Stephen Sorkin

PhD student (on leave)
Computer Science Division
University of California, Berkeley

I currently work for Splunk where I manage advanced development. I am on leave from the PhD program in the CS Division at UC Berkeley where my research advisor is John Canny. I received my undergraduate education at Stanford University where I was awarded a BS in CS with honors in 2000. My honors thesis, entitled Efficient Collision Detection for Flexible Objects, was conducted under the direction of Jean-Claude Latombe and Leo Guibas. Between graduation and entering the PhD program, I was a Senior Software Engineer at Recourse Technologies where I was directly responsible for versions 2.x of ManTrap.

My Curriculum Vitae

My Past Coursework

Algorithmic Tools for Real-Time Microsurgery Simulation. J. Brown, S. Sorkin, J.C. Latombe, K. Montgomery, and M. Stephanides. Medical Image Analysis, Elsevier, 6(3):289-300, September 2002.

Real-Time Simulation of Deformable Objects: Tools and Application. J. Brown, S. Sorkin, C. Bruyns, J. C. Latombe, K. Montgomery, and M. Stephanides. Computer Animation, Seoul, Korea, November 2001.

Placing a Robot Manipulator Amid Obstacles for Optimized Execution. D. Hsu, J. C. Latombe, and S. Sorkin. Proc. IEEE Int. Symp. on Assembly and Task Planning (ISATP '99), Porto, Portugal, pp. 280-285, 1999.

On Finding Narrow Passages with Probabilistic Roadmap Planners. D. Hsu, L. E. Kavraki, J. C. Latombe, R. Motwani, and S. Sorkin. In Robotics: The Algorithmic Perspective, Workshop on Algorithmic Foundations of Robotics, P. K. Agarwal, L. E. Kavraki, and M. T. Mason (eds.), A K Peters, Natick, MA, pp. 141-153, 1998.