Jorge Cham

Jorge Gabriel Cham (Spanish: [ˈxorxe]) (born May 1976) is a cartoonist and
Jorge Cham
roboticist best known for his popular newspaper and web comic strip Piled Higher
and Deeper (PhD Comics).[1][3] Cham was born in Panama and lives in the United
States, where he started drawing PhD Comics as a graduate student at Stanford
University.[4] He has since been syndicated in several university newspapers and in
four published book collections.[5][6] He was featured on NPR on December 20,
2010.[7] With physicist Daniel Whiteson, he is the coauthor of We Have No Idea
(2017), a book about unsolved problems in physics.[8]

Contents
Early life and education
PhD Comics
References
External links Jorge Cham at UIUC, 2007.
Born Jorge Gabriel Cham
May 1976 (age 41)
Early life and education Alma mater Georgia Institute of

Jorge Cham was born and raised in Panama to parents working in the Panama Canal
Technology (B.S.)
Zone as engineers for the United States Government.[9][10] He received his B.S. Stanford University
from Georgia Institute of Technology in 1997,[11] and earned a PhD[2][12][13] in (PhD)
mechanical engineeringfrom Stanford.[14] He subsequently worked at Caltech as an Known for Piled Higher and
instructor and as a researcher onneural prosthetics.[15] Deeper
Website jorgecham.com
PhD Comics Scientific career
In 2005, Cham began an invited speaking tour of over 80 major universities Fields Webcomics
delivering his talk titled "The Power of Procrastination". In this lecture, Cham talks
Robotics
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 Thesis On performance and
procrastination and argues that in many cases it is actually a good thing.[16] stability in open-loop
running (2002)
Mark Cutkosky[1][2]
References Doctoral
advisor
1. Coelho, Sara (2009). "Piled Higher and Deeper: The Everyday Life of a
Grad Student" (http://jorgecham.com/science_magazine.pdf)(PDF).
Science. doi:10.1126/science.caredit.a0900042(https://doi.org/10.112
6%2Fscience.caredit.a0900042).
2. Cham, Jorge Gabriel (2002).On performance and stability in open-loop
running (http://bdml.stanford.edu/twiki/pub/Rise/ClimbingRobotAlumni/c
ham_thesis.pdf) (PDF) (PhD thesis). Stanford University.
 3. Choe, Jaywon (22 July 2011)."The Joke Is on the Ph.D."(https://www.n
ytimes.com/2011/07/24/education/edlife/edl-24phd-t.html)The New York
Times.
4. Cham, Jorge (2012). "Jorge G. Cham homepage at Stanford"(https://we
b.archive.org/web/20120422025410/http://www-cdr .stanford.edu/~jgcha
m). Stanford University. Archived from the original (http://www-cdr.stanfo
rd.edu/~jgcham/) on 2012-04-22.
5. Jorge Cham interview: "Creating PhDComics"(http://www.ibiology.org/ib
iomagazine/issue-2/jorge-cham-creating-phd-comics.html)
6. "The "Piled Higher and Deeper" Book Collections"(https://web.archive.o
rg/web/20070927233722/http://www.phdcomics.com/book.htm). Play media
Archived from the original (http://www.phdcomics.com/book.htm)on A PhD Comics special on the
2007-09-27. Retrieved 2007-07-08. occasion of Open Access Week
2012.
7. Ruben, Adam (2010-09-09)."Three Books For Surviving Graduate
School" (http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=12585658
6). NPR. Retrieved 2016-05-03.
8. Cham, Jorge; Whiteson, Daniel (2017).We have no idea : a guide to the
unknown universe (https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/956959104). New
York: Riverhead Books.ISBN 9780735211513. OCLC 956959104 (http
s://www.worldcat.org/oclc/956959104).
9. Grim, Kathryn (March 2009)."Jorge Cham: Piled higher and deeper"(htt
ps://www.symmetrymagazine.org/article/march-2009/gallery-jorge-cha
m). Symmetry. Vol. 9 no. 1. pp. 30–35.
10. Maddaus, Gene (15 May 2013)."Jorge Cham: The Overeducated
Cartoonist" (http://www.laweekly.com/arts/jorge-cham-the-overeducated-
cartoonist-4180087). L.A. Weekly.
11. "Pacesetters: Piled High"(http://gtalumni.org/Publications/magazine/win
06/pacesetters.html). Georgia Tech Alumni Association. Retrieved
2007-02-27.
12. Cham, J. G.; Bailey, S. A.; Clark, J. E.; Full, R. J.; Cutkosky, M. R.
(2002). "Fast and Robust: Hexapedal Robots via Shape Deposition
Manufacturing". The International Journal of Robotics Research . 21
(10–11): 869. doi:10.1177/0278364902021010837(https://doi.org/10.11
77%2F0278364902021010837).
13. Clark, J. E.; Cham, J. G.; Bailey, S. A.; Froehlich, E. M.; Nahata, P. K.;
Full, R. J.; Cutkosky, M. R. (2001). "Biomimetic design and fabrication of
a hexapedal running robot".Proceedings 2001 ICRA. IEEE International
Conference on Robotics and Automation (Cat. No.01CH37164) . 4.
p. 3643. doi:10.1109/ROBOT.2001.933183 (https://doi.org/10.1109%2F
ROBOT.2001.933183). ISBN 0-7803-6576-3.
14. "About PhD Comics" (https://web.archive.org/web/20061019013754/htt
p://www.phdcomics.com/about.htm). Archived from the original (http://w
ww.phdcomics.com/about.htm)on 2006-10-19. Retrieved 2006-08-13.
15. "Jorge Cham's Research"(https://web.archive.org/web/2007022712102
4/http://www-cdr.stanford.edu/%7Ejgcham/research.html). Archived from
the original (http://www-cdr.stanford.edu/~jgcham/research.html) on
2007-02-27. Retrieved 2006-08-13.
16. "Jorge Cham's Speaking Tour" (https://web.archive.org/web/200507140
21314/http://www.phdcomics.com/speaking.htm). Archived from the
original (http://www.phdcomics.com/speaking.htm)on 2005-07-14.
Retrieved 2007-02-26.

External links
 Official website
Official website of PhD Comics
Media related to Jorge Cham at Wikimedia Commons

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