From: sun@ghostwheel.eng.yale.edu (Kang Sun)
Subject: Programming and System Administration Job seeked
Organization: Yale University, Center for Systems Sciences
Distribution: misc
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 13:55:10 GMT



                               KANG SUN
                         154 Willard Street
                         New Haven, CT 06515 
                            (203)397-3925 
                          Sun-Kang@Yale.Edu

Objective
    Administrate Unix systems, Vax/VMS systems, NeXT computers, IBM 
    PC and compatibles, Macintosh in a TCP/IP networked environment, 
    develop system and application softwares in X11, GKS, C and C++ 
    programming languages.

Experience
91.4-     F.B. Tech Joint Venture, Predictive Systems    Stamford, CT
present   Senior Computer Scientist:
          o adminstrating Sun Sparcstations, NeXT machines, AST/486 
            running Interactive Unix, and DOS-based 386 Compatibles;
          o developing graphics tools using X11 and C programming 
            language;
          o established TCP/IP connections among the Unix machines 
            running Ethernet & IBM PC's running token-ring  networks;
          o conducting research on Predictive Systems with wavelet
            theory and liner and non-linear dynamics.

92.7-92.8 Hospital of St. Raphael, Information Systems  New Haven, CT
          Consultant: Interfacing between Unix machine and IRMA 
                      (TN3270) emulator.

91.2-91.7 University New Haven, Computer Science Dept. West Haven, CT
          Instructor for the graduate course CS670: Advanced Topic --
          Introduction to Robotics.

90.9-91.4 Yale University, Elect. Eng. Dept.            New Haven, CT
          Postdoctoral Research Associate:
          o wrote computer graphics simulation programs to verify
            robot motion planning algorithms;
          o wrote a number of technical reports, conference & journal 
            papers; 
          o reviewed technical papers for the conferences and the
            transactions of IEEE Robotics & Automation Society and 
            for many other conferences and journals.

85.6-90.8 Research assistant:
          o developed motion planning algorithms for autonomous
            vehicles and two- and three-link robot arm manipulators
            operating among unknown environment; 
          o developed terrain acquisition algorithms;
          o developed a large 3D graphics animation & simulation
            software system ---  ROPAS (RObot PAth Simulation) --- in 
            C and GKS (Graphical Kernel Standard) on MicroVaxII
            Workstation, and later ported & expanded it to Personal
            IRIS Graphics Workstation; 
          o installed & maintained system, network, and application
            softwares for one MicroVAX II workstation (VMS), three
          o SPARCstations (SunOS/X11R4), and one personal IRIS 
            graphics workstation (System V). 

          Teaching assistant:
          o lectured ``geometry in robot motion'' and ``mathematical 
            techniques in pattern recognition'';
          o served as laboratory instructor for ``digital systems'' 
            and ``computer organizations''. 

88.9-90.5 Yale University, Biology Department           New Haven, CT
          Consultant:
          o helped to design and implement data acquisition system 
            for biological application involving an IBM-PC/XT, a VCR, 
            and a TV Monitor; 
          o wrote data acquisition and statistical analysis  programs 
            in Turbo C++. 

87.9-88.5 Yale Medical School, Surgery Dept.            New Haven, CT
          Consultant:
          o helped to set-up a database for medical records using
            DBaseIII+ on IBM/PS2; 
          o wrote macros for record retrieval and statistics 
            analysis;
          o wrote a Hypercard stack in HyperTalk that allows data to 
            be entered on Macintosh and converted to DBaseIII+ 
            format.

84.1-85.5 Polytechnic University                         Brooklyn, NY
          Research assistant:
          o participated in the study of semantics-based high level
	      language translation techniques using Augmented 
            Transition Networks (ATN).
          o wrote part of the source & target language grammar parser
            and the language translator generator in C.

82.9-83.12 Jiao Tong University, Computer Center      Shanghai, China
          Research assistant:
          o participated in the development of a relational database
            management system for educational applications;
          o developed an expert system for automatic class 
            scheduling & lecture-room assignment (in Basic).

Education
	   Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, Yale University 1990
	   M.S. & M.Phil in Electric Engineering,Yale University 1987
 	   M.S. in Computer Science, Polytechnic University 1985
	   B.S. in Computer Science, Shanghai Jiao Tong University 1982

Skills
         o VMS, Unix, DOS, and MacOS system management;
         o Softwares development in C/C++, Pascal, Basic, HyperTalk;
         o 3D Computer graphics animation & simulation in X11, GKS, 
           and IRIS graphics;
         o Interface design for Microprocessor-based systems.
 
Journal Publications
         o Kang Sun & V. Lumelsky, ``Path Planning Among Unknown 
           Obstacles: The Case of a 3-D Cartesian Arm'', IEEE 
           Transactions on  Robotics and Automation, Dec.,1992.

         o V. Lumelsky & Kang Sun, ``A unified methodology for motion
           planning with uncertainty for 2-d and 3-d two-link robot 
           arm manipulators,''  International Journal of Robotics 
           Research, MIT Press, Vol. 9, No. 5, 89-104, October, 1990.

         o V. Lumelsky, S. Mukhopadhyay, & Kang Sun, ``Dynamic Path
           Planning in Sensor-based Terrain Acquisition'', IEEE
           Transactions on Robotics and Automation, Vol. 6, No.4, 
           462-472, August 1990. 

         o Kang Sun & V. Lumelsky, ``Computer simulation of sensor-
           based robot collision avoidance in unknown environment,'' 
           Robotica, Vol. 5, Part 4, Cambridge University Press, 
           Oct.-Nov. 1987. 
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