellon University in 2005 and a B.S. in Computer Science and Engineering from UCLA in 2003.

I attended Monta Vista High School (class of 2000) and Hyde Middle School (formerly Hyde Junior High School) in Cupertino, CA. Before that, I spent the second semester of 7th grade at Mildred E. Strang Middle School in Yorktown Heights, NY, and the majority of my childhood in Taipei, Taiwan.

Work

In between UCI and CMU, I worked at IBM's Almaden Research Center in San Jose, CA in 2006, WebSphere Business Integration in Austin, TX in 2005, and Printing Systems (acquired by Ricoh Company, Ltd. in 2007) in Boulder, CO in 2004. I also did two Extreme Blue internships in Spring 2005 and Summer 2007, and a research internship in Summer 2008, all at the ARC.

During my time with IBM, I was a major contributor for the following projects: Koala/CoScripter (2008), Maricopa/Sasquatch (2007), eMerridy/Rel8/Enki (2006), WebSphere Integration Developer (2005), WebSphere Process Server (2005), J9 JVM (2005), Performance Inspector (2005), InfoPrint Manager (2004), and InfoPrint Server (2004).

In college, I interned at MSC.Software's High Performance Computing (HPC) division in 2002 (now a division of Hewlett-Packard Company), where I worked on MSC.Nastran and MSC.Linux (now HP Linux), and managed supercomputer built on BladeCenter clusters. I also worked part-time at UCLA's SEASnet Computing Facility as a system administrator throughout my UCLA career.

Current Project

GroupMind

Brainstorming is a collaborative activity. GroupMind is a large group display that will connect to participants' laptops (local and remote) to foster brainstorming. Our current exploration uses mind-maps as the underlying mechanism for brainstorming. Development has involved retooling an open-source, single-user java application to be multi-user. We conducted multiple in-lab experiments to understand GroupMind’s impacts on brainstorming activities and are continuing to explore how this and other technologies can support group collaborative creativity activities.

Research Interests

Research Affiliations

I'm currently affiliated with the following Research groups.

Software Engineering
Institute for Software Research (ISR)
Continuous Coordination Group (CC)
Evolutionary Design Environments Group (EDEN)

Ubiquitous Computing
Laboratory for Ubiquitous Computing and Interaction (LUCI)
Social and Technological Action Research Group (STAR)

IBM Almaden Research Center
User Sciences and Experience Research Lab (USER)
Interaction Science Group

Teaching

I have held Teaching Assistantship appointments for the following courses.

UCI
Ubicomp Projects, (Winter 2008)
With Professor Gillian Hayes

Introduction to Software Engineering, (Winter 2008)
With Professor Ban Al-Ani
*Overall Rating (1-9): Mean = 8.45, Median = 8, Std Dev = 0.50

Communications Skills for Computer Scientists, (Fall 2007)
With Professor Venita De Souza
*Overall Rating (1-9): Mean = 8.09, Median = 8, Std Dev = 1

CMU
Embedded Real-Time Systems, (Fall 2004)
With Professors Priya Narasimhan and Rajeev Gandhi

Internet Services, (Spring 2004)
With Professor David O'Hallaron

Patrick C. Shih

patshih [at] ics [dot] uci [dot] edu

Mail
University of California, Irvine
Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences
Department of Informatics
5029 Donald Bren Hall
Irvine, CA 92697-3440

Office
5211 Donald Bren Hall (Hana Haven)
5231 Donald Bren Hall (Continuous Coordination Lab)

Department of Informatics
Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences
University of California, Irvine