Computer Science Electrical Engineering

Teresa Ko

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Tel: 510-***-**** ***@****.***.***

EXPERIENCE

Co-founder, Wertago LLC, Los Angeles, CA 2008-present

Designed and developed a mobile application for nightlife -- enabling users to search for nightlife near

them, connect and share location/status with friends on mobile devices, and promote nightlife events.

Primarily responsible for iPhone client, mobile web application, and server-side code.

Awards/Achievements

Grand Prize Winner of Google s Android Developers Contest I

Over 100,000+ downloads of application.

Senior Member of Technical Staff, Sandia National Lab., Livermore, CA 2001-2008

Led efforts to create the future direction of the Computer Sciences and Information Systems Center

through roadmapping efforts and seeking internal/external funding proposals.

Promoted two years early (outside of regular promotion cycle), due to technical and business develop-

ment achievements.

Principal Investigator for DISCERN: DIStributed Camera Event Recognition Network Awarded 575K

Invented distributed self-organizing algorithm for wireless sensor networks. Patent pending.

Lead Developer for Seldon: multi-agent simulation on the recruitment processes of violent groups.

Awards/Professional Development

Sandia OYOC (One-Year-On-Campus) Scholarship for Master s degree.

Sandia/CA Team Employer Recognition Award for SDAC (Sense, Decide, Act, Communicate) and IED

Tech Assessment.

Recognized as having performed an Important National Security Contribution.

Named Outstanding Contributor, the highest rating within Member of Technical Staff group.

Selected as one of three Global Business Network Leader of the Future, across entire company.

Additional work experience available upon request.

EDUCATION

University of California, Los Angeles 2006-present

Ph.D. candidate in Computer Science under Prof. Deborah Estrin and Prof. Stefano Soatto.

Awards: UCLA Computer Science Department Fellowship, UCLA Chancellor s Prize, NSF Graduate Fel-

lowship Honorable Mention

Massachusetts Institute of Technology 1998-2003

M.Eng. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (conc. in Arti cial Intelligence)

B.S. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (minor in Computational Brain and Cognitive Sci-

ences)

SKILLS & INTERESTS

LANGUAGES: JAVA, C, C++, Objective C, Ruby on Rails, MATLAB, TinyOS, COS, Perl

PLATFORMS: iPhone, Android, Amazon ec2, XScale, MSP430, ATMEL ATmega128L, JStamp

INTERESTS: Oil painting (http://www.teresahko.com)

http://vision.cs.ucla.edu/~tko

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SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Detection and Categorization in Natural Environments

T. Ko, S. Soatto, and D. Estrin. Warping Background Subtraction. To appear in Computer Vision Pattern

Recognition, June 2010.

T. Ko, S. Soatto, and D. Estrin. Categorization in Natural Time-Varying Image Sequences. In Computer

Vision Pattern Recognition: Visual Interpretation and Understanding Workshop, June 2009.

T. Ko, S. Soatto, and D. Estrin. Background Subtraction on Distributions. In European Conference on

Computer Vision, pages 222-230, October 2008.

Real-time Distributed Systems

T. Ko, N. Berry, and R. Kyker. A minimalistic approach to image processing for low-power sensor net-

works. In Proceedings for SPIE s Visual Information Processing. April 2004.

T. Ko and N. Berry. Distributed Feature Extraction for Event Identi cation. In Proceedings of European

Symposium on Ambient Intelligence. November 2004.

Real-time visual interfaces

T. Ko, D. Demirdjian, and T. Darrell. Untethered Gesture Acquisition and Recognition for a Multimodal

Conversation System. In Proceedings of ACM ICMI 03, Vancouver, BC, Canada, pages 147-150, No-

vember 2003.

D. Demirdjian, T. Ko, and T. Darrell. Constraining Human Body Tracking. In Proceedings of IEEE

ICCV 03, Nice, France, pages 1071-1078, October 2003.

Social Network Simulation

N. Berry, T. Ko, T. Moy, J. Smrcka, J. Turnely, and B. Wu. Emergent Clique Formation in Terrorist Re-

cruitment. In Proceedings of the Agent Organization:Theory and Practice Workshop in American Asso-

ciation for Arti cial Intelligence. July 2004.

T. Ko and N. Berry. Agent-Based Modeling with Social Networks for Terrorist Recruitment. In Proceed-

ings of American Association for Arti cial Intelligence. July 2004.

Additional publications available upon request.

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