I am pursuing a PhD at Portland State University in the Systems & Network Lab (SyN) and my thesis advisor is Professor Wu-chi Feng. Before coming to PSU, I was an undergraduate at the University of Waterloo where I received an Honours Co-op Bachelor of Math/Computer Science. I started my grad school career at the Oregon Graduate Institute.

    My research interests are in networking and computer graphics, specifically, MMO scalability problems, volume rendering, Internet measurement, network gaming, computer security, multimedia applications, graphics streaming and packet classification/caching.

    I am currently working on algorithms to address virtual world scaling problems, in partial fulfillment of a doctorate in computer science. I am expected to graduate shortly before the earth crashes into the sun.

    In Spring 2007 I taught CS 199 Games.

    In Winter 2007 I taught CS 199 Games.

    In Fall 2006 I taught CS 510 Malicious Code and Forensics.

    In Winter 2006 I taught CS 510 Malicious Code and Forensics.

    In Fall 2005, I taught OMSE 510 Computing Fundations.

    In Winter 2005, I taught CS 510 Malicious Code and Forensics.

    In Fall 2003, I taught CSE 506/606 NWP Network Practicum.

Francis Chang, Wu-chi Feng. "Streaming Terrains", Proceedings of NOSSDAV 2007, June 2007. (pdf)

Francis Chang, Wu-chang Feng, Wu-chi Feng, Kang Li, "Efficient Packet Classification with Digest Caches", Network Processor Design: Issues and Practices, Editors: Patrick Crowley, Mark Franklin, Haldun Hadimioglu, Peter Onufryk, Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, 2005, ISBN: 0-12-088476-3

Francis Chang, Wu-chang Feng, Wu-chi Feng, Kang Li, "Efficient Packet Classification of Digest Caches", in Proc. of the Third Workshop on Network Processors & Applications (NP3), February 2004, Madrid, Spain. (website|pdf)

Francis Chang, Kang Li, Wu-chang Feng, "Approximate Caches for Packet Classification", in Proc. IEEE INFOCOM 2004, March 2004, Hong Kong. (website|pdf|ps)

Kang Li, Francis Chang, Wu-chang Feng, "Architecture for Packet Classification Caching", 11th IEEE International Conference on Networks (ICON 2003), Sydney, Australia. (pdf)

Francis Chang, Kang Li, Wu-chang Feng, "Approximate Caches for Packet Classification", ACM SIGCOMM (poster session), August 2003, Karlsruhe, Germany. (website|ppt|pdf)
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Francis Chang, Wu-chang Feng, "Modeling Player Session Times of On-line Games", in Proceedings of NetGames 2003, May 2003, Redwood City, California. (website|pdf)

Wu-chang Feng, Francis Chang, Wu-chi Feng, Jonathan Walpole, "Provisioning On-line Games: A Traffic Analysis of a Busy Counter-Strike Server", In Proceedings of the Internet Measurement Workshop, November 2002, Marseille, France. (website|pdf|ps)

Francis Chang, Wu-chang Feng, Wu-chi Feng, Jonathan Walpole, "Provisioning On-line Games: A Traffic Analysis of a Busy Counter-Strike Server", ACM SIGCOMM (poster session), August 2002, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. (website|ppt|pdf|ps)
Abstract (pdf|ps)

Yee, N., Bailenson, J.N., Urbanek, M., Chang, F., Merget, D. (2006, in press). "The Unbearable Likeness of Being Digital: The Persistence of Nonverbal Social Norms in Online Virtual Environments". The Journal of CyberPsychology and Behavior. (pdf)