Assistant Computer

Linh K. Ha

University of Utah phone: 801-***-****

School of Computing fax: 801-***-****

Scienti c Computing and Imaging Institute email: ***@**.****.***

** * ******* ****** *****, Room 3750

Salt Lake City, UT 84112

Research Interests: Parallel Computing; High-Performance Computing on GPUs; Scienti c Visualization; Ge-

ometry Processing; Robotics and Computer Vision

Education

Ph.D, Computer Science Aug 2005 - May 2011

University of Utah

Advisor: Prof. Cl udio Silva, GPA: 3.974

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M.E, Electronics and Telecommunications Sep 2002- May 2005

Vietnam National University, Hanoi, Vietnam

GPA 9.1/10.0, Grade Outstanding

B.E, Electronics and Telecommunications Sep 1997- May 2002

University of Technology, Hanoi, Vietnam

GPA 8.72/10.0, Grade Excellent

Fellowship and Awards

EGPGV Best Paper Award, 2011

MICCAI Travel Grant Award, 2010

Best paper nalist, Shape Modeling International, 2007

Vietnam Education Foundation (VEF) Fellowship,1, 2005

Vietnam National University Award for Excellent Youth Candidate, Dec 2004

Scholarships: Odon Vallet (Sep 2004), Trust Scholarship (Dec 2001), Samsung Scholarship (Nov 1999)

Member of University Dean s List for Academic Excellence, Jun 2002

Won a 2nd place at the school programming contest, Feb 1999

Professional Experience

I successfully defense my PhD thesis High Performance Multi-scale image processing framework on multi-

GPUs with applications to unbiased diffeomorphic atlas construction on Feb 25th.

Research assistant, Visualization and Geometric Computing (VGC) group, SCI Institute, University of Utah.

Research topics: high performance computing on CUDA; medical image processing; data ow architectures

to exploit the parallel computing power; GPU sorting, out-of-core iso-surface extraction; volume rendering;

point-based graphics. Feb 2006 Present. Supervisor: Professor Claudio Silva.

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Special program of US government to assist Vietnamese young outstanding scholars to pursue graduate study in top US universities.

Only 50 students are selected each year in the whole country.

Summer intern, Quantitative Visualization Group, ExxonMobil Upstream Research Company, Houston, Texas.

Research topics: Quantitative Volume Interpretation on GPUs, optimizing regularity computation on multi-

CPUs and GPUs; exploring regularity to improve understanding of seismic data; UI design for multi-attribute

computation. Mentors: Dr. Dominique Gillard and Dr. Mark Dobin, Summer 2009.

Summer intern, Deep Computing Group, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center. Research topics: High perfor-

mance out-of-core rendering; rendering optimizations for OpenGL and ray tracing. Supervisors: Dr. Wagner

Correa and Dr. James Klosowski. Summer 2007.

Research and teaching assistant at Robotic&Automation Lab, College of Technology, Hanoi. Research top-

ics: vision-guided robot navigation for mobile robot, developing robot control systems on microcontrollers.

Instructor for the college robot team in Vietnam Robot Contest, May 2005. Supervisor: Dr. Vinh Q. Tran,

Sep 2002 Jul 2005.

Research assistant at DSP group, NWAVE R&D Tel Communication Device Company, Hanoi. Research top-

ics: software coding in DSP TMS 6200 for slow bit rate channel vocoder, system programming, developing

interface and communication protocols for Mobiles and Handsets, working on project Analog to Digital

Mobile System . Supervisor Prof. Trung Q. Nguyen, Sep 2001 - Sep 2002.

Skills

Programming: C, C++, Assembly (x86), Pascal, OpenGL, Pthreads, MPIs, TBB, GPU: CG, GLSL, CUDA.

Systems: Windows, Linux, Embedded, SoC.

Digital Signal Processing, Telecommunications, Real-time Systems, Computer Hardware, software & hard-

ware design for small control systems, Computer Vision, Robotics, and Computer Graphics

Applications: ParaView, VTK, QT4, AutoCAD, Protel, Matlab, Labview.

Publications

[1] Ef cient Probabilistic and Geometric Anatomical Mapping using Particle Mesh Approximation on GPUs,

Linh Ha, Marcel Prastawa, Guido Gerig, John H. Gilmore, Claudio T. Silva and Sarang Joshi, submitted to

Special issue on Parallel Computation in Medical Imaging Applications

[2] Optimal Multi-Image Processing Streaming Framework on Parallel Heterogeneous Systems Eurographic

Symposium on Parallel Graphic and Visualization, Linh Ha, Jens Kr ger, Joao Comba, Sarang Joshi and

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Claudio T. Silva, EGPGV 2011, (Best paper award, invited for publication at IEEE TVCG.)

[3] Image Registration Driven by Combined Probabilistic and Geometric Descriptors, Linh Ha, Marcel Prastawa,

Guido Gerig, John H. Gilmore, Claudio T. Silva and Sarang Joshi, MICCAI 2010

[4] Multivariate Statistical Analysis of Deformation Momenta Relating Anatomical Shape to Neuropsychological

Measures, Nikhil Singh, P. Thomas Fletcher, J. Samuel Preston, Linh Ha, Richard King, J. Stephen Marron,

Michael Wiener and Sarang Joshi, MICCAI 2010

[5] Multi-scale Unbiased Diffeomorphic Atlas Construction on Multi-GPUs, L. Ha, Jens Kr ger, Sarang Joshi

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and C. Silva, GPU Computing Gems, Volume 1

[6] Fast Parallel Unbiased Diffeomorphic Atlas Construction on Multi-Graphics Processing Units, L. Ha, Jens

Kr ger, Thomas Fletcher, Sarang Joshi and C. Silva, EGPGV 2009

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[7] Fast 4-way parallel radix sorting on GPUs, L. Ha, Jens Kr ger, C. Silva, Computer Graphic Forum, Sep

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2009

[8] Spline-based feature curves from point-sampled geometry, J. Daniels II, T. Ochotta, L. Ha, C. Silva, Visual

Computer, volume 24, pages 449-462, Springer-Verlag, 2008.

[9] Robust Smooth Edge Extraction from Point Clouds, J. Daniels II, L. Ha, T. Ochotta, C. Silva, IEEE Interna-

tional Conference on Shape Modeling and Applications 2007 (SMI 07), 2007. (Best paper nalist, invited

for publication at The Visual Computer.)

[10] Interactive Transfer Function Speci cation for Direct Volume Rendering of Disparate Volumes, F. Bernardon,

L. Ha, S. Callahan, J. Comba, and C. Silva. SCI Institute Technical Report, No. UUSCI-2007-007, University

of Utah, 2007.

[11] From Mobile Robots to Industrial Automation, Ha L. Vu, Hung D. Pham, L. K. Ha, V. Q. Tran, International

Conference on Mechatronics Technology, ICMT 2004.

[12] Computer Vision Implementation in Robot Control, L. K. Ha, H L. Vu, V. Q. Tran, Vietnam Conference on

Some Speci c Issue of Information Technology, Aug 2004.

[13] Implementation of ACELP in full rate speech channel at 7.2 kbps, L. K Ha, T. Q. Nguyen, Vietnam Confer-

ence on Radio and Electronics, Nov 2002.

References

Prof. Cl udio T Silva, associate professor at Computer Science Department and faculty member of Scienti c

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Computing and Imaging Institute, University of Utah, email: ******@***.****.***

Prof. Sarang Joshi,associate professor at Bioengineering Department and faculty member of Scienti c Com-

puting and Imaging Institute, University of Utah, email: ******@***.****.***

Prof. Jens Kr ger, assistant professor, head of Interactive Visualization and Data Analysis group, Saarland

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University, Germany, email: *******@****.***-********.**

Dr. Dominique Gillard, Research Associate at ExxonMobil Upstream Research Company,email:

*********.*.*******@**********.***

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