Linh Khanh Ha
1534S 400E AptA. Salt Lake City, UT 84115
phone (801) 326-9208
email lha@sci.utah.edu
homepage www.sci.utah.edu/~lha

Objective

Seeking a research or software development position in Computational and High Peformance Computing, and Scientific Visualization and Computer Graphics. Interested in work involving inventiveness, creativity, and group interaction. My strengths include developing algorithms and applications for high performance computing on modern GPU, parallel processing, out-of-core processing, individual development and leadership.

Technical Experience

Programming: C, C++, Assembly (x86), Pascal, OpenGL, Pthreads, MPIs, TBB, GPU: CG, GLSL, CUDA, OpenCL
Systems: Windows, Linux, Embedded, SoC.
Digital Signal Processing, Telecommunications, Real-time Systems, Computer Hardware, software & hardware design for small control systems Computer Vision, Robotics, and Computer Graphics
Applications: ParaView, VTK, QT4, AutoCAD, Protel, Matlab, Labview

Education

PhD Computer Science
University of Utah, May 2011
Overall GPA: 3.974/4.0


ME, Electronics and Telecommunications (Thesis)
Vietnam National University, May 2005
Overall GPA: 9.1/10
, Grade: Outstanding

BE, Electronics and Telecommunications
University of Technology Hanoi, May 2002
Overall GPA: 8.72/10
, Grade: Excellent

Work Experience

February 2006 to Present: Research Assistant, Visualization and Geometric Computing (VGC) group, SCI Institute, University of Utah
Research topics: high performance computing on CUDA; medical image processing; data flow architectures to exploit the parallel computing power; GPU sorting, out-of-core iso-surface extraction; volume rendering; point-based graphics.

Summer 2009, Intern, Quantitative Volume Interpretation Group, ExxonMobil Upstream research company, Houston, Texas
Research topics: Quantitative Volume Interpretation on GPUs.I developed GPU implementation and CPU parallel impelementation for Regularity Computation om Seisimic Volumes. I also developed high performance multi-attribute computation and application that being used for seisimic data exploration in ExxonMobil. Main mentors: Dominique Gillard and Mark Dobin. Supervisors: Stefan Hussenoeder

Summer 2007, Intern, Deep Computing Group, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, Hawthorn, New York
Research topics: High performance out-of-core rendering; rendering optimizations for OpenGL and ray tracing on the GPU cluster. Supervisors: Dr. Wagner Correa and Dr. James Klosowski

September 2002 to July 2005, Research and teaching assistant at Robotic & Automation Lab, College of Technology, Hanoi
Research topics: vision-guided robot navigation for mobile robot,developing robot control systems on microcontrollers. Instructor for the college robot team in Vietnam Robot Contest, May 2005. Supervisor: Dr. Vinh Q. Tran

September 2001 to September 2002, Research assistant at DSP group, NWAVE R&D Tel Communication Device Company, Hanoi
Research topics: software coding in DSP TMS 6200 for slow bit rate channel vocoder, system programming, developing interface and communication protocols for Mobiles and Handsets, working on project ``Analog to Digital Mobile System''. Supervisor Prof. Trung Q. Nguyen.

Publications/Presentations

" Optimal Multi-Image Processing Streaming Framework on Parallel Heterogeneous Systems "
Linh Ha, Jens Kruger, Joao Comba, Sarang Joshi and Claudio T. Silva
April 2011,EGPGV 2011 Best paper award

" Image Registration Driven by Combined Probabilistic and Geometric Descriptors"
Linh Ha, Marcel Prastawa, Guido Gerig, John H. Gilmore, Claudio T. Silva, Sarang Joshi
September 2010,MICCAI 2010

"Multivariate Statistical Analysis of Deformation Momenta Relating Anatomical Shape to Neuropsychological Measures"
Nikhil Singh, P. Thomas Fletcher, J. Samuel Preston, Linh Ha, Richard King, J. Stephen Marron, Michael Wiener and Sarang Joshi
September 2010, MICCAI 2010

"Multi-scale Unbiased Diffeomorphic Atlas Construction on Multi-GPUs"
L. Ha, Jens Kruger, Sarang Joshi and Claudio T. Silva
to be appeared, GPU Computing GEMS volume I

"Implicit radix sorting on GPUs"
L. Ha, Jens Kruger and Claudio T. Silva
to be appeared, GPU Computing GEMS volume II

"Fast Parallel Unbiased Diffeomorphic Atlas Construction on Multi-Graphics Processing Units"
L. Ha, Jens Kruger, Claudio T. Silva,
December 2009, Eurographic Symposium on Parallel Graphic and Visualization

"Fast 4-way parallel radix sorting on GPUs"
L. Ha, Jens Kruger, Claudio T. Silva,
Computer Graphics Forum volume 28, pages 2368-2378, 2009

"Spline-based Feature Curves from Point-Sampled Geometry"
Joel Daniels II, Tilo Ochotta, Linh Ha and Claudio Silva
The Visual Computer 2008 volume 24, pages 449-462, Springer-Verlag

"Robust Smooth Feature Extraction from Point Clouds"
Joel Daniels II, Linh Ha, Tilo Ochotta and Claudio T. Silva
IEEE International Conference on Shape Modeling and Applications 2007 Best paper finalist, invited for publication at The Visual Computer.

"Interactive Transfer Function Specification for Direct Volume Rendering of Disparate Volumes"
F. Bernardon, L. Ha, S. Callahan, J. Comba, and Claudio T. Silva.
SCI Institute Technical Report, No. UUSCI-2007-007
University of Utah

"From Mobile Robots to Industrial Automation"
Ha L. Vu, Hung D. Pham, L. K. Ha, V. Q. Tran
May 2004,International Conference on Mechatronics Technology, ICMT.

"Computer Vision Implementation in Robot Control",
Linh K Ha, H L. Vu and V. Q. Tran
Aug 2004, Vietnam Conference on Some Specific Issue of Information Technology

"Implementation of ACELP in full rate speech channel at 7.2 kbps"
L. K Ha, T. Q. Nguyen
November 2002,Vietnam Conference on Radio and Electronics

Awards/Achievements

    EGPGV 2011 Best paper award 2011
  • MICCAI Grant Travel Award 2010
  • Best paper finalist, Shape Modeling International 2007
  • Vietnam Education Foundation (VEF) Fellowship\footnote{Special program of US government to assist Vietnamese young outstanding scholars to pursue graduate study in top US universities. Only 50 students are selected each year in the whole country (2005)
  • Vietnam National University Award for Excellent Youth Candidate(2004)
  • Odon Vallet Scholarship(2004)
  • Trust Scholarship(2001)
  • Samsung Scholarship(1999)
  • University Dean's List for Academic Excellence(2002)
  • 2nd place University of Technology Programming Contest(1999)