Scientific Projects
Here are some projects I’ve actively participated in so far (in roughly inverse chronological order). As you can see, most of my works can be categorized into biophysics, medical physics, and computational biology.
Biophysics
 Contour analysis: cell membrane edge detection |
 Microrheology: video particle tracking of microspheres embedded in colloidal mixtures |
Medical physics
 Development of a treatment planning system (TPS) and research on dose calculation algorithm |
 Development of an image registration system and implementation of efficient numerical optimization method |
 Automated beam modeling algorithm for clinical linear accelerators (LINACs) |
 Implementation of Intensity-Modulated Radiation Therapy (IMRT) algorithm |
 Implementation of VTK-based three-dimensional medical image visualization module |
 Development of a radiation therapy control system for large and complex oncology departments |
Protein folding and high performance computing
 “SegaPred, A Self-Evolutionary Genetic Algorithm Based Protein Conformation Predicting Program” |
 Parallel programming with MPI and its application to SegaPred |
Drug discovery and machine learning
 Eigenmode analysis of enzyme carbon backbones around the active site |
 Drug candidate screening and effective descriptors for Support Vector Machines (SVM) |
 “Enzyme Active Site Recognition Using Support Vector Machines” |
Biology
 Efficient estimation of the rice plant’s susceptibility to cold weather using hydrogen peroxide |
 Absorption of heavy metal ions with the mucus of purple bacteria |
Miscellaneous
 A cheap yet effective steam humidifier made of an old rice cooker. |
 Transformation of a transformer |
