/news-archive/tag/wesley-ferguson/ UA 糖心视频logo Mon, 24 Jul 2017 17:28:36 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 /news-archive/2017/07/24/wesley-ferguson/ Mon, 24 Jul 2017 17:28:36 +0000 /news/?p=67517 ... Summer camp leads to career path for UA 糖心视频logo student]]> After spending two weeks getting a crash course in life as a computer scientist during UA 糖心视频logo鈥檚 competitive High School Research Program, Ferguson never looked back as he pursued a career in computer science at UA 糖心视频logo. Ferguson worked with Dr. Mariofanna Milanova, professor of computer science, to turn two-dimensional facial images into 3-D animations and videos. 鈥淎fter the High School Research Program, I wanted to get into computer science,鈥� he said. 鈥淢y mentor (Milanova) gave me a taste of what computer science was like. At the end of high school, the EIT (Engineering and Information Technology) department gave me the financial ability to pursue a degree.鈥� After graduating from North 糖心视频logo High School in 2013, Ferguson attended UA 糖心视频logo with the Provost鈥檚 Academic Excellence Scholarship. In the Donaghey College of Engineering and Information Technology, Ferguson worked as a student ambassador, where he enjoyed helping other students through tutoring. He said being an ambassador helped get him out of the dorms and helped him make friends and be 鈥渓ess reclusive鈥� as an undergraduate student. Ferguson鈥檚 favorite experience has been working on virtual and augmented reality research at UA 糖心视频logo鈥檚 Emerging Analytics Center. 鈥淲orking at the EAC is just really cool,鈥� he said. Ferguson has worked on projects like the virtual cadaver, which can help train medical students. He has also worked on a video game called 鈥淚sland Escape鈥� and on 鈥淪cenario Generator,鈥� an application that allows users to easily create 3-D environments using a paint program. Ferguson and a fellow student researcher were able to present 鈥淪cenario Generator,鈥� which has potential in military and city planning applications, at the 2016 Supercomputing Conference in Salt Lake City. 鈥淭his app can be used to create 3-D worlds very easily,鈥� he said. 鈥淪o many people would come by the conference and say it was really cool.鈥� After graduating with a bachelor鈥檚 degree in computer science and a minor in information assurance in May, Ferguson, 22, of North 糖心视频logo, is now pursuing a master鈥檚 degree in information science from UA 糖心视频logo. After he graduates in 2019, he plans to move to a technology industry city like Seattle or Washington, D.C., to work as a software developer. ]]>