Ted Yapo

PhD student
Computer Science Department
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Thesis Advisor: Professor Barb Cutler
My interests lie primarily in the field of almost everything

Brief Curriculum Vitae

Education
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
MS, Engineering Physics, May 1994
BS, Engineering Physics, May 1992

Experience
From 1993-2006, I took a break from academia and experimented with living in the "real world". I have been told that this experimentation is healthy and normal, and typically causes no long-lasting ill effects once you stop. You can read about my experiences here.

Selected Publications

Rendering Lunar Eclipses
Theodore C. Yapo and Barbara Cutler
Proceedings of Graphics Interface 2009, May 2009.

Inferring Architectural Designs from Physical Sketches: Application to Daylighting Analysis
Barbara Cutler, Theodore C. Yapo, and Yu Sheng
Proceedings of Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI) Sketch Recognition Workshop, February 2009.

Virtual Heliodon: Spatially Augmented Reality for Architectural Daylighting Design
Yu Sheng, Theodore C. Yapo, Christopher Young, and Barbara Cutler
Proceedings of IEEE Virtual Reality 2009, March 2009.

A Probabilistic Representation of LiDAR Range Data for Efficient 3D Object Detection
Theodore C. Yapo, Charles V. Stewart, and Richard J. Radke
Proceedings of the S3D (Search in 3D) Workshop 2008, at IEEE CVPR 2008, June 2008.