The Computing Innovation Fellows Project

Mentors interested in:
Graphics / Visualization

• Irfan ESSA at Georgia Tech (Atlanta, GA)
  Keywords: Computational Video, Computational Photography, Activity Recognition, Computational Journalism, Human Behavior Modeling and Analysis, Human Robot Interaction, Sports Visualization, Interacting with and Authoring Video. 14July
• Ye Duan at University of Missouri (Columbia, MO)
  Keywords: Computer Graphics, Shape Modeling, Image-Based Modeling, Computer Vision, BioMedical Imaging 9July
• Jim Hurley at Intel Labs (Santa Clara, CA)
  Keywords: Ray Tracing, Rendering, Micro-Polygon, Physical Simulation, Global Illumination, Social Networking, Image Processing, Statistical Algorithms, Audio Propogation, Rasterization, GPU, Larrabee, Algorithms, Amaturn Content Creation, Mobile Internet Devices 10June
• Robert Pastel at Michigan Technological University (Houghton, MI)
  Keywords: HCI, Virtual Environments, Positioning, Navigating, Gesturing 9June
• Aniket Kittur at Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh, PA)
  Keywords: social computing, HCI, peer production, social collaboration, sensemaking, insight, wiki, Wikipedia, distributed cognition, collective intelligence, higher order cognition, categorization, scientific discovery 8June
• Vladlen Koltun at Stanford University (Stanford, CA)
  Keywords: procedural modeling, character animation, graphics systems, multimodal communication, rendering optimization, multimodal interfaces 8June
• Montek Singh at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Chapel Hill, NC)
  Keywords: asynchronous (i.e., clockless) circuits and systems; mixed-timing and GALS systems; on-chip networks (NOCs); high-performance and low-power systems; VLSI CAD; high-level synthesis; silicon compilation; and novel low-power graphics architectures. 8June
• Justine Cassell at Northwestern University (Chicago, IL)
  Keywords: Embodied Conversational Agents, Natural Language, Dialogue Systems, Graphics, Educational Technology, Autism, Under-represented groups, 8June
• Javier Cabrera at Rutgers University (Hill Center, Bush Campus, Piscataway,NJ)
  Keywords: Bioinformatics, gene networks, gene ontology, gene expressions, biological processes, pattern recognition, DNA barcode. 8June
• Christopher Brown at Computer Sc ience Department, University of Rochester (Rochester, NY)
  Keywords: computer vision, robotics, augmented reality. 8June
• Erik Johnston at Arizona State University (Tempe, AZ)
  Keywords: Policy informatics, information visualization, interactive simulations, agent-based modeling, public health, sustainability, crisis management, urban growth 7June
• Steven Seitz at University of Washington (Seattle, Washington)
  Keywords: computer vision, computer graphics, 3D reconstruction, image-based modeling, stereo, structure-from-motion, optical flow, face modeling, photo tourism, photosynth 6June
• Nina Bhatti at Hewlett-Packard Laboratories (Palo Alto, California)
  Keywords: Mobile Systems, media interation, mobile social computing, mobile media, computer vision, interactive media, pervasive computing, mobile consumer applications, usability, mobile HCI 6June
• Yi-Jen Chiang at Polytechnic Institute of New York University (Brooklyn, New York)
  Keywords: scientific visualization, computer graphics, computational geometry, high-performance algorithms and data structures for large-scale problems. 6June
• Geetika T. Lakshmanan at IBM T. J. Watson Research Center (Cambridge, MA)
  Keywords: Data Mining, Information Retrieval, Data Integration, Data Analytics, Data Discovery, Web Services, SOA, Social Computing, Theory, Algorithms, Data Provenance, Business Process Management, Information Visualization, Graph Theory, Machine Learning. 5June
• Kar-Han Tan at Hewlett-Packard Laboratories (Palo Alto, CA)
  Keywords: Immersive Remote Collaboration, Computer Vision and Graphics, Computational Photography and Video 5June
• Todd Zickler at Harvard University (Cambridge, MA)
  Keywords: computer vision, computer graphics, image and signal processing, computational photography, physics-based vision, internet vision, online photo collections, socially-aware computer vision 5June
• G. Michael Youngblood at University of North Carolina at Charlotte (Charlotte, NC)
  Keywords: interactive artificial intelligence, games, agents, multi-agent systems, cognitive architectures, visual / graph-based data mining / knowledge discovery, computational geometry, learning, behavioral analysis, MMO games, social games, artificial life 5June
• Joyce Rudinsky at Renaissance Computing institute, University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill, NC)
  Keywords: virtual environments, interactivity, art, humanities, gaming, language. 5June
• Ramesh Raskar at MIT Media Lab (Boston, MA)
  Keywords: Computational imaging, Signal processing, Applied optics, Computer graphics and vision, Medical Imaging, Thermal and ultrasound sensing, Computational photography, Hardware electronics, Art, Online photo collections, Visual social computing. 4June
• Kenneth Joy at University of California, Davis (Davis CA)
  Keywords: Visualization, computer graphics, computer aided geometric design, massive data storage methods, multidimensional visualization, flow visualization 4June
• Tom Malzbender at Hewlett-Packard Laboratories (Palo Alto, Ca)
  Keywords: Computer vision, computer graphics, telepresence, relighting, image processing 4June
• Anita Sarma at University of Nebraska, Lincoln (Nebraska, Lincoln)
  Keywords: workspace awareness, interactive exploration of software project, visualization of large scale projects 4June
• Alexander Gray at Georgia Institute of Technology (Atlanta, GA)
  Keywords: machine learning, data mining, statistics, high dimensionality, massive datasets, optimization, algorithms, automated program synthesis, computational geometry, linear algebra, data-intensive/distributed computing, astrophysics, mass spec, SVMs 4June
• Gary Miller at Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh, PA 15217)
  Keywords: keyword, keyword, keyword, ... 4June
• David Salesin at Adobe Creative Technologies Lab (Seattle, San Francisco, or Newton)
  Keywords: Digital photography and video, HCI, automatic design & presentation of information, non-photorealistic rendering, visualization, image-based rendering, digital typography, and color. 3June
• Truong Nguyen at University of California, San Diego (UCSD) (San Diego, CA)
  Keywords: Video processing, image processing, filter banks and wavelets, image analysis and understanding, 3D - multiview signal processing, machine learning, signal processing for medical devices 3June
• Cyrus Shahabi at University of Southern California (USC) (Los Angeles, CA)
  Keywords: Geospatial information management, multidimensional data analysis, GIS, spatial database, location privacy, spatial data outsourcing, sensor network, data stream, wavelets, spatial index, road network, intelligent transportation 3June
• Adrien Treuille at Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburg, PA)
  Keywords: computer games, simulation, animation, nonlinear phenomena, animal morphology, human motion, fluid dynamics 2June
• Nathan Moroney at Hewlett-Packard Laboratories (Palo Alto, CA)
  Keywords: computational categorization, color imaging, web-based experiments 2June
• Dimitrios Papavassiliou at The University of Oklahoma (Norman, OK)
  Keywords: turbulence DNS, turbulent dispersion, MOnte Carlo, nanoscale heat transfer, Lattice Boltzmann Methods, porous media, Lagrangian methods 1June
• Aseem Agarwala at Adobe Systems, Inc. (Seattle, WA)
  Keywords: computational photography, image processing, multimedia, video, graphics, vision 1June
• Jeongkyu Lee at University of Bridgeport (Bridgeport, CT)
  Keywords: Multimedia database, data mining, video processing, medical videos, ontology, video retireval, image retrieval, kinematic analysis 1June
• Han-Wei Shen at OSU CSE Graphics and Visualization Study (Gravity) group (Columbus, OHIO )
  Keywords: Scientific Visualization, Computer Graphics 1June
• Sridhar Mahadevan at University of Massachusetts, Amherst (Amherst, Massachusetts)
  Keywords: Representation Discovery, Machine Learning, AI, Sequential Decision Problems 1June
• Stacy Marsella at Univ. of Southern California, Institute for Creative Technologies (Marina del Rey, CA)
  Keywords: computational models of human behavior, social simulation, virtual humans, emotion, cognition, theory of mind, decision-theory, machine learning, cognition, nonverbal behavior, animation 30May
• Eitan Grinspun at Columbia University (New York, NY)
  Keywords: simulation, computational mechanics, geometry processing, numerics, scientific computing, contact problems, discrete differential geometry, geometric physics, thin shells, texture synthesis, special effects 30May
• Jovan Popovic at Adobe Systems Incorporated (Seattle, WA)
  Keywords: Computer Graphics; Simulation and Modeling 29May
• Cheryl Seals at Auburn University (Washington, DC)
  Keywords: HCI, UI design, educational gaming technologies, game design, educational visualization 29May
• Jason Nieh at Columbia University (New York, NY)
  Keywords: software systems, operating systems, virtualization, file and storage systems, cloud computing, mobile computing, thin-client computing, network computing, Web systems, high-performance computing, security, performance evaluation. 29May
• Brian Uzzi at Northwestern University Institute on Complex Systems (NICO) (Chicago, IL)
  Keywords: social networks, email and IM dynamics, on-line community formation, growth, and behavior, and teh social economic outcomes of networks 29May
• Tin Kam Ho at Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent (Murray Hill, NJ)
  Keywords: statistical pattern recognition, statistical machine learning, statistical signal processing, data mining, visual analytics, compressive sensing, network traffic analysis, speech analytics, prosody, recommender systems, service personalization, eHealth 29May
• Zhengyu Liu at University of Wisconsin-Madison (Madison, Wisconsin)
  Keywords: scientific computing, visualization, and data mining and analysis 28May
• Mark Gross at Computational Design Lab (Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh)
  Keywords: tangible embedded interaction, design, end-user programming languages, architectural robotics, DIY computing, sketching-in-hardware, pen-based interaction, sketch/diagram recognition, modular robotics, educational technologies, programming 28May
• Ronald Metoyer at Oregon State University (Corvallis, Oregon)
  Keywords: information visualization, human computer interaction, exercise prescription, computer animation 28May
• Noshir Contractor at Northwestern University (Evanston, IL)
  Keywords: social networks, knowledge networks, network recommender systems, web crawling, text mining, statistical modeling of large scale networks, computational modeling of large scale networks, socio-technical design of cyberinfrastructure, petascale apps 28May
• Tiffany Barnes at University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Games +Learn?ng Lab (Charlotte, NC)
  Keywords: educational data mining, game design, game development, educational games, serious games, health games, exercise games, artificial intelligence, education, broadening participation in computing, creativity, learning environments, K-12 computing education 28May
• Peter Schröder at Caltech (Pasadena, CA)
  Keywords: computer graphics, numerical algorithms, geometric modeling, digital geometry processing, discrete differential geometry 28May
• Yanxi Liu at http://vision.cse.psu.edu/ (State College, PA)
  Keywords: computer vision, computer graphics, computational regularity, machine learning, texture, saliency 28May
• Eleanor Rieffel at FX Palo Alto Laboratory (Palo Alto, CA)
  Keywords: mixed reality, augmented reality, virtual worlds, modeling, computational geometry, multimedia, image processing, computer vision, geometric reconstruction, 3D visualization, physics engines, computer aided design, computer aided manufacturing 27May