Chunyi Peng

What I Believe

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Hobbies

I like hiking and traveling.

Mount Everest (Qomolangma), June 28,2009. (5,300m: my highest-altitude footprint so far)

Hike@TMB. Mont Blanc, at the gateway of 3,842m, August 2017.

Travel@South Island, NZ, Dec 2019.

Epic Multi-Day Trails of the World

  • Inca Trail, Peru, 26 miles (4 days): 2011

  • Tour du Mont Blanc (TMB), France & Italy & Switzerland, 105 miles (10 days): 2017

  • Annapurna Base Camp (ABC, Annapurna Sanctuary), Nepal, (7-12 days)

  • Everest Base Camp, Nepal, 80 miles(12 days)

  • Bay of Fires, Australia, 16 miles (4 days)

  • Mount Kilimanjaro, Tanzania, 40 miles (8-12 days)

  • The Laugavegur trail, Iceland, 50 miles (4 days)

  • The Long Range Traverse, Canada, 22 miles 6 days)

  • Tongariro Northern Circuit, New Zealand, 27 miles (3-4 days)

  • Kungsleden, Sweden, 65 miles (3-5 days)

  • Fitz Roy Trek, Argentina, 36 miles (4-7 days)

  • Petra Through the Back Door, Jordan, 50 miles (7 days)

  • Grindelwald, Switzerland, 10 miles (2-3 days)

  • Queen Charlotte Track, New Zealand, 44 miles (3-5 days)

  • Grand Canyon Rim-to-Rim, USA, 24 miles (2 days)

  • Camino de Santiago (聖雅各之路), Spain (30 days)

There are too many mind-blowing day hikes to list here.

A Path Toward a Professional

2007 (Sensys'07, Sydney) 2008 (Mobisys'08, Denver) 2009 (Farewell to MSRA, Beijing)
2011 (Auto98 Researchers, NYC) 2013 (PhD Graduation, Los Angeles) 2018 (W/ Harry Shum at MS Faculty Summit, Bellevue. As a 14-year fan).

Footprints @ Google Photo

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Quotes

  • The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. (Albert Einstein)

  • The very nature of science is discoveries, and the best of those discoveries are the ones you don't expect. (Neil deGrasse Tyson)

  • Standards are always out of date. That’s what makes them standards. (Alan Bennett)