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CURRICULUM VITAE

YONG CAO

General Information:

Address	Mr. Yong Cao Computer Science Department, Boelter Hall Room 3324 University of California, Los Angeles Los Angeles, CA 90095-1596
Citizenship	CHINA
Email	abingcao@cs.ucla.edu
URL	http://www.cs.ucla.edu/~abingcao
Telephone	(310)-398-0108 (Home) or (310)-206-6069 (Office)

Educational History:

7/2001 ~ Now	Ph.D. in Computer Science Computer Science Department, University of California, Los Angeles Advisor: Prof. Petros Faloutsos Expected Date: June, 2005	GPA: 4.0
9/2000 ~ 6/2001	Ph.D. program in Computer Science (Transferred to UCLA) Computer Science Department, University of California, Riverside	GPA: 3.92
9/1997 ~ 6/2000	M.S. in Pattern Recognition and Intelligence System, awarded in June 2000 Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, CHINA Advisor: Prof. Dai Ruwei and Prof. Tian Jie	GPA: 3.85
9/1992 ~ 7/1997	B.S. in Computer Science, awarded in July 1997 Computer Science Department University of Science & Technology Of China, Hefei, CHINA	GPA: 3.79

Research Interests:

Computer Graphics
Character Animation: Facial Anim ation and Full Body Animation
Hardware acceleration with GPU
Search-based Motion Synthesis
Machine Learning for Motion Synthesis

Publications:

Yong Cao, Petros Faloutsos, Fred Pighin “Expressive Speech-Driven Facial Animation”, will appear on ACM Transactions on Graphics, October 2005.

Ari Shapiro, Yong Cao, Petros Faloutsos, Fred Pighin “Motion Editing with Independent Component Analysis”, submitted to IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics.

Yong Cao, Petros Faloutsos, Eddie Kohler, Fred Pighin “Real-time Speech Motion Synthesis from Recorded Motions”, In Proceedings of the 2004 ACM SIGGRAPH / Eurographics Symposium on Computer Animation, Page 347-355.

Ari Shapiro , Yong Cao, Petros Faloutsos “Stylistic Motion Decomposition”, ACM SIGGRAPH / Eurographics Symposium on Computer Animation 2004, Poster Paper.

Ari Shapiro, Yong Cao, Petros Faloutsos “Interactive Motion Decomposition”, ACM SIGGRAPH 2004 Technical Sketches.

Yong Cao, Petros Faloutsos, Fred Pighin “Unsupervised Learning for Speech Motion Editing”, In Proceedings of the 2003 ACM SIGGRAPH/Eurographics Symposium on Computer Animation, Page 225-231.

Yong Cao, Tian Jie & Qiu Feng “Research of Progressive Meshes Algorithm Applied in Virtual Endoscopy System”, Journal of Software (Chinese Academy of Sciences) 2002, Vol. 13, No.4, pp. 677-685.

Qiu Feng, Tian Jie, Yong Cao “The Summarization of PACS System”, Chinese Journal of Medical Imaging Technology 2000, Vol. 16, No.1, pp. 73-75.

Liu Jingchun, Tianjie, Yong Cao “The Architecture and Implementation of PACS system”, Chinese Journal of Medical Imaging Technology 2000, Vol. 16, No.1, pp. 76-78.

Research Projects:

9/2004 ~ Now	“Data-driven Synthesis of Expression Transitions of Human Face” I applied a non-linear manifold learning technique to analyze and synthesize transition between facial expressions.
3/2004 ~ 6/2004	“Interactive and Stylistic Full Body Motion Decomposition” A full-body motion editing tool was presented that can interactively edit the style of a motion.
2/2004 ~ 6/2004	“Real-time Speech Motion Synthesis from Recorded Motions” I developed a novel greedy algorithm that has superior performance in real-time speech motion synthesis applications, such as, online avatars or interactive video games.
2/2003 ~ 6/2003	“Facial Motion Analysis and Editing with Independent Component Analysis (ICA)” I proposed a statistical model that can be used to extract meaningful components from facial motions to control and edit style (emotion) and content (speech) of an input motion.
6/2002 ~ Now	“3D Visual Speech Facial Animation Synthesis with Emotion Control” I developed a system that can synthesize expressive speech-driven facial motion from an input speech audio.
8/2001 ~ 6/2002	“Synthesizing Natural-Looking Motion for Dynamic Virtual Actors” Physics-based controllers were designed to generate natural-looking human motions, such as, balancing, stepping out and walking.
2/1999 ~ 7/2000	“Improved Progressive Meshes Algorithm Applied in Virtual Endoscopy System” I presented an improved Progressive Meshes Algorithm that has better performance in Virtual Endoscopy applications than other LOD approaches.
9/1998 ~ 2/1999	“3D Medical Image Processing System” I designed and implemented a set of algorithms in a medical image processing system, which includes 3D reconstruction, surface and volume rendering.

Professional Experience:

2/2003 ~ now

Reviewer for Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics.

Reviewer for ACM SIGGRAPH / Eurographics Symposium on Computer Animation.

Reviewer for Pacific Graphics

Reviewer for Graphic Interface

6/2002 ~ 2/2003

Worked as the full-time researcher for “Critical Leadership Analysis System (CLAS) Project” in Institute for Creative Technologies, University of Southern California.

The project created a novel educational scheme that has an interactive graphical conversation interface between a user and a computer. I created a 3D virtual conversational mentor that can give instructions to students and to answer questions.

Teaching Experience:

I have been a teaching assistant for the following courses:

1. “Introduction to Computer Graphics” (CS174A), Fall quarter 2004 at UCLA.

2. “Computer Algorithm” (CS141), Head TA, Winter quarter 2001 at UC, Riverside.

3. “Programming with C++” (CS12), Fall quarter 2000 at UC, Riverside.

4. “Introduction of Computer Science” (CS8), Fall quarter 2000 at UC, Riverside.

I have also supervised two interns at ICT, USC during summer of 2003 and 2004.

Computer Skills:

OpenGL, OpenGL Shading Language, Shader Development Experience

C++, C Programming, Matlab Programming

Motion Capture Shooting Experience(VICON system), Motion Capture Data Processing Software (DIVA)

Image & Video Processing Software and 3D animation and modeling tool (Photoshop, Premiere, After Effect, Poser )

Oracle Database Administration

Software Engineering & Team Leadership Experience

Mr. Yong Cao