Jorge Cham

Infobox Comics creator
name = Jorge Cham

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caption = Jorge Cham at the EPFL on 21 May 2008
birthname = Jorge Cham
birthdate = May 1976
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area = Webcomics
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notable works = Piled Higher and Deeper
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Jorge Cham (born May 1976) is a Chinese-Panamanian post-doc best known for his popular newspaper and web comic strip Piled Higher and Deeper (PhD Comics). He first started drawing PhD Comics as a grad student at Stanford University, and has since been syndicated in several university newspapers and in three published book collectionscite web
url=http://www.phdcomics.com/book.htm
title=The "Piled Higher and Deeper" Book Collections
accessdate=2007-07-08] .

Jorge Cham received his Bachelor's degree from Georgia Tech, [cite web
url=http://gtalumni.org/Publications/magazine/win06/pacesetters.html
title=Pacesetters: Piled High
publisher=Georgia Tech Alumni Association
accessdate=2007-02-27] and earned a PhD in mechanical engineering from Stanford.cite web
url=http://www.phdcomics.com/about.htm
title=About PhD Comics
accessdate=2006-08-13] He subsequently worked at Caltech as an instructor and as a researcher on neural prosthetics.cite web
url=http://www-cdr.stanford.edu/~jgcham/research.html
title=Jorge Cham's Research
accessdate=2006-08-13]

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.cite web
url=http://www.phdcomics.com/speaking.htm
title=Jorge Cham's Speaking Tour
accessdate=2007-02-26]

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External links

* [http://www.phdcomics.com/ Piled Higher and Deeper]
* [http://www-cdr.stanford.edu/~jgcham/ Cham's personal site at Stanford]

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NAME = Cham, Jorge
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SHORT DESCRIPTION = American webcomic artist
DATE OF BIRTH = May 1976
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