Joel D. Daniels II
461 University Street · Salt Lake City, UT · 84102
phone · (801) 910-4141
email · jdaniels@cs.utah.edu
homepage · www.cs.utah.edu/~jdaniels

Objective

Seeking a research or software development position in computer graphics. Interested in work involving inventiveness, creativity, and group interaction. My strengths include graphics, modeling, computer networking, human-computer interaction, studio art, recurring high academic accomplishments, and leadership among my peers.

Technical Experience

Software: C, C++, Java, Perl, SML, HTML, TCL and others
Hardware: PC’s (Win 98/2000/NT/XP, Redhat, Suse, Mac OS X, Leopard, and others)

Education

PhD Computer Science
University of Utah, May 2009 (expected)
Overall GPA: 4.0/4.0

MS Computer Science with Thesis Option
University of Utah, November 2005
Overall GPA: 3.97/4.0

BS Computer Science with University-Honors-in-Major and Minor Studio Arts
University of New Hampshire, May 2003
Overall GPA: 3.94/4.0

Work Experience

December 2003 to Present: Research Assistant, University of Utah
Researching geometric processing of point-based models, NURB modeling of molecular surfaces for molding purposes, and feature matching and morphing between two B-spline curves and surfaces.

December 2004 to December 2005: Software Developer, University of Utah
Developed Java based media player and data collection tool for the Ergonomic Studies group of the Mechanical Engineering Department. Several Masters and PhDs have conducted research and obtained their degrees using the application.

August 2003 to December 2003: Teacher Assistant, University of Utah
Course taught Matlab and C to undergraduate engineering students.

Summer 2002: Researcher, Rennes, France
Researched Wide Area Network bandwidth utilization for Grid Computing applications. Built a preliminary library for Wide Area Network data transfers for the Grid Computing infrastructure PADICO. Proposal preparation, thesis development, and presentation experience.

October 2000 to August 2003: Service Quality Analyst/Software Engineer, UNH InterOperability Lab
Tested network communication protocols and aided in test suite development. Extended in house network sniffer and packet generator to decode and generate new packets. Worked on developing an MPLS RESVP emulator. Development was done in C, Java, TCL and object oriented design.

Publications/Presentations

"Quadrilateral Mesh Simplification"
Joel Daniels II, Claudio Silva, Jason Shepherd and Elaine Cohen
December 2008
SIGGRAPH Asia 2008

"Spline-based Feature Curves from Point-Sampled Geometry"
Joel Daniels II, Tilo Ochotta, Linh Ha and Claudio Silva
The Visual Computer 2008

"Robust Smooth Feature Extraction from Point Clouds"
Joel Daniels II, Linh Ha, Tilo Ochotta and Claudio Silva
July 2007
Shape and Modeling International 2007

"Visually Smooth Blending Surfaces for Fabrication of Physical Visualizations"
Joel Daniels II
November 2, 2005
Master's Thesis, University of Utah

"Surface Creation and Curve Deformation Between Two Closed Complex Spatial Spline Curves"
Joel Daniels II and Elaine Cohen
September 2006
Geometric Modeling and Processing 2006

"Converting Molecular Meshes into Smooth Interpolatory Spline Models"
Joel Daniels II, Elaine Cohen, David Johnson
October 2005
ASME IDETC 2005, Computers and Information in Engineering

"Improving Network Performance of Grid Computing Applications"
Joel Daniels II, Phil Hatcher
Senior Honors Thesis, University of New Hampshire
October 10, 2002
Posters on the Hill Undergraduate Research Conference 2003

Awards/Achievements

  • Graduated Valedictorian Goffstown High School (1999)
  • William H. Pope Lockheed Sanders 4 year Scholarship (1999)
  • University of New Hampshire 4 year Presidential Scholarship (1999)
  • University of New Hampshire University Honors Award (2001)(2002)
  • Ellsworth IROP Award, awarded to the best submitted research proposal (2002)
  • Executive officer of Upsilon Pi Epsilon (Computer Science Honor Society) (2003)
  • University of New Hampshire Presidential Honors Award (2003)
  • UNH Hood Achievement Award, given "to that senior man who shows the greatest promise through character, scholarship, leadership and usefulness to humanity" (2003)
  • One of the best of conference paper awards, SMI (2007)

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