JunYoung Gwak

Education

• Stanford UniversitySept 2015 - In Progress

  Master's, Computer Science

• University of Illinois at Urbana ChampaignAug 2011 - May 2015

  Bachelor of Science, Computer Science.
  Math Minor

• Korean Minjok Leadership AcademyMar 2008 - Feb 2011

  College Prep

Employment

• Stanford UniversityJan 2016 - In Progress

  Research Assistant

  Working at Computer Vision & Geometry Lab with Professor Silvio Savarese. Pushing the state of the art of Computer Vision applying various Deep Learning techniques.

• GoogleMay 2015 - Sept 2015

  Software Engineering Intern

  Worked at Google Cloud Platform. Implemented a benchmark tool to measure, compare and monitor the performance of various cloud platforms, including Google AppEngine and Managed VM.

• GoogleMay 2014 - Aug 2014

  Software Engineering Intern

  Worked at Google Maps, implementing an internal feature.

• National Center for Supercomputing ApplicationsSeptember 2013 - May 2014

  Research Assistant

  Built a real-time tracking and 3D localization system for construction sites. Made point cloud generation and visualization more accessible with web interface. Won 1st place in The Image of Research, 7th Annual Undergraduate Research Symposium.

• GoogleMay 2013 - August 2013

  Software Engineering Intern

  Worked for Google Drive developer relationships team. Created Push Notifications Playground and Google Drive API Python library, PyDrive. Hosted 4 Google Developer Lives and wrote 1 blog post.

• Popcorn5November 2011 - May 2013

  Co-Founder

  Quality control software for building management. Partnered with big university hospitals and building management companies. Got $300k funded from Solborn Investment.

• Seoul National University Computer Research InstituteMay 2010 - July 2010

  Research Assistant

  Assisted research regarding the efficiency of a genetic algorithm.

• ViewMotionMay 2009 - July 2009

  Internship

  Participated in a government-funded project to develop a chatbot for education.

Publications

• Completing 3d object shape from one depth image2015

  CVPR

  Proposed a method to recover a complete 3D model from a depth image of an object. We aim to fully automatically reconstruct a 3D model from any category.

• Vision-based Field Inspection of Reinforcing Bars2013

  International Conference on Construction Applications of Virtual Reality

  Proposed a low-cost, automatic, and reliable inspection algorithm of reinforcing bars. Built an algorithm to efficiently model multiple bent reinforcing bars within large 3D point cloud. Proposed a method to evaluate the accuracy of the registration.

Awards

• 1st place, MechmaniaOct 2014

  University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

  Annual AI programming contest hosted by the ACM chapter at the UIUC.

• Illinois Engineering Achievement ScholarshipJuly 2014

  University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

  A scholarship for students in School of Engineering selected based on academic merit.

• Jeffrey P. Blahut Memorial ScholarshipApril 2014

  University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

  A scholarship for CS majors entering their junior or senior years selected based on academic merit.

• 1st place, The Image of ResearchApril 2014

  University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

  7th Annual Undergraduate Research Symposium.

• 1st place, ECE Pulse - SoftwareFebruary 2013

  University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

  Wrote the best AI for the game 'PulseCraft'.

• 3rd place, Mid-west Facebook HackathonNovember 2012

  Facebook

  Presented 'FocusTest', an automatic camera auto-focus benchmark webapp. Made the benchmark more reliable and accurate using computer vision techniques.

• 1st place, Promoting Undergraduate Research in EngineeringDecember 2011

  University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign

  Presented 'Improving General Game Planning: Simplifying Descriptions and Generating Interfaces'.

• Gold Medal, Minjok Academic FestivalOctober 2010

  Korean Minjok Leadership Academy

  Presented 'Enhanced Object Tracking Algorithm Combining SURF and Optical Flow'.

• 1st place, DotNet Programming CompetitionJune 2010

  Hoons DotNet, ZDNet Korea

  Wrote a program which automatically diagnoses and resolves any network errors.

• Award of Excellence, 8th Embedded Software CompetitionSeptember 2011

  The Federation of Korean Information Industries

  Made a robot to clear given objectives.