Sean Ho

Updated: Feb2008
Langley, BC, Canada
+1 (604) 628-7581 home
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seanho@seanho.com
http://seanho.com/cv (pdf)

Education

Dec 2004 Ph.D. Computer Science University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, NC, USA
Jun 1998 M.S. Mathematics University of Washington Seattle, WA, USA
Jun 1996 B.S. Mathematics and Computer Science, magna cum laude University of Washington Seattle, WA, USA
Sep 1991 Entered university at age 13, Early Entrance Program University of Washington Seattle, WA, USA

Employment

Aug 2005 - present Assistant Professor, Math / Computing Science Trinity Western University Langley, BC, Canada
Jul 1998 - Aug 2004 Graduate Research Assistant University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, NC, USA
Sep 1996 - Jun 1998 Teaching Assistant University of Washington Seattle, WA, USA

Teaching Experience

Aug 2005 - present Computing science: Introductory Programming, Object-oriented, Graphics, GUIs, Parallel Trinity Western University Langley, BC, Canada
Aug 2005 - present Mathematics: Precalculus, Business Calculus, Introductory Statistics, Statistics for Health Sciences Trinity Western University Langley, BC, Canada
Feb 2002 Guest Lecturer, COMP254 graduate-level image analysis University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, NC, USA
Oct 1998 - July 2005 Volunteer youth worker and teacher for grades 6-12 Chinese Bible Church of North Carolina Cary, NC, USA

First-Author Publications

Sean Ho and Guido Gerig, "Profile Scale-Spaces for Multiscale Image Match," Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention (MICCAI), part 1, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 3216, pp. 176-183, Springer 2004.
Sean Ho, Elizabeth Bullitt, and Guido Gerig, "Level-Set Evolution with Region Competition: Automatic 3-D Segmentation of Brain Tumors," International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR), vol. 1, pp. 532-539, 2002.

Profile

Research interests: medical image analysis, Bayesian image segmentation, texture analysis, computer vision, statistical pattern recognition, expert systems, artificial intelligence, optimization, Markov Random Fields.
Expertise with Mathematica™; proficiency with AVS, FLTK, C++, Java, Perl, PHP, JavaScript;
familiarity with ITK, Matlab, OpenGL.
University of Washington Dean's List; Phi Beta Kappa.
Invited conference speaker at over 200 schools, churches, and youth groups in 14 countries worldwide.
Volunteer worship leader at Chinese Bible Church of NC for over six years.
Hobbies include digital photography (photo.seanho.com) and acoustic guitar.
Citizenship: USA. Permanent residence status in Canada.