Neil Birkbeck’s Resume
Most recent pdf: n-birkbeck_resume.pdf
Summary
Work Experience
- Software Engineer, Google, Apri 2013-Present
- Research Scientist, Siemens Corporate Research, June 2011-March 2013
- Research Assistant, Computer Vision & Robotics, U of A, Jan 2011-June 2011
- Medical Imaging Intern, Siemens Corporate Research, May 2010-Dec 2010
- Teaching Assistant, Numerical Methods, University of Alberta. Fall 2007
- Research Assistant, Anita Carrie, Dept of Pharmacology, University of Alberta. Summer 2007
- Research Assistant, Image-based modeling and rendering, University of Alberta
- Research Assistant, Renee Elio, Tile World (~2004)
- Teaching Assistant, Image Processing, University of Alberta. Fall 2003
Education
- Ph.D. Computing Science, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB. 2005-2011
- M.Sc. Computing Science, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB. April 2005
GPA 4.0, Thesis: Shape and reflectance recovery from indoor image sequences. - B.Sc. Computing Science, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB. April 2003
GPA 4.0 in 2002 and 2003.
Awards/Scholarships
- Ph.D Outstanding Thesis Award (Shared with Amir-massoud Farahmand) 2012
- Queen Elizabeth II Graduate Scholarship Fall 2008
- Teaching Assistant Award Spring 2008
- NSERC PGS-D Graduate Scholarship 2005-2008
- NSERC CGS-M Graduate Scholarship 2004-2005
- Walter H. Johns Graduate Fellowship 2004-2007
- Ivy A. Thomson and William A Thomson Graduate Scholarship Fall 2003
- Gold Medal in Computing Science (highest grades in graduating class) Fall 2003
- Canadian Information Processing Society Scholarship Fall 2002
- Louise McKinney Post-Secondary Scholarship Fall 2002
- Jason Lang Scholaship Fall 2001
Technologies
- C/C++, Java, Python, Matlab, Bash, JavaScript, HTML
- Autoconf, Make, g++
