Curriculum Vitae
of
Nick Lowe

9th September 2004





Contact Details

School of Computer Science & Software Engineering
University of Western Australia
Nedlands, Western Australia, 6907.

Phone: +61 8 6488 1945
Fax: +61 8 6488 1089
E-mail: nickl@csse.uwa.edu.au
Home Page: http://www.csse.uwa.edu.au/~nickl


Education

Doctor of Philosophy in Computer Science
The University of Western Australia, in progress
Bachelor of Computer and Mathematical Science with Honours (1st class)
The University of Western Australia, 1997-2000

Awards

Interactive Virtual Environments Centre Scholarship
Recipient of a supplementary scholarship for doctoral study, 2002-2004
Western Australian Information Technology and Telecommunications Award
Winner in the Peter Fillery Student Project category, 2000
Australian Postgraduate Award
Recipient of a scholarship for doctoral study, 2001-2004
Association for Computing Machinery South Pacific Programming Contest
Member of the Perth site champions, 2000

Publications

A New Technique for Rendering Complex Portals
N. Lowe and A. Datta
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (to appear)
A Simple Model Generation System for Computer Graphics
M. Tran, A. Datta, and N. Lowe
Future Generation Computer Systems
A Special issue on Interaction and Visualisation Techniques for Problem Solving Environments (to appear)
Real-time Facial Expressions in the Auslan Tuition System
J.C. Wong, E.J. Holden, N. Lowe, and R. Owens
The 5th IASTED International Conference on Computer Graphics and Imaging, August, Hawaii, USA.
A Low-cost Model Acquisition System for Computer Graphics and Applications
Minh Tran, Amitava Datta, and Nick Lowe
Proc. International Conference on Computational Science, Melbourne
Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer-Verlag, Vol. 2659, pp. 1054-1063, 2003.
A Fragment Culling Technique for Rendering Arbitrary Portals
Nick Lowe and Amitava Datta
Proc. International Conference on Computational Science, St. Petersburg
Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer-Verlag, Vol. 2657, pp. 915-924, 2003.
Phantoms in the Corridor: Portal Systems in the Digital Mind
Grant Taylor and Nick Lowe
CAiiA-STAR Consciousness Reframed 2002, 1-4 August 2002, Perth, Western Australia.
Auslan Jam: A Graphical Sign Language Display System
Nick Lowe, James Strauss, Sam Yeates, Eun-jung Holden
DICTA 2002: Digital Imaging Computing Techniques and Applications, 21-22 January 2002, Melbourne, Australia.
A Discrete and Object Oriented Approach to Realtime Rendering
Honours thesis, Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering, The University of Western Australia, 2000.

Teaching Experience

Lecturer
Lecturer for Robotics, 2004. (current)
Tutor
Conducted tutorials for Software Engineering, Object Oriented Programming, and Java Programming, 2000
Laboratory Supervisor
Supervised laboratories for Robotics, 2002, 2004. (current)
Supervised laboratories for Concurrent Programming, Object Oriented Programming, Java Programming, and Data Structures, 2000-2001
Student Advisor
Colloboration with honours students working on various graphics projects, 2004. (current)
Co-advised an honours student developing a system to create a polygonal mesh of an object from multiple camera views, 2002.
Co-advised an honours student developing a real-time water modelling system involving dynamic cubemap generation and vertex programs, 2002.
Co-advised an honours student continuing work on the Auslan Tuition System, 2001.

Computing Experience

Graphics Programming
Exceptional understanding of 2D and 3D graphics techniques
Very proficient with OpenGL
Experience with OpenGL Shading Language and Cg
Experience with pure software rendering
Programming Languages
Very proficient in C
Proficient in C++, Java, and html
Experience with Basic, Gopher, Pascal, Prolog, Ada, assembly, Matlab, and Latex
Operating Systems
Experience with and understanding of Linux, Windows, and MacOS

Affiliations

60Hz Real-time Rendering Group
Founding member of the real-time rendering group at the School of Computer Science & Software Engineering at The University of Western Australia, 2001-2004 (current)
ACM Siggraph and Siggraph Perth
Financial member of both ACM Siggraph and the local Perth chapter. 2003-2004 (current)
Postgraduate Representative on the Research Committee
School of Computer Science & Software Engineering, The University of Western Australia. 2002

Interests

Art
Drawing, painting, and appreciation
Video Games
Avid collector of video games and consoles

Referees

Dr. Amitava Datta
Senior Lecturer
School of Computer Science & Software Engineering
The University of Western Australia
Phone: +61 8 6488 3449
Fax: +61 8 6488 1089
E-mail: datta@csse.uwa.edu.au
Dr. Nick Spadaccini
Senior Lecturer - Head of School
School of Computer Science & Software Engineering
The University of Western Australia
Phone: +61 8 6488 3452
Fax: +61 8 6488 1089
E-mail: nick@csse.uwa.edu.au