Name: Qin Gu                                  
Address: 5750 Gulfton Dr Apt 1488, Houston, TX, 77081 
Email: ericgu@cs.uh.edu           
Phone: 832-660-5831
Website: http://www2.cs.uh.edu/~ericgu/home.html
Objective: Challenging position related to both technical programming and artistic design

Education:

PhD: University of Houston, Computer Science                             2008.6-present
MS: University of Houston, Computer Science                               2005.9-2008.4
GPA: 3.65       GRE: 1420(paper-based)

 Main Research Area:

Character Animation, 3D Graphics, Crowd Simulation, Motion Capture Data Processing
UH Computer Graphics and Interactive Media Lab ( http://graphics.cs.uh.edu/people/people.htm )

Publications:

Z. Deng, Q. Gu, and Q. Li, "Perceptually Consistent Example-based Human Motion Retrieval,"
Proc. of ACM SIGGRAPH Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics and Games (I3D) 2009

Q. Gu*, J. Peng, and Z. Deng, "Compression of Human Motion Capture Data using Motion Pattern Indexing,"
Computer Graphics Forum (CGF), 28(1), 2009

Z. Deng, Q. Gu, Q.Li, X. Ma, and T. Sucontphunt, "Facial and Character Animation Research at UH CGIM,"
ACM SIGGRAPH/Eurographics Symposium on Computer Animation (SCA) 2008 Poster Proceeding

Advisor
Dr. Zhigang Deng (http://www2.cs.uh.edu/~zdeng/)

Research experience:

Gaming development on PC and XBOX360 (2008.9 – 2009.3) (C#, XNA, HLSL,Maya, Photoshop, Flash): 2D sprites and menus

Motion Data Analysis and Retrieval for I3D 09 (2008.11 – 2008.10) (C++, Matlab, OpenGL, Maya, Premiere,aLatex)

Animation Compression and Reconstruction for CGF 09 (2006.9-2007.9) (Matlab, C++,, Maya,Premiere, Latex)

Simulating Slow Motion intermittency through MoCap Data (2008.10-2009.3) (C++, Flash, VICON MX, VICON Nexus)

Learning Based Image Super-resolution (department technical report) (2005.9 – 2006.1) (Matlab)

Work Experience:

On campus

TA of course Medical Robotics, University of Houston                                                     2009.1-present
Co-instructor of introduction of C++, University of Houston                                             2008.8-2008.12
TA of course Data Structure, University of Houston                                                         2006.1~2008.5
Research Assistant on Computer Graphics, University of Houston                                      2007,2008 summer

Network engineer/Web designer

Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Withub Information Industrial Company Limited             2002.4~2005.5

In charge of technical support of network solution for enterprise customers (router, switch, firewall, security surveillance, Video conferencing product configuration)
Designed website for the company(300 employees) with two teem members (ASP, Dreamweaver, Flash, SQL_Server)

Tools:

Coding: C++, Matlab, XNA, C#, HLSL, OpenGL, Fortran
Art: Maya, Photoshop, Flash, Premiere, Dreamweaver, Poser
Others: Latex, Vicon MX Motion Capture system, Vicon IQ, Vicon Nexus

Personal Interests & skills:

Fine arts, Photography, Film editing, Computer Game, Computer Animation, Traveling

Language:

English, Chinese