Graduate students
From REMAP
Contents |
Jonathan Friedman
jf(at)ee.ucla.edu
JONATHAN FRIEDMAN has spent most of his professional career split between IT/MIS administrative duties and mixed-signal PCB design. He was the Director of Database Support Services for Sonic Associates (an IMAX company), Director of US Technological Cooperation Students at the Chernigov State Institute for Economics and Management (Chernigov, Ukraine, 2002) and is the founder of HalcyonIT, an IT oursourcing firm for many small-to-medium size businesses. In his research at UCLA, at the Networked and Embedded Systems Laboratory he is interested in improving the physical sensor layer of wireless mobile embedded sensor networks through more advanced implementations and designs. Specifically, he is targeting the problem of location of a sensed entity by implementing a new architecture for robust (noise-immune), low-latency (many positional fixes per second), high-accuracy localization for mobile nodes. Additional interests lie in relaxing the deployment constraints and requirements for static (non-mobile) beacons. Application areas of interest lie in entertainment. In collaboration with UCLA's School of Theater, Film, and Television, his work is being shaped and adapted to fit within the unique constraints of this application space.
Vanessa Holtgrewe
vanessa(at)hypermedia.ucla.edu
VANESSA HOLTGREWE is a director of photography residing in Los Angeles, California. She has worked on more than two dozen television shows and pilots, for such stations such as CBS, Discovery, Showtime, TLC and PBS. Most recently, Vanessa was the Director of Photography for “Firehouse USA:Boston”, a 13 episode Discovery Channel docu-drama which delved into the lives of the members of the Huntington Avenue firehouse, home of Engine 37 and Ladder Company 26, in Boston, Massachusetts. Complementing her documentary work, Vanessa has shot more than a dozen short films, commercials, and independent feature films, in formats ranging from miniDV to 35mm film. Vanessa studied at the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television in Film Production with a concentration in Cinematography. While there, she began a collaboration with the UCLA HyperMedia Studio, which is a unique research unit devoted to the collaboration of media, the performing arts and cutting-edge engineering technology in pursuit of new genres of creative expression. In July of 2005, Vanessa was the video consultant for the Studio's participation in the Rhodopi Theatre Collective in Smolyan, Bulgaria. In 2006, Vanessa will be attending the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah as a guest of Kodak. Upon returning to LA, Vanessa will begin principal photography on “California King”, a UCLA thesis film, directed by the award-winning director Eli Kaufman. Her documentary work will continue as well when she shoots one of the episodes of Bravo’s “30 Days”, created by Morgan Spurlock (director of “Supersize Me”). Vanessa’s next theatrical work is Mel Shapiro’s Blogger Project at UCLA in 2006.
More about Vanessa Holtgrewe.
Eitan Mendelowitz
eitan(at)cs.ucla.edu, http://www.cs.ucla.edu/~eitan
EITAN MENDELOWITZ has collaborated on interactive art installations exhibited internationally at venues including SIGGRAPH, ArtFutura, and ArsElectronica. Currently a researcher at the UCLA Hypermedia Studio, Eitan is co-developing Kolo, a ubiquitous computing framework for use in the performing and media arts. Eitan is pursuing his Ph.D. in artificial intelligence from UCLA and recently achieved a MFA (2002) from the Department of Design | Media Arts. His interests include the use of intelligent environments, sensor networks, and behavior-based artificial intelligence in the arts. He collaborated with Ruth West, Jeff Burke, and others on the immersi ve media-rich installation Ecce Homology, which premiered at the Fowler Museum of Cultural History in 2004 and recently received a Banff Centre for the Arts co-production. Eitan is a founding member of the Southern California Jewish Artists Initiative and his solo piece The Ineffible is currently at the Bell Family Gallery.
More about Eitan Mendelowitz.
Heemin Park
hmpark(at)ee.ucla.edu
HEEMIN PARK received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Computer Science from Sogang University, Seoul, Korea in 1993 and 1995, respectively. He majored in VLSI CAD (Very Large Scale Integration Computer-Aided Design) area for his Master's degree. Since graduation, he has worked for Samsung Electronics, Co., Ltd., Korea with the specialty of DFT (Design-for Testability). He is also a Ph.D. candidate and Graduate Student Researcher in Electrical Engineering at University of California, Los Angeles under the supervision of professor Mani B. Srivastava. He is in the Networked and Embedded Systems Laboratory. His research interests include design of networked and embedded computing systems, wireless sensor networks, and ubiquitous computing. He received a scholarship from Samsung Electronics and he authored or co-authored six papers and has six patents.
