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Education

2003 - 2009	Ph.D. Student, Computer Science Computer Science Department. University of Toronto. Supervisors: Dr. Sven Dickinson and David Fleet.
2003	M.Sc., Computer Science Computer Science Department. University of Toronto. Supervisor: Dr. Sven Dickinson. Thesis: Indexing and Matching for View-Based 3-D Object Recognition Using Shock Graphs.
1998	Engineering Diploma, Information Technology Five-year program. Information Technology Department. University of Belgrano. Buenos Aires, Argentina.
1993	High-School Diploma with Specialization in Electronics Six-year program. French Republic High School, ET Num. 28 Buenos Aires, Argentina

Publications

Journal Papers

2006	The Representation and Matching of Categorical Shape A. Shokoufandeh, L. Bretzner, D. Macrini, M.F. Demirci, C. Jonsson, and S. Dickinson, Computer Vision and Image Understanding (CVIU), Volume 103, 2006, pp 139--154.
2005	Indexing Hierarchical Structures using Graph Spectra A. Shokoufandeh, D. Macrini, S. Dickinson, K. Siddiqi, and S. Zucker, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, special issue on Syntactic and Structural pattern Recognition, to appear.

Book Chapters

2006	Many-to-Many Feature Matching in Object Recognition A. Shokoufandeh, Y. Keselman, F. Demirci, D. Macrini, and S. Dickinson, in H. Christensen and H.-H. Nagel (eds.), Cognitive Vision Systems: Sampling the Spectrum of Approaches, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 2006, pp 107--125.

Refereed Conference Papers

2006	Canonical Skeletons for Shape Matching M. van Eede, D. Macrini, A. Telea, C. Sminchisescu, and S. Dickinson, Proceedings, International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR), Hong Kong, August, 2006.
2005	Retrieving Articulated 3-D Models Using Medial Surfaces and their Graph Spectra J. Zhang, K. Siddiqi, D. Macrini, A. Shokoufandeh, and S. Dickinson, Proceedings, International Workshop on Energy Minimization Methods in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, St. Augustine, FL, November, 2005.
2005	A Computer Vision System for Spaceborne Safety Monitoring F. Qureshi, D. Macrini, D. Chung, J. Maclean, S. Dickinson, and P. Jasiobedzki, Proceedings, 8th International Symposium on Artificial Intelligence, Robotics and Automation in Space (ISAIRAS), Munich, September 2005.
2002	View-Based 3-D Object Recognition using Shock Graphs D. Macrini, A. Shokoufandeh, S. Dickinson, K. Siddiqi, and S. Zucker, Proceedings, International Conference on Pattern Recognition, Québec, August, 2002.

Invited Papers

2005	Object Categorization and the Need for Many-to-Many Matching S. Dickinson, A. Shokoufandeh, Y. Keselman, F. Demirci, and D. Macrini, Proceedings (invited paper), 27th DAGM - The Annual meeting of the German Association for Pattern Recognition, Vienna, Austria, August, 2005.
2002	Spectral Methods for View-Based 3-D Object Recognition using Silhouettes D. Macrini, A. Shokoufandeh, S. Dickinson, K. Siddiqi, and S. Zucker, Proceedings, Joint IAPR International Workshop on Syntactical and Structural Pattern Recognition, Windsor, ON, August.

Theses

2003	Indexing and Matching for View-Based 3-D Object Recognition Using Shock Graphs D. Macrini. Master's Thesis, University of Toronto, July 2003.

Other Academic Accomplishments

Prizes and Awards

2005	2nd Best Poster Indexing and Matching Hierarchical Structures Using Graph Spectra 15th Annual Canadian Conference on Intelligent Systems June 5, 2005. Québec City, Canada.
2005	Precarn Student Scholarship Institute for Robotics and Intelligent Systems and Precarn Incorporated
1999	Best undergraduate student work. Poster presentation session. Interactive Text Book Diego Macrini, Pablo Tome, Enrique Molinari. Advisor, Alejandro Vaisman. 28th Argentine Conference on Computer Science and Operational Research.

Conference Presentations

2002	View-Based 3-D Object Recognition using Shock Graphs International Conference on Pattern Recognition August 14, 2002. Québec City, Canada.

Invited Presentations

2004	Indexing and Matching for View-Based 3-D Object Recognition Using Shock Graphs November 12, 2004. Department of Computer Science. Drexel University.
2002	View-Based 3-D Object Recognition using Shock Graphs September 30th, 2002. Colloquium. Eindhoven University of Technology. Faculty of Biomedical Engineering. Dept. of Biomedical Imaging and Informatics.
2002	Object Recognition for a Space-Based Visual Supervisor Neil Witcomb, Diego Macrini, and Sven Dickinson. Space Vision and Advanced Robotics Workshop. SVAR 2002. June 11, 2002. MD Robotics.
2002	Indexing Hierarchical Shape Structures Marh 27th, 2002. Perception seminar. Department of Computer science. McGill University.

Teaching Experience

As Instructor

Aug. 1999 - Nov. 1999	Four-Month Long Workshop on Windows Programming with C++ Information Technology Department. University of Belgrano.
1999	Three Four-Month Long Workshops on Windows Programming with C++ Three courses along the year for BankBoston's Programmers. UBM Consulting. Join venture between the University of Belgrano and IBM Argentina.

As Teaching Assistant

Winter 2005	CSC 320, Introduction to Visual Computing
Fall 2005	CSC 487/2503, Foundations of Computer Vision
Winter, Summer 2005	CSC 320, Introduction to Visual Computing
Fall 2004	CSC 207, Software Design
Summer 2004	CSC 263, Data Structures
Fall 2003 Winter 2004	CSC 408, Software Engineering
Fall 2002 Winter, Summer 2003	CSC 270, Fundamental Data Structures and Techniques
Winter, Summer 2002 Fall,Winter, Summer 2001	CSC 228, File Structures and Data Management
Fall 2000	CSC 470, Computer System Modelling and Analysis
May 99 - Oct. 99	Computability and Complexity University of Belgrano.

Professional Experience

Jan 00 - Jul 00	Synthesis Information Technology S. A. Evaluation of requirements, analysis and design of retail software. Implementation of interfaces for gas pumps controllers in gas stations. Software modules implemented as services in Windows NT using C++.
Jan 99 - Dec 99	Grupo Basicos S. A. Evaluation of requirements, analysis and design of software for personnel management and production control. Software implemented using PowerBuilder and Sybase databases.
Mar 97 - Jul 97	Dynamic S.A. Outsourcing Programming in Telefónica de Argentina, in the area of semipublic telecommunications. Programming with PowerBuilder and Oracle databases.

Other Activities

May 95 - May 96	Editor and Writer "Advances in Information Technology" Magazine of the Information Technology Department at the University of Belgrano.
1996 - 1998	Member of the Theatre Cast at the University of Belgrano