Taeg Sang Cho

Graduate Student
MIT Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence Lab
32 Vassar Street, 32-D466
Cambridge, MA 02139

taegsang_at_mit.edu


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Room 32-D466, Stata Center
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
32 Vassar Street, Cambridge MA 02139 USA
taegsang_at_mit_edu

Research Interest

Computer Graphics and Computer Vision
Machine Learning and its application to Computer Vision
Stochastic Signal Processing Techniques

Education

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Ph. D. Candidate, Dept of EECS (Feb. 2011 Expected)
Research Advisor: William T. Freeman
GPA: 5.0/5.0

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Master of Science , Dept of EECS (June. 2007)
Thesis Title: An Energy Efficient Interface to Carbon Nanotube Sensor Arrays
Research Advisor: Anantha Chandrakasan
GPA: 5.0/5.0

Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology

Bachelor of Science, August 2005
GPA: 4.14/4.3 (Major: 4.25/4.3)
Top in the School of Engineering

Honors

2008 IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) Best Poster Paper Award
2008 ACM Design Automation Conference (DAC)Travel Grant Winner
2008 DAC/ISSCC Student Design Contest Award Winner
2007 AMD/CICC Student Scholarship Award
Samsung Scholarship Foundation - Graduate Research Funding (2005. Sept - 2010. Aug.)
Korea Foundation for Advanced Studies - Undergraduate Scholarship
General Electric (GE) Foundation - Undergraduate Scholarship
2004 Hyundai Motors Automobile Design Contest : Bronze Medal
2004 KAIST Computing Festival- Silver Medal

Publications

Computer Vision/ Computer Graphics related papers

Integrated Circuit Design related papers

Invited Presentations

"The patch transform and its applications to image editing"
at Microsoft Research, Interactive Visual Media Group, June 20 2008

"A low power carbon nanotube chemical sensor system "
at IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), February. 2008

"A low power carbon nanotube chemical sensor system "
at MARCO Interconnect Focus Center 2007 Annual Review , Oct. 3. 2007

"A low power carbon nanotube chemical sensor system"
at National Semiconductor Inc. Santa Clara, May. 3. 2007

"Design and Characterization of Hybrid CNT-CMOS Systems"
at MARC '07, Jan, 2007

"A low power dynamic voltage scaling system "
at Young Generation Technical and Leadership Conference '07, Jan. 5-Jan.7 2007


Experience

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge MA

2008. Sept. - 2009. May

2008. Jan - 2008. May
Participated in developing motion invariant photography and its extensions

2007. May - 2007. Dec
Developed the fundamentals of the patch transform

2007. Jan - 2007. Apr
Designed an automated leakage power control loop for SRAM

2005. Sept - 2006. Dec.
Designed an architecture of a Chemical Sensor System
Implemented an interface chip for Carbon Nanotube Chemical Sensor Arrays in National 0.18um CMOS

Microsoft Research, Redmond, WA

2009. May - 2009. Aug
Developed new image deconvolution techniques.

Adobe Systems Incorporation, Auburndale MA

2008. May - 2008. Aug
Extended the original patch transform framework to enhance image quality and reduce run-time.

Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Daejeon, South Korea

2003. Dec - 2004. Oct
Used a variant of Simulated Annealing (SA) and Evolutionary Algorithm (EA) to solve the Largest Empty
Sphere problem in N-dimensional structures, and the performance was compared with that of Voronoi
Diagrams

2004. Jun - 2004. Sept.
Applied real-time Computer Vision techniques to Automated Parking Systems. I was in charge of developing
a software system, including the parking space detection algorithms

Sung Kyun Kwan University, Suwon, South Korea

2003. Dec - 2004. Nov
A joint project with Sung Kyun Kwan University. I was in charge of formulating the mathematical background
for 3-D image reconstruction based on CT data points, and simulated the algorithms in MATLAB

Activities

CSAIL Student Workshop (CSW) 2007 Poster / Demo Chair, Program Committee
MIT Graduate Student Council - EECS GSC Representative 2006. Sept -2007 Oct.
MIT EECS Graduate Student Association - Executive Committee 2006. Sept - 2007 Oct.
2005 ICISTS-KAIST Ubiquitous Computing Workshop Leader
KAIST Herald - Journalist 2002. Mar - 2005. Jul

Last Updated: Feb. 15. 2010