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Curriculum Vitae (download)

Education

July 2016 Ph.D., Computer Science and Applications, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, USA.
  • Advisor: Dr. Nicholas F. Polys
  • Committee: Drs. Dennis G. Kafura, Deborah G. Tatar, Jeffrey M. Bradshaw, Chreston A. Miller
  • GPA: 3.97
December 2011 Graduate Certificate in Human-Computer Interaction, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, USA.
August 2008 Diplom-Informatiker (equivalent to M.S., Computer Science), RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany.
  • Supervisors: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Christian Brecher, Prof. Dr. Matthias Jarke
  • GPA: 3.1 / 4.0

Skills

Programming Java, C++, C, C#, Objective C, Python, Bash.
XML, SQL, OWL, HTML, CSS, LaTex.
Frameworks JavaFX, JPA, JAXB, JOGL, Android, Spring MVC, Spring Data, Spring Security, Apache Jena, Thymeleaf, Bootstrap.
SCM’s Git, SVN, CVS.
Applications Apache Webserver, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Tomcat, Redmine, Maven.
OS’s Windows, Linux, Mac OS.
Languages English, German, Hungarian.

Research and Development Experience

Virginia Tech

2014 – present Research Assistant, Center for Geospatial Information Technology, Grape & Wine Quality: Eastern U.S. Initiative.
  • Lead the backend development of a Java web application with a Spring (WebMVC, Data, Security) server component, a PostGIS enabled PostgreSQL database back end, and a Thymeleaf, Bootstrap, and OpenLayers user interface.
  • Conducted a user study exploring the stakeholder privacy impacts of the application.
  • Set up Center-wide Linux development server with Apache HTTP Server, Apache Tomcat 8 application server, Jenkins continuous integration system, Apache Archiva artifact management system, and Redmine project management system.
2011 – 2014 Research Assistant, NSF Center for e-Design, The Open Semantic Network Analysis Platform (OSNAP).
  • Designed and developed majority of an open-source Java framework for graph and ontology visualization.
  • Managed and mentored two undergraduate students in the development of the JavaFX user interface.
2010 Team Member, LumenHAUS.
  • Developed a mobile iPad application for the management of house systems in Objective C.

RWTH Aachen University

2006 – 2007 Research Assistant, Laboratory for Machine Tools and Production Engineering, ARSIS project.
  • Designed and developed a Web Ontology Language (OWL) framework in C#.
2006 Research Assistant, Laboratory for Machine Tools and Production Engineering, ARTESAS project.
  • Evaluated an augmented reality framework for industrial service environments.

Teaching Experience

Virginia Tech

Summer 2012 Instructor, CS 3744, Introduction to GUI Programming and Graphics.
Junior-level class introducing students to event-based programming and development of 3D OpenGL applications in Java with JOGL.
Summer 2010 Teaching Assistant, CS 1044, Introduction to Programming in C.
Freshmen-level class introducing students to programming in C.
Fall 2012, Summer 2011 Teaching Assistant, CS 2114, Software Design and Data Structures.
Sophomore-level class introducing students to data structures in Java and development of Android applications.
Spring 2009, Fall 2008 Teaching Assistant, CS 3204, Operating Systems.
Junior-level class introducing students to the design and development of operating systems in C, including thread-based programming, scheduling, and Assembler.
Spring 2011, Spring 2010, Fall 2009 Teaching Assistant, CS 3214, Computer Systems.
Junior-level class introducing students to the design of operating systems from an application-programmers point of view, including thread-based programming, scheduling, and development of a shell in C, as well as Assembler.
Fall 2010 Teaching Assistant, CS 3744, Introduction to GUI Programming and Graphics.
Junior-level class introducing students to event-based programming and development of 3D OpenGL applications in Java with JOGL.

Publications

Refereed Conference Papers

1. Radics, P. J., N. F. Polys, S. P. Neuman, and W. H. Lund (2015). OSNAP! Introducing the Open Semantic Network Analysis Platform. In: Proceedings of the 2015 IS&T/SPIE Conference on Visualization and Data Analysis (VDA), San Francisco, CA, pp. 939707-1–939707-15. doi:10.1117/12.2077834
2. Radics, P. J., D. Gračanin, and D. Kafura (2013). PREprocess Before You Build: Introducing a Framework for Privacy Requirements Engineering. In: Proceedings of the 2013 ASE/IEEE International Conference on Privacy, Security, Risk and Trust (PASSAT) and 2013 International Conference on Social Computing (SocialCom), Washington, D.C., pp.564-569. doi:10.1109/SocialCom.2013.85
3. Radics, P. J. and D. Gračanin (2011). Privacy in Domestic Environments. In: Proceedings of the 2011 ACM Annual Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA’11)., Vancouver, BC, Canada: ACM, pp.1735-1740. doi:10.1145/1979742.1979837

Conference Posters, Workshops, and Presentations

1. Radics, P. J., P. M. Sforza, B. Farrell, J. Newman, N. F. Polys, A. Mosaavi, B. Sutherland, H. Wang, L. Roghair, M. Pierson, and M. Bock (2015). Vineyard Site Assessment and Simulation of Grape Varieties in the Eastern U.S.. In: The 4th Annual Extreme Science Engineering Discovery Environment Conference 2015 (XSEDE’15). link
2. Ahmed, H. M., D. Gračanin, and P. J. Radics (2010). Context Sensitive Interaction Interoperability for Distributed Virtual Environments. In: Proceedings of the 2010 IEEE Virtual Reality Conference (IEEE VR 2010), pp.251-252. doi:10.1109/VR.2010.5444778

Theses and Dissertations

1. Radics, P. J. (Aug. 2008). “Automatic Generation of AR Scenes from CAD and Ontology Data for Dynamic Taskflows”. Diplom Thesis. Aachen, Germany: RWTH Aachen University.

Awards and Honors

2013 Golden Key International Honor Society, Induction into Virginia Tech Chapter, Virginia Tech
2011, 2013 Pratt Fellowship for Academic Excellence and Service to the Department, Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech
2010 Winner Solar Decathlon Europe 2010 as Team Member of LumenHaus, Madrid, Spain
2010 Davenport Fellowship for Academic Excellence and Leadership, College of Engineering, Virginia Tech
2010 Upsilon Pi Epsilon International Honor Society, Induction into Alpha Chapter, Virginia Tech

Service

Virginia Tech

2008 – 2013 Treasurer, Computer Science Graduate Council.

RWTH Aachen University

2005 – 2007 Treasurer, Student Theater Group “Poetischer Anfall”.

Memberships

since 2014 International Society for Optics and Photonics (SPIE).
since 2013 Academy of Science and Engineering (ASE).
since 2012 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).
since 2010 Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).
since 2010 Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM).