
Yumin received his M.S. degree in Computer Science from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 2001. Since then, he worked for four years at AutoQuant Imaging Inc, a software company specialized in 2D/3D deconvolution and analysis for life science microscope images, as a key software engineer. He is also one of the key developers for a patented algorithm used in Fluorescence Resonance Energy Transfer (FRET) technique. Yumin joined Kitware in June 2006 as R&D engineer.
Since joining Kitware, Yumin has been a main developer of KWWidgets, which is an open-source GUI toolkit developed by Kitware. He was also involved in the development of some medical applications, including VolView and Slicer3. Yumin has been involved with the development of the ParaView framework for several years. He is the main software architect of a suite of visualization tools developed for the Army Corps of Engineers which deals with the extra-large domain size needs of their numerical simulations and simplifies their whole workflow utilizing these pre- and post-simulation analysis tools. Currently, these tools include four stand-alone applications and are all customized applications based on the ParaView framework.