Conrado del Rosario Ruiz, Jr. PhD Candidate School of Computing National University of Singapore G3 Lab Supervisor: Asst. Prof. Low Kok-lim email: conrado [at] comp.nus.edu.sg

EDUCATION	National University of Singapore Doctor of Philosophy – Department of Computer Science Research: Computer Graphics Master of Science (Research) – Department of Computer Science Thesis: Reusing Animations in Databases for Multimedia Presentations Grade Average: A- (4.5714) De La Salle University – Manila BS Computer Science, with specialization in Software Technology Thesis: Context Free Grammar – Multimedia Intelligent Tutoring System Grade Average: 3.526 / 4.000 (Cum Laude)	August 2010- present Jan 2000 – Dec 2001 June 1995 – Sept 1999
SPECIAL TRAINING / COURSE	Korean Game Academy, Seoul – KOGIA Asian Game Research And Policies Course De La Salle University and Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich Post-graduate Lecture Series on Computer Science	May 2007 – Oct 2007 Jan 2006 / Jan 2008
TEACHING	College of Computer Studies, De La Salle University – Manila Lecturer Courses taught: Computer Programming, Computer Graphics, Computer Animation, Multimedia Information Retrieval, Computer Game Seminars and Human Computer Interaction	Sept 2001- July 2011
AWARDS	National Academy of Science and Technology (Philippines) Special Citation, Talent Search for Young Scientists De La Salle University – Council of Student Organizations Nominee, Student Search for Outstanding Teacher National University of Singapore NUS Research Scholarship Bank of the Philippine Islands Foundation Department of Science and Technology National BPI-DOST Science Awardee De La Salle University – Manila Finalist, Most Outstanding Student Leader Finalist, Bro. Gabriel Connon Award/Student Leadership Finalist, Most Outstanding Computer Science Student Certificate of Recognition for an Excellent Grade in Thesis	2007 2006 2000 1999 1999
FOREIGN LANGUAGE	English (fluent: speak, write, read) International English Language Testing System (IELTS) : 7.5 / 9.0 Korean (basic: speak, write, read) Spanish (basic: speak, write, read)

RESEARCH	Ruiz, C., Chodnok, S., Salimi, N.H.M, Ha, P.T. “Computer Games: A New Medium for Traditional Asian Art” International Journal of Information Processing and Management (IJIPM) Vol. 1 No.1, Seoul Korea, July 2010 Ruiz, C., Cabredo, R, Monteverde L, Huang, Z., “Combining Color and Shape for Retrieval of 3D Models” NCM 2009 (IEEE CS), Seoul Korea, Aug 2009 Ruiz, C., Chodnok, S., Salimi, N.H.M, Ha, P.T. “Exploring Traditional Art and Culture in Modern Computer Games” NCM 2009 (IEEE CS), Seoul Korea, Aug 2009 Ruiz, C., Cabredo, R, Monteverde L, Huang, Z., .”Extending Shape-based Similarity Measures for 3D Models” Philippine Computing Science Congress. Feb 2008. Monteverde, L., Ruiz, C. Huang Z., “A Shape Distribution for Comparing 3D Models”, International Conference on Multimedia Modeling 2007. Also appeared in LNCS 4352: Advances in Multimedia Modeling. Monteverde, L., Ruiz, C. Huang Z., “A Shape-Based Classifier of Domain-Independent 3D Models” Journal of Research in Science, Computing and Engineering (JRSCE). Dec 2006 Akanksha, Huang Z., Prabhakaran B. and Ruiz, Jr. C. R., (authors alphabetically listed) “Animation Toolkit Based on Database Approach for Reusing Motions and Models”. Multimedia Tools and Applications Journal. Nov, 2006 Akanksha, Huang Z., Prabhakaran B. and Ruiz, Jr. C. R., (authors alphabetically listed) “Visualization of Animation Databases International Journal of Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering (IJSEKE). Volume 13, Number 1, 2003. pp. 1-25. Akanksha, Huang Z., Prabhakaran B. and Ruiz, Jr. C. R., (authors alphabetically listed) “Interactive Visual Method for Motion and Model Reuse”, Graphite 2003 full paper, David Arnold and Geoff Wyvill (eds.), A Publication of ACM SIGGRAPH, pp. 29-36, color plates, 293. Akanksha, Z. Huang, B. Prabhakaran, and C. R. Ruiz, Jr., (authors alphabetically listed) “Reusing motions and models in animations", in Proc. of EuroGraphics MultiMedia 2001, pp. 11-22. Also appeared in J. A. Jorge, N. M. Correia, H. Jones and M. B. Kamegai (eds.), Multimedia 2001, Springer-Verlag/Wien, 2002, pp. 21-32. Prabhakaran, B., Jiao, B., Ruiz, C., Huang, Z., "Reusing Animations in Databases for Multimedia Presentations", Asian Computing Conference, 2000. LNCS 1961. Reyes, R., Ruiz, C., Ordona, E., Galvey, C., Gocolay, C., "Multimedia Intelligent Tutoring System for Context Free Grammar", Proc. International Conference for Computers in Education (ICCE/ICCAI), 2000. Ruiz, C., Reyes, R., Ordona, E., Galvey, C., Gocolay, C., "Context Free Grammar - Multimedia Intelligent Tutoring System", Proc. Philippine Conference on Computer Science, 1999.”,
PROGRAMMING	C++ Java Haskell Python Matlab OpenGL DirectX Microsoft Visual Studio / .NET Platforms: Windows / UNIX
SOFTWARE TOOLS	Autodesk 3D Studio Max Adobe Photoshop Adobe Premier Blender 3D