Students

Here are the students who work and have worked with us.

 

Graduate Students
	Ryan Avett (Ph.D. Student, NC State) Procedural modeling of cities. Projects: cities.
	Alex Kuhl (Ph.D. Student, NC State) Reconstruction with texture primitives for upsampling. Projects: upsampling.
	Dave Crist (Ph.D. Student, NC State) Reconstruction with edge primitives for upsampling. Projects: upsampling.
	Chris Sexton (M.S. Student, NC State) Vectorization of gridded urban data sets. Projects: cities.
	Jason Leyba (M.S. Spr 07, NC State) Reconstruction with edge primitives for upsampling. Projects: upsampling.
	Pin Ren (Ph.D. Student, Northwestern) Compositing for visualizing very large data. Projects: histographs, cities.
	Tom Lechner (Ph.D. Student, Northwestern) Procedural modeling of cities. Project: cities.
	Abhinav Dayal (Ph.D. Win 05, Northwestern) Interactive display algorithms for balancing visual and temporal fidelity. Projects: temporally adaptive rendering, interruptible rendering.
	Conrad Albrecht-Buehler (Ph.D. Student, Northwestern) Visualization of streaming text. Project: TextPool.
	Prasun Choudhury (Ph.D. Sum 04, MechE., Northwestern) Model simplification. Now working at Adobe. Project: massive simplification.
	Ehud Sharlin (Ph.D. Sum 03, U. Alberta) Applications & heuristics for tangible user interfaces. Now Asst. Prof. U. Calgary. Previously Asst. Prof. U. Osaka Human Interface Eng. Lab. Projects: Cognitive Cubes, Cognitive Map Probe, commodity tracking.
	Matt McCrory (aborted Ph.D., Northwestern) Procedural city modeling. Now at Dreamworks. Project: cities.
	Peter Woytiuk (M.S. Fall 01, U. Alberta) Interactive surface generation with fidelity control. Now at Bioware.
	Gong Li (M.S. Fall 00, U. Alberta) Semiautomatic 3D model simplification. Now at high tech Calgary firm. Project: Semisimp.
	Dima Brodsky (M.S. Sum 99, U. Alberta) Simplification of massive models. Ph.D. UBC CS 05, now at Microsoft. Project: RSimp.
	Oscar Meruvia (M.S. Sum 99, U. Alberta) Control of spatial vs. temporal fidelity. Ph.D. U. Magdeburg CS 04, now at U. Calgary's Sun Center for Visual Genomics. Project: visual/temporal tradeoff.
	Carolina Diaz-Goano (M.S. no thesis Win 98, U. Alberta ) Shape analysis. Ph.D. 03 Chem. Eng, U. Alberta. Now Asst Prof at U. Alberta Chem & Mat Eng. Here's her final report.
	Stan Melax (aborted Ph.D, U. Alberta) Dynamically modifiable environments. Formerly at Bioware and Electronic Arts.

 

Undergraduate Students
	Riley Benson (CS, NC State) Vision- and voice-based interaction. Project: DesignTech.
	Philip Lafleur (CS, NC State) Visualization of streaming text data. Project: DesignTech.
	Matthew Rakow (CS, NC State) Quilts for depicting layered graphs. Project: quilts.
	Donald Fong (CS, Northwestern) Simplification of massive meshes. Now at Texas A&M's Viz Lab. Project: massive meshes.
	Josh Anon (CS, Northwestern) Pitched in with porting of an older project to linux, and with a demo of a perceptually based approach to rendering. Now at Pixar.
	Andrew Raij (CS, Northwestern) Simplification, PC CAVE. Now a CS grad student at U. Florida. Project: RSimp.
	Aaron McGaffey (Psych., U. Alberta) Designed and performed the first experiments for the naming time project. Created the images used as stimuli for the experiments. Project: visual fidelity.