Ling Hung, Ph. D.

Professional Summary
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3+ years of experience in web-based application development.
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5 years of experience in numerical modeling of surface plasmon resonances in metallic nanoparticles for various applications. (HAMR, SERS, AOMR)
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2+ years of experience in hands-on optical measurement.
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1+ year experience in designing optical lens systems.
Strong analytical problem solving skills and attention to detail; strong ability to interact with cross-functional teams and to work in a team environment with minimal supervision.
Work experience
Software Engineer
(XAPPmedia Inc., Washington, District of Columbia)
​07/2013 - present
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Experienced in building application for handling high traffic voice-activated Ad transactions.
- Designed and built front-end content management system UI and functions.​​
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Implemented Ad CRUD functions for content management system REST API.
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Built in-house ETL service to migrate data from NoSQL to MySQL.
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Built in-house Ad impression report and user response report.
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Integrated quality control workflow for Ad creative in the content management system.
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Experienced in deploying web-based application services with continuous integration tool.
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Experienced in building version control system for operational and analytical databases.
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Experienced in agile software development lifecycle and unit testing.
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Graduate Research Assistant (University of Maryland, College Park)
01/​2009 - 05/2013
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​Developed the boundary element method (BEM) based software package for surface plasmon simulation for heat assisted magnetic recording (HAMR).
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Designed three dimension meshes of different nanoparticle geometries for nanoscale near-field optical irradiation probes.
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Developed a software package based on Usmani's method for computing the tridiagonal matrix inversion.
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Derived analytical solutions of plasmon modes for various nanoparticles and provided them as the test examples for numerical computations.
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Optimized developed software by using MEX files and parallel computing (GPU) to boost computation speed.
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Implemented in-house developed algorithm for computation of radiation corrections for plasmon resonances in nanoparticles.
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Designed near-field transducers (NFTs) for generating nanoscale optical spots for HAMR.
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Investigated the effect of heat sink layers on optical spots generated by aperture-type NFTs and NFTs with protruding parts.
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Derived analytical solutions of dipolar plasmon modes in metallic nanoparticles with rotational symmetry for all-optical magnetic recording.
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Conducted research on plasmon resonances in silver nanocube dimers on silicon substrate for surface enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) used in bio-sensing application.
Teaching Assistant (University of Maryland, College Park)
​01/2012 - 05/2013
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Power System (ENEE474) and Power Electronics (ENEE475), ECE Department, University of Maryland, College Park, Fall 2012 & Spring 2013.
Optical Lens Designer (Suyin Corportation, Taiwan)
06/2007 - 06/2008
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Designed optical lens systems with VGA and SXGA resolutions by using ZEMAX for laptop and cell phone cameras.
Research Assistant (National Taiwan University)
09/2004 - 06/2006
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Conducted optical experiment of photoluminescence (PL), photo-energy-dependent PL, and time-resolved PL on mixed InGaN/GaN quantum well structures for generation of white light.
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Designed a photonic crystal fiber (PCF) with a ring structure and solved for different propagating modes by using element method (FEM).
Lab Instructor (National Taiwan University)
02/2005 - 06/2006
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Taught the physical mechanism beyond photoluminescence and directed senior students to perform hands-on optical measurement of GaN and ZnO thin films.
Languages
FORTRAN
C/C++
HTML/CSS
JAVASCRIPT
jQuery
PYTHON
JAVA
SCALA
MYSQL
NOSQL
BASH
Softwares
ZEMAX
SOLIDWORKS
AUTOCAD
MATLAB
ORIGIN
MATHEMATICA
Web Services
Amazon Web Service
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Dynamodb
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VPC
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RDS
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EC2
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S3
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Elastic Beanstalk
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Redshift
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Kinesis
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Lambda
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ECS
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ElastiCache
OS
Linux
UNIX
Windows
IDE
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IntelliJ IDEA
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WebStorm
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PyCharm
Framework
Play Framework
2010 - present
2010 - present
Education​
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Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park, USA, 06/2013
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M.S. in Photonics and Optoelectronics Engineering, National Taiwan University, 06/2006
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B.S. in Electrical Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taiwan, 2004
Journal Publications
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L. Hung, P. McAvoy, D. Bowen, C. Krafft, and I. D. Mayergoyz, "Analysis of Plasmon Resonances in Metallic Nanostructures in Proximity to Dielectric Objects with Application to Heat-Assisted Magnetic Recording," J. Appl. Phys. 115 (17), 17B705 - 17B705-3 (2014)
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L. Hung, S. Y. Lee, O. McGovern, O. Rabin, and I. D. Mayergoyz, "Calculation and Measurement of Radiation Corrections for Plasmon Resonances in Nanoparticles," Phys. Rev. B. 88, 075424 (2013)
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L.Hung, G. S. Lang, P. McAvoy, C. Krafft, I. D. Mayergoyz, "Circularly polarized plasmon modes in spheroidal nanoshells for applications to all-optical magnetic recording," J. Appl. Phys. 111 (7), 07A915-07A915-3 (2012)
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G. Lang, D. Bowen, L. Hung, C Krafft, I. D. Mayergoyz, "Anisotropy study of garnet films grown over substrates populated with gold nanoparticles," J. Appl. Phys. 111 (7), 07A505-07A505-3 (2012)
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S. Y. Lee, L. Hung, G. S. Lang, J. E. Cornett, I. D. Mayergoyz, O. Rabin, "Dispersion in the SERS enhancement with silver nanocube dimers," ACS Nano 4 (10), 5763-5772 (2010)
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S.Y. Lee, G.S. Lang, L. Hung, J.E. Cornett, I.D. Mayergoyz, O. Rabin, "Surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy with silver nanocube dimers: Experiment and calculation," Abstracts of Papers of the American Chemical Society 240 (2010)
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I.D. Mayergoyz, G. Lang, L. Hung, S. Tkachuk, C. Krafft, O. Rabin, "Plasmon resonance enhancement of magneto-optic effects in garnets," J. Appl. Phys. 107 (9), 09A925-09A925-3 (2010)
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Y.S. Chen, L.C. Yao, Y.L. Lin, L. Hung, C.F. Huang, T.Y. Tang, J.J. Huang, W.Y. Shiao, C.C. Yang, "Transmission electron microscopy study on pre-strained InGaN/GaN quantum wells," J. Crystal Growth 297 (1), 66-73 (2006)
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S.C. Chin, C.Y. Chi, Y.C. Lu, L. Hong, Y.L. Lin, F.Y. Jen, C.C. Yang, B.P. Zhang, Y. Segawa, "Nano-structure study of ZnO thin films on sapphire grown with different temperature conditions," J. Crystal Growth 293 (2), 344-350 (2006)
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W.Y. Shiao, C.Y. Chi, S.C. Chin, C.F. Huang, T.Y. Tang, Y.C. Lu, Y.L. Lin, L. Hong, F.Y. Jen, "Comparison of nanostructure characteristics of ZnO grown on GaN and sapphire," J. Appl. Phys. 99 (5), 054301-054301-6 (2006)
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C.Y. Chi, S.C. Chin, Y.C. Lu, L. Hong, Y.L. Lin, F.Y. Jen, C.C. Yang, B.P. Zhang, Y. Segawa, "Nanostructures and optical characteristics of ZnO thin-film-like samples grown on GaN," Nanotechnology 16 (12), 3084 (2005)
Conference Presentations
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L. Hung, P. McAvoy, D. Bowen, C. Krafft, and I. D. Mayergoyz, "Analysis Plasmon Resonances in Metallic Nanostructures in Proximity to Dielectric Objects with Application to Heat-Assisted Magnetic Recording," 58th Annual Conference on Magnetism and Magnetic Materials (MMM), 4–8 November, 2013, Denver, Colorado, USA
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L. Hung, P. McAvoy, C. Krafft, and I. D. Mayergoyz, "Analysis of Plasmon Resonances in Metallic nanostructures with Heat Sink Used in Heat-Assisted Magnetic Recording," 12th Joint MMM/Intermag Conference, 14–18 January, 2013, Chicago, Illinois, USA
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L. Hung, G. Lang, P. McAvoy, C. Krafft, and I. D. Mayergoyz, "Application of Plasmon Resonances in Metallic Nanostructures to Heat-Assisted Magnetic Recording," IEEE International Magnetics Conference (INTERMAG), 7–11 May 2012, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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L. Hung, G. Lang, P. McAvoy, C. Krafft, and I. D. Mayergoyz, "Circularly Polarized Plasmon Modes in Spheroidal Nanoshells for Applications to All-Optical Magnetic Recording," 56th Conference on Magnetism and Magnetic Materials (MMM), 30 October–3 November 2011, Scottsdale, Arizona, USA