RUSSELL MANNING

Education

• Ph.D., Computer Science, May 2001.
  M.S., Computer Science, December 1998.
  University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI.
  Dissertation: View interpolation and scene reconstruction: A comparison for image-based rendering.
  My thesis presents several new techniques for image-based rendering and modeling, including new self-calibration algorithms, and compares interpolation-based approaches with model-building approaches.



• Graduate student in artificial intelligence, 1991-92.
  Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA.



• B.S. with honors, Engineering and Applied Science, June 1991.
  California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA.
  (GPA: 3.92/4.00)

Publications

• complete list of papers

Employment

• June, 1997 to Present
  University of Wisconsin, Madison
  Madison, WI
  Research Assistant
  ...research on image-based rendering, self calibration, and scene reconstruction



• September, 1995 to May, 1997
  University of Wisconsin, Madison
  Madison, WI
  Teaching Assistant
  ...taught introductory programming, graded for data structures class, and taught class introducing students to computers



• January, 1994 to August, 1995
  Star Media Systems
  Naperville, IL
  Software Engineer
  ...created image processing filters for computer video-editing system



• September, 1991 to June, 1992
  Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  Cambridge, MA
  Research Assistant
  ...assisted research in medical expert systems



• Summer, 1990
  California Institute of Technology
  Pasadena, CA
  Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship
  ...independent research in combinatorics; generalized the Catalan numbers



• Summer, 1989
  Argonne National Laboratory
  Argonne, IL
  Summer Student Research Assistant
  ...assisted research on automatic program transformation



• Summer, 1988
  CYTAG Program, Iowa State University
  Ames, IA
  Resident Assistant
  ...supervised students at summer program for gifted youth

Honors

• accepted to Harvard Law School, 1997 (99.3 percentile on LSAT)



• W. L. Putnam Mathematical Competition, 32nd out of 2500 (Honorable Mention), 1990; chosen for three-person Caltech Putnam team



• Morgan Ward Prize from Caltech for undergraduate mathematics research, 1989



• The Caltech Prize (scholarship), 1990-91



• Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) from Caltech, 1989-90



• Carnation Merit Scholarship from Caltech, 1988-89, 1989-90



• Los Angeles Philanthropic Foundation Scholarship, 1988-89, 1989-90



• W. C. Byrd Scholarship, 1987-88



• ACM International Programming Competition; Caltech team, placed 10th overall, 1989-1990

Professional Activities

• significant contributions to successful NSF grant proposal ``View Synthesis for Dynamic Scenes, With and Without Reconstruction''



• gave Principal Investigator talk at DARPA-funded project meeting Video Surveillance and Monitoring (VSAM), 1998; helped prepare PI talks for VSAM98 and VSAM99; presented demos at VSAM98 and VSAM99



• speaker at Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 1999



• paper reviewer for International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 1999



• 4.9/5.0 overall rating by students for ``Would you recommend this teacher'' from both sections of Spring 1997 introductory programming class



• guest lectures for graduate Computer Vision class, 1999 and 2000



• student member, University of Wisconsin Computer Sciences Department Publications Committee