ByungMoon Kim
TSRB / 85 5th Street NW
Atlanta, Georgia 30332-0760
PHONE: 404-668-4113
FAX:404-894-0673
EMAIL: bmkim@cc.gatech.edu
WEB: http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~bmkim

Education
Ph.D. in Computer Science, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, Dec. 2006
M.S. in Mathematics, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, Dec. 2005
M.S. in Computer Science, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, May 2005
M.S. in Aerospace Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, Dec. 1999
GPA in Georgia Institute of Technology: 3.92/4.0

B.S. in Aerospace Engineering, Inha University Inchon, Korea, Feb. 1994
GPA in Inha University: 3.21/4.0

Employment History
Software Engineer, NVIDIA, May. 2007 - Present

  • Working on graphics/game technologies.

    • Temporary Assistance Professor, Mathematics, Georgia Tech, Jan. 2007 - May. 2007

  • Teached a Calculus III class at the Mathematics department.
  • Researched image processing methods at the Aerospace Engineering department.

    Teaching Assistant, College of Computing, Georgia Tech, Aug. 2006 - Dec. 2006

  • TA for the computer animation class.

    • Graduate Research Assistant, College of Computing, Georgia Tech, Aug. 2001 - Aug. 2006

  • Developed a new mesh filter that extends previous mesh filters and allows to compute the filter coefficients from the sizes of the geometric mesh features.
  • Researched a new fluid simulation that has significantly reduced diffusion/dissipation in the advection step.
  • Developing a fluid simulation method that produces realistic foam phenomena.

    • Graduate Research Assistant, Aerospace Engineering, Georgia Tech, Jan. 1999 - May 2001.

  • Developed a nonlinear controller for a mobile robot, and verified performance through experiments.
  • Developed a spacecraft simulator, estimated the moment of inertia, and applied an attitude controller.

    • Manager of the Software Development Team, JCHyun Systems, Korea, Oct. 1994 - Jan. 1998

  • Developed multimedia players and tools: MIDI/MP3 players, Lyric editing and synchronization tools
  • Developed computer music authoring software: MIDI sequencer.

    • Publications
    Byungmoon Kim, Kihwan Kim, Greg Turk, A Shadow Volume Algorithm for Opaque and Transparent Non-Manifold Casters, Accepted to the Journal of Graphics Tools, 2008.

    Byungmoon Kim, Yingjie Liu, Ignacio Llamas, Xiangmin Jiao, Jarek Rossignac, Simulation of Bubbles in Foam With The Volume Control Method, SIGGRAPH 2007.

    Andrew Selle, Ronald Fedkiw, ByungMoon Kim, Yingjie Liu, Jarek Rossignac, An Unconditionally Stable MacCormack Method, Journal of Scientific Computing, In press.

    Byungmoon Kim, Yingjie Liu, Ignacio Llamas, Jarek Rossignac, Advections with Significantly Reduced Dissipation and Diffusion, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 2007.

    Byungmoon Kim, Yingjie Liu, Ignacio Llamas, Jarek Rossignac, FlowFixer: Using BFECC for Fluid Simulation, Eurographics Workshop on Natural Phenomena 2005

    Byungmoon Kim, Jarek Rossignac, GeoFilter: Geometric Selection of Mesh Filter Parameters, Eurographics 2005

    Byungmoon Kim, Irfan Essa, Video-based Nonphotorealistic and Expressive Illustration of Motion, CGI (Computer Graphics International) 2005

    Ignacio Llamas, Byungmoon Kim, Joshua Gargus, Jarek Rossignac, Chris D. Shaw,
    Twister: A Space-Warp Operator for the Two-Handed Editing of 3D Shapes, SIGGRAPH 2003

    ByungMoon Kim and Jarek Rossignac, Collision Prediction, Journal of Computing and Information Science in Engineering (an invited paper), 2003.

    ByungMoon Kim and Jarek Rossignac, Collision Prediction for Moving Polyhedra under Screw Motion, Solid Modeling 2003

    ByungMoon Kim, Efstathios Velenis, Patrick Kriengsiri and Panagiotis Tsiotras, A Low-Cost Spacecraft Simulator for Research end Education, IEEE Control Systems Magazine, Vol. 23, No. 4, pp. 26-37, 2003.

    ByungMoon Kim, Panagiotis Tsiotras, Controllers for Unicycle-Type Wheeled Robots : Some Theoretical Results and Experimental Validation, IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation, Vol. 18, No. 3, pp. 294-307, 2002

    ByungMoon Kim, Efstathios Velenis, Patrick Kriengsiri and Panagiotis Tsiotras, A Spacecraft Simulator for Research and Education, AAS/AIAA Astrodynamics Specialists Conference, 2001, Quebec City, Canada

    ByungMoon Kim, Panagiotis Tsiotras, Time-Invariant Stabilization of a Unicycle-Type Mobile Robot : Theory and Experiments, CCA 2000, Anchorage

    ByungMoon Kim, Panagiotis Tsiotras, Experimental Comparison of Controllers for Unicycle-Type Wheeled Mobile Robots, MED 2000, Athens