RESEARCH INTERESTS
- Visual Computing ( Visualization, Computer Graphics, Image Processing, Computer Vision )
- High Performance Computing ( Parallel Algorithms - Multi-Core and GPU Algorithms)
- Algorithms and Data structures ( Multidimensional Indexing, External Memory Algorithms )
PROFESSIONAL ACCOMPLISHMENTS
- Designed a New Ray Casting Algorithm for the IBM Cell Processor, 2007
- Winner, 3rd prize (US$5,000) IBM CELL/B.E. TOP INNOVATOR Worldwide Challenge, 2007
[1 Software Library, 1 Publication] - Designed and Implemented a 3-D Visualization-Supported Segmentation Software - visSeg - for 3-D confocal microscope data at National Institutes of Health, 2006 [1 Software Package, 2 Presentations]
- Designed and Implemented Multi-dimensional Indexing Structures and Data Layouts for Interactively Rendering Very Large 3-D/4-D volumetric data sets, 2005-2006 [3 Publications]
- Designed and Implemented Indexing Structures and Serial/Parallel Algorithms for Querying Very Large Multi-Dimensional Time Series Data, 2004 [2 Publications]
PROFESSIONAL SKILLS
- 8 years of professional C/C++ development experience in Linux (5+ yrs) and Windows (4+ yrs).
- Development experience with Visual Computing libraries: OpenGL, VTK, Qt
- Development experience with Parallel Computing libraries: MPI, OpenMP, Pthreads, Cell SDK
EDUCATION
- Ph.D. Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 2008
- M.S. Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea 2002
- B.S. Dept. of Electronics, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea 2000
RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT EXPERIENCE
Industry
- Rhythm & Hues Studios, L.A. USA, Jun 2008-Present
- R&D for Production Renderer. - National Institutes of Health, MD USA, 2006 Summer
- Designed and implemented a 3-D visualization-supported segmentation software - visSeg - for
3-D confocal microscope data. (Tool: C++, VTK, Qt) - Samsung SDS IT R&D Center, Seoul, Korea, 2002
- Developed a software for analyzing microarray image in Bioinformatics Lab. (Tool: Java 2 SE)
- Developed a software for face detection in Biometrics Lab. (Tool: Visual C++, MFC) - Co-founder and CTO, Bluenics Technology, Seoul Korea, 2001
- Developed a commercial image processing software. (Tool: Visual C++, MFC) - Seokgok Institute of Observational Science and Technology, Seoul Korea, 2000 Summer
- Developed a software for satellite image management and analysis. (Tool: Visual C++, MFC)
Academia
- Institute for Advanced Computer Studies, University of Maryland, College Park, 2002-Present
(Advisor: Prof. Joseph JaJa)
- Designed and implemented volume rendering algorithms for multi-core architectures (Cell/B.E., GPU)
(Tool: C/C++, OpenGL, Cell SDK, CUDA, Pthreads)
- Designed and implemented multidimensional indexing structures and data layouts for interactively
rendering large scale 3-D/4-D volumetric data sets. (Tool: C/C++, OpenGL)
- Designed and implemented indexing structures and serial/parallel algorithms for querying large scale
multi-dimensional time series data. (Tool: C/C++, MPI) - Computer Vision Lab, Yonsei University, Seoul Korea, 2000-2001
(Advisor: Prof. Jaihie Kim)
- Designed and implemented real-time face detection and recognition algorithms. (Tool: Visual C++, MFC)
PUBLICATIONS
- Efficient Rendering of Large 3-D and 4-D Scalar Fields, Jusub Kim, Ph.D. Dissertation, 2008
- Streaming Model based Volume Ray Casting Implementation for Cell Broadband Engine. Jusub Kim and Joseph JaJa, Proceedings of EUROGRAPHICS / ACM SIGGRAPH Symposium on Parallel Graphics and Visualization 2008, April 14-15, 2008, Crete island, Greece.
- Component-based Data Layout for Efficient Slicing of Very Large Multidimensional Volumetric Data, Jusub Kim and Joseph JaJa, Proceedings of 19th International Conference on Scientific and Statistical Database Management, SSDBM 2007, 9-11 July 2007, Banff, Canada, IEEE Computer Society 2007
- Information-Aware 2^n Trees for Efficient Out-of-Core Indexing of Very Large Multidimensional Volumetric Data, Jusub Kim and Joseph JaJa, Proceedings of 19th International Conference on Scientific and Statistical Database Management, SSDBM 2007, 9-11 July 2007, Banff, Canada, IEEE Computer Society 2007
- Temporal Range Exploration of Large Scale Multidimensional Time Series Data, Joseph JaJa, Jusub Kim, and Q. Wang, Proceedings of the 2004 International Conference on Scientific and Statistical Database Management, SSDBM 2004, 95-106, June 2004, Santorini Island, Greece, IEEE Computer Society 2004
- Information-Aware HyperOctree for Effective Isosurface Rendering of Large Scale Time-Varying data, Jusub Kim and Joseph JaJa, UMIACS-TR-2006, 2006
- Efficient Serial and Parallel Algorithms for Querying Large Scale Multidimensional Time Series Data, Joseph JaJa, Jusub Kim and Qin Wang, UMIACS-TR-2004, 2004.
- 3D Segmentation of cells and nuclei in tissue using dynamic programming, Stephen J. Lockett, Dean P. McCullough, Jusub Kim, Prabhakar Gudla, Focus on Microscopy, 2007
- A Novel Occlusion-Free Visualization Interfaces for 3D Segmentation and Visualization of Cells and Nuclei from 3D Confocal Microscopy, National Cancer Institute Poster Day, 2006
- Face Localization for Face Recognition in Video, Jusub Kim, M.S. Thesis, Yonsei University, 2001
- Video-based Face detection for Face Recognition, Jusub Kim and Jaihie Kim,
Proceedings of the 2001 Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshop, Korea Information Science Society, 2001 - Real-Time Face Detection by Estimating the Eye Region Using Neural Network, Jusub Kim and Jaihie Kim, Proceedings of the 2001 Summer Conference of the Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers in Korea, 2001
PROFESSIONAL MEETINGS ATTENDED
- SIGGRAPH 2008, Los Angeles, CA Aug 11-15, 2008
- The First Power Architecture Developer Conference, Austin, Texas Sep 24-25, 2007
- US-Korea Conference on Science and Technology, Volunteer, Reston, VA Aug 9-12, 2007
- International Conference on Scientific and Statistical Database Management, Banff, Canada, Jul 9-11, 2007
- Sony/Toshiba/IBM workshop on Software and Applications for the Cell/B.E. Processor, Georgia Tech, Jun 18-19, 2007
- Cell/B.E. Processor Programming Workshop, Georgia Tech, Feb 6, 2007
- IEEE Visualization conference, Volunteer, Baltimore, MD, Oct 29-Nov 3, 2006
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATION
- Member, ACM SIGGRAPH, 2008- Present
- Member, IEEE Computer Society, 2005-Present
- Member, KOCSEA (Korean Computer Scientists and Engineers Association in America), 2007-Present
COURSE WORK
In Ph.D. program at University of Maryland, College Park (2002-Present)
- Spring 2006
CMSC740 Advanced Computer Graphics by Dr. Amitabh Varshney
-Project: Hardware-accelerated Isosurface Computation - Fall 2005
CMSC714 High Performance Computing System by Dr. Alan Sussman
- Project: High Performance Super-resolution Image reconstruction - Spring 2004
ENEE752 Knowledge Engineering by Dr. Joseph JaJa
- Project: Gene Finding using Hidden Markov Model
ENEE698B Computer Engineering Seminar in VLSI Design by Dr. Manoj Franklin - Fall 2004
CMSC424 Database Design by Dr. Nick Roussopoulos
- Project: Olympic Records Database construction - Spring 2004
ENEE647 Design of Distributed Computer System by Dr. Virgil Gligor
ENEE698B Computer Engineering Seminar in VLSI Design by Dr. Ankur Srivastava - Fall 2003
ENEE646 Digital Computer Design by Dr. Manoj Franklin
-Project: Experimental Studies on Thread Level Parallelism by Parallel Image convolution
and Merge Sort Algorithms - Spring 2003
ENEE620 Random Process by Dr. Anthony Ephremides
ENEE624 Advanced Digital Signal Processing by Dr. Babis Papadopoulos
-Project: Filterbank Design and Subband Coding (selected as the BEST class project)
Statistical Signal Processing and Modeling
ENEE698A Communication Seminar in Bioinformatics by Dr. Min Wu - Fall 2002
CMSC725 Geographical Information Systems and Spatial Databases by Dr. Hanan Samet
-Project: Shape Based Image Retrieval in Logo Databases
ENEE641 Mathematical Foundation for Computer Engineering by Dr. Uzi Vishkin
In Master program at Yonsei University, Seoul Korea (2000-2001)
- Spring 2001
Neural Networks
Digital Signal Processing Application - Fall 2000
Pattern Recognition
Digital Signal Processing
Wavelet Analysis - Spring 2000
Digital Image Processing
Digital Image Restoration
Random Process
AWARDS & HONORS
- Winner, IBM CELL/B.E. University Top Innovator Worldwide Challenge, 2007
- NIH Predoctoral Fellowship, 2006
- National Scholarship, Ministry of Information and Communication, Korea, 2002~2006
- Excellent new employee award, Samsung SDS, Korea 2002
- Full Scholarship, LG Electronics, Korea 2000~2001
- Full Scholarship, Yonsei University, Korea 1993~1996
- The Highest Honor, Yonsei University, Korea 1996