Computer Graphics

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Computer Graphics Visualization

• Roger Crawfis
• Tamal Dey
• Raghu Machiraju
• Rick Parent
• Han-Wei Shen
• Yusu Wang
• Rafe Wenger

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Core Areas

• Visualization
• Geometric Algorithms Modeling
• Animation
• Rendering
• User Interaction

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Areas of Leadership

• Visualization
• Geometric Algorithms Modeling
• Animation

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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

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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) 

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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, FSTTCS
• 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.

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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

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Transformations of areas

• Geometric Algorithms Modeling
• Application focus
• Visualization
• collaborations
• Animation
• Closer ties with ACCAD

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ObjectivesBe more attractive to top-notch
students, Attract more resources
How? Increase national visibility in
Graphics Publish more, obtain more
grants Increase service

• Got a plan gt Hire a new faculty in graphics,
• In the last nine years, area had only 1 hire