* ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award
winner * UCLA Computer Science Outstanding PhD Award
winner * Northrop Grumman Outstanding Graduate Student Research Award winner
Graduated Master Students
Jasleen Singh - "A Framework for Non-Photorealistic 2D Animation" (2011) UCLA CS Michael Au-Yeung - "Real-Time Photometric Stereo Using a
Computer Screen" (2011) UCLA CS Xiao Lei - "Multi-Layer Construction of KD-Trees for Dynamic
Ray Tracing" (2011) UCLA CS Gautam
Prasad - "Segmentation of Brain MR Images Using a PCA Atlas
and Nonrigid Registration" (2010) UCLA CS Thomas Wolfley - "Genetic Programming for Image Compression"
(2010) UCLA CS Kangwon Lee - "The Simulation of Swarm Behavior in Ant
Colonies" (2009) UCLA CS Michelle Fang - "Playing Animation under Time and Space
Constraints in a Virtual World" (2009) UCLA CS Sean Thompson - "Interactive image-source techniques for
virtual acoustics" (2002) UofT CS (NSERC Postgraduate Scholar) Howard Zhang - "Physics-based muscle effects for real-time
character animation" (2002) UofT CS Grigore Pintilie
- "Interactive cutting of surface meshes for computer-aided surgical
planning" (2001) UofT CS (NSERC Postgraduate Scholar) Stewart
Andrews - "Interactive generation of feature curves on
surfaces: A minimal path approach" (2000) UofT CS Faisal
Z. Qureshi - "Constructing anatomically accurate
face models using computed tomography and cyberware data" (2000)
UofT CS Qinxin Yu -
"Synthetic motion capture for real-time virtual worlds" (1998) UofT CS
(NSERC Postgraduate Scholar) Petros Faloutsos -
"Physics-based animation and
control of flexible characters" (1995) UofT CS Radek
Grzeszczuk - "Automatic learning of muscle-based
locomotion through control abstraction" (1994) UofT CS Yuencheng Lee - "Construction and animation of functional
facial models from range/reflectance data" (1993) UofT CS Timothy
McInerney - "Finite element techniques for fitting deformable
models to 3D data" (1992) UofT CS (NSERC Postgraduate Scholar)
Graduated Bachelor Students
Emily Whiting -
"Realism in 3D virtual spaces: Improving texture quality ... through
application of HDR imagery" (2004) UofT Eng. Sci. Desmond Rivet - "Human animats and active vision systems in
realistic 3D virtual worlds" (2001) UofT Eng. Sci. Daniel Horner - "A practical framework for the extraction and
visualization of slices from volumentric data" (1998) UofT Eng.
Sci. Charlton Wang - "Implementation of the live wire technique for
the segmentation of medical images" (1998) UofT Eng. Sci.
Kristin Hofstee - "Simulation of diffusion in 3D virtual
worlds" (1997) UofT Eng. Sci. Oliver Bengtsson - "Computational biological model of the
physiology and behavior of aquatic animals" (1995) UofT Eng. Sci.
Former Postdoctoral Fellows and Research Scientists
Eftychios Sifakis - Postdoctoral Fellow (2007–10) UCLA CS/Math Sung-Hee Lee - Postdoctoral Fellow (2008–09) UCLA CS Jinho Park - Korea Research Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow (2008–09) UCLA CS Tatsuo Yotsukura - Postdoctoral Fellow (2006–07) UCLA CS Jinwook Kim - Postdoctoral Fellow (2005–06) UCLA CS, NYU CS M. Alex O. Vasilescu - Research Scientist (01–05) NYU CS Mauricio Plaza-Villegas - Research Scientist (03–04) NYU CS Jared M. Silver -
Research Scientist (03–04) NYU CS Yuencheng Lee - Research Scientist (01–03) NYU CS Ghassan Hamarneh - Postgraduate Fellow (2000–01) UofT CS Michel Pitermann - Postdoctoral Fellow (1998–00) UofT CS &
Queens U Jacques-Olivier
Lachaud - Lavoiser Fellow (1998–99) UofT CS Tamer Rabie - Postdoctoral Fellow (1999–99) UofT CS Timothy McInerney - NSERC Postdoctoral Fellow (1998–99) UofT CS Jorge Lucero - Postdoctoral Fellow (1996–97) UofT CS & Queens U Paul Fieguth - NSERC Postdoctoral Fellow (1996–96) UofT CS