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Industrial Light + Magic Director of Research and Development (2002-present) Responsible for computer graphics research and artist tool development across all areas of visual effects production Principal Engineer  (2000-2002) Founded and led computer vision R&D team CG Software Engineer (1998-2000) Designed/developed proprietary tracking, matchmove and motion capture software Rhythm and Hues Graphics Software Developer (1996-1998) Developed animation and 3D tracking software for film and video production

Awards/Patents 2006 - Academy Award for Science and Engineering – ILM Image-based Modeling System 2005 - University of Illinois ECE Young Alumni Achievement Award 2003 - Patent for ILM Facial Mocap system 2002 - Academy Award for Technical Achievement - MARS matchmoving system Talks/Panels/Courses: Siggraph, GDC, ICCV, CVPR, ICVGIP, CVMP Berkeley, CMU, Georgia Tech, ENS-Paris, IIT-Mumbai, U. Illinois, Microsoft, Stanford, U. Washington Interviews/Media: American Cinematographer The Big Idea with Donny Deutsch Business Week Cinefex Computer Graphics World Fast Company IEEE Spectrum Hollywood Reporter Millimeter Newsweek PC Magazine Variety Wired Films: 2007 TRANSFORMERS 2007 PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: AT WORLD’S END 2007 EVAN ALMIGHTY 2007 HARRY POTTER AND THE ORDER OF THE PHOENIX 2006 NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS 3D 2006 ERAGON 2006 PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: DEAD MAN'S CHEST 2006 POSEIDON 2006 MISSION IMPOSSIBLE 3 2005 HARRY POTTER AND THE GOBLET OF FIRE 2005 CHICKEN LITTLE 3D 2005 THE ISLAND 2005 WAR OF THE WORLDS 2005 STAR WARS: EPISODE III “Revenge of the Sith” 2004 LEMONY SNICKET’S A SERIES OF UNFORTUNATE EVENTS 2004 SON OF THE MASK 2004 HARRY POTTER AND THE PRISONER OF AZKABAN 2004 VAN HELSING 2004 THE DAY AFTER TOMORROW 2003 MASTER AND COMMANDER: FAR SIDE OF THE WORLD 2003 PETER PAN 2003 TERMINATOR 3 2003 PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: THE CURSE OF THE BLACK PEARL 2003 THE HULK 2003 DREAMCATCHER 2002 HARRY POTTER AND THE CHAMBER OF SECRETS 2002 MINORITY REPORT 2002 MEN IN BLACK II 2002 STAR WARS: EPISODE II “Attack of the Clones” 2002 E.T.: THE EXTRA-TERRESTRIAL (Re-release) 2001 HARRY POTTER AND THE SORCERER’S STONE 2001 PLANET OF THE APES 2001 JURASSIC PARK III 2001 A.I. 2001 PEARL HARBOR 2001 THE MUMMY RETURNS 2000 SPACE COWBOYS 2000 THE PERFECT STORM 2000 THE ADVENTURES OF ROCKY AND BULLWINKLE 2000 MISSION TO MARS 1999 MAGNOLIA 1999 GALAXY QUEST 1999 THE GREEN MILE 1999 SLEEPY HOLLOW 1999 WILD WILD WEST 1999 STAR WARS: EPISODE I “The Phantom Menace” 1999 THE MUMMY 1998 BABE - PIG IN THE CITY 1997 MOUSEHUNT

	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (1989 - 1996) PhD in Electrical Engineering
	Thesis: Piecewise-Algebraic Surface Models for Computer Vision We automatically construct curved object models from photographs or range data, then use these models to estimate the objects' pose in new photos. Click here for some results. Topics include: · multi-patch spline surface models · single-surface implicit algebraic models · automatic modeling of curved objects from photographs and range data · pose estimation and recognition of models photographs
	Research Assistantship Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology Professor Jean Ponce (1991-1996) Research Topics · automatic model construction and recognition from silhouettes and range data · shape reconstruction from a sparse set of X-ray images · multi-finger grasps of polyhedral objects · non-holonomic robot motion planning
	Teaching Assistantship Senior/Graduate computer graphics course
	Academic Publications Click here for a full listing

	MS in Electrical Engineering (January 1991)
	Thesis Vector and Parallel Implementations of the Wavelet Transform An introduction to time/frequency analysis via orthonormal wavelets, accompanied by the development and benchmarking of transform algorithms for a variety of computing architectures.
	Research Assistantship Center for Supercomputer Research and Development Professor George Cybenko (1989-1991) Research Topics · Development and benchmarking of wavelet transform algorithms for parallel processors · Coding and benchmarking of Hopfield neural networks on multi-processor machines

	University of Missouri at Rolla (1984-1989)
	· B.S. Cum Laude in Electrical Engineering · Minor in Computer Science · General and Departmental Honors · Honors Research: "An Improved Neural Network for Solving the Travelling Salesman Problem."

Research Intern: California Institute of Technology, (summer 1994) Investigated multi-finger grasping and object reconstruction from X-ray projections Research Intern: INRIA - Sophia Antipolis, (Nice, France, summer 1993) Worked toward combining correlation and edge-based stereo methods Research Intern: NEC Research Institute, (Princeton, NJ, summer 1992) Implemented K-best hypothesis pruning; examined tracking via non-linear Kalman filtering U.S. Presidential Scholar Finalist National Merit Scholar, UMR Curators Scholar Scholarship to study Liberal Arts in London - Fall 1987