Curriculum Vitae
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School of Computer Science & Software Engineering
Phone: +61 8 6488 1945 |
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Doctor of Philosophy in Computer Science The University of Western Australia, in progress |
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Bachelor of Computer and Mathematical Science with Honours (1st class) The University of Western Australia, 1997-2000 |
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Interactive Virtual Environments Centre Scholarship Recipient of a supplementary scholarship for doctoral study, 2002-2004 |
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Western Australian Information Technology and Telecommunications Award Winner in the Peter Fillery Student Project category, 2000 |
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Australian Postgraduate Award Recipient of a scholarship for doctoral study, 2001-2004 |
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Association for Computing Machinery South Pacific Programming Contest Member of the Perth site champions, 2000 |
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A New Technique for Rendering Complex Portals N. Lowe and A. Datta IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (to appear) |
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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) |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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A Discrete and Object Oriented Approach to Realtime Rendering Honours thesis, Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering, The University of Western Australia, 2000. |
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Lecturer Lecturer for Robotics, 2004. (current) |
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Tutor Conducted tutorials for Software Engineering, Object Oriented Programming, and Java Programming, 2000 |
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Laboratory Supervisor Supervised laboratories for Robotics, 2002, 2004. (current) Supervised laboratories for Concurrent Programming, Object Oriented Programming, Java Programming, and Data Structures, 2000-2001 |
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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. |
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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 |
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Programming Languages Very proficient in C Proficient in C++, Java, and html Experience with Basic, Gopher, Pascal, Prolog, Ada, assembly, Matlab, and Latex |
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Operating Systems Experience with and understanding of Linux, Windows, and MacOS |
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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) |
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ACM Siggraph and Siggraph Perth Financial member of both ACM Siggraph and the local Perth chapter. 2003-2004 (current) |
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Postgraduate Representative on the Research Committee School of Computer Science & Software Engineering, The University of Western Australia. 2002 |
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Art Drawing, painting, and appreciation |
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Video Games Avid collector of video games and consoles |
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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 |
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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 |