Nationality Panamanian Role Comic Strip Creator | Name Jorge Cham Fields WebcomicsRobotics | |
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Alma mater Georgia Institute of TechnologyStanford University (PhD) Thesis On performance and stability in open-loop running (2002) Education Stanford University, Georgia Institute of Technology | ||
Doctoral advisor Mark R. Cutkosky | ||
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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). 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. He was featured on NPR on December 20, 2010.
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Education
Jorge Cham received his B.S. from Georgia Institute of Technology in 1997, and earned a PhD in mechanical engineering from Stanford. He subsequently worked at Caltech as an instructor and as a researcher on neural prosthetics.
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.