Summer Intern @ Developed computer vision software for SLAM (simultaneous location and mapping) and 3d image stitching From July 2011 to October 2011 (4 months) Summer Intern @ Use eye-gaze tracking of people's observations of photos to enhance automated computational photography applications From June 2009 to September 2009 (4 months) Summer Intern @ Used hierarchical agglomerative clustering to accelerate object detection in images of the ocean floor From July 2008 to September 2008 (3 months) Summer Intern @ Created novel edge-preserving LCD backlight-dimming algorithm for power savings in mobile devices From July 2007 to September 2007 (3 months) Summer Intern @ Experimented with all-in-focus panoramic image stitching, algorithm to choose optimal focus distances From July 2006 to September 2006 (3 months) Systems Engineer @ Created and evaluated algorithms to obtain 3D models and precise object positions in near real time with stereoscopic Synthetic Aperture Radar and unmanned aircraft Designed GPS receiver pairs that optimize relative positioning accuracy rather than individual accuracy Group leader on field tests and collaborations with other groups within the company From January 2002 to September 2004 (2 years 9 months) Summer Intern @ Computational Neurobiology Lab Removed EEG artifacts with Independent Component Analysis Detected action potentials in single-neuron recordings with template matching From July 2000 to September 2000 (3 months)

PhD, Computer Science @ University of California, Santa Cruz From 2005 to 2012 BSE, Mechanical Engineering @ Princeton University From 1997 to 2001 Steven Scher is skilled in: Computer Vision, Machine Vision, Machine Learning, Pattern Recognition, Digital Image Processing, Image Processing, Imaging, Optimization, Algorithms, Computer Science, Matlab, C++, C, GPGPU, OpenCV