OBJECTIVE: Seeking position in software engineering or application development with focus on researching.

SKILLS:

• Languages: C++, Java, HTML, BASIC, Fortran, Perl, Tcl, Lisp, Prolog, Assembly language.
  
• APIs: X-Windows/Motif, MS-Windows/MFC, OpenInventor/GL.
  

EXPERIENCES:

• Research Assistant at Stanford Robotics Laboratory
  June 1995-June 1996, October 1996-March 1997, October 1997-December 1997, July 1998-April 1999
  - Researched robotics motion planning with visibility constraint problems using geometric algorithms.
  - Developed software on Nomadics Nomad200 and SuperScout mobile robots.
  - Wrote 2D/3D X-Windows/Motif-based Inventor graphic user interface program for Virtual Robotics Lab.
  - Designed web pages using HTML, CGI-bin scripts, and java applets.
  http://underdog.stanford.edu/pe.html Example using java applet over web.
  http://underdog.stanford.edu/seek_app.html Example using Motion Factory Animation program
  http://underdog.stanford.edu/GRIP/grip.html Example of mobile robot demo over web.
  http://www-cs-students.stanford.edu/~dlin/programs.html Some of my programs
  
  
• Intern at Motion Factory
  Summer 1996, Summer 1997
  - Added distributed system capability to Digital Actor Animation Program using C++/MFC.
  - Designed web pages and wrote GUI routines in X-Windows/Inventor on SGI workstation.
  
  
• Teaching Assistant at Stanford University
  January 1995-March 1995, January 1998-June 1998, January 1999-April 1999
  - Taught Advanced Compiler Techniques class
  - Taught C++ and Object Oriented Programming class
  - Taught Introduction to Compiler class
  - Taught Motion Planning class
  
  
• Software Contractor at 3do Company
  May 1994-August 1994
  - Wrote linker and loader in C supporting AIX XCOFF for cross-compilation platform in simulation of 3do game machine.
  
  
• System Design Engineer at Amdahl Corporation
  July 1992-March 1994
  - Wrote hardware emulator in C which model the interconnection logic between the processors, memory modules, and I/O subsystems in the multiprocessor system simulation.
  - Co-developed a CPU emulator capable of executing IBM 370 assembly code at the micro-architecture level for system verification.
  - Wrote assembly-level test codes to verify the 8-way and 12-way multiprocessor architecture.
  
  
• Teaching Assistant at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  August 1990-January 1992
  - Taught Microcomputer Laboratory.
  
  
• Intern at Tellabs, Inc.
  Summer 1990 and 1991
  - Programmed enhancement/feature to control all the test routines for hardware modules and to provide consistent user interface.
  
  

EDUCATIONS:

• Ph.D. candidate in Computer Science (Withdrawn from program)
  April 1997-June 2000
  Stanford University
  
  
• M.S. degree in Computer Science, GPA 4.9/5.0
  September 1994-April 1997
  Stanford University
  
  
• M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering, GPA 5.0/5.0
  August 1990-August 1992
  University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  
  
• B.S. degree in Computer Engineering, GPA 4.96/5.0
  August 1987-May 1990
  University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  Bronze Tablet - top 3% at graduation.
  
  

PUBLICATIONS:

• "Effective Compiler Support for Predicated Execution using the Hyperblock", MICRO-25. (Best paper at the conference)
  
• "Compiler Support for Predicated Execution in Superscalar Processors", MS thesis.
  
• "Finding an Unpredictable Target in a Workspace with Obstacles", ICRA-97.
  
• "Visibility-based Pursuit-Evasion in a Polygonal Environment", Proc. 5th Workshop on Algorithms and Data Structures.
  
• "The Autonomous Observer : A Tool for Remote Experimentation in Robotics", 1999 SPIE Intl. Symposium on Voice, Video, and Data Communications.
  
• "A Visibility-Based Persuit Evasion Problem", IJCGA.
  
• "Motion Planning with Visibility Constraints : Building Autonomous Observers", Robotics Research.
  
• "Sweeping Simple Polygons with Chain of Guards", Preliminary Report.
  

REFERENCES: Available upon request.