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Scott Kulp, Ph.D. 29 Woodhill St Somerset, NJ 08873
EDUCATION:
Ph.D. in Computer Science, 2015 M.S. in Computer Science, 2010 Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ Ph.D. Adviser: Dimitris Metaxas B.S. in Computer Science and Mathematics, 2008, Summa cum Laude Ursinus College, Collegeville, PA
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Programming Languages: Tools: Technologies: Foreign Languages:
C++, C#, Python, Java, Perl, Javascript Visual Studio, MATLAB, Maya, Paraview, QGIS CUDA, GDAL, Amazon AWS, OpenGL, ITK, VTK Mandarin Chinese (Intermediate)
Climate Central, Princeton, NJ Computational Scientist and Senior Developer, January 2015-Present • Conduct and supervise scientific programming and specialized web tool development. • Supervise and train junior development staff. • Conduct and co-author peer-reviewed research. Climate Central, Princeton, NJ Senior Developer and Researcher Associate, July 2013-December 2014 • Took over development of coastal analysis system, which computes regions across states that are at risk of flooding due to various levels of sea level rise. • Maintain and lead feature development for the Surging Seas 2.0 and Surging Seas Risk Finder web sites (viewable on sealevel.climatecentral.org). Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ Graduate Research Assistant, August 2010-December 2014 • Completed Ph.D. under Dimitris Metaxas, working on a project to simulate blood flow through the heart. • Used CT scans of both healthy and abnormal hearts to generate very accurate meshes, including detailed trabeculae, then ran high-resolution fluid simulations, using heart models as boundary conditions. • Built custom software to perform SPH fluid simulations on a GPU using CUDA.
Department of Defense, Fort Meade, MD Computer Science Research Intern, Summers 2008-2011 • Spent first two summers in human language technology lab working on a number of projects related to information retrieval, topic clustering, supervised machine learning, and high-dimensional data visualizations. • Spent Summer 2010 in biometrics lab starting a project to simulate the deformation of iris tissue due to pupil dilation in order to improve iris recognition performance. • Spent Summer 2011 in multimedia processing lab on a project to implement both regular and convolutional neural networks in NVIDIA CUDA in order to accelerate training times on a massively-parallel graphics processing unit (GPU). SELECTED PUBLICATIONS: Benjamin
Strauss, Scott Kulp, Anders Levermann. “Carbon Choices Determine U.S. Cities Locked into Futures Below Sea Level.” PNAS. 2015.
Scott Kulp, Chao Chen, Dimitris Metaxas, Leon Axel. "Ventricular Blood Flow Analysis Using Topological Methods." Proceedings of the 2015 International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging. 2015. Scott Kulp, Zhen Qian, Mani Vannan, Sarah Rinehart, Dimitris Metaxas. "Patient-Specific Aortic Valve Blood Flow Simulations Using SPH." Proceedings of the 2014 International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging. 2014. Scott Kulp, Mingchen Gao, Shaoting Zhang, Zhen Qian, Szilard Voros, Dimitris Metaxas, and Leon Axel. “Practical Patient-Specific Cardiac Blood Flow Simulations Using SPH.” Proceedings of the 2013 International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging. 2013. Scott Kulp, Mingchen Gao, Shaoting Zhang, Zhen Qian, Szilard Voros, Dimitris Metaxas, and Leon Axel. “Using High Resolution Cardiac CT Data to Model and Visualize PatientSpecific Interactions Between Trabeculae and Blood Flow.” 14th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention. 2011. Scott Kulp, Dimitris Metaxas, Zhen Qian, Szilard Voros, Leon Axel, and Viorel Mihalef. “Patient-Specific Modeling and Visualization of Blood Flow through the Heart.” Proceedings of the 2011 International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging. 2011. (Finalist for Best Student Paper) HONORS:
Finalist for Best Student Paper, ISBI, Chicago 2011 Participant at the DHS Greenfield Aviation Security Workshop, July 2010 • Nominated and chosen by DHS as one of 30 American and British young scientists to develop a 17-year research plan to improve aviation security. DyDAn Graduate Research Fellowship, Rutgers University, September 2008 Distinguished Honors in Computer Science, Ursinus College, May 2008 Phi Beta Kappa Honors Society, Ursinus College, May 2008 Faculty Prize in Computer Science, Ursinus College, April 2008