Biography | Publications

David Partyka received his B.S. with a dual major in Computer Systems Engineering and Computer Science in 2003 from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), with a focus in embedded programming.

He continued his studies at RPI and received his M.S. in Computer Systems Engineering in August 2005. His Master’s Thesis and research involved the simulation of Mobile Free Space Optical (FSO) networks. This included research in light propagation models, interference models and designs of optical antennas. This work resulted in the development and integration of mobile FSO nodes into NS, and an open-source, packet-based simulator widely used in the networking community.

In May 2003, David joined AutoQuant Imaging as an Intern and where he was promoted to a Research and Development Engineer. He was the primary developer on a major re-architecture of AutoQuant's core deconvolution image processing libraries, designed to improve performance and facilitate code reuse and maintainability. He also rewrote and designed all of the math libraries used by the deconvolution libraries, which involved extensive research into image processing algorithms and Fourier Transforms. In May of 2004, he was awarded Intern of the Year at Tech Valley's Techconnex Annual Conference for his work.

David joined Kitware in April 2006 where he is currently working on GeoView, a Google Earth-like application for Sandia National Labs, and improving various imaging algorithms using GPU libraries. David also has made major contributions at Kitware toward projections in the Oil and Gas Industry in visualizing the many aspects of oil wells, annotations and 2D Seismic Data.

Publications

J. Akella, C. Liu, D. Partyka, M. Yuksel, S. Kalyanaraman, and P. Dutta, Building Blocks for Mobile Free Space Optical Networks, Proceedings of IFIP/IEEE International Conference on Wireless and Optical Communications Networks (WOCN 2005), Dubai, United Arab Emirates, March 2005.