Scott's Curriculum Vitae

Educational Experience:
University of Louisiana, Lafayette, LA	12/2001 - 5/2008 (anticipated)
PhD in Computer Science
Thesis: "Real-Time Auralization of Sound in Virtual 3D Environments"
University of Louisiana, Lafayette, LA	1/1999 - 12/2001
M.S. in Computer Science
Thesis: "Storyboard Frame Editing for Cinematic Composition"
University of Washington, Seattle, WA		10/1992 - 6/1997
B.A. in Music Technology (Computers and Music), Minor in Music
Senior Thesis: "NoteJa" (Notation and music theory tutor in Java)

Research Interests:
	Sound in 3D Environments: Designing and implementing efficient algorithms to produce realistic audio effects, real-time, in 3D graphical worlds.	Melody Detection in Digital Sound Formats: Implement algorithms which ascertain melodies and various voices in MP3 files. These can be used to convert music into notation format or allow for melody matching in a music database (information retrieval).

	Automated Application of Cinematic Rules in 3D Graphics: Develop algorithms and graphical user interfaces that employ various rules and guidelines established by the film industry in order to automate the placement of the camera and view angle in computer graphics.	Motion Detection: Find new techniques for the detection of location and movement for use in virtual environments.

Publications:

S. McDermott, C.H. Chu, "An Exploration of Virtual 3D Sound". Acoustical Society of America, New Orleans, Louisiana, November 30 2007.
S. McDermott, C.H. Chu, "An Exploration of Virtual 3D Sound" (Lay Language Paper). Acoustical Society of America, New Orleans, Louisiana, November 30 2007.
S. McDermott, J. Li, W. Bares, "Storyboard Frame Editing for Cinematic Composition," in Proc. Int. Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, San Francisco, California, Jan. 13-16 2002, pp. 206-207
W. Bares, S. McDermott, C. Boudreaux, S. Thainimit, "Virtual 3D Camera Composition from Frame Constraints," in Proc. Int. Multimedia Conference, Marina del Rey, California, Oct. 30 - Nov. 4, 2000, pp. 177-186
W. Bares, S. Thainimit, S. McDermott, "A Model for Constraint-Based Camera Planning," in Proc. Spring Symposium Smart Graphics, Stanford, CA, March 20-22, 2000, pp. 84-91

Collaborations:

Unofficial Publications:

"Real-Time Auralization of Sound in Virtual 3D Environments"
Summary of my research interest (presented for PHYS 420G, Spring 2002).
"The State of the Art of Music Information Retrieval"
A survey of current MIR research (presented for CMPS 561, Fall 2001).

Awards:

Louisiana Board of Regents Fellowship, University of Louisiana, Lafayette, 2001 - 2004
Research Assistantship, University of Louisiana, Lafayette, 2001
Upsilon Pi Epsilon, National Computer Science Honor Society, 2000 - Present
Dean's List, University of Washington, various quarters

Programming Languages:	Applications & Studies:
C/C++ (extensive) HTML (extensive) PHP (extensive) Java (extensive) Perl (extensive) LISP ADA Basic FORTRAN SQL, Oracle, Access Programming Multimedia (DirectX, OpenGL) numerous scripting languages various music composing languages	Visual Studio Windows, Unix, Macintosh OS TCP/IP, Networking Photoshop Master's & PhD Level Studies: Computer Architecture Databases and Information Retrieval Programming Languages Operating Systems Algorithms Graphics and Multimedia Image Processing Networks

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