Biography

 Wade Carl Schwartzkopf was born March 2, 1975 to David and Karen Schwartzkopf in Indianapolis, IN. In 1997 he graduated magna cum lauda from Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, receiving his B.S. with a double major in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering. While at Rose-Hulman, he held a National Merit Scholarship and a presidential scholarship for four years.

He was a member of LIVE from September 1997 to August 2002. In 1998 he received his M.S., and in 2002 he received his Ph.D., both in Electrical and Computer Engineering from The University of Texas at Austin. While at the University of Texas, he held several fellowships including the Microelectronics and Computer Development Fellowship (9/97-8/99), the College of Engineering Graduate Fellowship (9/97-5/01), the George J. Heuer, Jr. Ph.D. Endowed Graduate Fellowship (9/00-5/01), and the Charles W. Tolbert Endowed Presidential Scholarship (9/01-5/02).

He interned at Advanced Digital Imaging Research (6/00-8/00) where he worked on chromosome image analysis, and Hewlett-Packard Laboratories (6/01-8/01) where he researched automatic document layout. He published work in the areas of pancreatic islet image segmentation, optical coherence tomography, two-dimensional phase unwrapping, neural networks, and chromosome image analysis. In addition, he has experience in object-oriented programming, signal processing, artificial intelligence, neural networks, and pattern recognition.