Suzana Djurcilov

4186 Glenwood Dr
Scotts Valley, CA 95066
tel: (831)439-0739
e-mail: suzana@cse.ucsc.edu
http://www.cse.ucsc.edu/~suzana

Objective

Strength:

Extensive experience in 3D graphics and animation programming
Expert in OpenGL and object-oriented development (Java, C++)
Fast learner

Education

UC Santa Cruz

11/1998: MS in Computer Graphics from UC Santa Cruz: "Visualization Tools for Weather Forecasting"

5/1993: BA from Mills College with a double major in CS and German.

Publications

Alex Pang

Proceedings of IEEE Visualization '99

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

Suzana Djurcilov and Alex Pang, ``Visualization Tools for Data Assimilation'', SPIE Proceedings on Visual Data Exploration and Analysis IV, 1997

Elijah Saxon, Zoe Wood, Michael O'Neil, Chris Oates, Jeremy Story, Suzana Djurcilov and Alex Pang "Integrated Visualization of Realtime 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

Awards

"Best Case Study" Award at IEEE Visualization '99
First place the City of Belgrade and the second place in the Republic of Serbia mathematics competition.
Mills College Scholarship to cover full tuition.
Helen Pillars Award for Best Student in Computer Science, Mills College

Experience

04/01 - 11/01: Graphics Engineer, Mineset Group, SGI

Develop, implement and debug a suite of tools for Data Mining and Visualization.

10/95 - 05/01: 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 (www.cse.ucsc.edu/research/slvg/slug.html)
Created physically-based models and animations as well as general-purpose visualization tools.
Created visualization methods for gridded datasets which have most of the data values missing.

6/00 - 9/00: Data Visualization Programmer, Blue Martini Inc.

Wrote a Java/OpenViz application to visualize results from Data Mining.

7/93 - 10/95: RDBMS Tehnical Analyst, Oracle Corp.

Supported customers in RDBMS on 92 platforms.
Wrote scripts for use by DBAs, debugged problems, taught and wrote instructional bulletins.

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.
Managed a team of eight User Assistants starting my second semester in college.

Language Skills

Trilingual in German/Serbian/English, fair knowledge of Russian, French, Hebrew and Spanish.

Programming languages and environments

C/C++, JAVA, JavaScript, CGI, Perl, HTML, VRML/EAI, OpenGL, OpenViz, Oracle, SQL, PL/SQL, Xforms, UNIX shell-script.