Jorge Cham
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Jorge Cham
| Jorge Cham | |
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 Jorge Cham at UIUC, 2007. |
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| Born | May 1976 |
| Nationality |  Panama |
| Area(s) | Webcomics |
| Notable works | Piled Higher and Deeper |
Jorge Cham (HOR-heh) (born in May 1976) is a Chinese Panamanian cartoonist and roboticist best known for his popular newspaper and web comic strip Piled Higher and Deeper (PhD Comics). Cham lives in the United States, where he started drawing PhD Comics as a graduate student at Stanford University. He has since been syndicated in several university newspapers and in four published book collections.[1] He was featured on NPR on December 20th, 2010.
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Education
Jorge Cham received his Bachelor's degree from Georgia Tech in 1997,[2] and earned a PhD in mechanical engineering from Stanford.[3] He subsequently worked at Caltech as an instructor and as a researcher on neural prosthetics.[4]
PhD Comics
In 2005, Cham began an invited speaking tour of over 80 major universities delivering his talk titled "The Power of Procrastination". In this lecture, Cham talks about his experiences creating the comic strip and examines the sources of grad students' anxieties. He also explores the guilt and the myths associated with procrastination and argues that in many cases it is actually a good thing.[5]
Heathrow detention incident
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According to the PHD Comics webpage, Cham was detained at the Heathrow airport for several hours on the 26th of October 2009. Finally he was released but was bound to be deported the next day. However, thanks to the many letters of support from his colleagues, the authorities were convinced to allow him to enter the country and give his lectures as planned.[6]
Personal life
In a January 8, 2010 post in the PHD Comics webpage, Jorge Cham sent a cryptic message to all of his fans, stating that he had "successfully cloned half of his DNA", likely announcing that he had become a father and therefore having a good excuse to procrastinate on updating his PHD Comics webpage.[7] During the 2010 SACNAS National Conference Cham identified Nissin as his favorite instant noodle brand and MSG as his favorite flavor.[8]
Notes
- ^ "The "Piled Higher and Deeper" Book Collections". http://www.phdcomics.com/book.htm. Retrieved 2007-07-08.
- ^ "Pacesetters: Piled High". Georgia Tech Alumni Association. http://gtalumni.org/Publications/magazine/win06/pacesetters.html. Retrieved 2007-02-27.
- ^ "About PhD Comics". http://www.phdcomics.com/about.htm. Retrieved 2006-08-13.
- ^ "Jorge Cham's Research". http://www-cdr.stanford.edu/~jgcham/research.html. Retrieved 2006-08-13.
- ^ "Jorge Cham's Speaking Tour". http://www.phdcomics.com/speaking.htm. Retrieved 2007-02-26.
- ^ "PHD comics - Detention incident.". http://www.phdcomics.com/comics/archive.php?comicid=1243. Retrieved 2009-11-02.
- ^ "Recent News". http://www.phdcomics.com/comics.php. Retrieved 2010-01-20. (see also the forum thread)
- ^ "Using Humor to Survive Graduate School". http://www.sacnas.org/confNew/confClient/current/agenda/#1214. Retrieved 2010-10-01.
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