Image/Video Processing and Computer Vision; 2D/3D Medical Imaging; Real-time Data Processing and Analysis; Computer Assisted Surgical Systems; Multithreading; Software Development; System Design.

My current employer, the Engineering Research Center for Computer-Integrated Surgical Systems and Technology (ERC-CISST) is a multi-disciplinary research institution funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and hosted by the Johns Hopkins University (JHU). (The ERC is changing to the Laboratory for Computational Sensing and Robotics (LCSR) from 2008.) The institute develops surgical systems that integrate novel computer and human/machine interface technologies that will revolutionize surgical procedures, extending the surgeon's abilities to achieve better outcomes at lower costs. ERC-CISST/LCSR is one of the world's most acknowledged and influential research institutions on surgical robotics. As a member of the senior research staff my responsibility is to contribute to the engineering research and facilitate the implementation of novel medical applications. Based on my previous experience, I am mainly involved in the real-time computer vision aspects of various projects. Our objective is to interpret the visual information obtained from 2D and/or 3D image sources and help physicians during interventional procedures.

GE Healthcare (GEHC) is the global market leader of medical imaging systems. As a Systems Engineer in the Image Quality (IQ) System team in the digital vascular X-ray imaging modality my task was to simulate, analyze, evaluate, and improve the image quality of the most sophisticated fully digital medical imaging systems (Innova 2000, 2100, 3100, 4100). This work incorporates the extensive knowledge of medical imaging equipments and advanced digital image processing algorithms. The engineering work is carried out under strict quality regulations using the Six Sigma methodology.

Tateyama Laboratory Hungary Ltd. is a member of the Tateyama Kagaku Group based in Toyama, Japan The group is formed by 10 companies in Japan, Malaysia, Hungary, and Thailand. The Hungarian division was responsible for research and development on the fields of Automated Manufacture of Industrial Robots, Office Automation and Video Surveillance Systems. I joined the R&D team as an intern graduate student in 1998 and was hired officially in 2001 as a full-time employee and team leader. I was responsible for managing the development team, carrying out image processing (IP) development for surveillance systems and research unique IP algorithms for future products. During my years at Tateyama, I spent months at the Japanese operations (mostly in Toyama) in several occasions for direct collaboration in various projects. Moreover I am the co-author of three Japanese patents on panoramic image processing and on motion detection on video.

Systems Engineering; Six Sigma; Image Processing, Computer Vision; Medical imaging; ANSI C/C++, POSIX; Objective-C; Visual C++ Win32, MFC; Xcode (Mac OS X); Pascal; Assembly (x86, MMX); TCP/IP (Winsock32, Berkeley Sockets); Multithreading (Win32, POSIX); DirectShow; LibDC1394 & Video4Linux2; Quicktime Kit (Mac OS X); CMake; VTK; CVS; Matlab; Latex; HTML, CSS