Drexel University , Philadelphia PA, 2007
Master of Science: Computer Science
Drexel University , Philadelphia PA, 2005
Bachelor of Science: Digital Media, Minor: Computer Science
Best Graduate Research in College of Engineering
The DUPLEX Project, Drexel University Research Day, 2003
SIG GRAPH 2003
Received recognition for student demo, "Computer Graphics for Large-Scale Immersive Theaters"
Member of National Scholars Association
Member of Golden Key International Scholars Association
Member of Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Member of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Jasper Z. Zhang, Sokol Petushi, William C. Regli, Fernando U. Garcia and David E. Breen, A Study of Shape Distributions for Estimating Histologic Grade, Conference Proceedings of the IEEE EMBC 2008, August 2008
Jasper Zhang, An approach to analyzing histology segmentations using shape distribution, Master’s thesis, March 2008
Sokol Petushi, Jeff Marker, Jasper Zhang, Weizhong Zhu, David Breen, Chaomei Chen, Xia Lin, Fernando Garcia, "A Visual Analytics System for Breast Tumor Evaluation", Analytical and Quantitative Cytology and Histology , Accepted July 2007
Real-Time 3D Graphics API , MCS society, Drexel University
Invited Lecture, July 13, 2005
An invited talk given to the Math and Computer Science society on the topic of game engines and other real time interactive graphics engines.
http://www.jghost.net/API
Research Assistant (2005-Present)
Drexel Geometric Biomedical Computing Group , Department of Computer Science, Drexel University
• Contour based surface reconstruction using level sets and implicit surface models.
• Geometrical analysis using numerical analysis, machine learning, and signal processing.
Research Assistant (2005-2006)
Software Engineering Research Group (SERG) , Department of Computer Science, Drexel University
• Development on REportal: a web based reverse engineering portal ( http://reportal.cs.drexel.edu )
• Development of software forensics technology in author identification using numerical analysis and reverse engineering.
Teaching Assistant (2003-Present)
Department of Computer Science , Drexel University
• Manager of Cyber Learning Center , a tutoring center for all core undergraduate computer science courses. Responsibilities include managing staff hiring, furnishing and equipment proposals, scheduling of all TAs for office hours, and other tasks.
• Head TA of all introduction programming courses managing 50 to 200 students in two to six courses per term. Responsibility involving grading, lab proctoring, assistant in course (re)design, and office hours for one-on-one tutoring.
• TA for all computer graphics courses. Responsibilities involve helping students 1-on-1, providing examples for lectures and grading assignments.
• TA for graduate level operating systems. Responsibilities involve helping students 1-on-1 and grading assignments.
Consultant – 3D Artist (2005-2006)
Mobility Technologies (Traffic.com) , Chesterbrook PA
• Production of 3D models for the 3D traffic report (as seen on NBC10 and CBS3). Modeling includes box modeling, texture extraction, UVW unwrapping, and texture baking utilizing 3D Studio Max and Photoshop.
Intern – Software Design (2004)
Mobility Technologies (Traffic.com) , Chesterbrook PA
• Prototype of the 3D traffic report framework involving code in the .NET framework, (an unnamed) real-time graphics API, and interfacing of proprietary data layers. It also involved the utilization of skills in HCI engineering, graphics algorithms, graphics design, and others.
Programming Languages
C/C++, Java, .NET
Computer Graphics/Vision/Gaming Packages/API
OpenGL, Gamebryo, Havok, Genesis3D, Image Magick, GSL
Theory
Signal/Image Processing, Segmentation, Level Set, Volume Graphics, Raytracing, Numerical Linear Algebra, Computational Geometry, Interactive Optimizations