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