Assistant Computer Science
Resume:
Andrew G. Scukanec
************@*******.*** www.cs.cornell.edu/~ags
Office:
Home: Permanent:
** ****** **. *** *** 257 Bohler Drive
Ithaca, NY 14853
Ithaca, NY 14850 Evans, GA 30809
607-***-**** (cell) 706-***-****
Education:
2 years of Ph.D. study in Computer Science at Cornell University, 3.40 GPA
BS in Computer Science at the Georgia Institute of Technology, 3.72 GPA
Certification:
Sun Certified Programmer for the Java 2 Platform (v 1.2)
Skills:
Languages: C/C++, Java (including Swing and AWT), Visual Basic, Scheme/Lisp, SML
Environments: Unix, Linux, Windows 9x/2000/XP, Solaris
IDEs: Visual Studio, Eclipse and Borland C Builder
Tools: Jakarta s ANT, JDBC, OpenGL, UML, XSLT and XML, sockets programming
Courses: C, Java, software engineering, graphics, databases, and networking
Research:
Cornell University March 04 - present
Dr. Stephen Marschner
Currently, I am working with Steve Marschner on the problem of accurately and
efficiently rendering hair. Hair is incredibly important to the appearance of humans and
human-like figures, and rendering it is a very difficult problem due to the many interactions
photons experience before reaching our eye. As a potential solution, we and others are
investigating using a diffusion approximation to accurately estimate 2nd o rder and higher
scattering.
Georgia Institute of Technology January 02 August 02
Dr. Robert Ghrist
Dr. Ghrist and I investigated the possibility of mathematically formalizing the manner in
which self-similar robots could move themselves in order to get from one state to a goal
state. For instance, we looked at moving a robotic arm with many segments from one
position to another as efficiently as possible. My particular role in this project was to write
the simulation software that would determine the quickest way to move the robot.
Georgia Institute of Technology August 02 December 02
Dr. Jarek Rossignac
Dr. Rossignac was my advisor for a senior research project in which I looked at ways to
speed up evaluation of CSG trees. A CSG tree is a particularly useful object for modelers,
where the user can specify larger shapes from a set of primitives. They can hierarchically
combine these primitives using basic operations like intersect, union, and subtract . The
problem with these trees is that they are very expensive to render as the trees grow large. I
worked on trying to prune unnecessary components of the tree, as well as caching
information about the tree to speed up subsequent renders.
Work Experience:
Cornell University, Computer Science Department August 03 present
Graduate Teaching Assistant
Teaching assistant for an introductory undergraduate course in graphics. Topics
covered ranged from gamma correction and perceptual issues to classic ray tracing
and material models.
Responsibilities included grading, assignment/solution development, holding office
hours, and coordinating undergraduate teaching assistants.
Georgia Tech Research Institute May 02 August 02
Student Assistant
I gathered requirements for a custom scripting language, then designed the language
and wrote the parser/interpreter in Java using JLex and CUP.
I maintained code written for a variety of projects in languages ranging from C to
Java to Python. The code was used to run a large helicopter simulation and tied into a
number of databases to drive the simulation scenario.
Bechtel Savannah River Inc. June 01 August 01
Intern/Assistant Developer
Ported Visual Basic 4 code to Visual Basic 6. Code was used to operate security
measures across the site such as badge readers, etc.
Designed a web interface for an Access Database using ASP, HTML, and VBScript
in MS Interdev Studio.
Georgia Tech: College of Computing January 01 June 03
Teaching Assistant
Taught for 5 semesters, amongst CS 1321 (Scheme), CS 1322 (Java) and CS 2130 (C)
Responsibilities included grading, weekly recitations/labs, meetings with students,
semi-weekly training sessions, and writing homeworks and projects.
Activities and Honors:
Secretary of the Alpha Gamma chapter of Delta Sigma Phi Fraternity
Member in IEEE
National Merit Scholar
2000 STAR student at Evans High School
Eagle Scout - Lead troop 643 for 18 mos.
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