
Ph.D., Senior Research Scientist at NAVTEQ, part of Nokia
Greater Chicago Area

Ph.D., Senior Research Scientist at NAVTEQ, part of Nokia
Greater Chicago Area
Top notch Chinese undergraduate education, Notre Dame M.S. and Ph.D., deep engineering knowledge in area, and the ability to collaborate with others as well as step away from the pack when necessary. Engineering formation and an internship with Equinox corporation offered an opportunity to hone programming skills. Experience pitching and performing government-funded research (i.e.DARPA, NIST, NSF, Navy, Army, FBI) involving several mapping, LIDAR, biometrics-related and ATR (Automatic Target Recognition) programs. Current responsibilities include building partnerships with academic institutions, evaluating technology and corporations to determine their value, and developing project road maps and negotiating impasses. Significant academic and industrial contacts. U.S. citizen.
Computer Vision . Location-based Services (LBS) . Navigation . Mobile Mapping . Biometrics . Image Processing . Pattern Recognition . Machine Learning . 3D Reconstruction . LIDAR . Artificial Intelligence . Emerging Technology Identification and Evaluation
coaching soccer
On the program committees of
Technical Demo Program Chair, ACM Multimedia, Firenze, Italy, 2010
Industrial and Demo Program Chair, ACM SIGMM International Conference on Multimedia Information Retrieval, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2010.
Embedded Computer Vision Workshop at the International Conference on Computer Vision, Kyoto, Japan, 2009.
International Workshop on Location Based Social Networks at the 17th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems, Seattle, WA, USA, 2009.
Nine NAVTEQ Significant Development Invention Awards and seven patents pending
Invited Talks:
Electrical Engineering Department, Columbia University, 2009
Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, 2009
Computer Science Department, University of Wisconsin at Madison, 2009
Beckman Institute, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, 2009
Computer Science and Engineering Department, University of Notre Dame, 2009
McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science, Northwestern University, 2009
Computer Science Department, Indiana University Purdue University at Indianapolis, 2009
Biometric Consortium (The only oral presentation by a student), Arlington, Virginia, USA, 2003