Kaleigh Smith

E d u c a t i o n

Max Planck Institute for Informatics - Saarbrücken, Germany
Ph.D. candidate - Computer Science
Research in Computer Graphics in the AG4 group under the supervision of Karol Myszkowski, since June 2005.
http://www.mpi-inf.mpg.de/~kaleigh

McGill University - Montreal, Quebec
Ph.D. candidate - Computer Science
Research and studies in Computer Graphics under the supervision of Professor Allison Klein. September 2003 to May 2005.

McGill University - Montreal, Quebec
Master of Science - Computer Science - Graduated June 2003 on Dean's Honour List.
Research and studies in Bioinformatics under the supervision of Professor Michael Hallett.
www.mcb.mcgill.ca

University of Manitoba - Winnipeg, Manitoba
Bachelor of Computer Science - Honours - December 2000
Focus on Algorithm Design and Analysis and Artificial Intelligence.

S k i l l s

• Strong programming experience with C/C++, Java and OpenGL.
• Original image and media creation with traditional tools, Adobe Creative Suite (including CS2) and Alias' Maya computer graphics suite.
• Well developed skills in web design and implementation using PHP and MySQL.
• Experience in teaching and tutoring post-secondary students including course preparation, assessment and student and teacher interaction.
• Experience with bioinformatics issues including sequence alignment algorithms, DNA Arrays, Nearest-Neighbour Thermodynamics of DNA and Single Stranded DNA Secondary Structure Prediction.

E x p e r i e n c e

Max Planck Institute for Informatics - Saarbrücken, Germany
June 2005 to Present
Full time researcher and student in the field of Computer Graphics, specifically image processing and computational photography.

McGill School of Computer Science - Montreal, Quebec
September 2003 to Present
Full time researcher and student as of September 2003, graduate student at McGill's School of Computer Science in the field of Computer Graphics www.cs.mcgill.ca.

McGill School of Computer Science, McGill Centre for Bioinformatics - Montreal, Quebec
March 2001 to June 2003
Full time researcher and as of September 2001, graduate student at McGill's School of Computer Science Computational Biology Lab at the McGill Centre for Bioinformatics www.mcb.mcgill.ca.

McGill School of Computer Science - Montreal, Quebec
September 2001 to April 2004
Teaching assistant for a variety of courses offered by McGill School of Computer Science. The position included the preparation and execution of tutorials, preparation of assignment and exam solutions, marking of assignments and exams and consultation with students.

Institute for Biodiagnostics, National Research Council - Winnipeg, Manitoba
May to August 2000
Full time co-op student for the IBD working in the Informatics Department. Work involved research on brain and image warping techniques and related software tools; implementation and testing of fuzzy clustering algorithm; maintenance and debugging of in house MRI analysis application; and research on brain MRI analysis software applications.

Communications Security Establishment - Ottawa, Ontario
Subsidiary of the Canadian Department of Defence
September to December 1999
Full time co-op student for CSE working in the Mathematical Research Office. Work involved implementing and testing Public Key Infrastructure network; implementing and testing two Virtual Private Networks (1 PEM and 1 IKE); studied and implemented programs using BSafe Elliptic Curve operations; extended assembly programming and debugging; C/C++ programming to write simulators and to optimize existing code; and C/C++ programming with the GNU multi-precision library.

IBM Canada Ltd. - Winnipeg, Manitoba
January to April 1999
Full time co-op student for IBM working in the project control office on a large scale contract with the provincial government. Designed and developed an internal Microsoft Access database tool with user interface to record and report on resource plans, corresponding budget and projection plans.

Olympia Cycle & Ski, Pembina Location - Winnipeg, Manitoba
April 1997 - January 2001
Salesperson and mechanic at a Winnipeg based bicycle and ski specialty shop. The job involved selling bikes and merchandise, maintaining inventory and general business accounting.

P u b l i c a t i o n s

• Animosaics. Kaleigh Smith, Yunjun Liu and Allison Klein. ACM SIGGRAPH/ Eurographics Symposium on Computer Animation, 2005. Link to Animosaics project page.
• Finding odd cycle transversals. Bruce Reed, Adrian Vetta and Kaleigh Smith. Operations Research Letters 32, 2004, 299-301.
• Towards quality control for DNA microarrays. Kaleigh Smith and Mike Hallett. Journal of Computational Biology, Volume 11, Number 5, 2004, 945-970.

A w a r d s and I n v o l v e m e n t

• Recipient of a Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) Doctoral scholarship - September 2003 to August 2005
• Member of CKUT community radio Board of Directors (2004)
• Member of Post-Graduate Students' Society of McGill University External Affairs Committee (2002-Present)
• VP External of the Post-Graduate Students' Society of McGill University - June 2003
• Department of Computer Science councilor to the Post-Graduate Students' Society of McGill University - 2001 to 2004
• Canadian Top Secret Security Clearance attained 1999 (valid for five years)
• Recipient of the Women in the Physical Sciences Scholarship - 1999 and 1998 ($2000 each)
• Recipient of the Women in the Physical Sciences Scholarship - 1997 ($1000)
• Recipient of a University of Manitoba Entrance Scholarship - 1996 ($750)
• Past President and Founding Member of The U of M Computer Science Students Association-CSSA (1997-1999)
• Graduate of Winnipeg School of Contemporary Dancers, Junior Professional Program (1994-1996)