People

Faculty members:
Jonathan D. Cohen, Assistant Professor,
received the PhD degree in computer science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1998 and the BA degree in computer science and music from Duke University in 1991. He is most well-known for his research in polygonal mesh simplification. His general research interests are in the areas of interactive 3D visualization, geometric representation for 3D models, and parallel visualization systems. He joined the graphics lab in 1998.
Michael Kazhdan, Assistant Professor
received the PhD degree in computer science from Princeton University in 2004.He is one of the most active researchers in 3D shape analysis now. His general research interests include 3D Shape Analysis and 3D Shape Matching. He joined the graphics lab in 2004.
Subodh Kumar, Adjunct assistant professor, currently with Nvidia Inc.
received the BTech degree in computer science from the Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi, in 1991 and the MS and PhD degrees from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, in 1993 and 1996. His primary research interests include Visualization, 3D computer graphics, and geometry processing. 
 
Graduate Students:
Joe Hennessey, PhD student
His research interests include image processing programming, Java programming and volumetric programming.
Budi Purnomo, PhD student.
received the BS and MS degrees in computer science from the Michigan Technological University, Houghton, Michigan in 1999 and 2001. His research interests are in 3D geometry processing, visualization of large 3D models and 3D model representation. He is currently working on the efficient representation and high-quality rendering of 3D scanned objects.
He joined the graphics lab in 2001.
Chris Niski, PhD student
His research interests are polygonal mesh simplification and ....
He is currently working on GLOD, a level-of-detail approach to cluster-based visualization, and OpenGL debugging.
He joined the graphics lab in 2002;
Yuan Chen, PhD student
received the BS degree in computational mathematic from JiLin University, ChangChun, China in 1998 and ME degree in computer science from Institute of Software, China Academy of Science in 2001. Her research interests include scientific visualization, 3D geometry processing and 3D shape analysis.
She is currently working on time-varying volume rendering project and a new shape descriptor. 
She joined the graphics lab in 2002.
Pavan Piratla, PhD student
received the B.Tech degree in Computer Science and Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India in 2003. His research interests include computer graphics, databases and natural language processing.
He joined the graphics lab in 2003.
Jonathan Bilodeau, PhD student
His research interests are interactive 3D graphics, general purpose GPU programming and reconstruction from 3D scans.
He is currently working on geometry [de]compression for GPUs, cryptography on GPUs, surface reconstruction and OpenGL debugging.
He joined the graphics lab in 2003.
Matthew Bolitho, PhD student
He joined the graphics lab in 2004.
Nat Duca, master student
   
Collaborators: 
                           Julian Krolik              Physics
                           Shigenohu Hirose
                           Jerrold S. Cooper, Professor of Assyriology and Sumerian at Johns Hopkins University
                          Shankar Krishnan, Senior Scientist at AT&T research
                          Marc Olano,  Assistant Professor at UMBC
                          David Luebke,  Assistant Professor at University of Virginia
                          Daniel Hahn, APL
                          Donald Duncan, APL
 
Alumni:
                        Jatin Chhugani   graduated as Ph.D. 
                       
currently works in the TCAD department of Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA.
                        Xueying Cao     M.S.E.
                        Wenjing Huang   
                       Adam Hunter M.S.E.
                       Guoxing Wang  M.S.E.
                       Weiqiang Zhang  M.S.E.
                       Yanni Sun  Ph.D. student at Washington University in St. Louis
                       Jim Susinno  M.S.E.
                       Sudhir Vishwanath  
                       Jason J. Corso   Ph.D. student at CIRL

For more information,  Jonathan Cohen (cohen@cs.jhu.edu , Michael Kazhdan (misha@cs.jhu.eduFaculty
                                    Yuan Chen (cheny@cs.jhu.edu)
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