Shane Brennan

Research Interests

Education

M.S. in Computer Engineering from UC Santa Cruz, focus on Computer Vision - March 2008
B.S. in Computer Engineering from UC Santa Cruz - March 2006
Graduated East Union High School in Manteca, California - June 2002

Research and Work Experience

October 2012 - Present: I currently work as a software engineer at Google in the Geographic Image Processing team. We work to create all those pretty "overhead" (ie, "birds eye") images you see in Google Maps and Earth.
July 2011 - October 2012: Worked as a software and systems engineer at Lawrence Livermore Labs on the Persistics team.
April 2008 - June 2011: Worked as an engineer and researcher in the Computer Vision group at NASA JPL.
June 2007 - September 2007: Worked on automated defect classification in printed circuits as part of internship at HP Labs.
June 2006 - September 2006: Worked on object tracking as part of internship at Vidient, Inc (since acquired by Agility Video.
May 2005 - March 2006, September 2006 - June 2007, September 2007 - March 2008: Visual Computing Lab at UC Santa Cruz, working under Professor Hai Tao, who has since left UCSC to pursue work in the private sector.
May 2005 - October 2005. Worked on distance learning research with Professor Patrick Mantey.

Skills

Computer vision, image processing, and computational geometry. My education and work experience has been in these areas since 2005.
A big fan and regular practicer of strong software engineering practices, such as unit testing and revision control.
Strong code development skills in C, C++, and MATLAB.
Moderate code development skills in HTML, PHP, MySQL, Python, Bash, and other Linux "command line" langauges (sed, awk, etc).
Passing familiarity with Perl, Java, and a handful of other scattered languages.
Experienced in working in Linux environments.
Familiar with standard hardware lab equipment, ie: Soldering Iron, Multimeter, Oscilloscope, Function Generators, Power Supply Units, etc.

Conference/Journal Papers