Suzana  Djurcilov  -  3D Graphics and Visualization  R & D

4186 Glenwood Dr., Scotts Valley, CA 95066   831-439-0739   suzana@cse.ucsc.edu   www.cse.ucsc.edu/~suzana

Objective	Computer graphics research and instructorship

Strength	* Extensive experience in 3D graphics and animation programming
* Expert in OpenGL and object-oriented development (Java, C++)
* Teaching experience from large University

Education	06/01: Ph.D. in Computer Graphics/Scientific Visualization from UC Santa Cruz: “Visualizing Datasets with Missing Values”
11/98: M.S. in Computer Graphics from UC Santa Cruz: "Visualization Tools for Weather Forecasting" 
6/93: B.A. from Mills College (Oakland, CA) with a double major in CS and German. 

Publications 	Djurcilov and Pang "Visualizing Gridded Datasets with Large Number  of Missing Values" Proceedings of  IEEE Visualization '99

Djurcilov and Pang "Visualization Products On-Demand Through the Web" Proceedings of the 3rd Symposium VRML '98

Djurcilov and Pang “Visualization Tools for Data Assimilation'', SPIE Proceed. Visual Data Exploration and Analysis ’97

Saxon, Wood, O'Neil, Oates, Story, Djurcilov and Pang "Integrated Visualization of Real-time Environmental Data" Proceedings of the 13th Spring Conference on Computer Graphics 1997

Djurcilov and Pang “Visualizing Sparse Gridded Data” Computer Graphics and Applications  Sept/Oct 2000

Djurcilov and Pang  "Visualizing scalar volumetric data with uncertainty" To be published by Computers and Graphics Vol. 1047

Awards	“Best Case Study” Award at IEEE Visualization '99
Helen Pillars Award for Best Student in Computer Science, Mills College, 1993
First place City of Belgrade and the second place Republic of Serbia mathematics competition

Experience	03/02 – current: Visiting Lecturer, UC Santa Cruz
•	Teach upper division graphics class. Develop curricula, exams and assignments; provide guidance and support for the students during office hours. Coordinate one Teaching Assistant and two Readers. 

04/01 – 11/01: Graphics Engineer, Mineset Group, SGI
•	Developed, implemented and debugged a suite of tools for use in Data Mining and Visualization 

10/95 –06/01: Graduate Student Researcher, UC Santa Cruz
•	Developed visualization tools for use in the meteorological sciences using OpenGL and C++.
•	Implemented a program to produce VRML visualizations on-demand using direct database connections 
•	Created physically-based models and animations as well as general-purpose visualization tools. 
•	Currently working on visualization of gridded datasets which have most of the data values missing.

06/00 – 09/00: Data Visualization Intern, Blue Martini
•	Wrote a Java/OpenViz application to visualize results from Data Mining 

7/93 - 10/95: RDBMS Technical Analyst, Oracle Corp
•	Supported customers in RDBMS on 92 platforms.
•	Wrote scripts for use by DBAs, debugged problems, taught and wrote instructional bulletins.
•	The last 6 months I spent handling exclusively down production system cases for major customers.
 
2/93 - 7/93: System Administrator (UNIX), Mills College
•	Created and removed user accounts, resolved networking and system security issues.
•	Installed new software, developed and updated system scripts, backed-up and restored the SGI Iris system for the entire academic community.

8/89 - 2/93: User Assistant Manager, Mills College
•	Installed software, wrote manuals and held workshops, assisted faculty and students in the use of campus computers. 
•	Coordinated the college computer literacy approval procedures. 
•	Managed a team of eight User Assistants starting my second semester in college. 

Skills	Languages: trilingual in German/Serbian/English; fair Spanish, French, Russian and Hebrew
Programming languages: Fortran, C/C++, JAVA, JavaScript, CGI, Perl, HTML, VRML/EAI, OpenGL, Oracle, SQL, PL/SQL, Xforms, UNIX shell-script, Expect

References	 Available upon request