Shawn M. Lankton
www.shawnlankton.com ~ shawn at shawnlankton dot com ~ Midtown, Atlanta, GA ~ 404.432.3942 
 
::Education:: 
Georgia Institute of Technology  Atlanta, GA 
 - Ph.D. of Science in Electrical Engineering expected August 2009 
   + Academic Advisor: Allen Tannenbaum 
   + Research Focus: Control Theory and Computer Vision 
   + Grad School GPA: 3.7 
 - Master of Science in Electrical Engineering expected August 2008 
 - Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering, May 2005 
   + Undergraduate GPA: 3.6, Highest Honors 
 
::Honors::  
TI:GER Fellowship Program  2007 Ð Present 
 (Technology Innovation: Generating Economic Results) 
   + NSF IGERT Fellowship: Full Tuition + $60,000 
   + Fellowship program focusing on entrepreneurship and technology transfer. 
   + Led a 4-person team of MBA and law students to research and develop commercialization plans relating to my Ph.D. research. 
 
::Experience::
McKinsey & Company  New York, NYAssociate  Beginning January 2010  - Accepted job offer to begin upon completion of my PhD.

Minerva Research Group, Georgia Tech  Atlanta, GA 
Graduate Research Assistant   2005 Ð Present 
 - Worked in teams of 2-4 on 4 separate consulting contracts involving development of advanced visual tracking systems.  The work has resulted in 2 publications. 
 - Developed a novel segmentation technique and collaborated with colleagues to explore applications in medical imaging.  The work has resulted in 3 publications. 
 
Siemens Corporate Research  Princeton, NJ 
Engineering Intern, Intelligent Vision and Reasoning May Ð December 2006 
 - Completed a project to align and visualize intravascular image data.  The work resulted in a conference publication and an invention disclosure. 
 - Developed an algorithm for automatically detecting the size of cancerous tumors in MRI imagery.  The work resulted in an invention disclosure 
 
CATEA, Georgia Tech   Atlanta, GA 
Undergraduate Research Assistant   2004 Ð 2005 
 - Developed a patent pending vision-based system for measuring the surface area of pressure ulcers.  Currently investigating commercialization of this technology. 
 - Led 2 early-stage projects that have enabled several subsequent research projects.
 
Circadian Force  Alpharetta, GA 
Partner  2003 Ð 2004 
 - Worked closely with the founder to create a marketing strategy for the company and developed 2 new product offerings as part of that strategy. 
 - Closed 3 sales and provided support to over 50 customers. 
 
::About Me:: 
Activities:  Mentor and Ex-Member of IEEE Student Robotics Team 
Interests: Fitness, Cooking, Cycling, Blogging, and Aikido 
Citizenship: United States Citizen 
  
::Patents::  
 Gozde Unal, Gregory G. Slabaugh, Tong Fang, Shawn Lankton, Valer Canda, StefanThesen, and Shuping Qing. System and Method For Lesion Segmentation In Whole Body Magnetic Resonance Images. Serial No. 12/045,327. Filed March, 2008.Stephen Sprigle, Thad Starner, Mark Duckworth, Nirmal Patel, and Shawn Lankton. Systems and Methods for the Measurement of Surfaces. International Patent No. WO2008039539.  Filed: September 2007
 
::Publications:: 
Refereed Journal Publications: 
 
Shawn Lankton and Allen Tannenbaum. Localizing Region Based Active Contours. IEEE Transaction on Image Processing. Vol. 17, No. 11, pp. 1-11, November 2008.
 
Selected Conference Publications: 

Shawn Lankton, Arthur Stillman, Paolo Raggi, and Allen Tannenbaum. Soft Plaque Detection and Automatic Vessel Segmentation. Proceedings of Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI). 2009. [accepted]

Shawn Lankton, John Melonakos, James Malcolm, Sam Dambreville, and Allen Tannenbaum. Localized Statistics for DW-MRI Fiber Bundle Segmentation. Proceedings of Mathematical Methods in Biomedical Image Analysis (MMBIA), 2008. 
 
Shawn Lankton, James Malcolm, Arie Nakhmani, and Allen Tannenbaum. Tracking Through Changes in Scale. Proceedings of International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), 2008.
 
Shawn Lankton and Allen Tannenbaum. Improved Tracking by Decoupling Camera and Target Motion. Proceedings of SPIE Electronic Imaging, 2008. 
 
Shawn Lankton, Delphine Nain, Anthony Yezzi, Allen Tannenbaum. Hybrid Geodesic Region-Based Curve Evolutions for Image Segmentation. Proceedings of SPIE Medical Imaging, 2007.  
 
Gozde Unal, Shawn Lankton, Stephane Carlier, Greg Slabaugh, Yunqiang Chen. Fusion of IVUS and OCT Through Semi-Automatic Registration. Proceedings of Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI), 2006. 
 
Mark Duckworth, Nirmal Patel, Aditya Joshi, and Shawn Lankton. A Clinically Affordable Non-Contact Wound Measurement Device. Proceedings of Rehab Engineering Society of North America (RESNA), 2007.