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Josh Cates

Contact Information
Scientific Computing & Imaging Institute
University of Utah
50 S. Central Campus Drive
Salt Lake City, UT 84112
USA

My email address can be found on this page,
or you may email me directly here.

Bio. Josh is a very busy and important person, as evidenced by the fact that he has recently purchased a cell phone. When not saving the world with his computer, he can usually be found rocking out on a Stratocaster or wandering around in the wilderness looking for snakes. Lately, he has taken to running.

Josh's favorite existential gcc warning is

warning: `class foo' only defines a 
private destructor and has no friends

Publications and Other Work.     See page 2

Scientific Computing. Josh has a background in computer science, biology, and mathematics. He has worked on various problems in computer vision, including image processing (differential geometry and p.d.e-based methods), image segmentation, computed tomography, and algorithm validation. He received his MS in Computer Science in May 2000 from the University of TN, Knoxville and then worked for several years as a Research Associate at the Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute (SCI), University of Utah. Josh is now a PhD student studying scientific computing the U. of Utah's School of Computing. He also works as one of the technical managers of the SCI Institute's Center for Integrative Computational Biology.

Software Engineering. Josh has extensive programming experience in many languages and methodologies, including numerical methods, parallel processing, and graphics. He has produced professional quality software in collaboration with a broad range of researchers and engineers in industry, academics, and medicine. He is one of the principal architects of the National Library of Medicine's Insight Toolkit, an international, open-source software initiative for the medical imaging community. Josh also serves as an officer of the Insight Software Consortium.