SCA/HPCAsia: My First Time Computational Conference

Notes from the SCA/HPCAsia 2026 in Osaka. My reflections on being a halfway developer, the technical density of small quantum firms, and finding identity among black T-shirts.

February 1, 2026 · 4 min · 746 words · Cheng Tan

2025 Annual Summary

This post is about my year 2025. On the research side, it starts from a simulation error caused by PBC box settings at the beginning of the year, the Young Investigator Award I received in June, and the full development of the mdgenesis.org website. It also reflects on experiences from various academic conferences, my slow progress in reading Tokugawa Ieyasu during business trips, and my guitar practice.

December 31, 2025 · 7 min · 1386 words · Cheng Tan

Using Azure AI Services for Productivity Boosts (TTS, STT, and Translation)

Reading papers and attending international conferences often demand long time of focused comprehension in a foreign language. For lazy language learners (like me), why not take advantage of AI’s incredible capabilities to give your brain a bit of a break?

August 25, 2024 · 5 min · 1032 words · Cheng Tan

Cover Image Designs for the GENESIS 2.1 Paper

Several magazine cover designs created using tools like Blender.

April 30, 2024 · 1 min · 109 words · Cheng Tan

eTechou PDF Planner has been open sourced!

This is a project for creating PDF planner with LaTeX.

March 4, 2022 · 1 min · 89 words · Cheng Tan

PDF Planner 2021 (for iPad + apple pencil)

I made a pdf file for taking notes and making plans (手帳 in Japanese) with LaTeX.

January 12, 2021 · 1 min · 135 words · Cheng Tan

COVID19 Time-Dependent Distribution in Japan

I made a gif showing COVID19 infection distribution changes in Japan. Nothing new, just a showcase with python.

March 14, 2020 · 1 min · 3 words · Cheng Tan

Proof without words: trigonometric differentiation

I recently got this idea that we can show all the basic trigonometric functions and the derivatives in one figure. So I spent some time to plot it with LaTeX.

March 10, 2020 · 4 min · 684 words · Cheng Tan

LaTeX Typesetting Chinese Character and PinYin Box

This is the beginning of teaching my daughter Chinese characters.

February 2, 2020 · 1 min · 37 words · Cheng Tan

New Year and New Document

Another LaTeX template for this years documentation.

January 13, 2020 · 1 min · 84 words · Cheng Tan