Sean Curtis
Digital Jack-of-all-Trades
Last updated February 27, 2008. Downloadable version available as a pdf or doc.
Sean Curtis | ||
| 101 NC-Hwy 54 Byp. Apt. L3 | 919-265-4193 | |
| Carrboro, NC 27510 | seanc at cs dot unc dot edu | |
| http://www.cs.unc.edu/~seanc/ | ||
OBJECTIVE
Seeking a position in the field of computer graphics and simulation which allows me to leverage my technical expertise and rich artistic background.
EDUCATION
University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC
M.S. in Computer Science; May 2008.
University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
B.S. in Computer Science; graduated Summa Cum Laude in June 2006; GPA 4.0
Honors: Phi Kappa Phi, Phi Beta Phi, Golden Key, Eccles, Chevron, and Departmental Scholarship recipient
Brigham Young University, Provo, UT
B.A. German; graduated December 2001; GPA: 3.66
Honors: National Merit Finalist, Trustees Scholar
SKILLS
Programming: Python, C/C++, Java, OpenGL, 3D graphics data structures and algorithms.
Digital Content Creation: Very experienced in modeling, texturing, rigging and animating using Maya, 3DS Max, Mirai, MotionBuilder and Photoshop. Proficient in Adobe Premiere and After Effects.
WORK EXPERIENCE
| Graduate Research Assistant, UNC-CH: GAMMA group, Chapel Hill, NC | 6/06 to present |
| Performed independent and collaborative research in acceleration structures, collision detection and crowd simulation. | |
| Intern, Walt Disney Animation Studios, Burbank, CA | 5/07 to 8/07 |
| Worked with the simulation group to improve cloth simulation performance. Sped up the production collision detection algorithms by a factor of 3X. | |
| Intern, NextPage, Draper, Utah | 12/05 to 5/06 |
| Assisted in the redesign and re-implementation of the core NextPage document tracking software, particularly the model abstraction between database and user interface. | |
| Undergraduate Research Assistant, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah | 8/05 to 8/06 |
| Worked with Prof. Mike Kirby on research in post-processing filters for finite element analysis. | |
| Freelance 3D Artist | 4/02 to 8/05 |
| Created 3D content for various clients—most notably the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children and Dr. Florian Solzbacher at the Microsystems Laboratory at the University of Utah. | |
| Senior Content Developer, Viewpoint, Draper Utah | 5/96 to 4/02 |
| Senior modeler, lead animator and technical director. Responsible for developing animation services. Responsibilities included sculpting, modeling, texturing and animating in multiple packages on multiple platforms. | |
PUBLICATIONS
Hengchin Yeh, Sean Curtis, Sachin Patil, Jur van den Berg, Dinesh Manocha and Ming Lin
Composite Agents
To appear at Symposium on Computer Animation (SCA), 2008
Min Tang, Sean Curtis, Sung-Eui Yoon, and Dinesh Manocha
Interactive Continuous Collision Detection between Deformable Models using Connectivity-Based Culling
To appear at ACM Solid and Physical Modeling Symposium (SPM), 2008
Sean Curtis, Rasmus Tamstorf, and Dinesh Manocha
Fast Collision Detection for Deformable Models using Representative-Triangles
Proc. of Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics and Games (I3D), 2008.
Avneesh Sud, Erik Andersen, Sean Curtis, Ming Lin, and Dinesh Manocha
Real-time Path Planning in Dynamic Virtual Environments Using Multi-agent Navigation Graphs
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, Accepted for Publication, 2007.
Michael Steffen, Sean Curtis, Robert M. Kirby and Jennifer K. Ryan
Investigation of Smoothness-Increasing Accuracy-Conserving Filters for Improving Streamline Integration Through Discontinuous Fields
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, Accepted for Publication, 2007.
Sung-Eui Yoon, Sean Curtis, and Dinesh Manocha
Ray Tracing Dynamic Scenes using Selective Restructuring
Eurographics Symposium on Rendering (EGSR), 2007.
Sean Curtis, Robert M. Kirby, Jennifer K. Ryan and Chi-Wang Shu
Post-processing for the Discontinuous Galerkin Method Over Non-Uniform Meshes
SIAM Journal of Scientific Computing, Vol. 30, Number 1, pages 272-289, 2007.
Avneesh Sud, Erik Andersen, Sean Curtis, Ming C. Lin, and Dinesh Manocha
Real-time Path Planning for Virtual Agents in Dynamic Environments
IEEE Virtual Reality, 2007
Peter Shirley, William Thompson, Sean Curtis, and David Gallup
Stylized Browsing in Space and Time
VAST2004: The 5th International Symposium on Virtual Reality, Archaeology and Cultural Heritage, December 2004.
MISCELLANEOUS
High fluency in German. Basic conversational fluency in Japanese.