Welcome to Ginger's Website!

ECE, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, 24060
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Posted on March, 2009

Hi! All~ Thanks for visiting my personal website.

I am currently a Ph.D candidate, working With Dr. Chris Wyatt at the Bioimaging Systems Lab, ECE, Virginia Tech. My PhD research topic is on deformable registration for neuro images, which is an essential step for machine-aided analysis of brain MRIs.

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I have a M.Sc. degree in Computer Science from Simon Fraser University in Canada, working with Dr. Richard Zhang. For my master thesis, we developed a semi-automatic expression-invariant face recognition algorithm, which is based on geometric information obtained from 3D face surfaces. Our system has a high-accuracy recognition performance which is currently among the best available.

So far, there are several other research topics I have participated in grad school, including topics on human computer interaction (HCI), medical image segmentation, application module design for NA-MIC project, and image based rendering (IBR).

I had two graduate research internships in Spring 2007 and Summer 2008, with Dolby Canada and General Electric (GE) respectively. With Dolby, we developed a color correction algorithm to compensate the back-panel LED color temperature variation for High-Dynamic Range (HDR) TV. With GE, I participated in a tissue-classification algorithm design for the GE Dual Energy CT images.

I have a B.Eng from the Electrical and Electronic Engineering department in Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST). I am especially thankful for all the academic trainings provided by HUST, from which I learned to think more like an engineer.

Besides the academic world, I am interested in many activities. I love gardening and cooking. My jigsaw-puzzle works almost fill the entire wall of my apartment. I play a lot with my camera, which I guess is a gift from my father. I am also a volunteer in a local feral cat rescue association. I love music ... well, maybe also dance, but I am not so good. Also, I am a HUGE fan of VT football team, just to explore how nervous I am on our game days.

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