RESEARCH INTERESTS

Models for data exploration.

EDUCATION

Ph.D. Computer Science, Brown University, Providence, RI (Sep 2006 - )

Ph.D. Computer Science, The University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT (Jan-Dec 2005)

Sc.M Computer Science, Brown University, Providence, RI (2004)

B.Sc. Computer Engineering, Ege University, Izmir, Turkey (2000)

AWARDS

Brain Sciences Research Award (2008)

JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS

• Çağatay Demiralp, John F. Hughes, and David H. Laidlaw. Coloring 3D Line Fields Using Boy's Real Projective Plane Immersion. IEEE TVCG (Proceedings of Visualization'09), 2009.
• Radu Jianu, Çağatay Demiralp, and David H. Laidlaw. Exploring 3D DTI fiber-tracts with linked 2D representations. IEEE TVCG (Proceedings of Visualization'09), 2009.
• Çağatay Demiralp, Cullen Jackson, David Karelitz, Song Zhang, and David H. Laidlaw. CAVE and Fishtank Virtual-Reality Displays: A Qualitative and Quantitative Comparison. IEEE TVCG, 2006.
• G. Elisabeta Marai, David H. Laidlaw, Çağatay Demiralp, Stuart Andrews, Cindy Grimm, and Joseph J. Crisco. Estimating joint contact areas and ligament lengths from bone kinematics and surfaces. IEEE TBME, 2003.
• Song Zhang, Çağatay Demiralp, and David H. Laidlaw. Visualizing Diffusion Tensor MR Images Using Streamtubes and Streamsurfaces. IEEE TVCG, 2003.

CONFERENCE PUBLICATIONS

• Çağatay Demiralp and David H. Laidlaw. ``Similarity Coloring of DTI Fiber Tracts'' In Proceedings of DMFC Workshop at MICCAI, 2009.
• Çağatay Demiralp, Gregory Shakhnarovich, Song Zhang, and David H. Laidlaw. Slicing-based coherence measure for refining clusters of 3D curves. In Proceedings of MICCAI, 2008.
• Çağatay Demiralp, John F. Hughes, and David H. Laidlaw. Using Boy's Real Projective Plane Immersion for Coloring DT-MRI Slices. In Proceedings of ISMRM, 2008.
• Doria Jianu, Wenjin Zhou, Çağatay Demiralp, and David H. Laidlaw. Visualizing Spatial Relations Between 3D-DTI Integral Curves Using Texture Patterns. In IEEE Visualization Poster Compendium, 2007.
• Çağatay Demiralp, Song Zhang, David Tate, Stephen Correia, and David H. Laidlaw. Connectivity-aware sectional visualization of 3D DTI volumes using perceptual flat-torus coloring and edge rendering. In Proceedings of Eurographics, 2006.
• G. Elisabeta Marai, Çağatay Demiralp, Stuart Andrews, and David H. Laidlaw. JointViewer an interactive system for exploring orthopedic data. In IEEE Visualization Poster Compendium, 2004.
• Çağatay Demiralp, David H. Laidlaw, Cullen Jackson, Daniel Keefe, and Song Zhang. Subjective Usefulness of CAVE and Fish Tank VR Display Systems for a Scientific Visualization Application. In IEEE Visualization Poster Compendium, 2003.
• G. Elisabeta Marai, David H. Laidlaw, Çağatay Demiralp, Cindy Grimm, Joseph J. Crisco, Douglas Moore, and E. Akelman. Contact Areas and Ligament Lengths are Abnormal in Patients with Malunited Distal Radius Fracture Despite Normal Radioulnar Kinematics. In World Congress Biomechanics, 2002.
• Çağatay Demiralp, G. Elisabeta Marai, Stuart Andrews, David H. Laidlaw, Joseph J. Crisco, and Cindy Grimm. Modeling and Visualization of Inter-Bone Distances in Joints. In Visualization '01 Work in Progress Proceedings, pages 24-25, October 2001
• Marco DaSilva, Song Zhang, Çağatay Demiralp, and David H. Laidlaw. Visualizing Diffusion Tensor Volume Differences. In Visualization '01 Work in Progress Proceedings, pages 16-17, October 2001.
• Song Zhang, Çağatay Demiralp, Daniel Keefe, Marco DaSilva, Benjamin D. Greenberg, Peter J. Basser, Carlo Pierpaoli, E. A. Chiocca, T. S. Deisboeck, and David H. Laidlaw. An Immersive Virtual Environment for DT-MRI Volume Visualization Applications: a Case Study. In Proceedings of IEEE Visualization, 2001.
• Joseph J. Crisco, Çağatay Demiralp, David H. Laidlaw, A-P. C. Weiss, E. Akelman, and S.W. Wolfe. Interactive Visualization of 3D Carpal Kinematics and Bony Anatomy. In Am. Soc. for Surgery of the Hand 56th Annual Meeting, 2001.
• Song Zhang, Çağatay Demiralp, Marco DaSilva, Daniel Keefe, David H. Laidlaw, Benjamin D. Greenberg, Peter J. Basser, Carlo Pierpaoli, E.A. Chiocca, and T. S. Diesboeck. Toward Application of Virtual Reality to Visualization of DT-MRI Volumes. In Proceedings of MICCAI, 2001.

TECHNICAL REPORTS

• Çağatay Demiralp.Charm: A charming network coordinate system. Technical report, Brown University, Department of Computer Science, 2007.

INVITED TALKS

• Dagstuhl (2009)

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

Visiting Researcher, Computer Science Dept., Brown University (Jan-Aug 2006)

Graduate Research Fellow, NLM at the National Institutes of Health (Nov-Dec 2004)

Visiting Research Fellow, Centre for Neuroimaging Sciences, King's College London (Summer 2004)

Graduate Research Asst, Computer Science Dept, Brown University (2002-2004)

Staff Researcher, Computer Science Dept, Brown University (2000-2002)

Visiting Undergraduate Research Asst, Computer Science Dept, Brown University (May-Sep 1999)

Intern, Fraunhofer Center for Research in Computer Graphics (Nov 1998 - May 1999)

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Teaching Asst (Discrete Mathematics), School of Computing, The University of Utah (Fall 2005)

Teaching Asst (Advanced Algorithms & Data Structures), School of Computing, The University of Utah (Spring 2005)

Reviewer for IEEE TVCG, IEEE Visualization, and Dagstuhl Book on Visualization and Processing of Tensor Fields.

Departmental L^ATEX administrator (2007 - ).