Curriculum Vitae Of Weiguang GUAN Group of Image Science Centre d'optique, photonique et laser Département de physique Université Laval Québec, Canada, G1K 7P4 Telephone: (418) 656-2131 Ext. 8001 (Office) Facsimile: (418) 656-2623 Email: wguan@phy.ulaval.ca Web: http://www.fortunecity.com/skyscraper/terminus/436 +++ OBJECTIVE +++ R&D position in software development, especially in Computer Graphics, Visualization, Image Processing, Computer Vision, and Pattern Recognition. +++ EXPERTISE SUMMARY +++ Academic Understanding: * Computer vision & Robotics * Volume visualization * Image processing * Pattern recognition * Computer graphics & CAD Software and Hardware: * Motif, GL, OpenGL * C/C++, Java, Pascal, Fortran * Unix on SUN/SGI, NT on PC, VMS on DEC VAX * Visual C++ and MFC * Matlab +++ EDUCATION +++ July, 1991 ~ January, 1995: Ph.D. in Pattern Recognition and Intelligent Control, the National Laboratory of Pattern Recognition (NLPR), Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P. R. China. Joined * The Sino-France Joint Project: "Volume Visualization of Medical images" * NSF project "Computing Theory of Machine Vision" * "863" High-Tech plan "Autonomous Vehicle Navigation" September, 1985 ~ July, 1988: M.S. in Computer Science, Harbin University of Science and Technology, P. R. China. Joined * "Five-Year Plan" Key Project of China: "Computer Aided Design System for Instrument and Meter Design" September, 1981 ~ July, 1985: B. S. in Computer Science, Harbin University of Science and Technology, P. R. China. +++ WORK EXPERIENCE +++ January, 1999 ~ Present: Post-doctor, Department of Physics, Laval University, Canada. Join projects: * "Stabilization of Video Sequence" funded by Lockheed Martin Electronic System Canada * "Fusion of Multi-sensor Images" funded by Lockheed Martin Electronic System Canada. August, 1996 ~ December, 1998: Associate professor, Department of Computer Science, Harbin University of Science and Technology, China. * Project manager of NSF research projects: "Knowledge-guided 3D Reconstruction of Vasculature from Limited Projections". * Project manager of collaboration project "Non-destructive Anatomy Education System for Medical Colleges" collaborating with the First Hospital of Harbin Medical University, funded by the State Education Committee of China. * Project manager of project "Off-line Programming for Robots" funded by Heilongjiang Province Natural Science Foundation. July, 1995 ~ July, 1996: Visiting Scholar, Department of Computer Science, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. Joined * Project: "3D Reconstruction of Vasculature from A Pair of Angiograms", funded by the Wellington Medical Research Foundation. February, 1995 ~ June, 1995: Associate professor, Department of Computer Science, Harbin University of Science and Technology. Guest researcher at the National Laboratory of Pattern Recognition. Joined * Project: "3D reconstruction from range data" funded by NLPR July, 1988 ~ July, 1991: Lecturer, Department of Computer Science, Harbin University of Science and Technology. Senior programmer, Harbin Shixue Electronic Engineering Ltd. Joined * "Five-Year Plan" Key Project of China: "Computer Aided Design System for Instrument and Meter Design". * Project "System, Algorithms, and Architecture of Solid Modeling System". +++ COMMENDATION AND AWARDS +++ * Leading Academic Researcher of Mechanism Ministry, China, 1997. * Outstanding Young Scientist of Heilongjiang Province, 1996. * One of the Top Ten Achievement Awards in 3rd Asian CT Techniques Competition, 1995. +++ PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS +++ * Founding Board Member of China Visualization Association. * Member of Heilongjiang Advisory Expert Board. * Senior Member of Heilongjiang Computer Association. +++ RECENT PUBLICATIONS +++ 1 "Volume Graphics", Chinese Journal of Graphics and Imaging, 1999. (in Chinese) 2 "Knowledge-based 3D Reconstruction Method of Vasculature from a Pair of Angiograms", oral presentation at SPIE Imaging’99, San Diego, Feb. 22, 1999. 3 "A list processing approach to compute Voronoi diagrams and the Euclidean distance transform", IEEE Trans. Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, Vol. 21, No. 7, 1998. 4 "Volume visualization and its applications", Publishing House of Electronics Industry, 1/16, 192 pages, April, 1998. (one of the National High-Tech Book Series of China, in Chinese) 5 "Deformable registration of digital images", J. Computer Science and Technology. Vol. 13, No. 3, 1998. 6 "Matching deformed planar contours", J. Chinese Automation, Vol. 8, No. 5, 1996. 7 "High-quality rendering of iso-surfaces", J. CAD and CG, Vol. 8, No. 5, 1996. (in Chinese) 8 "Unified fast distance transforms", J. Computer, Vol. 18, No. 8, 1995. (in Chinese) 9 "Non-linear theory in computer vision", Communications On High Tech., Vol. 5, No. 5, 1995. (in Chinese) 10 "3D volume visualization techniques", CT Theory And Application Research, Vol. 4, No. 1, 1995. (in Chinese) 11 "An oblique voxel based rendering technique", J. Chinese Bio-Medical Engineering, Vol. 13, No. 4, 1994. (in Chinese) 12 "Analysis of infrared and medical images", Pattern Recognition And Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 7, No. 2, 1994. (in Chinese) 13 "An area-subdivision algorithm using only two steps of subdivisions", CAD&CG’89 international conference in Beijing, August 1989. 14 "Set Operations in Solid Modeling", 1st National Conference of Young Computer Workers, Harbin, August, 1988. (in Chinese) Note: I am the principal author of all the above papers except for [9, 12]. +++ PERSONAL DATA +++ Date of Birth: August 30, 1964 Sex: Male Place of Birth: Harbin, China Marital Status: Married Nationality: Chinese Health: Excellent Hobbies: Fishing and Photography +++ REFERENCE +++ Professor Songde MA IEEE Senior Member, President of Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100080, China Email: masd@nlpr.ia.ac.cn Professor Peter Andreae Chairperson of Dept Computer Sci., Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand Email: Peter.Andreae@vuw.ac.nz Professor Yunlong SHEN SPIE Senior Member, Dept. of Physics, Laval University, Ste-Foy, Quebec, Canada, G1K 7P4 Email: sheng@phy.ulaval.ca * References Available Upon Request *