curriculum vitae::

Academic Honors

• Harris Scholar for three consecutive school years, 2004-05, 2005-06, and 2006-07. Only person to be awarded the Harris Scholarship as either a freshman or a sophomore. The scholarship is usually given to three junior or senior undergraduate students at Florida State University who show an interest in computer security research and have outstanding undergraduate records. Information at: http://www.cs.fsu.edu/current/undergrad/finaid.php.
• MCI scholarship 2006-07 school year.
• University Honors scholarship awarded 2004-05, 2005-06, 2006-07 and 2007-08 school years.
• Honorable mention awarded by the Barry M. Goldwater committee, Spring 2007.
• Honors degree in mathematics awarded, Summer 2008.
• Dean of College of Arts and Sciences Scholarship for study abroad, Fall 2007.
• Graduated Summa Cum Laude from Florida State University with a dual major in computer science and mathematics (with honors).

Communities

• Member, Phi Beta Kappa honor society.
• Member, Pi Mu Epsilon, the mathematics honor society. Served as president for the 2006-07 and 2007-08 school years.
• Member, Upsilon Pi Epsilon, the computer science honor society.
• Member, University Honors Colloquium at FSU, Spring 2007.

Teaching and Tutoring

• Volunteer technology coordinator and tutor at Kagando Hospital in Kagando Village, Uganda starting in September, 2008-ongoing; Working on developing a sustainable technology platform for the hospital (as well as implementing an electronic medical records system) and training staff in the use and maintenance of computer technology.

Research

• Worked for the Security and Assurance in Information Technology Laboratory (SAIT Labs) at FSU as an undergraduate programmer on a project that worked to discern whether an isomorphism exists between symmetric key encryption and certain types of assembly language code obfuscation. Summer 2006.
• Worked for the Center for Applied Vision and Imaging Sciences (CAVIS) as an undergraduate researcher from Fall 2006 through Summer 2008.
• Received a NASA undergraduate research fellowship to develop a low-cost 3D scanner built from a stereoscopic camera and over-the-counter LCD projector using structured light. Summer-Fall 2007 under the direction of Dr. Piyush Kumar, Florida State University Computer Science Department.
• Researched and successfully defended an Honors in the Major thesis based on work done for CAVIS, 2007-2008.

Publications

• Shape of Elastic Strings in Euclidean Space
  W. Mio, J. C. Bowers and X. Liu
  International Journal of Computer Vision, in press.
• Modeling Brain Anatomy with 3D Arrangements of Curves
  W. Mio, J. C. Bowers, M. Hurdal, and X. LiuÂ
  ICCV workshop on Mathematical Methods in Biomedical Image Analysis (MMBIA), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 2007.
• Parametrization, Alignment and Shape of Spherical Surfaces
  X. Liu, J. Bowers, and W. MioÂ
  Proc. 2nd International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications (VISAPP, Barcelona, Spain) vol. 1, 2007, 199-206

Presentations

• Development and Implementation of Computational Models of Elastic Shape, Honors in the Major thesis defense. August 7, 2008.
• Wavelet Analysis on Manifold Valued Data, Florida State University Center for Applied Vision and Imaging Sciences Colloquium, March 20, 2008.

Professional & Work Experience

• Volunteer technology coordinator, Kagando Hospital, Kagando Village, Uganda, 2008-ongoing.
• Java Programmer for Marquis Software Development Inc. in Tallahassee, Florida, 2008.
• Undergraduate researcher, Florida State University’s Center for Applied Vision and Imaging Sciences Laboratory, 2006-2008.
• Undergraduate programmer, Florida State University’s Security and Assurance in Information Technology Laboratory, 2006.
• Java Programmer for Marquis Software Development Inc. in Tallahassee, Florida, 2004-2006.
• Database-driven web-site developer for Liquifusion Studios in Tallahassee, Florida, 2002-2004.