About
That's me.
I am Jun Hu. In case you are wondering, Hu is my family name. But being a Chinese, I can’t help being more pleased if someone call me hujun /who june/ instead of Jun Hu. But after many years of explaining about my 5 letter names, I am OK with any composition of Jun and Hu or even Ju and Hun. I am from Jiangsu Province, the southeast of china, where the Yangtze River opens to the sea.
I started my university life as a Math student who was more interested in computer science. Graduated with a bachelor degree in Computational Mathematics, I taught myself programming and worked for an oil exploration company and then a construction machinery company, with qualified titles of Senior Programmer and System Analyst. For 6 years, I was working on digital signal processing algorithms and software packages, management information systems and networks, and computer aid design systems. In 1996, I decided to go back to the university to refactor my knowledge on computer science so that I could “make things better”. During the 3-year study, I also worked as a research assistant for professors and a team leader of a group of programmers. Among several other projects, a system for facial reconstruction from a skull and a 3D visualization system for virtual medical operations were my favorite. The final work for the Master’s degree,Content-based Retrieval of a Medical Image Database, used images to search similar images in a huge database. The result was promising and it had been used by the doctors in a hospital happily ever after.
However when I finished my computer science study, I found the most important was not just to make things better, but to make people’s life easier. So I moved to Holland in 1999, and joined the 2-year postmaster program User-system Interaction here in TU/e. My final project, Distributed Interfaces for a Time-based Media Application, was done at Philips Research. As the best from the USI program that year, this project was nominated for the OCE prize, although it did not make to the top prize at the end. I was so interested in interactive media that I decided to continue the research as a PhD project, focusing on the design of the software architecture for distritributed interactive media, especially for home environments.
I started teaching at ID in 2003. Since then I had been involved in project and competency coaching. I am now a researcher in the designed intelligence group, and a tutor for Master students in the Intelligent Spaces track. I am giving two assignments “Object Oriented Animals” and “Gooey: Soft and Sticky”, and running a master’s module “Formal Specification in Action”.
Aside from my professional life, I am a relatively good Chinese calligrapher, inheriting some calligraphing genes from my father. I don’t have much taste of music, but I do like Jazz and Blues very much, and hate Urban and Hiphop stuff. Digital photographing is also a lot of fun for me. I sometimes pretend to be a professional table-tennis player, if there is no one really professional around.
As a researcher, I can not help showing my list of the publications. There is also a publication list generated from CiteULike.
As a teacher, I am very proud of the student projects. Here you can also find a list of project reports.
Now, a more serious version:
Dr. Jun Hu has a PhD in Industrial Design and a Professional Doctorate in User-system Interaction, both from Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e). He has also a B.Sc in Mathematics and a M.Eng in Computer Science. He is a System Analyst and a Senior Programmer, qualified in 1996 and 1994 respectively by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of China. He worked in signal processing as an software engineer at the Computational Center and Institute of Geophysics of Jiangsu Oil Exploration Co. (JEOCO) from 1990 to 1994, in management information systems and computer aided design at the Information Center of Shaanxi Construction Machinery Co. Ltd. (SCMC) from 1994 to 1996, in scientific data visualization at the department of computer science of Northwest University from 1996 to 1999. He was a research assistant at the Center of User-system Interaction of TU/e from 1999 to 2001. He was a researcher in the Media Interaction Group at Philips Research Eindhoven from 2000 to 2003. From 2006 to 2007 he served as the Secretary-General for The Association of Chinese Scholars and Engineers in the Netherlands (VCWI) and from 2008 to 2009 as the Chairman. He has been a board member of Center for Chinese Professionals in the Netherlands (CCPN) since 2009. He is now a tenured Assistant Professor at Department of Industrial Design, TU/e, a Guest Professor at School of Digital Media, Jiangnan University. He is an associated editor of the International Journal of Arts and Technology. He is an author of several open source and commercial software products. He has about 80 peer reviewed publications in conferences and journals in the field of HCI, industrial design, computer science and design education. His current research activities are directed towards Design for Social Interaction.