Chunyi Peng

What I Believe

I am a Christian. click

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  • Standards are always out of date.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)

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.

Hike@Yading, (Mount Chenrezig, 仙乃日,  4,080m), China, Oct 2024.

Epic Multi-Day Trails of the World

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

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

  • Camino de Santiago (French Way), Spain (30 days)

  • 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)

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) 2015 (Asst Prof at OSU, Columbus)
2016 (My first best community paper award at MobiCom'16, New York). 2018 (W/ Harry Shum at MS Faculty Summit, Bellevue, as a 14-year fan). 2018 (W/ Dina Katabi at MIT).

Footprints @ Google Photo

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