Jonathan Su's Homepage

I'm currently a first year PhD student at Stanford University. My primary interests are in graphics, particularly simulations. I'm working in Ron Fedkiw's group.

I graduated with a B.S. in Computer Engineering from the University of Washington in June 2006.

Previously, I worked on research at Microsoft Research Asia, with Dr. Kurt Akeley and Dr. Harry Shum, investigating problems with z-buffer resolution.

I also worked on research at UW in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering with Professor Richard Anderson. I helped work on a piece of software called Classroom Presenter, which is an presentation system used for conferencing and lecturing. Read more about it here.  It's starting to get a lot of exposure in various classes, and even courses beyond CS, and beyond UW.  Exciting!

In addition to research, I worked at Microsoft the last few summers both as a Software Design Engineer Intern and as a Software Test Engineer Intern. My first year, I was a STE, working as part of the Sharepoint Portal Server team. The last three years I've been a SDE, working with the DealPoint team as well as the Windows Subscriptions Services team in the Platforms (Windows) group. Fun stuff! :)

Surf around the site to learn some more about me. I have a lot of experience with computers, and am familiar with programming languages such as C#, Java, and C/C++. If you are an employer and would like to have a look at my resume, click here.

Resume:
Adobe Acrobat (*.pdf)

Publications:
Kurt Akeley and Jonathan Su. Minimum Triangle Separation for Correct Z-Buffer Occlusion, Proceedings of the ACM SIGGRAPH/EUROGRAPHICS Workshop on Graphics Hardware, pp. 27-30, 2006. (Link)
Richard Anderson, Ruth Anderson, Crystal Hoyer, Craig Prince, Jonathan Su, Fred Videon and Steve Wolfman. A Study of Diagrammatic Ink in Lecture. Computers and Graphics 29 (2005), pp. 480-489 (revised AAAI FSS Paper). (PDF)
Richard Anderson, Ruth Anderson, Crystal Hoyer, Craig Prince, Jonathan Su, Fred Videon and Steve Wolfman. Understanding Diagrammatic Ink in Lecture. AAAI Fall Symposium 2004 Workshop on Making Pen-Based Interaction Intelligent and Natural. (PDF)
Richard Anderson, Crystal Hoyer, Craig Prince, Jonathan Su, Fred Videon and Steve Wolfman. Speech, Ink and Slides: The Interaction of Content Channels. ACM Multimedia 2004. (PDF)
Beth Simon, Ruth Anderson, Crystal Hoyer and Jonathan Su. Preliminary Experiences with a Tablet PC Based System to Support Active Learning in Computer Science Courses. ItiCSE 2004. (PDF)

Links:
My sister's page - My sister Sara is pursuing at Ph.D in Computer Science at MIT.  She went to UW for undergrad like me.  She's doing a lot of stuff with non-photo-realistic rendering, and it's pretty cool.  Check out her page for details.

Past Projects:
"Impressionist":
 
This was Dave Jones and I's first project in CSE457 with Prof. Popovic. The project was impressionist, and my first idea was to take an opening clip of sesame street, and make it into a clip that looked like it was drawn using crayons. But, couldn't find a clip of sesame street online, so did this instead. :) We won first place for this project.

"Ray Tracer":

This was our third project, where we implemented a ray tracer. This was challenging, but probably the most interesting project me and Dave worked on. We implemented a lot of bells and whistles, and you can see the bump mapping we did to get the ripple effects on the balls. We won first place for this project, too.

"Animator":

This was our last project, where we had to use our model from our second project to make an animation. Well, we had finals, so this is all we could muster, but I'm proud of it still. :)