CHRISTOPHER S. SCHARVER
660 West Wrightwood Avenue #205
Chicago, IL 60614 773-528-2521
scharver@evl.uic.edu
Education
University of Illinois at Chicago Chicago, IL
Master of Science, Computer Science (Candidate) 2003
· Varsity Swimming Letterman
Furman University Greenville, SC
Bachelor of Science, Computer Science 1998
· Upsilon Pi Epsilon Computer Science Honor Society Member
· Crew Club President
· Swimming Club Vice President
Experience
VRCO, Inc. Virginia Beach, VA
Software Developer 2001-present
· Lead design and implementation of a cross-platform medical VR prototype
· Initiated porting efforts of a major software library to support the Macintosh platform
Electronic Visualization Laboratory, University of Illinois at Chicago Chicago, IL
Research Assistant 1998-present
· Designed and implemented a collaborative haptic application for the creation and evaluation of cranial implants
· Created a networked environment which properly accounted for late-joiners to a kinematics simulation
· Produced an application to facilitate the development of multi-user collaborative interactive virtual environments for the visualization of large data sets
· Ported medical visualization of the inner ear from OpenGL to the Performer CAVELib
Furman University Greenville, SC
Teaching Assistant 1997
· Developed materials for undergraduate Computer Graphics laboratory assignments
NASA JOVE Research Fellow 1997
· Investigated a TIFF rasterization program in Motif, learning the concepts of GUI programming
Laboratory Assistant 1995-1998
· Advised students participating in introductory coursework assignments
· Installed and managed software on laboratory Macintosh, PC, and UNIX workstations
Publications
· Park, K., Cho, Y., Krishnaprasad, N., Scharver, C., Lewis, M., Leigh, J., Johnson, A.,CAVERNsoft G2: A Toolkit for High Performance Tele-Immersive Collaboration, to appear in the Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology 2000, Oct 22-25, 2000, Seoul, Korea, pp. 8-15
· Sawant, N., Scharver, C., Leigh, J., Johnson, A., Reinhart, G., Creel, E., Batchu, S., Bailey, S., Grossman, R., The Tele-Immersive Data Explorer: A Distributed Architecture for Collaborative Interactive Visualization of Large Data-sets, 4th International Immersive Projection Technology Workshop, Ames, Iowa, June 19-20, 2000.
· Park, K., Kapoor, A., Scharver, C., Leigh, J., Exploiting Multiple Perspectives in Tele-Immersion, Proceedings of IPT 2000: Immersive Projection Technology Workshop, Ames, Iowa, June 19-20, 2000.
Additional
· Languages: C++, Objective-C, C, SmallTalk, JavaScript, Java, MIPS Assembly, Pascal
· Proficient with Open Inventor, the Visualization Toolkit, Performer, CAVELib, CAVERNsoft, TGS MasterSuite-3D, and OpenGL
· Skilled with object-oriented paradigms: Inheritance, Polymorphism, Design Patterns, Unified Modeling Language (UML), Object Modeling Technique (OMT)
· Experienced with IRIX, MacOS X, Linux, Windows 2000, Classic MacOS, Solaris, HP-UX
· Contributed source code to Coin3d and Visualization Toolkit open source projects