James Diebel - Resume
Stanford University
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James Diebel
diebel(at)stanford.edu

 

EDUCATION  
           
(2003 - present) Stanford University Palo Alto, CA
  • Ph.D. in Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering, expected 2007.
  • My Ph.D. research, under Prof. Sebastian Thrun, has been on the topic of utilizing probabilistic methods for deriving compact but realistic 3D models of large-scale environments from sensor measurements.  We combine the data from GPS receivers, inertial sensors, wheel encoders, laser range-finders, and cameras to produce high-fidelity models of cities and building interiors.
  • M.S. in Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering, 4.0 GPA.
  • Elective courses in computer vision and computational methods.
           
(2002 - 2003) von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics Brussels, Belgium
  • Diploma, Aeronautics and Aerospace Department.
  • Independent research in “Numerical Simulation of Sub- and Supersonic Flows in Inductively Coupled Plasma Tunnels” – an application of high performance computing.
           
(1997 - 2002) University of Wisconsin - Madison Madison, WI
  • B.S. in Engineering Mechanics and Mathematics with distinction, 3.9 GPA.
  • Team leader for NASA-sponsored reduced-gravity combustion science experiment.
  • Undergraduate thesis on the control of flow-induced vibration.
  • Courses in parallel computing, complex analysis, statistics, higher mathematics.
           
           
WORK EXPERIENCE  
           
(2005 - present) Consultant - Google Corporation Mountain View, CA
  • Providing advice on deploying our research.
           
(summer 2005) Engineering Intern - Microsoft Research Redmond, WA
  • Developed high-quality reference datasets for an upcoming survey and evaluation of multi-view stereo vision algorithms, to be submitted to CVPR with co-authors S. Seitz (first author), B. Curless, R. Szeliski, and D. Scharstein.
           
(summer 2004) Engineering Intern - Robert Bosch Corporation Palo Alto, CA
  • Developed probabilistic algorithms for reconstructing 3D surfaces from sensor measurements, and decimating existing models into sparser representations.
           
(spring 2001) Undergraduate Fellow -
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory		 Berkeley, CA
  • Analysis of proposed space telescope for Supernova Acceleration Probe Research Group.
           
(2000 - 2001) Teaching Assistant - University of Wisconsin Madison, WI
  • For undergraduate statics and aerodynamics courses.
           
(summer 2000) Engineering Aide - Orbital Technologies Corporation Madison, WI
  • Economic analysis of proposed hydrogen liquefaction system at NASA.
  • Design of a gamma-ray densitometer system, for application to in-situ rocket fuel regression rate sensing.
           
(summer 1998) Independent Researcher - University of Newcastle  Newcastle, England
  • Lab characterization of high-performance surface treatments.
           
(1998 - 2000) Research Assistant - University of Wisconsin Madison, WI
  • Project for GE studying the wear of nuclear fuel rod sheaths.
           
           
PUBLICATIONS  
           
  J. Diebel and S. Thrun. An Application of Markov Random Fields to Range Sensing, In Proceedings of the 2005 Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS). MIT Press, 2006.
           
  J. Diebel, S. Thrun, and M. Breunig. A Bayesian Method for Probable Surface Reconstruction and Decimation, to appear in ACM Transactions on Graphics, 2006.
           
  J. Diebel, K. Reuterswärd, S. Thrun, J. Davis, R. Gupta. Simultaneous Localization and Mapping with Active Stereo Vision, IEEE/RSJ Conf. on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2004.
           
  J. Diebel, T. Magin, M. Panesi, P. Rini, D. Vanden Abeele, and G. Degrez. Simulation of supersonic flows in inductively coupled plasma tunnels, Lecture Notes in Physics.  Springer-Verlag, New York, Berlin, 2004.
           
  J. Diebel, K. Sridharan, S. J. Bull. Evaluation of Four Commercially Produced Surface Treatments, Journal of Materials Engineering and Performance, 10(3) June 2001, 263 - 269.
           
           
AWARDS  
           
  NSF Graduate Fellowship, John William Park Aeronautical Engineering Scholarship, Fletcher Jones Foundation NSF Fellowship, USAF EOARD Fellowship, Wisconsin Space Grant Consortium Scholarship, Engineering Mechanics and Astronautics Academic Excellence Scholarship, Departmental Undergraduate Research Grant, Nancie M. and Mary A. Clark Memorial Scholarship, Dean’s Honor List