Tsz-Yam "Eddie" Lau Ph.D. Department of Comptuer Science Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute rpi [dot] laut [at] gmail [dot] com

Biography

I am now a Senior Member Of Technical Staff with Oracle America. My focus current focus is the networking of Oracle private Cloud Infrastructure.

I received my Ph.D. from the Department of Computer Science, Rensselear Polytechnic Institute (RPI) in December 2012. My advisor was Professor Randolph Franklin. Before studying in RPI, I obtained my B.Eng. and M.Phil. degrees in 2003 and 2005 respectively, both from the Department of Information Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK). My Bachelor final year project supervisor was Professor Po-Choi Wong and my M.Phil. supervisor was Professor Wai-Yin (Will) Ng. From August 2005 to July 2008, I was a full-time teaching assistant in the Department of Decision Sciences and Managerial Economics, business faculty, CUHK. I was an intern in IBM China Research Laboratory during summer 2012.

Research Interests

Currently I am working on a cultural research on the various aspects of Hong Kong that has been captured by video games. See here for the work-in-progress.

My research theme in my Ph.D. study was the reconstruction of geographical and hydrological data from partial survey data. Previously I worked on software license optimization algorithm, stereoscopic display for the colorblind, multimedia coding and conversation agent.

Publications

River network completion without height samples using geometry-based induced terrain
Tsz Yam Lau and W. Randolph Franklin
Cartography and Geographic Information Science, Vol. 40 (4), p.316-325, 2013. DOI:10.1080/15230406.2013.780785.

Automated artifact-free seafloor surface reconstruction with two-step ODETLAP
Tsz Yam Lau and W. Randolph Franklin
ACM SIGSPATIAL GIS2012 (PhD Showcase), November 2012.

CUDA-accelerated HD-ODETLAP: Lossy high dimensional gridded data compression
W. Randolph Franklin, You Li, Tsz Yam Lau and Peter Fox
2012 International Workshop on Modern Accelerator Technologies for GIScience (MAT4GIScience 2012),Columbus OH, 18 September 2012.

Improving river network completion under absence of height samples usinggeometry-based induced terrain approach
Tsz Yam Lau and W. Randolph Franklin
The 2012 AutoCarto International Symposium on Automated Cartography, Columbus OH, 16-18 September 2012.

Better completion of fragmentary river networks with the induced terrain approach by using knownnon-river locations
Tsz Yam Lau and W. Randolph Franklin
15th International Symposium on Spatial Data Handling (SDH) (short paper), Bonn, Germany, 22-24 August 2012.

Temporal Analysis of Literary and Programming Prose
Brian Michalski, Mukkai Krishnamoorthy and Tsz-Yam Lau
CoRR, abs/1202.2131, 2012.

Joining fragmentary river segments with elevations andwater flow directions using induced terrain
Tsz-Yam Lau, You Li and W. Randolph Franklin
21st Annual Fall Workshop on Computational Geometry (FWCG) 2011 (Extended Abstract), November 2011.

Completing fragmentary rivernetworks via induced terrain
Tsz-Yam Lau and W. Randolph Franklin
Cartography and Geographic Information Science 38 (2), pp.162-174,April, 2011.

Completing fragmentary rivernetworks via induced terrain
Tsz-Yam Lau and W. Randolph Franklin
Proceedings of Geospatial Data and Geovisualization: Environment, Security,and Society, a special joint symposium of ISPRS Technical Commission IV &AutoCarto 2010, November, 2010.

5D-ODETLAP: A novel five-dimensional compression on time-varying multivariablegeospatial dataset
You Li, Tsz-Yam Lau, Peter Fox and W. Randolph Franklin
Proceedings of Geospatial Data and Geovisualization: Environment, Security,and Society, a special joint symposium of ISPRS Technical Commission IV &AutoCarto 2010, November, 2010.

3D oceanographic data compression using 3D-ODETLAP
You Li, Tsz-Yam Lau, Chris Stuetzle, Peter Fox and W. Randolph Franklin
ACM SIGSPATIAL GIS2010 (PhD Showcase), 2010.

Completing river networks with only partial river observations via hydrology-aware ODETLAP
Tsz-Yam Lau and W. Randolph Franklin
Proceedings of 20th Annual Fall Workshop on Computational Geometry (FWCG) 2010 (extended abstract), October 2010.

Sea floor bathymetry trackline surface fitting without visible artifactsusing ODETLAP
Tsz-Yam Lau, You Li, Zhongyi Xie, and W. Randolph Franklin
ACM SIGSPATIAL GIS2009 (Poster paper), 2009.

Progressive transmission of color-mapped images
Wai-Yin Ng, Tsz-Yam Lau and Lap-Ming Kwong
Journal of Electronic Imaging 14, 033013, 2005.