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	Christian Siagian Ph.D. Candidate in Computer Science under Dr. Laurent Itti (iLab) University of Southern California Viterbi School of Engineering, Computer Science Department Hedco Neuroscience Building, Room 10 3641 Watt Way Los Angeles, CA 90089-2520 - USA Tel/Fax: +1 213 740 6995 / 5687 Email: siagian+AT+usc.edu
Education	M.S., University of Southern California, Computer Science, Los Angeles, CA - 2004 B.S., Cornell University, Computer Science, Ithaca, NY - 2001
Experience	Doctorate studies in Computer Science, University of Southern California, Los Angeles - 9/2002 - present Robotics soccer competition - 2000 - 2002 3rd place small-size division - Seattle, USA - 8/2001 1st place small-size division - Fukuoka, Japan - 6/2002
Research	Biologically-Inspired Vision Gist/context of a scene Scene Understanding: interaction of Gist and Saliency Influence of Localization task in Saliency Robotics Vision Mobile robot vision localization Vision Navigation: obstacle avoidance, tracking, path following Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) Beobot: parallel high-performing robotics vision platform
publications	current list
Teaching	TA: CS211 Computers and Programming (Cornell) - 2001 TA: CS105 Introduction to Computer Science (USC) - 2003 TA: CS445 Introduction to Robotics (USC) - 2003 - present
Outreach	Breakaway Clubhouse Robotics Club Mentor - 2005 - present EPICC Head Basketball Coach (boys 15 - 18yr. old) - 2006 - present After-school Robotics program at St.Agnes Parish School - 2006 - present
Activities	Sunday school teacher at St.Paul Evangelical Community Church - 2004 - present Guitar Player at St.Paul Evangelical Community Church - 2006 - present

Miscellaneous

• IEEE T-PAMI 2007 paper dataset