David Cha

Hello, I am a final year CS undergraduate student at UWaterloo.
I am interested in computer graphics, particularly in physical simulation, geometry processing, high-performance graphics, and fabrication.

jycha [at] uwaterloo [dot] ca / LinkedIn / Github

Experience

	EPFL Excellence Research Internship Program May 2023 — Aug 2023 Supervisors: Quentin Becker, Uday Kusupati, and Prof. Mark Pauly Worked on extending the X-shells deployable structure to have deformable joints.
	SideFX 3D Software Developer Intern Jan 2023 — Apr 2023 Supervisors: Derrick Moser and Justin Bisceglio Worked on optimizing the performance of the TriDivide SOP for mesh subdivision and on research for Houdini's quad remesher.
	University of Waterloo Undergraduate Research Fellow May 2022 — Aug 2022 Supervisor: Prof. Christopher Batty Worked on optimizing the performance of the Los Topos mesh-based multimaterial surface tracker.
	Bloomberg Software Engineer Intern Jan 2022 — Apr 2022 Supervisor: Daniel Scanteianu Created a benchmarking framework for the Bloomberg Query Language.
	University of Waterloo Undergraduate Research Assistant Sept 2021 — Dec 2021 Supervisor: Prof. Meng Xu Worked on creating a symbolic executor for the Move smart contract programming language.
	Wattpad Software Engineer Intern May 2021 — Aug 2021 Supervisor: Rylan Halteman Created a service for measuring data quality metrics.
	Genesys Software Engineer Intern Sept 2020 — Dec 2020 Supervisor: Winnie Tam Worked on creating the new homepage for Genesys Cloud.
	Genesys Software Engineer Intern Jan 2020 — Apr 2020 Supervisors: Eric Chan and Ken Cai Developed new pages and features for Genesys Designer.

Website template from Mohammad Sina Nabizadeh and Jon Barron.