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Curriculum Vitae
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Image Processing, Computer Vision, Pattern Recognition, Biometrics, Data Analysis, Coding, Robotics
EDUCATION BACKGROUND
08/2004 - 12/2011
Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering
Dissertation: "Iris recognition: robust processing, synthesis, performance evaluation and applications" (PDF)
WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY, WV, USA
09/2001 - 07/2004
M.S. in Computer Science and Technology
TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY, BEIJING, P. R. CHINA
09/1992 - 07/1996
B.S. in Computer Software
WUHAN UNIVERSITY, HUBEI, P. R. CHINA
EMPLOYMENT
Principal Research Engineer 07/2017 - present
Senior Research Engineer 08/2014 - 06/2017
SYMANTEC, CA, USA
Senior Research Scientist 10/2012 - 06/2014
POLAR RAIN INC, CA, USA
Post Doctoral Fellow 02/2012 - 09/2012
WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY, WV, USA
Graduate Research Assistant 08/2004 - 12/2011
WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY, WV, USA
Intern 01/2008 - 08/2008
IBM T. J. WATSON RESEARCH CENTER, HAWTHORNE, NY
Project: Cancelable Biometrics
Lecturer 07/1996 - 09/2001
Information Engineering Department
SHIJIAZHUANG TIEDAO UNIVERSITY, SHIJIAZHUANG, HEBEI, P. R. CHINA
Course: The Cultural Basis of Computers
Course: QBASIC Programming Language
Course: Foxbase
Course: How to Make Multimedia Courseware
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
10/2012 - 08/2013
Project: Multilingual Automatic Document Classification Analysis and Translation (MADCAT)
Description: A robust table registration method for a better understanding on structured information from scanned table images
Language: C++
01/2012 - 10/2012
Project: Quality Based Adaptive Biometric Systems
Description: A general scheme that can improve the overall recognition performance for all kinds of biometric systems using estimated sample quality factors
Language: MATLAB
05/2011 - 01/2012
Project: Video over Soft Radio
Description: Designing a smart video sensor prototype which can process the video at the sensor side and then transmit only processed data to the server via soft radio
Language: MATLAB, C++
10/2010 - 05/2011
Project: Camera Network
Description: Taking the advantage of multiple cameras on the event detection problem
Language: MATLAB
05/2010 - 09/2010
Project: NASA Space Project
Description: Tracking the satellite for the grabbing purpose
Language: MATLAB, C++
09/2009 - 04/2010
Project: Night Biometrics
Description: Comparing color iris images to the NIR spectrum enrollment
Language: MATLAB
07/2009 - 09/2009
Project: SimGrid (Web-only Version)
Description: A webpage based “Distributed Computing” system from which you can contribute your own computational power to the community via surfing a webpage
Language: PHP, Javascript, MySQL
09/2008 - 06/2009
Project: NIST Multiple Biometric Grand Challenge (MBGC)
Description: Dealing with face and iris images taken under varying illumination conditions
Language: MATLAB
01/2008 - 08/2008
Project: Cancelable Iris Biometric
Description: Solving both privacy and security issues at the same time in a iris biometrics system
Language: C/C++, MATLAB
06/2007 - 12/2007
Project: Iris Quality
Description: Quality analysis for iris images and videos
Language: MATLAB
10/2006 - 05/2007
CITeR Project: Restitution of Iris Features
Description: Quality based restitution of iris features in high zoom images for less constrained iris recognition system
Language: MATLAB
10/2005 - 10/2006
CITeR Project: Non-ideal Iris: Segmentation & Algorithms
Description: Designing a robust iris segmentation algorithm
Language: MATLAB
10/2004 - 10/2005
CITeR Project: Generation of Synthetic Irises
Description: Generating a large scale synthetic iris database
Language: MATLAB
09/2002 - 07/2004
Chinese High-tech Development Program (863): Sample Machine of Intelligent Robot for Hull Steel Plate Bending by Line Heating
Description: Designing the control algorithm for the plate bending robot
Language: C/C++
03/2002 - 05/2002
Network Administration: Students' Information Administration System for State Key Laboratory of Intelligent Technology and Systems, Tsinghua University
Description: A web server for State Key Laboratory of Intelligent Technology and Systems, Tsinghua University
Language: ASP
10/1999 - 08/2001
Research Project: Staff's Medical Insurance Management Information System
Description: Small scale “Medical Insurance Management” software designed for counties
Language: Delphi, Microsoft SQL Server
10/1997 - 07/1998
Research Project: Computer Graphic System of Parallel Drift Digging Geological Data for Qinling Tunnel Line II
Description: Visualization of the geological data
Language: FOXPRO
10/1996 - 09/1997
SCM (Single Chip Micyoco) Product: Remote Electric Meter Checking System
Description: Receiving the power usage information from electric meters via telephone lines
Language: C/C++
US PATENT
Registration-free transforms for cancelable iris biometrics
Inventors(s): Jonathan H. Connell, Nalini K. Ratha, and Jinyu Zuo
United States Patent 8290219
PATENT APPLICATIONS
Salting system and method for cancelable iris biometric
Inventors(s): Nalini K. Ratha, Jinyu Zuo, and Jonathan H. Connell
Document Number: 20100046808 Publication date : 02/25/2010
Inventor(s): Yannan Zhao, Zehong Yang, Jinyu Zuo, Yixu Song, Jiaxin Wang, Peifa Jia, Qiang Mu, Danian Zheng, Xianliang Cao, and Fajie Sun
Application Number: 200310115520.9 Date of Patent: 03/29/2006
Publication Number: CN1545021 Publication Date: 11/10/2004
Inventor(s): Zehong Yang, Yannan Zhao, Jinyu Zuo, Danian Zheng, Jiaxin Wang, Peifa Jia, Qiang Mu, Xianliang Cao, Jie Li, and Hanyong Hao
Application Number: 200310115521.3 Application Date: 11/28/2003
Publication Number: CN1544177 Publication Date: 11/10/2004
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers: Member
2005-present
SIAM - Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics: Student Member
2005-2010
CIC - China Institute of Communications: Student Member
2003-2004
PROGRAMMING SKILLS
MATLAB, C/C++, PASCAL, SQL, ASP, PHP, LaTeX, HTML, BASIC, Assembler
PUBLICATIONS (Google Scholar)
Jinyu Zuo and Esin Darici, A robust table registration method for batch table OCR processing, the 4th International Workshop on Multilingual OCR (MOCR 2013), August 24, 2013, Washington DC, USA (Slides)
Jinyu Zuo and Natalia A. Schmid, Adaptive quality-based performance prediction and boosting for iris authentication: methodology and its illustration, IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, Vol. 8, No. 6, June 2013, pp. 1051-1060
Jinyu Zuo, Francesco Nicolo, Natalia A. Schmid, and Sirisha Boothapati, Encoding, matching and score normalization for cross spectral face recognition: matching SWIR versus visible data, Fifth IEEE International Conference on Biometrics: Theory Applications and Systems (BTAS 2012), September 23-26, 2012, Washington DC, USA. (Poster)
Jinyu Zuo, Francesco Nicolo, and Natalia A. Schmid, Cross Spectral Iris Matching based on Predictive Image Mapping, Fourth IEEE International Conference on Biometrics: Theory Applications and Systems (BTAS 2010), September 27-29, 2010, Washington DC, USA. (Poster)
Jinyu Zuo, Francesco Nicolo, Natalia A. Schmid and Harry Wechsler, Adaptive Biometric Authentication using Nonlinear Mappings on Quality Measures and Verification Scores, ICIP 2010: 4077-4080 (Slides)
Jinyu Zuo and Natalia A. Schmid, On a Methodology for Robust Segmentation of Nonideal Iris Images, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part B: Cybernetics, Vol. 40, No. 3, June 2010, pp. 703-718
Nathan D. Kalka, Jinyu Zuo and Natalia A. Schmid and Bojan Cukic, Estimating and Fusing Quality Factors for Iris Biometric Images, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, Part A: Systems and Humans, Vol. 40, No. 3, May 2010, pp. 509-524
Jinyu Zuo and Natalia A. Schmid, Global and Local Quality Measures for NIR Iris Video, 2009 IEEE CVPR Workshop Sessions (BIOMETRICS) Jun. 25, 2009. (Slides)
Jinyu Zuo, Nalini K. Ratha and Jonathan H. Connell, Cancelable Iris Biometric, 19th International Conference on Pattern Recognition, Dec. 8-11, 2008, Tampa, FL, USA. (Poster)
Jinyu Zuo, Nalini K. Ratha and Jonathan H. Connell, Median Filter Based Iris Encoding Technique, IEEE Second International Conference on Biometrics Theory, Applications and Systems (BTAS 08) Sep. 29 - Oct. 1, 2008. (Poster)
Jinyu Zuo and Natalia A. Schmid, An Automatic Algorithm for Evaluating the Precision of Iris Segmentation, IEEE Second International Conference on Biometrics Theory, Applications and Systems (BTAS 08) Sep. 29 - Oct. 1, 2008. (Poster)
Jinyu Zuo, Nalini K. Ratha and Jonathan H. Connell, A New Approach for Iris Segmentation, 2008 IEEE CVPR Workshop Sessions (BIOMETRICS) Jun. 23-28, 2008. (Slides)
Jinyu Zuo and Natalia A. Schmid, On a Local Ordinal Binary Extension to Gabor Wavelet-based Encoding for Improved Iris Recognition, 2007 Biometric Consortium Conference (BCC 2007) Sep. 11-13, 2007. (Poster)
Jinyu Zuo, Natalia A. Schmid and Xiaohan Chen, On Generation and Analysis of Synthetic Iris Images, IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INFORMATION FORENSICS AND SECURITY, Vol. 2, No. 1, Mar 2007, pp. 77-90
Jinyu Zuo, Nathan D. Kalka, and Natalia A. Schmid, A Robust Iris Segmentation Procedure for Unconstrained Subject Presentation, 2006 Biometric Consortium Conference (BCC 2006) Sep. 19-21, 2006. (Slides)
Jinyu Zuo, Natalia A. Schmid, and Xiaohan Chen, On Performance Comparison of Real and Synthetic Iris Images, ICIP 2006. (Poster I, Poster II)
Nathan D. Kalka, Jinyu Zuo, Natalia A. Schmid, and Bojan Cukic, Image Quality Assessment for Iris Biometric, in Proc. of 2006 SPIE Conf. on Biometric Technology for Human Identification III, 17-18 April, Orlando, vol. 6202, pp. 61020D-1-62020D-11. (Poster)
Jinyu Zuo and Natalia A. Schmid, A Model Based, Anatomy Based Method for Synthesizing Iris Images, in Proc. of the. ICB, Hong Kong, Jan 2006, pp. 428–435
Jinyu Zuo and Natalia A. Schmid, Generation of Synthetic Iris, 2005 Biometric Consortium Conference (BCC 2005) Sep. 19-21, 2005. (Slides)
Jinyu Zuo, Yannan Zhao, Jiaxin Wang, Zehong Yang and Peifa Jia, The Design of an Open Controller for an Industrial Robot, 2004 World Congress on Intelligent Control and Automation (WCICA 2004)
WANG Jianmin, ZUO Jinyu and LIU Mingsheng, Design and Development of a Series of Components that can Create Report and Chart of Database Query's Result Automatically, JOURNAL OF THE HEBEI ACADEMY OF SCIENCES Vol.19 Sup. Aug. 2002 pp. 25-28
WANG Jian-min and ZUO Jin-yu, Study of Multipoint Videoconferencing System Scheme Based on Internet, JOURNAL OF HEBEI UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY Vol.22 No.4 pp. 84-87
Ma Yinhua, Liu Mingsheng and Zuo Jinyu, The Structure of VFP Class Base and Its Automatically Analyzing Technology, COMPUTER ENGINEERING Vol.25 No.2 pp. 33-35
Liu Mingsheng, Wang Shuhai, Ma Yinhua and Zuo Jinyu, Study of a Software Registration Technique Based on DES Arithmetic, COMPUTER ENGINEERING Vol.26 No.2 pp. 77-78
Ma Yinhua, Liu Mingsheng, Wang Shuhai and Zuo Jinyu, The Study of Cryptographic Key Permutation Choose for Enhancing DES Encryption Intensity, COMPUTER ENGINEERING Vol.26 No.3 pp. 68-69
HONORS AND AWARDS
2001-2002, 2002-2003
Social Work Award of State Key Laboratory of Intelligent Technology and Systems
2000
The Achievements in Science and Technology of Hebei Province (second-class)
Project: "Staff's Medical Insurance Management Information System"
1998
Science and Technology Progress Award (second-class) of China Railway Construction Corp.
Project: "Computer Graphic System of Parallel Drift Digging Geological Data for Qinling Tunnel Line II"
REFERENCES
Professor
Lane Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering
West Virginia University
April 22, 2014