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Yu (James) Zhang

Senior Software Engineer, Ph.D.

Crestron Electronics Inc.
Orangeburg, NY 10962
USA

Tel: (845)234-9267
Email: zhangyu_luo@hotmail.com
Web: http://zhangyu.50megs.com/main.html

Biography

Yu (James) Zhang is a Senior Software Engineer in Crestron Electronics Inc. He received a B.E. in 1997 and a M.E. in 1999 from Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an, China. He obtained his Ph.D. degree in 2004 from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. His Ph.D. dissertation research focused on the realistic face modeling and animation using anatomy-based modeling in conjunction with physically-based animation. From 2003 to 2005, he was a Research Fellow in the Department of Computer Science, School of Computing, National University of Singapore. Then he was a Software Engineer in the 3D Face Modeling and Recognition Group at the Genex Technologies, Inc. (acquired by TechNest), USA for a year. In 2006, he was a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Center for Human Modeling and Simulation, Department of Computer and Information Science at University of Pennsylvania. After that, he was a Research and Development Engineer in the Institute of High Performance Computing, Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) at Singapore from the end of 2006 to 2010. From 2010 to 2013, he was a Software Engineer in the College of Medicine, University of Vermont. In 2013 and 2014, he was a Software Engineer in Transfinder Corporation. He worked as a Software Engineer in KLA Corporation in 2015 and 2016. He worked as a Senior Software Engineer in Salient Corporation from 2016 to 2019.

Work Interests

Computer Graphics
Computer Animation
3D Visualization
Physically-Based Modeling and Simulation
Face Modeling, Animation and Recognition
Virtual Reality and Virtual Environment
Image Processing, Computational Geometry
Human-Computer Interaction

Publications

My work has been published in many top journals in computer science including (IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, Computer Graphics Forum, Computer Animation and Virtual Worlds, International Journal of Shape Modeling, Journal of Visualization, International Journal of Imaging Systems and Technology, Journal of Visual Language and Computing, and Machine Graphics and Vision).

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Computer Skills

Programming Languages and Tools:
proficient in C/C++, C#, OpenGL, STL, Open Inventor, OpenSceneGraph, GLUT, OpenCV, Visual Basic, Matlab, Delphi, VRML, and HTML.
GUI Development:
BCGSuite, Microsoft Foundation Classes (MFC), C# WinForms, GLUI.
Software Development IDEs:
Microsoft Visual Studio (windows), KDevelop (Linux).
C/C Compilers:
Visual C++ (windows), GCC/G++ (Linux/UNIX), Turbo C.
Debug and Source Control:
NUnit, Apache Subversion (SVN), IBM Rational Team Concert (RTC), JIRA, Microsoft Visual SourceSafe (VSS), Git.
3D Modeling Software:
Maya, 3D Studio Max, AutoCAD, Softimage, Lightscape, Poser, FaceGen.
Multimedia Software:
Photoshop, Paintshop, The GIMP, Authorware, Dreamweaver.
Documenting Software:
Microsoft Office, OpenOffice, Visio, Latex.
Operation Systems:
Microsoft Windows, Linux.
Professional Certifications:
Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP) certification,
Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE) certification,
Microsoft Certified Professional Internet (MCP I) certification.

Current and Previous Affiliations

Crestron Electronics Inc., NY, USA
Salient Corporation, NY, USA
KLA Corporation , CA, USA
Transfinder Corporation, NY, USA
University of Vermont, VT, USA
Institute of High Performance Computing, A*STAR, Singapore
CIS, University of Pennsylvania, PA, USA
Genex Technologies Inc. (acquired by TechNest), MD, USA
SOC, National University of Singapore, Singapore
SCE, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

3D Graphics Projects

	3D FaceMaster 3D Graphics Software for Face Modeling & Animation
	HEx3DRM 3D Graphics Software for 3D Reconstruction of Heterogeneous Macromolecules
	3D Face Synthesizer 3D Graphics Software for Image-Based 3D Face Reconstruction
	Anatomy-based Human Neck Modeling
	Conformation based Parameterization of Scanned Face Data
	Digital Restoration of Distorted Document Images
	Example-Based Performance-Driven Facial Animation
	Realistic Computer Generated Human Targets
	Feature-Based Texture Synthesis Using A Parametric Face Texture
	Full-head Texture Synthesis for Human Head Cloning
	Region-Based Face Morphing Under Anthropometric Control
	Dynamic Wrinkle Simulation for 3D Facial Expressions
	Exploring Face Shape Space
	Anatomy-based Face Cloning For Animation
	Rapid Reconstruction of Animatable Individualized 3D Faces from Range Data
	Real-time Physically-based Facial Animation
	Instant Facial Modeling and Animation of Living Humans
	Dynamic Adaptive Mesh for Facial Animation
	Anatomy-based 3D Face Modeling
	Fast Image Edge Detection Based on Subband Decomposition