Joe LaViola, Teaching Assistant
David Laidlaw, Professor
Joe LaViola, Teaching Assistant
Name: Daniel Acevedo
Dept: CS
Year (Fr, So, Jr, Sr, Gr
E-mail: daf@cs.brown.edu
Phone(s): (401)273-5197 home
(401)863-7684 office 510 CIT
Want to learn: Role of VR in Scientific Visualization Interest of the
scientific community in immersive, interactive enviroments for
visualization. Application of advanced visualization techniques in
very large sets of data. Use of advanced visualization methods in
Civil Engineering.
Other goals for class: Improve communication skills. Improve
presentation skills. Learn how to make and present a proposal or a
paper.
Role you would like to play in a project and skills you bring: My
major is in Civil Engineering and I've been working at the CAVE last
summer. I'd like to work with people interested in VR.
Interesting potential project ideas: Topographical meshes generation
and visualization in the CAVE. Implementation of variable level of
detail techniques in immersive enviroments applied to urban planning.
Relevant math classes taken (calculus, linear algebra, numerical
methods, signal processing, ode's, pde's, etc.): 3 courses of
calculus. 2 courses of advanced numerical methods. 1 course of
algebra 1 course of statistics (each course is 2 semesters long)
Relevant science classes taken: I have the Civil Engineer title from
Spain which involves 5 years of Civil Engineering classes.
Other relevant classes or experience: I worked in the Graphics Group
of the School of Civil Engineering of University of La Coruna
(Spain).(http://videalab.udc.es) I worked in the CAVE, here at Brown,
last summer.
Dept: Cognitive Science & Applied Math
Year (Fr, So, Jr, Sr, Gr
E-mail: Asohan_Amarasingham@brown.edu
Phone(s): 861-9273
Want to learn: what tools are available for scientific visualization and
to get a sense how much work is required to use them.
Other goals for class:
Role you would like to play in a project and skills you bring: have
background in math & biology, which might help in some projects.
Relevant math classes taken (calculus, linear algebra,
numerical methods, signal processing, ode's, pde's, etc.):
Standard undergrad math curriculum, focusing grad studies in analysis,
probability, stochastics, statistics.
Relevant science classes taken: background in neural & cognitive sciences
Dept: Computer Science and Women's Studies
Year (Fr, So, Jr, Sr, Gr
E-mail: danah@acm.org
Phone(s): 401.861.1873
Want to learn:
- how to use visualization to communicate information to other people
- how to develop, implement and write up a research project
- some random knowledge about science (preferably neuroscience)
Other goals for class:
- work with a wide variety of people
- prepare myself for other work in this area
- learn more about neuroscience (preferably)
Role you would like to play in a project and skills you bring:
- Ideally, I could be in a position where I am working directly with a
scientist and with another programmer, helping out with each section. I am
also interested in making the system usable and bring my HCI
(human-computer interface) background along.
- I bring programming skills and computer graphics background. I bring
HCI knowledge and visualization practice. I bring a curiousity and random
knowledge about various scientific disciplines (with my strength being in
cogsci vision).
Interesting potential project ideas:
- visualizing brain vision signals (motion - any element, cannabis project
- Walker in psychology)
- group flow patterns amongst people and activity
I am primarily interested in working on a project along the lines of
neuroscience or cognitive science and would be willing to learn new areas.
Relevant math classes taken (calculus, linear algebra,
numerical methods, signal processing, ode's, pde's, etc.):
- calculus, linear algebra... frankly, much of this is long since
forgotten
Relevant science classes taken:
- Most of my "scince" knowledge is from personal pursuits and does not fit
into "classroom" definitions. I primarily work with vision (perception,
motion) from a cognitive/psychological perspective.
Other relevant classes or experience:
- CS123, MIT Media Lab research - Visual Who (name of the project in
Sociable Media group)
Dept:Chemistry
Year (Fr, So, Jr, Sr, Gr
E-mail:Quan_Gu@brown.edu
Phone(s):x33267
Want to learn: visualization application in various scientific field
Other goals for class: learn scientific writing and presentation skills
Role you would like to play in a project and skills you bring: I can
contribute scientific ideas of natural sciences (like chemistry, biology,
physics); and I'm experienced in writing research proposal, preparing
slides, writing abstrats. Besides, I have some programming experience
suitable for writing simple programs.
Interesting potential project ideas: simple animation of Na/K ion pump
mechanism (molecular biology), or a software package suitable for writing
undergradute lab reports (need word templates; a interface that link other
softwares like canvas, sigma plot, etc. together; library that store some
chemical structure, device picture, etc. )
Relevant math classes taken (calculus, linear algebra,
numerical methods, signal processing, ode's, pde's, etc.): I know something
about calculus, linear algebra at introductive college course level.
Relevant science classes taken: I've taken cs0004, cs0127, cs0176, cs0252.
Other relevant classes or experience: I've taken a lot of chemistry courses
and some biology, physics courses.
Dept: CS/Engineering
Year (Fr, So, Jr, Sr, Gr
E-mail: dbg@cs.brown.edu
Phone(s): 37693
Want to learn: grant proposal writing, idea for visualization.
Other goals for class: Possibly to find a team of 2/3 to working on a
small project for angiogram visualization
Role you would like to play in a project and skills you bring:
Project leader, design and generation of the
Interesting potential project ideas:
Angiograms are used frequently in cardiology interventions
for visualizing blood vessel. It is X-ray camera image of
radio-opaque fuild flow though blood vessel, typically LAD (left anterior
descending artery) or LM (left main artery). The images can be
either stationary or moving. X-ray cameras typically present only one
or more projection view of the vessel. One small project is
to construct a 3-D volume from two or more views of the same blood vessel.
Relevant math classes taken (calculus, linear algebra,
numerical methods, signal processing, ode's, pde's, etc.):
all of the above
Relevant science classes taken:
CS123, CS224, EN295 (reading)
Dept: Cognitive Neuroscience
Year (Fr, So, Jr, Sr, Gr
E-mail: matthew_hutson@brown.edu
Phone(s): 331-4859
Want to learn:
Learn to express what I see inside my own head.
Learn new methods for understanding things visually. (Linear Algebra would
have gone much smoother form me if taught by computer animation rather than
textbook and chalkboard.)
Learn to organize manageable and productive projects.
Learing to write winning grant proposals.
Other goals for class:
Collaborating with a large group of exciting and excited classmates.
Accomplishing something new.
Role you would like to play in a project and skills you bring:
I am a visual learner and thinker. I also have a little CS experience, but
almost nothing compared to most others in the class. Thus I see myself as
someone who will come up with intuitive models and ask others to implement
them for me in C++. I, of course, would like to be able to have competence
in all aspects of any project, but don't feel confident enough to
accomplish (or even approach), from a programming perspective, some of my
more outlandish ideas.
Interesting potential project ideas:
I'm interested in visually modeling brain dynamics, possibly during the
creative process. This could involve representing artificial or actual
neural network structure or firing patterns, or it could involve current
brain imaging techniques (EEG, fMRI, etc), or something more abstract such
as subjectively monitored emotional, cognitive, or perceptual states.
Relevant math classes taken (calculus, linear algebra,
numerical methods, signal processing, ode's, pde's, etc.):
calculus, linear algebra
Relevant science classes taken:
courses in cognitive science, neuroscience,
cs15, cs16, currently cs123
Other relevant classes or experience:
21 years of recreational mental imagery experience
Dept:CS
Year (Fr, So, Jr, Sr, Gr
E-mail:dfk@cs.brown.edu
Phone(s):Home (401) 331-9414
CS office 863-7662
Want to learn:
Technical skills involved in sci. vis. graphics
Process of creating a grant proposal
Better oral and written presentation skills
More about different areas sci vis can be applied
Specifically how David and others have recently applied techniques from
art to sci vis problems or to graphics problems in general
Other goals for class:
Try to get involved in a project that has art as one of its
interdisciplinary subjects
If time permits, get involved in something using the CAVE or VR
Role you would like to play in a project and skills you bring:
Skills are some sci vis experience with visualizing air flow in wind
tunnels, some computer graphics experience, and some painting and drawing
experience as well as a general appreciation for art. I was also an
engineer as an undergraduate, so I bring an understanding of Comp. E. and
EE to any projects that might deal with those areas. I would like to
play the role of a researcher aiming to combine some of these skills in a
project specifically by collaborating with others to figure out how they
might best be combined and then by actually creating a demo or working
product.
Interesting potential project ideas:
Extending some of David's previous research...
?
Relevant math classes taken (calculus, linear algebra,
numerical methods, signal processing, ode's, pde's, etc.):
Calc., Discrete, Prob. & Stats. for engineers, Linear systems,
Communication systems (AM, FM, some signal processing etc..)
Relevant science classes taken:
Lots of EE and Comp E, Some physics and statics
Other relevant classes or experience:
I worked in NASA's Data Vis. and Animation Lab for a summer where I did
some sci vis and saw many applications of it that really helped
researchers.
Dept:
Computer Science
Year (Fr, So, Jr, Sr, Gr
E-mail:
mgm@cs.brown.edu
Phone(s):
(401) 487-2119 (mobile)
(401) 863-7682 (office)
Want to learn:
* Mechanics that allow data to be better understood or 'realized' through
visualization
* Current state of sci-vis
Other goals for class:
* Learn how vis can aid communication
Role you would like to play in a project
* Planning and design
* Execution of algorithms
Skills you bring:
* Decent, fast coder (java & c[++])
* Understanding and experience with economic and financial topics as
well as banker and trader needs
Interesting (?) potential project ideas:
* Visualization of emerging-market debt pricing models to better
associate soverign and currency market risks
* Visualization to better refine corporate financing decisions
* Visualization of paths on user-selected areas of large map data sets
* Visualization of "mojo"
Relevant math classes taken (calculus, linear algebra,
numerical methods, signal processing, ode's, pde's, etc.):
* Calculus (II,III)
* Linear Algebra (Honors)
* Probability (in Mathematic dept)
* Some DE work
Relevant science classes taken:
* Chem courses?
* Computer Science Graphic Courses (123, 224)
Dept: Computer Science
Year (Fr, So, Jr, Sr, Gr
E-mail: gem@cs.brown.edu
Phone(s): 863-7663
Want to learn: how to cooperate with people from other fields, without
"learning" everything they know. more about visualization methods.
Other goals for class: improving writing skills
Role you would like to play in a project and skills you bring:
The CS-tist, of course. Programming (+graphics) experience.
Interesting potential project ideas:
Need a little time for that.
Relevant math classes taken (calculus, linear algebra,
numerical methods, signal processing, ode's, pde's, etc.):
calculus, linear algebra, numerical methods, differential equations
(ordinary and partial), discrete mathematics a.s.o. - but this happened
5-7 years ago...
Relevant science classes taken:
CS courses ranging from VLSI to AI (would a list be useful?), some
physics, mechanics, electrotechnique (don't count on that),
bioengineering (loved it).
Other relevant classes or experience:
Some experience in signal processing (built a neural network system for
speech recognition about 2 years ago).
Dept: CS
Year: Gr<1>
E-mail: tm@cs.brown.edu
Phone(s): Office 863.7652 Home 274.6384
Want to learn:
- Get different perspective on visualization
- Learn what fields need what kind of visualization done.
- Better understand the research process
Other goals for class:
- Get some experience implementing visualization techniques.
Role you would like to play in a project and skills you bring:
I'd be very interested in designing a solution method, and as I
previously mentioned -- implementing.
Interesting potential project ideas:
Of what I heard in the class from non CS people, the areas of
neuroscience, physics, applied math, and teaching math caught my
attention. However, I think that the approach to a certain problem does
not necessarily relate to the field it's in. For example: visualizing
the phosphor-somthing-or-other plates seemed very interesting.
Relevant math classes taken
Calc, linear algebra, numerical computing
Relevant science classes taken:
- Assorted physics classes (astronomy optics etc)
- Perception
Dept: Computer Science & Engineering
Year (Fr, So, Jr, Sr, Gr
E-mail: prabhat@cs.brown.edu
Phone(s): 863-7683
Want to learn: Making VR applications on CAVE; working with an
Inter-disciplinary group
Other goals for class: Learning the politics/process of grant funding
starting/finishing a inter-disciplinary project in
2 months
Role you would like to play in a project and skills you bring:
Active learner;
decent programmer;
self-motivated though willing to work hard on an interesting idea;
years of experience with interaction with computers largely thru Computer
Games !!
Used to presenting/studying in a systematic manner (though find it tough
to keep on schedule)
Interesting potential project ideas:
Not yet !!
Visualization of Pi (ha ha)
Relevant math classes taken (calculus, linear algebra,
numerical methods, signal processing, ode's, pde's, etc.):
Calculus
Linear Algebra
Probability
Signal Processing
Relevant science classes taken:
Quantum Mechanics
Electromagnetics
Basic Labs
Other relevant classes or experience:
Course on Design Engineering
Work on making Virtual Walkthroughs for Buildings on an Onyx RE-2
Dept: CS
E-mail: prp@cs.brown.edu
Phone(s): x7682
Year (Fr, So, Jr, Sr, Gr
Want to learn:
More about visualization.
Interesting project ideas:
Visualizing complex molecular structure.
Relevant math classes taken (calculus, linear algebra,
numerical methods, signal processing, ode's, pde's, etc.):
Calculus, linear algebra, numerical and statistical methods.
Relevant science classes taken:
Classes in various fields of physics and chemistry.
Other Relevant classes or experience:
cs123, cs224. Worked as a graphics programmer at the the
venlab in the Cognitive and Linguistic sciences department.
Worked on the SGI machine at the cave. Familiar with OpenGL,
WorldToolkit, and Java 3D programming.
Dept: Physics
Year (Fr, So, Jr, Sr, Gr
E-mail: priezjev@barus.physics.brown.edu
Phone(s): 863-7534
Want to learn: Visualize 3d images
Other goals for class:
Role you would like to play in a project and skills you bring:
working on problems related to my research
Interesting potential project ideas: see project
Relevant math classes taken :calculus, linear algebra,
numerical methods, ode's, pde's, etc.
Relevant science classes taken: fortran
Other relevant classes or experience: 2years large scale
simulations in prof.Pelcovits group
Dept: Computer Science, Economics
Year (Fr, So, Jr, Sr, Gr
E-mail: jr@cfm.brown.edu
Phone(s):
home: 421-3548
office: x33550
Want to learn:
think artistic methods could be useful but want to be convinced
Other goals for class:
broaden understanding of scientific visualization beyond smooth shaded
surfaces and lines in space--my current level of expertise
Role you would like to play in a project and skills you bring:
i have significant sci-vis experience already and good working knowledge
of several fields where it is used (molecular dynamics, cfd, medical
imaging) and could help design experiments to quantify the benefits of
modern vis techniques to these sorts of researchers
Interesting potential project ideas:
quantifying the benefits of artistic data presentation in cfd, md and
medical applications (number of fields limited by time and resourse
constraints)
Relevant math classes taken (calculus, linear algebra,
numerical methods, signal processing, ode's, pde's, etc.):
calculus through vector, linear algebra, differential geometry,
topology, analysis, ode
Relevant science classes taken:
mechanics, special relativity/quantum mechanics, chemistry
Other relevant classes or experience:
significant work experience with cfd, md and medical researchers
Dept: Computer Science
Year (Fr, So, Jr, Sr, Gr
E-mail: psar@cs.brown.edu
Phone(s): 863-7671 (office)
Want to learn: visualization techniques, research
proposal/presentation/project methodology, cool stuff in other fields
Other goals for class: gain experience with multidisciplinary projects in
part as preparation for possible future collaborations with friends in
other fields, figure out how to make better use of my visually-oriented
memory
Role you would like to play in a project and skills you bring:
Role: ideally, player-with-cool-ideas; probably grounder-of-ideas and
author-of-code-and-documents
Skills: fair programming and math skills, fair English and
compositional skills, a rudimentary background in several other areas of
science
Interesting potential project ideas: stresses and forces undergone by a
moving body (real or animated) with focus on oft-damaged joints
Relevant math classes taken: calculus (4), linear algebra (1), numerical
methods (1), ODEs (1), PDEs (1)
Relevant science classes taken: intro physics (3), intro chemistry (2),
intro biology (1)
Dept: Computer Science
Year (Fr, So, Jr, Sr, Gr
E-mail: tor@cs.brown.edu
Phone(s): x37665
Want to learn: proposal process, planning a large project
Other goals for class: project for semster which is not entirely CS
Role you would like to play in a project and skills you bring:
Graphics programming (lots of experience with OpenGL),
distributed computing (some experience with MPI),
CAVE programming (worked on opening demos)
Interesting potential project ideas:
Retreating blade stall on helicopter blades (when a helicoptor
goes too fast it stalls because the retreating blade looses
lift).
High resolution Mars topology data in Cave (new high resolution
data was released a couple months - might be interesting to see
it in the Cave without the height exageration usually used in
stills).
Relevant math classes taken (calculus, linear algebra,
numerical methods, signal processing, ode's, pde's, etc.):
Single, multi-variable calculus
Linear algebra
Differential equations
Combinatorics and graph theory
Statistics
Differential geometry
Relevant science classes taken:
AP Biology
Four quarter honors physics sequence
Two quarter honors chemistry sequence
One quarter honors geology
Human vision/perception
Other relevant classes or experience:
Geometry Center (National Science and Technology Center for the
Computation and Visualization of Geometric Structures):
* http://www.geom.umn.edu/
* Research intern two summers
* Employee for one year
* Exposure to many areas of mathematics (higher dimensional
objects, topology, knot theory, complex analysis, soap
bubbles, manifolds, etc...) and their visualization
Dept: Engin.
Year (Fr, So, Jr, Sr, Gr
E-mail: jericho@brown.edu
Phone(s): 401 351 5965
Want to learn: presentation skills,
Other goals for class: Start on a project that could become a business
startup
Role you would like to play in a project and skills you bring: Mainly
bringing in the big picture of the project, overall ideas rather than
detailed programming
Interesting potential project ideas: financial data
Relevant math classes taken (calculus, linear algebra,
numerical methods, signal processing, ode's, pde's, etc.):
Relevant science classes taken: communications systems, medical imaging,
image processing, digital signal processing,
Other relevant classes or experience: financial economics, computer
assisted spine surgery project for Master's degree thesis
Dept: Neuroscience
Year (Fr, So, Jr, Sr, Gr
E-mail: awalsky@brown.edu
Phone(s): 831-8986
Want to learn:
How three dimensional images can be used in displaying scientific data. How
do people understand such images and how can they be created to show the most
information in an understandable and interpretable way.
Other goals for class:
I want to learn how to design, propose and follow through with a research pr
oject.
Role you would like to play in a project and skills you bring: I am
currently a Neuroscience concentrator attempting to create an
independa nt major called Interdisciplinary Cognitive Systems with my
focus on visualizati on. My goal is to combine my neuroscienc
background with some cognitive science and to incorporate computer
science and visual arts heavily. Basically, this c lass is my major
in a way. My skills in order of strength are Neuroscience, Art ,
Computer Science. I feel that my understanding of the brain and how
it proces ses visual stimuli, as well as my understanding of visual
art techniques can be a great asset to many projects.
Relevant math classes taken (calculus, linear algebra,
numerical methods, signal processing, ode's, pde's, etc.): Calculus, some linea
r algebra
Relevant science classes taken: chemistry (21 and 22), physics (3 and
4) physiology, intro to neuro, cellular neuro systems, neuro biology of
hearing - sections on echolocation of bats, dolphins and sperm whales,
parallel visualization neural modeling lab - this is a cog.sci. class
on neural networks - in all my neuro classes, I have had in depth
covering of the visual system, cs15,16
Other relevant classes or experience:
formZ - 3D modeling at RISD
-many drawing, painting and art history classes in which visualization t
echniques are always focussed
Dept: Neuro. concentrator
Year (Fr, So, Jr, Sr, Gr
E-mail: Benjamin_White@brown.edu
Phone(s): x76656
Want to learn: (1) How to test-drive experimental Ferraris; (2) How to
arrange data in such a way that allows it to be visually grepped for
interesting things (data mining) (3) How to effectively visually model data
that has already been mined using conventional data mining techniques.
Other goals for class: (1) Learn how to deal with the stereotypically
bureaucratic grant/RFP process; (2) Improve organizational skills within a
small group.
Role you would like to play in a project and skills you bring: (1) Software
hacker (I bring many years of coding) ; (2) Technical writer (I bring good
writing skills to the party) ; (3) Test driver (see 'Want to learn #1,
above) (I'm an adrenaline junky)
Interesting potential project ideas:
(1) Some number of years ago I thought that it would be interesting to take
an object I believe to be of Divine origin (ie the Bible) and plot it
graphically (assign a different color to each letter in the original Hebrew
alphabet). I could then play with the dimensionality of the plotted
rectangle by changing the width-to-height ratio, stretching, and skewing
it. Interesting patterns may appear (or not). I'd need to work with someone
who understands more math/statistics than I to decide what the probability
of finding interesting things in random graphs and the probability of
finding interesting things in other books (ie Hamlet) as compared to the
number and type of interesting things I find in my Bible graph.
(2) In a related project, I'd be very interested to see what would appear
if I assigned each number a color and graphed a transcendant number (pi, e,
etc) into a similar rectangle. I would have sliders that would allow the
shape of the rectangle to be adjusted (as above) and also to re-plot the
graph using a different base.
(3) Study data clustering algorithms and techniques to develop a way of
visually depicting (for example) and entire file system and graphically
showing clusters of data that are related to each other.
(4) The raw images made from techniques such as ultrasounds and
radio-mapping (of either a woman's stomach or an ocean floor) are dirty in
the sense that there it is difficult to see from the raw image where
exactly (for example) in the ocean floor a relatively shallow pit exists.
All that's there is perhaps a very slight change in the grayscale for the
pit. Such data is often difficult to interpret and most images are
eventually released in false color. That is, the grayscale image is
assigned color values and enhanced so that us humans can see the subtle pit
in the ocean floor in living color. I'm interested in a project that
involves "coloring" a collection of dirty images for easy human
understanding.
(5) Creation of a (trans)file system navigation tool similar to SGI
Explorer but with much improved color coding, scaling, and the ability to
navigate across a network (perhaps across the web).
Arranged in order of my interest level they are: #2, #5, #1, #3, #4.
Relevant math classes taken (calculus, linear algebra,
numerical methods, signal processing, ode's, pde's, etc.): (1) Math 17/18 ;
(2) pretty fair understanding of matrixes and the mathematics involving
them (although I have not yet taken a formal linear algebra course)
Relevant science classes taken: (1) A bunch of CS courses including data
structures, some coding classes, etc; (2) neural modeling (in the CogSci
dept) ; (3) a bunch of neuro classes (sadly not including visual systems)
Other relevant classes or experience: (1) a couple English writing classes;
(2) In the past several years I've worked summers doing mostly software
design and engineering. This past summer I worked on some complex data
mining algorithms. I also took a year away from school (two years ago) and
wrote software that translated old, nasty looking databases into
information that could be more easily viewed (online, for example).
Dept: Computer Science
Year (Fr, So, Jr, Sr, Gr
Want to learn: Topics in scientific visualization.
Other goals for class: Improving writing and presentation skill
Role you would like to play in a project and skills you bring:
I'd like to work closely with other group members in every phase
of the project. I have experience of bringing up a proposal, and implement
it.
Relevant science classes taken:
physics, biology...
Name: Asohan (Han) Amarasingham
Name: Danah Beard
Name:Quan Gu
Name: Dongbai Guo
Name: Jimmy Ho
Dept: CS
Year (Fr, So, Jr, Sr, Gr
Name: Matt Hutson
Name:Daniel Keefe
Name:
Marc Majzner
Name: Elisabeta (Liz) Marai
Name: Tomer Moscovich
Name: Prabhat
Name: Pramod Paranthaman
Name: Nikolai Priezjev
Name: Jon Reiter
Name: Paul Reitsma
Name: Tim Rowley
Name: B. Jericho Seguin
Name: Avi Walsky
Name: Benjamin White
Name: Song Zhang
Joseph LaViola
Last modified: Wed Sep 22 12:27:30 EDT 1999