Post on 24-Dec-2015
Computer Graphics & Visualization
Roger Crawfis Tamal Dey
Raghu MachirajuRick Parent
Han-Wei ShenYusu Wang
Rafe Wenger
Core Areas
•Visualization
•Geometric Algorithms & Modeling
•Animation
•Rendering
•User Interaction
Areas of Leadership
•Visualization
•Geometric Algorithms & Modeling
•Animation
Strengths
• Visibility (Strong publications, Editorial boards, PCs, Keynotes)
• Ranking (top 5 in Viz., top 10 in Geometry, top 15 in Animation)
• Strong funding (several NSF, 6 Career, DoE, ARO, NIH)
• ~$1 M/Yr. in the last three years, $154K/faculty.
• Student placements (many in good universities, industry, Natl Labs, Newsletter lists many of them)
• ~30 current Phd students. Graduating rate ~0.8/faculty/Yr.
• Collaborations (Bio, Medical, Stanford, Harvard, HKUST, INRIA, ACCAD, OSC, LLNL, Wright state, NASA)
• Well recognized software distribution (Cocone, Mesh generation)
• Visualization 2008 Conference in Columbus
Leadership in: Visualization• Edited Books: Microscopic Image Analysis for Life Science
Applications
• Awards: 7 NSF, 4 Career awards, 1 NIH, 1 DOE
• Program committees : Visualization, Volume Graphics, Graphics Interface, EuroVis, Pacific Graphics, Pacific Vis, Eurographics Parallel Graphics
• Editorial Boards: IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics
• Conference/Paper Chair: VisWeek08, Visualization 2008, Volume Graphics
• Impact:
• 2008 DoD SBIR/STTR topic based on work by Machiraju and collaborators.
• DOE Ultrascale Visualization Institute (one of 4 schools in the country)
• Students: IBM Research Labs, Samsung, LLNL, Harvard Medical School, Oak Ridge, Nvidia, Siemens Medical, Vital Images, Faculty at Univ. of Tennessee, SUNY Stony Brook, Simon Frasier,
• Keynote: AFI/TFI (100 year celebration of Tokohu University Japan)
Leadership in: Geometry
• Publications : SoCG, SODA, DCG, SIAM, JACM
• Book (Cambridge U. Press)
• 6 NSF, 1 ARO, 2 Career, 1 NIH
• Well known software (Cocone, Mesh generation)
• Executive Board of SMA
• PC membership: SoCG, SODA, ACM-SPM, SMI, IMR, 3DPVT, Pacific graphics, ISAAC, FST&TCS
• Editorial board membership: DCG, Trans. Comput. Sci.
• Keynote, Colloquia : ALGO02, ISAAC06,UFL, UND, WUSTL,Penn-State
• Success of students: Faculty, Post-docs at Stanford, UT-Austin.
Leadership in: Animation
• Founder (1 of 7) of Symposium on CA
• Published Successful Book on CA
• Several publications in SIGGRAPH
• Program committee membership: CASA, SCA, SIBGRAPI, PG, Technical Sketch chair
• Editorial board membership: TVCG, VC
• Success of students: academy awards, faculty at Purdue, Toronto, George Washington, professionals at Pixar, PDI, D2, etc.
• Keynotes: CASA, SIBGRAPI
Transformations of areas
•Geometric Algorithms & Modeling
‣ Application focus
•Visualization
‣ collaborations
•Animation
‣ Closer ties with ACCAD
ObjectivesBe more attractive to top-notch students, Attract more resources
• Got a plan => Hire a new faculty in graphics,
• In the last nine years, area had only 1 hire
How?
Increase national visibility in Graphics
Publish more, obtain more grants
Increase service