Assistant Electrical Engineering

TRAVIS PORTZ ******@***********.***

EDUCATION

M.S., Electrical Engineering University of Wisconsin-Madison June 2010 December 2012

Focus area: Signal Processing

Advised by Professor Hongrui Jiang (electrical engineering) and Professor Li Zhang (computer science)

B.S.E., Computer Systems Engineering Arizona State University August 2006 May 2010

Mathematics minor

Overall GPA: 4.0

EMPLOYMENT

Research Assistant University of Wisconsin-Madison Summer 2010 January 2013

Developed image/video processing and computer vision algorithms

Key skills/tools used: Parallel computing, C++, Matlab, CUDA, OpenMP, MPI, Boost, Eclipse, Mercurial, LaTeX

Undergraduate Research Assistant IMPACT Mobile Computing Lab September 2009 May 2010

Implemented multihop networking and duty cycling in the Ayushman Medical Sensor Testbed

Collaborated with the BlueTool team to provide common network functionality

Key skills/tools used: Embedded systems, C, Eclipse, C#, Visual Studio

Undergraduate Research Assistant UBM at ASU September 2008 September 2009

Developed mathematical models of androgen deprivation therapy for prostate cancer

Simulated models and fit parameters to clinical data

Key skills/tools used: Matlab, Mathematica, LaTeX

Web Developer Tatonetti Web Construction September 2007 May 2009

Designed and developed a real estate management web application

Maintained and developed several other database driven websites

Key skills/tools used: PHP, MySQL, HTML, CSS, XML, Symfony, C#, Visual Studio, Subversion

PUBLICATIONS

Travis Portz, Li Zhang, Hongrui Jiang. Optical Flow in the Presence of Spatially-Varying Motion Blur.

International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Providence, RI. June 2012.

Travis Portz, Li Zhang, Hongrui Jiang. High-quality Video Denoising for Motion-based Exposure Control.

International Workshop on Mobile Vision (IWMV), Barcelona, Spain. November 2011.

Travis Portz, Yang Kuang, John D. Nagy. A clinical data validated mathematical model of prostate cancer growth

under intermittent androgen suppression therapy. AIP Advances, Special Topic on Physics of Cancer, March 2012.

HONORS

NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Honorable Mention, Spring 2012

Wisconsin Distinguished Graduate Fellowship, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Fall 2010 Summer 2011

Barrett Honors College graduate, Arizona State University, May 2010

Honors thesis: A Comparison of Mathematical Models of Prostate Cancer Treatment by Androgen Deprivation

Moeur Award, Arizona State University, May 2010

National Merit Finalist, DeForest Area High School, Spring 2006

ORGANIZATIONS

Chief Technical Officer of The Triple Helix, an undergraduate journal, Fall 2007 Fall 2009

Member of Tau Beta Pi, the engineering honor society, Spring 2008 Present

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