Himanshu Gohel, gohel@csee.usf.edu

1101 W. Stevens Ave. Apt 107, Santa Ana, CA 92707-5048. Telephone: +1 (714) 751-2966

Objective

A career in research and development of computer graphics, especially modeling with NURBS. To work with a team, and yet be free to let my instinct and imagination lead me.

Education

University of South Florida

Ph.D., Computer Science & Engineering, December 1999.
"Warp: A method for interactive shape design," major Professor Dr. Les A. Piegl.

B.S., Computer Engineering, Cum Laude, 1990.

Experience

VFX Software America, Sony Electronics, Inc., Culver City, CA.
Software Engineer, April 2002 - present.

• Design & implement 3D surface editing tools for the purpose of image compositing within a high-end digital image compositing system built for the broadcast market.

• Programming in C++ with Kaydara's FiLMBOX SDK and OpenGL.

Electric Image, Inc., Santa Ana, CA.
Sr. Software Engineer, February 2000 - April 2002.

• Lead Programmer, Universe Modeler 4.0-4.0.5 (Shipped 2002)
  Programmer, Universe Modeler 3.0, 3.1 (Shipped 2000-2001)

• Design & implement 3D modeling tools, especially NURBS surface/curve based tools in Universe Modeler (a component of the commercially available, cross-platform, modeling-rendering-animation system, Electric Image Universe).

• Programming in C++ with NLIB (NURBS Toolkit) and ACIS (Geometric Modeling Toolkit).

• Team and individual development by following design guidelines (UML), using a source control system (Perforce) and defect tracking software (in-house, Lotus Notes based).

• Conduct beta tests, gather bug reports and fix bugs. Receive feedback from testers and incorporate changes and new features.

• Write parts of user manual and other documentation such as tutorials.

Digital Medical Imaging Program (DMIP) at the H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, Tampa, FL.
Research Assistant, December 1990 - May 1997.

• Design & supervise development of a mammography viewing station for Radiologists

• Administer a network of Sun and SGI workstations, PCs, Macs and X-terminals.

• Plan, purchase, install and support systems.

• Develop software in C, Java and IDL to support research.

• Write programs to convert images to and from various file formats.

• Write and optimize programs in C for image processing.

• Explore new technologies useful for the research group.

• Provide programming, technical and user support to the research group.

Dept. of Computer Science & Engineering, USF
Instructor, "Introduction to UNIX and C" , January 1996 - May 1996

• Lectured, tested and graded 20 graduate students.

Dept. of Computer Science & Engineering, USF
Research Assistant, May 1989 - December 1990.

• A joint project with IBM, Rochester Minn.

• Develop, test and run industry-standard benchmarks for the AS/400.

• Performance testing, analysis and evaluation of AS/400 languages.

• System Administrator.

Publications

Workstation interface for ROC studies in digital mammography Gohel, Himanshu J.; Kallergi, Maria; Vossberg, Michal; Gavrielides, Marios A.; Clarke, Laurence P.; Thomas, Jerry A., Proc. SPIE Vol. 3031, p. 440-447, Medical Imaging 1997: Image Display, Yongmin Kim; Ed.

Skills

Languages: C++, C, Java, PostScript, XML (To a lesser extent: IDL, FORTRAN, Pascal, Modula-2, BASIC, REXX)

Graphics/Imaging APIs: OpenGL, Kaydara's FiLMBOX SDK, XIL (PEX, XGL, SunIP Library, BMRT (Renderman))

Geometry APIs: GeomWare's NLIB, Systeme Dassualt's ACIS

Modelers: EI Modeler, Rhinoceros

Hardware: PCs, SGI, Sun (Amiga, AS/400)

Operating Systems: MS-Windows, IRIX, Solaris, DOS (AmigaDOS, OS/400)

Windowing Systems: MS-Windows, OpenWindows, X11, Motif

Activities & Awards

SIGGRAPH junkie

twisted threads, Founder and editor-in-chief.

Florida Society of Technical Communications' "Award of Excellence" in 1993-94.

Outstanding Student in Computer Science & Engineering, 1990.

1989 Student Engineer Award, IEEE-CS.