PEOPLE

Wonjoon Cho

Research Scientist
Room 5-426, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139
Tel: (617)-324-5182, Fax: (617)-253-8125, E-mail: wjcho@mit.edu

Academic Preparation:

• PhD in Computer-Aided Design and Manufacturing, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1997
• SM in Ocean Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1992
• BS and MS in Naval Architecture, Seoul National University, Korea, 1988

Appointments:

• 2007 - Present: Research Scientist, Department of Mechanical Engineering, MIT
• 2005: Lecturer, Department of Mechanical Engineering, MIT
• 2005 - 2007: Research Associate, Department of Mechanical Engineering, MIT
• 2000 - 2004: Research Associate, Department of Ocean Engineering, MIT
• 1997 - 2000: Postdoctoral Associate, Department of Ocean Engineering, MIT

Four Recent Publications:

• "The Digital Ocean" by N. M. Patrikalakis, S. L. Abrams, J. G. Bellingham, W. Cho, K. P. Mihanetzis, A. R. Robinson, H. Schmidt, P. C. H. Wariyapola. Invited paper in Proceedings of Computer Graphics International, GCI '2000, pp. 45-53. Geneva, Switzerland, June 2000. IEEE Computer Society Press. Los Alamitos, CA: IEEE, 2000
• "Methods for Feature-Based Design of Heterogeneous Solids" by H. Liu, T. Maekawa, N. M. Patrikalakis, E. M. Sachs, and W. Cho. Computer-Aided Design, 36(12):1141-1159, 2004
• "A Dithering Algorithm for Local Composition Control with Three-Dimensional Printing" by W. Cho, E. M. Sachs, N. M. Patrikalakis, and D. E. Troxel. Computer-Aided Design, 35(9):851-867, 2003
• "Analysis of Solid Model Representations for Heterogeneous Objects" by T. R. Jackson, W. Cho, N. M. Patrikalakis, and E. M. Sachs. JCISE: Journal of Computing and Information Science In Engineering, 2(1):1-10, ASME Transactions, March 2002

Selected Synergistic Activities:

• Development of a major software system (Poseidon) for ocean field forecasting using distributed computing in association with the HOPS Group at Harvard University.
• Development of distributed design and manufacturing system for solid freeform fabrication (3DP) - joint research with Department of Mechanical Engineering and Department of Materials Science and Engineering at MIT
• Development of robust geometry approximation systems - joint research with Fluid Dynamics Research Laboratory, Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics at MIT
• Development of robust solver for nonlinear polynomial systems, extensively used in academia and industry for computer-aided design and manufacturing (e.g., Boeing Aircraft Co., US Navy, Navy contractors)

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