Jorge Cham

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Jorge Cham
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Jorge Cham at UIUC, 2007.
Born Jorge Gabriel Cham
May 1976 (age 48)
Nationality Flag of Panama.svg Panamanian
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Thesis On performance and stability in open-loop running (2002)
Doctoral advisor Mark Cutkosky[1][2]
Known for Piled Higher and Deeper
Website
jorgecham.com
A PhD Comics special on the occasion of Open Access Week 2012.
Jorge Cham at EPFL, 2008

Jorge Gabriel Cham (Spanish: [ˈxorxe]) (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).[1][3] Cham lives in the United States, where he started drawing PhD Comics as a graduate student at Stanford University.[4] He has since been syndicated in several university newspapers and in four published book collections.[5] [6] He was featured on NPR on December 20, 2010.[7]

Education

Jorge Cham received his Bachelor's degree from Georgia Tech in 1997,[8] and earned a PhD[2][9][10] in mechanical engineering from Stanford.[11] He subsequently worked at Caltech as an instructor and as a researcher on neural prosthetics.[12]

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.[13]

References

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  3. ↑ The Joke Is on the Ph.D., JAYWON CHOE New York Times, July 22, 2011 http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/24/education/edlife/edl-24phd-t.html
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  5. ↑ Jorge Cham interview: "Creating PhDComics"
  6. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  7. ↑ http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=125856586
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