Curriculum Vitae

Michael O. Lam
Ph.D Graduate Student
University of Maryland at College Park

== Contact Info ==

  Address: 4207 Woodberry Street
           University Park, MD 20782
  Email:   lam@cs.umd.edu
  Phone:   540-383-6971 (cell)
  Website: http://blog.freearrow.com/

== Career Goal ==

  Computer science research and teaching with a specialization in
  programming languages and software engineering.

== Education ==

  B.S, Computer Science, James Madison University, 2007
  Minor in Mathematics and 15 credit hours in Technical Communication
  Overall GPA: 4.0

== Research Interests ==

  * Programming Languages
  * Software Engineering
  * Medical Imaging

== Relevant Experience ==

  * Fall '07: CMSC 631 (Program Analysis) with Dr. Michael Hicks (UMD).
    Topics include lambda calculus, operational semantics, data flow
    analysis, and type systems.

  * Spring '07: Undergraduate special topics course on compilers with
    Dr. Christopher Fox (JMU). Topics included grammars, finite automata,
    parsing, and code generation. Grade: A

  * Fall '06 - Spring '07: Worked as student research assistant on an
    open source object-oriented framework for OpenGL programming in C++,
    with a focus on robust design patterns and support for large-scale
    (multiple monitor) visualization setups. The project advisor was
    Dr. David Bernstein (JMU). Website: http://code.google.com/p/xor/

  * Summer '06: Worked as a student research assistant on an
    open source framework for medical image retrieval in C# with
    Dr. Daniela Raicu (DePaul). Topics included content-based image
    retrieval, co-occurrence image features, and Gabor image filters. 
    Website: http://brisc.sourceforge.net/

  * Summer '05: Participated in an agile software development process at
    Immerge Technologies, Inc. Wrote interface and remoting code in C# using
    Visual Studio 2005 and .NET 2.0. Researched and coded samples of WinFX
    (Avalon) interfaces.

  * Fall '04 - Fall '06: Member of the James Madison University ACM
    programming contest team. Team won 1st place at regional contest in 2004.

  * June '02 - February '03: Designed and coded a recursive descent
    parser for mathematical expressions in Java. Wrote a 40-page
    reference manual and presented in June '03 at a national symposium in
    Colorado Springs. Website: http://www.freearrow.com/paradox/

== Publications ==

  * M. Lam, T. Disney, D. Raicu, J. Furst, D. Channin. "BRISC: An Open Source
    Pulmonary Nodule Image Retrieval Framework." Journal of Digital Imaging,
    October 2007. (accepted)

== Presentations ==

  * "A Lookup and Reference Tool for Pulmonary Computed Tomography
    Nodules." Annual Meeting of the Society for Imaging Informatics in
    Medicine (SIIM), Providence, Rhode Island, June 2007.

  * "Content-Based Image Retrieval for Pulmonary Computed Tomography Nodule
    Images." SPIE Medical Imaging Conference, San Diego, CA, February 2007.

== Skills ==

  * Windows XP/Vista
  * Linux
  * C, C++, C#
  * Java
  * Ruby
  * LaTeX/Bibtex

== Other Interests ==

  * Teaching
  * Acoustic guitar

== Memberships ==

  * ACM (student)
  * IEEE (student)
  * Phi Kappa Phi
  * Upsilon Pi Epsilon
  * Pi Mu Epsilon

== Awards ==

  * JMU Technology Alumni Group Scholarship, 2006
  * JMU Computer Science Department Scholarship, 2005-2006
  * NSF Computer Science, Engineering and Mathematics Scholarship, 2004-2006

== References ==

  Available upon request.