Objective : Seeking a full time
position working in challenging
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research and development environments, especially in the
areas of Computer Graphics, Virtual Reality, Internet Technologies,
High Performance/Distributed Computing and related areas.
Education: * MS ( Computer Science ) Aug. 1997 - Dec. 1998.
University of Illinois at Chicago.
* BE (Computer Science and Engineering) 1993 -1997
Motilal Nehru Regional Engineering College, Allahabad, India.
Experience:
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* Aug. 1997 - Present : Research Assistant,
Electronic Visualization Laboratory, University of Illinois at
Chicago, Chicago.
* Currently working as Co-Designer, Limbo II, an Object Oriented
Framework for Distributed Virtual Reality Systems, in C++, using
Performer
* Worked on adding Collaborative abilities ( Networking ) to Cave5D,
a tool for Real Time Collaborative Immersive Visualization of
Environmental Data, an initiative of the Application Technology
Team of the National Computational Science Alliance ( NCSA ).This
research project was done using C++ and OpenGl and was shown
at
Alliance' 98 , HPDC' 98, Internet - 2, NGI conferences.
* Developed locking mechanisms for objects in a Collaborative Virtual
Environment, to provide for object control contentions over
the
Networked Virtual Worlds.
* Developed a TeleImmersive Virtual Environment - Virtual Attrium,
which provides a real time central tele-portation point for
the
various Collaborative Applications, shown at SuperComputing'98.
This application was written in C++, and made use of Performer
and
CAVERNSoft APIs
* Worked on adding Remote Collaborative capabilities to Virtual
Director, a software which enables real time navigation and
recording of the Virtual Session.
* May 1995 - July 1995 Research Intern, Dept. of Computer Science and
Engineering , Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur.
* Developed an Optical Character Recognition System for poorly
printed texts. The work involved developing heuristic algorithms
and implementing them in C, for the various kind of problems
arising in such poor printed texts. This work resulted in 2
Prize
winning Papers.
Computer Skills:
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Programming Languages: C++, C,Visual C++, SmallTalk, Java,
Pascal, COBOL, HTML, CGI, JavaScript,
VRML.
Platforms :
SGIs , Sun Sparcs, Dec Alpha, PCs.
Operating Systems:
Irix 5/6.x, UNIX, SunOS, Solaris, NT.
Programming Libraries/APIs:OpenGl, CAVE, Performer, CAVERNSoft,
Java3D.
Applications:
Rational Rose, Gview, ShowCase, AutoCad Rel. 12
PhotoShop.
Design Methodologies:
UML.
Networking Protocols: TCP/IP.
Ethernet. Multicasting.
Graduate Coursework :
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Virtual Reality
Computer Graphics I
Object Oriented Languages and Environments.
User Interface and Design Principles.
Software Engineering
Neural Networks
Network Operating Systems.
Significant Course Projects:
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* As part of Graphics I course, I did 3 projects in OpenGL and C
language. Though the OpenGl environment was used to draw the
graphics,
the projects were done by implementing the GL calls and APIs
and not
directly using them. This required a thorough understanding
of how
the low level OpenGl APIs are implemented, and then re-implement
the set
of OpenGL API on my own.
* Implementation of the scan line and Bresenhams Circle
Algorithms.
* A Screen Saver, where lots of 3 dimensional objects,
are flying in
the space, and rotating about their own axis,
axis of the screen, and
an arbitraryand user specified axis.
* Implementation of Shading Algorithms, Ray Tracing, Lighting,
and Zbuffer algorithms.
* Designed a Distance Learning Server, written over Mnet 2.0 CORBA
combining Asynchronous and real time Synchronous Learning
capabilities to give one set of APIs to the Users, with features
such as live chat, whiteboards, audio/video conferencing,
bulletin boards etc.
* Developed a number of applications using UNIX Systems Programming
in POSIX Standard, and C++ Language, including developing a
generic
Concurrent Database, using advisory read/write locking for multiple
processes, with system crash recovery capabilities. Also developed
a Script Interpretor for piped Unix commands, including job
control
capabilities.
* Developed a test simulation in C++ to compare the performances of
various Inter Process Communication techniques such as Message
Queues , Shared Memory with Semaphores under various conditions,
and the presence of multiple client processes, using POSIX APIs.
* Developed another application called "Remote Pipe" to implement a
generic Unix 'pipe' command over different remote machines using
System V Socket Programming APIs and C++ environment.
* Developed a Speech Recognition System, applying BackPropagation
Neural Network, trained to recognize spoken numbers. This was
written using C language.
* Developed a graphical browser, -- "Medical Notebook", to visualize
graphical medical data sets over the web, using cold fusion,
for
the Department of Neurology, UIC, Chicago. The browser provided
a
vast set of tools such as magnification, rotation, editing etc
of
the images , and incorporated features such as security, remote
editing capabilities etc.
* Developed an Object Oriented Grocery Planner System, implemented in
C++ and in SmallTalk.
Honors/Achievements:
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* Won First Prize for the paper titled : "Algorithms for Segmentation
of a Textual Image into Lines and Characters ", at the All India
Student Paper Presentation INFLUX'96, jointly organized by IEEE
Student Branch and Roorkee University.
* Awarded Second Prize for the paper " Segmentation for Multiple Text
Recognition", at the All India Student Symposium held at Institute
of Technology, BHU at CADENCE PROBE '96.
* Dean's Merit Scholarship for undergraduate program in Computer
Science.
Research Demonstrations/Activities :
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* Research Demonstrations at SuperComputing'98 titled "Exploring
CAVERNSoft TeleImmersive Collaboratories at SuperComputing 98"
at
the I-GRID / NLANR / Alliance Booths.
* Research Demonstrations at IEEE International Symposium on High
Performance Distributed Computing (HPDC-98), and at Alliance'98,
NCSA, University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaigne on the ongoing
research in Collaborative Virtual Reality.
* Participated in several Remote Collaborative Demonstrations,
including the Internet2, Next Generation Internet (NGI).
* Student Volunteer at Alliance'98, ISEA 97:Virtual Spaces,
Siggraph'98, and at SuperComputing'97 for the Multiway
Collaborative Demonstration.
Publications :
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* Park, K., Kapoor, A., Leigh, J., "Lessons Learned from Employing
Multiple Perspectives In a Collaborative Virtual Environment
for
Visualizing Scientific Data", in the Proceedings of
ACM CVE 2000,
San Francisco CA, September 10-12, 2000.
* Park, K., Kapoor, A., Scharver, C., Leigh, J., " Exploiting Multiple
Perspectives in Tele-Immersion, in the Proceedings
of IPT 2000: Immersive
Projection Technology Workshop, Ames IA,
June 19-20, 2000, CD-ROM
* Wheless, G., Lascara C., Leigh, J., Kapoor, A., Johnson, A.,
Defanti, T. "Cave6D : A Tool for Collaborative Immersive
Visualization of Environmental Data." To appear in the Proceedings
of IEEE Visualisation '98.
* Leigh, J., Johnson, A., DeFanti, T., Kapoor, A. et al.," A Review
of
Tele-Immersive Applications in the CAVE Research Network" Proceedings
of IEEE
VR99, Houston TX, March 13-17, 1999
* Lascara, C., Wheless, G., Cox, D., Patterson, R., Levy, S., Johnson,
A., Leigh
J., Kapoor, A. TeleImmersive Virtual Environments for Collaborative
Knowledge
Discovery to appear in the proceedings of the Advanced Simulation
Technologies
Conference '99 San Diego CA, April 11-15, 1999
* Kapoor, A., Kahol, A., Karnick, H.. "Algorithms for Segmentation of
a Textual Image into Lines and Characters " presented at INFLUX'96
at Roorkee University, Roorkee, India.
* Kahol, A, Kapoor, A., "Segmentation for Multiple Text Recognition,
" presented at the All India Student Symposium, PROBE'96 at
Institute of Technology, BHU, India.
References:
Dr. Jason Leigh, Senior Scientist, Electronic Visualization Laboratory.
email: jleigh@eecs.uic.edu
Ph. 312 996 3002
Dr. Andrew E. Johnson, Assistant Professor, Electronic Visualization
Laboratory,
email: ajohnson@eecs.uic.edu
Ph. 312 996 3002.