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Jorge Cham

Jorge Cham
Jorge Cham at UIUC by Ragib.jpg
Jorge Cham at UIUC, 2007.
Born Jorge Gabriel Cham
May 1976 (age 40)
Nationality Flag of Panama.svg Panamanian
Fields
Alma mater
Thesis On performance and stability in open-loop running (2002)
Doctoral advisor Mark Cutkosky
Known for Piled Higher and Deeper
Website
jorgecham.com

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.

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.

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.


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