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ZHIYANG WANG
Tel: (213)268-0420
Address: USC Institute for Creative Technologies
              13274 Fiji Way, Marina Del Rey, CA 90292,
              USA
Email: zhiyangw@usc.edu
Personal Homepage: http://www-scf.usc.edu/~zhiyangw

Seeking a full-time Software Enginee position.

Professional Profile:  
    Digital Image Processing
    Computer Vision
    Computer Graphics
    Data Structure     
    Motion Control System
    Immersive Game Development
    Multimedia Data Compression     
    Magnetic Resonance Imaging
    AI – Computational Emotion

Technical Expertise
Language:  C/ C++( Open CV, Open GL),  Java,  Matlab, XML(XSLT, XPath), SQL,
Software:   MS Office, Photoshop, Protel, Multisim, Verilog, ArcGIS Desktop, Anvil      
System:      Windows(XP,Vista, Win7), Mac OSX, Unix, Linux                         
Hardware:  PCs, Mac              
 

Work Experience
ICT (Institute for Creative Technologies USC)                                            Jun, 2009 - Present/ Los Angeles, CA
Research Programmer         
Artifact Intelligence field                                         
    Working on Saso Project based on Smartbody developed by ICT aimed at embedded Stanford Natural language Parser into Virtual Human System
     Compared and refined NXT and Anvil annotation tools for multimodal corpus
     Developing computational emotion Non-verbal behavior algorithms to automatically select relevant features
     Paper: Jina Lee,  Zhiyang Wang,  Stacy Marsella.  Evaluating Models of Speaker Head Nods for Virtual Agents.
The 9th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2010), Accepted. 

Teradata China R&D                                                                              Jul, 2007 – Sep, 2007/Beijing, P.R.China
Software Quality Assurance Intern                                                                                                                   
     Tested TRM product on function and GUI aspects with smoke test method
      Manual tested TRM database product under multiple version of IP condition and contributed to automation testing
      Updated testing case and maintained daily testing logs for whole group


 
Academics Project Experience
Computer Vision field
Fall 2009    Image Stitching Project: Use SIFT to extract features; modifying camera positions for each image;doing Bundle Adjustment; warping images to a cylinder to form a panorama.    
Fall 2009    Face Recognition Project: Use PCA algorithm to perform face recognition module, OpenCV. 


Computer Vision & Graphics & Game Engine fields
Spring 2009   Stroke Rehabilitation Game Design: Developed a system for optical tracking devices through which users interact with 3D games  Using C++ language with OpenCV , OpenGL, and model based algorithm                  
                 
                                                                                                              
Digital Image Processing & Multimedia field
Fall 2009   MRI Image Data Analysis: Reconstructed Partial and Non-Cartesian k-space reconstruction for MRI Image
Spring 2009   Multimedia Data Compressing: Implement Huffman, LZW, Run-length method of data compressing,QM coder, Lloyd-Max Quantizer Design and Simulating various modes of encoding-decoding with JPEG     
Fall 2008     Digital Image Processing application: Applying C++ to improve image to make solid basic for further process. Coding image segmentation algorithms  to segment images. Programming recognition algorithms to recognize all the segmentations and then label them.                                                                                   
Spring 2008    An analysis of Grid Format DEM Data Based On ArcGIS : Set up DEM model based on analyzing DEM image data with ArcGIS, transforming the DEM image data into a binary image                                                 


Education
University of Southern California         
Master of Science in Electrical Engineering                
Multimedia and Creative Tech                                            
GPA: 3.4
Expected Graduation May 2010/Los Angeles, CA
                                          
Beihang University (BUAA)                  
Bachelor of Electronic and Information Engineering                   
Sep, 2004 – Jul, 2008/Beijing, P.R. China   
                                                        
References
References are available upon request



Last updated 2010. 2. 26

 
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