Major Research Interests:

• Computer Graphics

• Geometric and Physics-Based Modeling

• Computer Aided Design

• Computer Integrated Manufacturing

• Computer Aided Geometric Design

• Virtual Environments

• Virtual Engineering

• Animation, Simulation, and Robotics

Other Research Interests:

• Finite Element Analysis and Numerical Methods

• Visualization, Vision, and Medical Imaging

• User Interaction and Human-Computer Interface

• Scientific Computing

• Applied Mathematics

Teaching Interests:

• Computer Graphics

• Geometric and Physics-Based Modeling

• Computer Aided Design

• Virtual Reality

• Scientific Visualization

• Computer Animation and Simulation

• Numerical Techniques and Analysis

Education:

• Ph.D., University of Toronto, 1995, Toronto, Canada, Doctor of Philosophy in Computer Science, specializing in Computer Graphics and Geometric Modeling (September, 1995). Thesis title: D-NURBS: Dynamic Non-Uniform Rational B-Splines. Thesis supervisor: Professor Demetri Terzopoulos (Computer Science, University of Toronto).

• M.Sc., Peking University, 1989, Beijing, P.R. China. Master of Science in Computer Science (August, 1989). Thesis title: Optimal Algorithm and Software Implementation of Structural Analysis for Biological Molecules. Thesis Supervisor: Professor Gong-Ben Wang (Computer Science, Peking University).

• B.Sc., Peking University, 1986, Beijing, P.R. China. Bachelor of Science in Computer Science (July, 1986). Thesis title: Initiative Research on GO Expert System. Thesis Supervisor: Professor Gong-Ben Wang (Computer Science, Peking University).

Professional Experience:

• State University of New York at Stony Brook, Department of Computer Science, Stony Brook, New York, USA [August, 2006 -- present] Full professor of computer science.

• State University of New York at Stony Brook, Department of Computer Science, Stony Brook, New York, USA [August, 2001 -- July 2006] Associate professor in computer science.

• State University of New York at Stony Brook, Department of Computer Science, Stony Brook, New York, USA [September, 1997 -- July, 2001] Assistant professor in computer science.

• University of Florida, Department of Computer and Information Science and Engineering, Gainesville, Florida, USA [December, 1995 -- October, 1997] Assistant Professor in computer and information science and engineering.

• University of Toronto, Department of Computer Science, Toronto, Canada [September, 1995 -- December, 1995] Research scientist and postdoctoral fellow in computer science.

• University of Toronto, Department of Computer Science, Toronto, Canada [August, 1991 -- September, 1995] Research Assistant. Teaching Assistant in undergraduate and graduate computer science courses.

• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Department of Computer Science, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA [August, 1990 -- July, 1991] Research Assistant. Teaching Assistant in graduate computer science courses.

• North-China Institute of Computing Technology, Beijing, P.R. China [July, 1989 -- July, 1990] Research Scientist in computer networks and telecommunication.

• Peking University, Department of Computer Science, Beijing, P.R. China [August, 1986 -- June, 1989] Research Assistant. Teaching Assistant in graduate computer science courses.

Honors and Awards:

• Research Excellence Award, Department of Computer Science, State University of New York at Stony Brook, August, 2004.

• ACM Solid Modeling and Applications Symposium Best Paper Award, Genova, Italy, June 2004.

• Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow, 2001 -- 2005.

• Honda Initiation Grant Award, 2001.

• NSF ITR Grant Award, National Science Foundation, 2000 -- 2003.

• NSF CAREER Award, National Science Foundation, 1997 -- 2001.

• University of Toronto Open Doctoral Fellowship, 1991 -- 1993.

• International Student Differential Fee Waiver Scholarship, University of Toronto, 1991 -- 1993.

• Best Graduate Award, Peking University, Beijing, 1986.

• Honor Student Award, Peking University, Beijing, 1983 -- 1985.

• Silver Medal of National High School Mathematics Competition, Beijing, 1982.

• Bronze Medal of Metro Beijing Junior High School Mathematics Competition, Beijing, 1980.

Grants:

• Co-Principal Investigator, ``ITR: Intelligent Deformable Models,'' National Science Foundation, $1,240,000, September 2003 to August 2007 (a collaborative research project among SUNY at Stony Brook, New York University, Stanford University, and UCLA, with Demetri. Terzopoulos from New York University as PI, Ronald Fedkiw from Stanford University and Stanley Osher from UCLA as another two co-PIs).

• Principal Investigator, ``Visualization/MASSIVE: Multiresolution, Adaptive, Subdivision Surfaces for Interactive Visualization and Exploration,'' National Science Foundation, $350,002, (additional $36,000 university matching fund from SUNY at Stony Brook), September 2003 to August 2006.

• Principal Investigator, ``Parallel Software Development for BNL Aerosol Chemical Transport and Transformation Model,'' Brookhaven National Laboratory, $27,062, November 2001 to October 2002.

• Principal Investigator, ``Parallel Computation Techniques and System Development for Chemical Transport Modeling and Simulation,'' Brookhaven National Laboratory, $15,432, May 2001 to November 2001.

• 2001 Sloan Research Fellowship, $40,000, September 2001 to September 2003.

• Principal Investigator, ``A Haptics-Based Interface and Interactive Sculpting System for Virtual Environments,'' National Science Foundation, $546,446, (additional $100,000 university matching fund from SUNY at Stony Brook), July 2001 to June 2004.

• Principal Investigator, ``Novel Engineering Design Techniques for the Next-Generation, Integrated CAE/CAD/CIM in Automobile Industry,'' Sensor CAT of New York State, $8,000, January 2001 to December 2001.

• Principal Investigator, ``Physics-Based Technology and System for the Next-Generation, Integrated CAE/CAD/CIM,'' Honda Initiation Grant Award, $30,000, January 2001 to December 2001 (also see http://research.honda.com).

• Principal Investigator, ``ITR/HCI: An Interactive Graphical Modeling System based on Dynamic Subdivision Splines,'' National Science Foundation Information Technology Research (ITR) Initiative, $450,000, (additional $55,096 university matching fund from SUNY at Stony Brook), September 2000 to August 2003.

• Software Gift Donation from Structural Dynamics Research Corporation, SDRC I-DEAS software system, $158,000 per user, 28 simultaneous users, total $4,424,000 to SUNY at Stony Brook.

• Principal Investigator, ``Graphical Modeling, Statistical Analysis, and Visualization of Large Warehouse Datasets,'' SUNY SPIR program and Robocom Systems International, $26,167, January 2000 to July 2000.

• Principal Investigator, ``A Software Tool for Graphical Understanding and Decision Making in Large Warehouse Datasets,'' SUNY SPIR program and Robocom Systems International, $38,496, June 2000 to December 2000.

• Principal Investigator, ``A Physics-Based Geometric Modeling and Design System,'' National Science Foundation, $271,000, January 1997 to January 2000.

• Principal Investigator, ``Physics-Based Computer Aided Geometric Design: Theory and Applications,'' National Science Foundation CAREER Award, $230,000, May 1997 to May 2001.

• Principal Investigator, ``An Interactive, Physics-Based, Computer-Integrated Design Environment for Automotive CAD/CAM/CAE,'' Ford Motor Company, $37,500, May 1997 to May 1999.

Journal Publications:

• "Spherical Splines for Genus Zero Shape Modeling,'' Y. He, X. Gu, and H. Qin, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, November 2005, under review.

• "A Unified Subdivision Approach for Multi-dimensional Non-Manifold Modeling,'' Y. Chang and H. Qin, Computer-Aided Design, September 2005, under review.

• "Automatic Shape Control of Triangular B-Splines of Arbitrary Topology,'' Y. He, X. Gu, and H. Qin, Journal of Computer Science and Technology, Vol. 20, No. 2, February 2006, in press. (Special Issue on Recent Advances in Computer Graphics)

• "Surface Completion for Shape and Appearance,'' S. Park, X. Guo, H. Shin, and H. Qin, The Visual Computer, Vol. 22, 2006, in press.

• "Meshless Thin-Shell Simulation Based on Global Conformal Parameterization,'' X. Guo, X. Li, Y. Bao, X. Gu, and H. Qin,  IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, Vol. 12, 2006, in press.

• "Manifold Splines,'' X. Gu, Y. He, and H. Qin, Graphical Models, 2006, in press.

• "Physically-based Morphing of Point-sampled Surfaces,'' Y. Bao, X. Guo, and H. Qin, Computer Animation and Virtual Worlds, 16(3-4): 509--518, July 2005.

• "Real-time Mesh-free Deformation,'' X. Guo and H. Qin, Computer Animation and Virtual Worlds, 16(3-4): 189--200, July, 2005.

• "A Novel Framework for Physically Based Sculpting and Animation of Free-form Solids,'' K. T. McDonnell and H. Qin, Graphical Models, October 2005, under review.

• "PDE-Based Deformable Surface for Shape Reconstruction,'' Ye Duan, Liu Yang, Hong Qin, Dimitris Samaras, and Hongkai Zhao, Computer Vision and Image Understanding, April 2005, under review.

• "DigitalSculpture: A Subdivision-based Approach to Interactive Implicit Surface Modeling,'' K.T. McDonnell, Y. Chang, and H. Qin, Graphical Models, 67(4): 347--369, July, 2005.

• "Interactive Shape Modeling using Lagrangian Surface Flow,'' Y. Duan, J. Hua, and H. Qin, The Visual Computer, 21(5): 279--288, June, 2005.

• "Trivariate Simplex Splines for Inhomogeneous Solid Modeling in Engineering Design,'' J. Hua, Y. He, and H. Qin, ASME Transactions, Journal of Computing and Information Science in Engineering (JCISE), 5(2): 149--157, June, 2005.

• "Dynamic PDE-based Surface Design Using Geometric and Physical Constraints,'' H. Du and H. Qin, Graphical Models, 67(1): 43--71, January, 2005.

• "Enhancing Interactive Editing on Point Set Surfaces Through Touch-based Haptics,'' X. Guo, J. Hua, and H. Qin, IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, 24(6): 31--39, November/December, 2004.

• "A Shape Design System Using Volumetric Implicit PDEs,'' H. Du and H. Qin, Computer Aided Design, 36(11): 1101--1116, September, 2004, (special issue on Solid Modeling Theory and Applications).

• "Haptics-based Dynamic Implicit Solid Modeling,'' J. Hua and H. Qin, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 10(5): 574--586, September, 2004.

• "Interpolatory, Solid Subdivision of Unstructured Hexahedral Meshes,'' K.T. McDonnell, Y. Chang, and H. Qin, The Visual Computer, 20(6): 418--436, August, 2004.

• "Scalar-Function-Driven Editing on Point Set Surfaces,'' X. Guo, J. Hua, and H. Qin, IEEE Computer Graphics and Application, 24(4): 43--52, July/August, 2004.

• "HapticFlow: PDE-based Mesh Editing with Haptics,'' Y. Duan, J. Hua, and H. Qin, Computer Animation and Virtual Worlds, 15(3-4): 193--200, July 2004.

• "A Subdivision-based Deformable Model for Surface Reconstruction of Unknown Topology,'' Y. Duan and H. Qin, Graphical Models, 66(4): 181--202, July 2004.

• "Scalar-Field-Guided Adaptive Shape Deformation and Animation,'' J. Hua and H. Qin, The Visual Computer, 20(1): 47--66, April, 2004.

• "Dynamic Sculpting and Animation of Free-form Subdivision Solids,'' K.T. McDonnell and H. Qin, The Visual Computer, 18(2): 81--96, March, 2002.

• "A Novel Optimization Approach to The Effective Computation of NURBS Knots,'' H. Xie and H. Qin, International Journal of Shape Modeling, 7(2): 199--227, December, 2001 (Special Issue on the International Conference on Shape Modeling and Applications - SMI2001, Guest Editor: A. Pasko).

• "A Novel Haptics-Based Interface and Sculpting System for Physics-Based Modeling and Design,'' F. Dachille, H. Qin, and A. Kaufman, Computer Aided Design, 33(5): 403--420, April, 2001.

• "A Novel FEM-Based Dynamic Framework For Subdivision Surfaces,'' C. Mandal, H. Qin and B.C. Vemuri, Computer Aided Design, 32(8&9): 479--497, 2000 (Special Issue on Solid Modeling).

• "Dynamic Modeling of Butterfly Subdivision Surfaces,'' C. Mandal, H. Qin and B.C. Vemuri, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 6(3): 265--287, July-September, 2000 (earlier version also available UFL-CISE Technical Report TR98-009).

• "Dynamic Catmull-Clark Subdivision Surfaces,'' H. Qin, C. Mandal and B.C. Vemuri, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 4(3): 215--229, July-September, 1998.

• "Triangular NURBS and Dynamic Generalizations,'' H. Qin and D. Terzopoulos, Computer Aided Geometric Design, 14(4): 325--347, 1997.

• "Physics-Based Geometric Design,'' H. Qin, International Journal of Shape Modeling, 2(2&3): 139--188, 1996.

• "D-NURBS: A Physics-Based Geometric Design Framework,'' H. Qin and D. Terzopoulos, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 2(1): 85--96, March, 1996.

• "Dynamic NURBS Swung Surfaces for Physics-Based Shape Design,'' H. Qin and D. Terzopoulos, Computer Aided Design, 27(2): 111--127, February, 1995, (Special Issue on NURBS: Theory and Practice).

• "Dynamic NURBS with Geometric Constraints for Interactive Sculpting,'' D. Terzopoulos and H. Qin, ACM Transactions on Graphics, 13(2): 103--136, April, 1994. (Special Issue on Interactive Sculpting).

• "The Program and Algorithm for Optimal Biological Sequence Alignment,'' H. Qin and G. Wang, Acta Scientiarum Naturalium Universitatis Pekinensis, 27(1): 51--60, January, 1991.

Conference Publications:

• "Brain Image Analysis Using Spherical Splines,'' Ying He, Xin Li, Xianfeng Gu, and Hong Qin, Proceedings of the Fifth International Workshop on Energy Minimization Methods in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) 3757, November 9-11, 2005, St. Augustine, Florida, USA, pages 633 -- 644.

• "Topology-driven Surface Mappings with Robust Feature Alignment,'' C. Carner, M. Jin, X. Gu, and H. Qin, Proceedings of IEEE Visualization 2005, October 23-28, 2005, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA, pages 543 -- 550.

• "Incorporating Rigid Structures in Non-rigid Registration using Triangular B-splines,'' K. Wang, Y. He, and H. Qin, Proceedings of the Third Internatinal Workshop on Variational, Geometric, and Level Set Methods in Computer Vision (in conjunction with ICCV 2005), Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) 3752, October 16, Beijing, China, pages 235 -- 244.

• "A C1 Globally Interpolatory Spline of Arbitrary Topology,'' Y. He, M. Jin, X. Gu, and H. Qin, Proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Variational, Geometric, and Level Set Methods in Computer Vision (in conjunction with ICCV 2005), Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) 3752, October 16, Beijing, China, pages 295 -- 306.

• "Shape and Appearance Repair for Incomplete Point Surfaces,'' S. Park, X. Guo, H. Shin, and H. Qin, Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV 2005), Volume II, October 17-20, 2005, Beijing, China, pages 1260 -- 1267.

• "Physically-based Morphing of Point-sampled Surfaces,'' Y. Bao, X. Guo, and H. Qin, International Conference on Computer Animation and Social Agents (CASA 2005), October 17-19, 2005, Hong Kong.

• "Real-time Mesh-free Deformation,'' X. Guo and H. Qin, International Conference on Computer Animation and Social Agents (CASA 2005), October 17-19, 2005, Hong Kong.

• "A Hybrid Physics-Based Scheme for Interpolation Subdivision using Coupled Physics and Subdivision Coefficients, S. Ray and H. Qin, Proceedings of the 13th Pacific Conference on Computer Graphics and Applications (Pacific Graphics 2005), October 12-14, Macao, China, pages 166 -- 168.

• "Faring Triangular B-splines of Arbitrary Topology,'' Y. He, and X. Gu, and H. Qin, Proceedings of the 13th Pacific Conference on Computer Graphics and Applications (Pacific Graphics 2005), October 12-14, Macao, China, pages 153 -- 156.

• "Design and Manipulation of Polygonal Models in a Haptic, Stereoscopic Virtual Environment,'' J. Hua, Y. Duan, and H. Qin, Proceedings of International Conference on Shape Modeling and Applications (SMI 2005), June 15-17, 2005, MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts, pages 145 -- 154.

• "Rational Spherical Splines for Genus Zero Shape Modeling,'' Y. He, X. Gu, and H. Qin, Proceedings of International Conference on Shape Modeling and Applications (SMI 2005), June 15-17, 2005, MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts, pages 82 -- 91.

• "Manifold Splines,'' X. Gu, Y. He, and H. Qin, Proceedings of ACM Symposium on Solid and Physical Modeling (SPM 2005), June 13-15, 2005, Cambridge, Massachusetts, pages 27 -- 38.

• "Direct Sketching of 3D Shapes on Polygonal Models,'' Y. Duan, J. Hua, and H. Qin, Proceedings of the Eighth Conference on Geometric Design and Computing, 2004.

• "Fitting Subdivision Surfaces to Unorganized Point Data using SDM,'' Dominic Cheng, W. Wang, Hong Qin, Kenneth Wong, Huaiping Yang, and Yang Liu, Proceedings of The 12th Pacific Conference on Computer Graphics and Applications (Pacific Graphics 2004), pages 16--24, Seoul, Korea, October 6-8, 2004.

• "Surface Reconstruction of Noisy and Defective Data-Sets,'' H. Xie, K.T. McDonnell, and H. Qin, Proceedings of IEEE Visualization 2004, pages 259--266, October 10-15, 2004, Austin, Texas.

• "A Deformable Modeling Paradigm for 3D Shape Recovery from Visual Inputs,'' Y. Duan and H. Qin, Proceedings of the International Symposium on Computer Vision, Object Tracking, and Recognition, August 30-31, 2004, Beijing, China, (invited paper).

• "HapticFlow: PDE-Based Mesh Editing with Haptics,'' Y. Duan, J. Hua, and H. Qin, The 17th International Conference on Computer Animation and Social Agents (CASA2004), July, 2004, Geneva, Switzerland.

• "A Hybrid Physics-Based Subdivision Technique Using Coupled Dynamic and Subdivision Parameters,'' S. Ray and H. Qin, Proceedings of the Computer Graphics International Conference (CGI2004), June 16-19, 2004, Heraklion, Crete, Greece, pages 44 -- 51.

• "Point Set Surface Editing Techniques based on Level-Sets,'' X. Guo, J. Hua, and H. Qin, Proceedings of the Computer Graphics International Conference (CGI2004), June 16-19, 2004, Heraklion, Crete, Greece, pages 52 -- 59.

• "Medial Axis Extraction and Shape Manipulation of Solid Objects Using Parabolic PDEs,'' H. Du and H. Qin, Proceedings of The Ninth ACM Symposium on Solid Modeling and Applications (Solid Modeling 2004), June 9-11, 2004, Genova, Italy, pages 25 -- 35.

• "Multiresolution Heterogeneous Solid Modeling and Visualization Using Trivariate Simplex Splines,'' J. Hua, Y. He, and H. Qin, Proceedings of the Ninth ACM Symposium on Solid Modeling and Applications (Solid Modeling 2004), June 9-11, 2004, Genova, Italy, pages 47 -- 58, (Best Paper Award).

• "A Framework for Multi-dimensional Adaptive Subdivision Objects,'' Y. Chang and H. Qin, Proceedings of the Ninth ACM Symposium on Solid Modeling and Applications (Solid Modeling 2004), June 9-11, 2004, Genova, Italy, pages 123 -- 134.

• "Shape Reconstruction from 3D and 2D Data Using PDE-Based Deformable Surfaces,'' Y. Duan, L. Yang, H. Qin, and D. Samaras, Proceedings of the Eighth European Conference on Computer Vision (Computer Vision - ECCV 2004), Part III, May 11-14, 2004, Prague, Czech Republic, pages 238 -- 251 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science 3023).

• "Surface Reconstruction with Trangular B-splines,'' Ying He and Hong Qin, Proceedings of Geometric Modeling and Processing 2004 (GMP2004), April 13-15, 2004, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, pages 279 -- 287.

• "2.5D Active Contour for Surface Reconstruction,'' Y. Duan and H. Qin, the 8th International Workshop on Vision, Modeling, and Visualization (VMV 2003), Munich, Germany, November 19-21, 2003, pages 431 -- 439.

• "Shape Design, Reconstruction, and Manipulation Using Volumetric Implicit PDEs,'' (abstract), H. Du and H. Qin, Eighth SIAM Conference on Geometric Design and Computing (SIAM-GD'03), Seattle, Washington, November 10-13, 2003.

• "Sketch-based Adaptive Free-Form Deformation,'' (abstract), J. Hua and H. Qin, Eighth SIAM Conference on Geometric Design and Computing (SIAM-GD'03), Seattle, Washington, November 10-13, 2003.

• "Explicit Surface Flow for Mesh Editing,'' (abstract), Ye Duan, Jing Hua and Hong Qin, The 8th SIAM Conference on Geometric Design and Computing, November 10-13, 2003, Seattle, WA.

• "Tangential-Flow Based Surface Reconstruction,'' (abstract), Ye Duan and Hong Qin, The 8th SIAM Conference on Geometric Design and Computing, November 10-13, 2003, Seattle, WA.

• "Dynamic Points: A Real-time Sculpting System on Point Set Surfaces,'' (abstract), Xiaohu Guo, Jing Hua, and Hong Qin, The Eighth SIAM Conference on Geometric Design and Computing, Seattle, WA, November 10-13 2003.

• "Optimization-driven Subdivision Surface Design,'' (abstract), Hui Xie, Jing Hua, and Hong Qin, The Eighth SIAM Conference on Geometric Design and Computing, Seattle, WA, November 10-13, 2003.

• "Voxels on Fire,'' Y. Zhao, X. Wei, Z. Fan, A. Kaufman, and H. Qin, Proceedings of IEEE Visualization 2003 (Vis'03), October 19-24, 2003, Seattle, Washington, pages 271 -- 278.

• "Piecewise C1 Continuous Surface Reconstruction of Noisy Point Cloud via Local Implicit Quadric Regression,'' H. Xie, J. Wang, J. Hua, H. Qin, and A. Kaufman, Proceedings of IEEE Visualization 2003 (Vis'03), October 19-24, 2003, Seattle, Washington, pages 91 -- 98.

• "Dynamic Sculpting and Deformation of Point Set Surfaces,'' X. Guo and H. Qin, Proceedings of the Eleventh Pacific Conference on Computer Graphics and Applications (Pacific Graphics 2003), October 8-10, 2003, Canmore, Alberta, Canada, pages 123 -- 130.

• "Free-Form Deformations via Sketching and Manipulating Scalar Fields,'' J. Hua and H. Qin, Proceedings of the 8th ACM Symposium on Solid Modeling and Applications (SM'03), Seattle, Washington, June 16-20, 2003, pages 328 -- 333.

• "Interactive Shape Design Using Volumetric Implicit PDEs,'' H. Du and H. Qin, Proceedings of the 8th ACM Symposium on Solid Modeling and Applications (SM'03), Seattle, Washington, June 16-20, 2003, pages 235 -- 246.

• "An Interpolatory Subdivision for Volumetric Models over Simplicial Complexes,'' Y. Chang, K. T. McDonnell, and H. Qin, Proceedings of the International Conference on Shape Modeling and Applications (SMI 2003), Seoul, Korea, May 12-15, 2003, pages 143 -- 152.

• "ElasticPaint: A Particle System for Feature Mapping with Minimum Distortion,'' C. Carner and H. Qin, Proceedings of The 16th International Conference on Computer Animation and Social Agents (CASA 2003), Rutgers University, New Brunswich, New Jersey, May 7-9, 2003, pages 60 -- 67.

• "2.5D Active Surface for Surface Reconstruction,'' (abstract), Y. Duan and H. Qin, DIMACS Workshop on Surface Reconstruction, April 30 - May 2, 2003, DIMACS Center, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ.

• "Virtual Clay: Haptics-based Deformable Solids of Arbitrary Topology,'' (invited paper) K. T. McDonnell and H. Qin, Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Articulated Motion and Deformable Objects (AMDO 2002), Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS 2492), Springer-Verlag, November 21-23, 2002, Palma de Mallorca, Spain, pages 1--20.

• "Haptics-based Volumetric Modeling Using Dynamic Spline-based Implicit Functions,'' J. Hua and H. Qin, Proceedings of the Eighth IEEE/SIGGRAPH Symposium on Volume Visualization and Graphics 2002 (VolVis 2002), October 28-29, 2002, Boston, Massachusetts, pages 55 -- 64.

• "A Physics-based Framework for Subdivision Surface Design with Automatic Rules Control,'' H. Xie and H. Qin, Proceedings of the Tenth Pacific Conference on Computer Graphics and Applications (Pacific Graphics 2002), October 9-11, 2002, Beijing, P.R. China, pages 304 -- 315.

• "A New Solid Subdivision Scheme based on Box Splines,'' Y. Chang, K.T. McDonnell, and H. Qin, Proceedings of Seventh ACM Symposium on Solid Modeling and Applications (Solid Modeling 2002), June 17-21, 2002, Saarbruecken, Germany, pages 226 -- 233.

•  "Dynamic Implicit Solids with Constraints for Haptic Sculpting,'' J. Hua and H. Qin, Proceedings of International Conference on Shape Modeling and Applications (SMI 2002), May 17-22, 2002, Banff, Alberta, Canada, pages 119 -- 128.

• "Dynamic NURBS with Time-varying Knot Vectors,'' (abstract), H. Xie and H. Qin, Seventh SIAM Conference on Geometric Design and Computing, November 5-8, 2001, Sacramento, California, page 22.

• "A Novel Subdivision-Based Deformable Model for Surface Reconstruction of Arbitrary Topology,'' (abstract), Y. Duan and H. Qin, Seventh SIAM Conference on Geometric Design and Computing, November 5-8, 2001, Sacramento, California, page 22.

• "Real-time Volume Sculpting System Using Implicit Functions,'' (abstract), J. Hua and H. Qin, Seventh SIAM Conference on Geometric Design and Computing, November 5-8, 2001, Sacramento, California, pages 30 -- 31.

• "Physics-Based PDE Solids with Global and Local Constraints for Geometric Design,'' (abstract), H. Du and H. Qin, Seventh SIAM Conference on Geometric Design and Computing, November 5-8, 2001, Sacramento, California, page 26.

• "Haptic Sculpting of Volumetric Implicit Functions,'' J. Hua and H. Qin, Proceedings of the Ninth Pacific Conference on Computer Graphics and Applications (Pacific Graphics 2001), October 16-18, 2001, Tokyo, Japan, 2001, pages 254 -- 264.

• "Integrating Physics-Based Modeling with PDE Solids for Geometric Design,'' H. Du and H. Qin, Proceedings of the Ninth Pacific Conference on Computer Graphics and Applications (Pacific Graphics 2001), October 16-18, 2001, Tokyo, Japan, pages 198 -- 207.

• "A Novel Modeling Algorithm for Shape Recovery of Unknown Topology,'' Y. Duan and H. Qin, Proceedings of Eighth IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV 2001), July 7-14, 2001, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, pages 402 -- 409.

• "Extracting Boundary Surface of Arbitrary Topology from Volumetric Datasets,'' Y. Duan and H. Qin, Proceedings of the International Workshop on Volume Graphics 2001 (VG01), June 21-22, 2001, Stony Brook, New York, pages 235 -- 248.

• "Novel Solver for Dynamic Surfaces,'' S. Ray and H. Qin, Proceedings of Graphics Interface 2001 (GI 2001), June 7-9, 2001, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, pages 47 -- 54.

• "Intelligent Balloon: A Subdivision-Based Deformable Model For Surface Reconstruction Of Arbitrary, Unknown Topology,'' Y. Duan and H. Qin, Proceedings of Sixth ACM Symposium on Solid Modeling and Applications (Solid Modeling 2001), June 6-8, 2001, Ann Arbor, Michigan, pages 47 -- 58.

• "FEM-Based Subdivision Solids for Dynamic and Haptic Interaction,'' K.T. McDonnell and H. Qin, Proceedings of Sixth ACM Symposium on Solid Modeling and Applications (Solid Modeling 2001), June 6-8, 2001, Ann Arbor, Michigan, pages 312 -- 313.

• "Hierarchical D-NURBS Surfaces and Their Physics-Based Sculpting,'' M. Zhang and H. Qin, Proceedings of International Conference on Shape Modeling and Applications (SMI 2001), May 7-11, 2001, Genova, Italy, pages 257 -- 266.

• "Automatic Knot Determination of NURBS for Interactive Geometric Design,'' H. Xie and H. Qin, Proceedings of International Conference on Shape Modeling and Applications (SMI 2001), May 7-11, 2001, Genova, Italy, pages 267 -- 276.

• "Virtual Clay: A Real-time Sculpting System with Haptic Toolkits,'' K.T. McDonnell, H. Qin, and R. A. Wlodarczyk, Proceedings of 2001 ACM Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics, March 19-21, 2001, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, pages 179 -- 190.

• "FEM-Based Dynamic Subdivision Splines,'' (invited paper), H. Qin, Proceedings of the Eighth Pacific Conference on Computer Graphics and Applications (Pacific Graphics 2000), October 3-5, 2000, Hong Kong, pages 184 -- 191.

• "Dynamic PDE Surfaces with Flexible and General Geometric Constraints,'' H. Du and H. Qin, Proceedings of the Eighth Pacific Conference on Computer Graphics and Applications (Pacific Graphics 2000), October 3-5, 2000, Hong Kong, pages 213 -- 222.

• "Direct Manipulation and Interactive Sculpting of PDE Surfaces,'' H. Du and H. Qin, Computer Graphics Forum (Proceedings of Eurographics 2000), Vol.19, No.3, C261 -- C270, August 21-25, 2000, Interlaken, Switzerland.

• "Dynamic Sculpting and Animation of Free-form Subdivision Solids,'' K.T. McDonnell and H. Qin, Proceedings of IEEE Computer Animation 2000, May 3-5, 2000, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, pages 126 -- 133.

• "Manipulating Butterfly Subdivision Surfaces with Forces,'' (abstract), C. Mandal, H. Qin, and B.C. Vemuri, Sixth SIAM Conference on Geometric Design, November 2-5, 1999, Albuquerque, New Mexico, page 41.

• "A Subdivision-Based Finite Element Method and its Applications,'' (abstract), C. Mandal, H. Qin, and B. C. Vemuri, Sixth SIAM Conference on Geometric Design, November 2-5, 1999, Albuquerque, New Mexico, pages 56 -- 57.

• "Haptic Manipulation of Virtual Spline Objects,'' (abstract), F. Dachille, H. Qin, A. Kaufman, and J. El-Sana, Sixth SIAM Conference on Geometric Design, November 2-5, 1999, Albuquerque, New Mexico, page 40.

• "A Novel FEM-Based Dynamic Framework For Subdivision Surfaces,'' C. Mandal, H. Qin and B.C. Vemuri, Proceedings of Fifth ACM Symposium on Solid Modeling and Applications (Solid Modeling 1999), June 9-11, 1999, Ann Arbor, Michigan, pages 191 -- 202 (also available UFL-CISE Technical Report TR98-021).

• "Haptic Sculpting of Dynamic Surfaces,'' F. Dachille, H. Qin, A. Kaufman, and J. El-Sana, Proceedings of 1999 ACM Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics, April 26-28, 1999, Atlanta, Georgia, pages 103 -- 110.

• "A New Dynamic FEM-Based Subdivision Surface Model for Shape Recovery and Tracking in Medical Images,'' C. Mandal, B.C. Vemuri, and H. Qin, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Proceedings of First International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention (MICCAI'98), October 11-13, 1998, Cambridge, Massachusetts, pages 753 -- 760.

• "Physics-Based Modeling Framework for Graphics, Computer-Aided Design, and Visualization,'' H. Qin, Proceedings of International Symposium on Computing and Microelectronics Technologies, May 3, 1998, Beijing, P.R. China, pages 250 -- 267, Peking University Press.

• "Shape Recovery Using Dynamic Subdivision Surfaces,'' C. Mandal, B.C. Vemuri, and H. Qin, Proceedings of the Sixth IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV 98), January 4-7, 1998, Bombay, India, pages 805 -- 810.

• "Dynamic Smooth Subdivision Surfaces for Data Visualization,'' C. Mandal, H. Qin and B.C. Vemuri, Proceedings of IEEE Visualization'97 (Vis'97), October 19-24, 1997, Phoenix, Arizona, pages 371 -- 377.

• "Dynamic Catmull-Clark Subdivision Surfaces,'' (abstract) C. Mandal, H. Qin and B.C. Vemuri, Fifth SIAM Conference on Geometric Design, November 3-6, 1997, Nashville, Tennessee, page 30.

• "Dynamic Sculpting of Triangular NURBS Objects,'' (abstract), H. Qin and D. Terzopoulos, Fourth SIAM Conference on Geometric Design, November 6-9, 1995, Nashville, Tennessee, page A24.

• "D-NURBS,'' (invited paper), H. Qin and D. Terzopoulos, Proceedings of Third Pacific Conference on Computer Graphics and Applications (Pacific Graphics 1995), August, 1995, Seoul, South Korea, in Fundamentals of Computer Graphics, J. Chen et al. (eds.), World Scientific, Singapore, 1995, pages 455 -- 474.

• "Dynamic Manipulation of Triangular B-Splines,'' H. Qin and D. Terzopoulos, Proceedings of Third Symposium on Solid Modeling and Applications (Solid Modeling'95), May 17-19, 1995, Salt Lake City, Utah, ACM Press, pages 351 -- 360.

• "Physics-Based NURBS Swung Surfaces,'' H. Qin and D. Terzopoulos, Proceedings of Sixth IMA Conference on the Mathematics of Surfaces, September, 1994, London, UK, in The Mathematics of Surfaces VI, G. Mullineux (ed.), Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK, 1996, pages 267 -- 290.

• "NURBS with Lagrangian Dynamics,'' (abstract), H. Qin and D. Terzopoulos, Third SIAM Conference on Geometric Design, November 1-5, 1993, Tempe, Arizona, page A27.

Other Publications:

• "Virtual Clay: A Real-time, Haptics-based Sculpting System,'' K. T. McDonnell, H. Qin and R. A. Wlodarczyk, In Proceedings of Graduate Research Conference 2001, Department of Computer Science, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, April 2001 (Won best paper/presentation award).

• "Direct Manipulation of Butterfly Subdivision Surfaces: A Physics-based Approach,'' C. Mandal, H. Qin B. C. Vemuri, UFL-CISE Technical Report TR98-009.

• "Natural Terrain Modeling Using Subdivision Surfaces,'' C. Mandal, H. Qin and B.C. Vemuri, UFL-CISE Technical Report TR98-020.

• "A Novel FEM-based Dynamic Framework For Subdivision Surfaces,'' C. Mandal, H. Qin, and B. C. Vemuri, UFL-CISE Technical Report TR98-021.

• "Physics-Based Shape Modeling And Shape Recovery Using Multiresolution Subdivision Surfaces,'' C. Mandal, H. Qin and B.C. Vemuri, UFL-CISE Technical Report TR99-001.

Conference Presentations:

• "Surface Reconstruction of Noisy and Defective Data-Sets,'' IEEE Visualization 2004, October 14, 2004, Austin, Texas, U.S.A.

• "Medial Axis Extraction and Shape Manipulation of Solid Objects Using Parabolic PDEs,'' The Ninth ACM Symposium on Solid Modeling and Applications (Solid Modeling 2004), June 9-11, 2004, Genova, Italy.

• "Multiresolution Heterogeneous Solid Modeling and Visualization Using Trivariate Simplex Splines,'' The Ninth ACM Symposium on Solid Modeling and Applications (Solid Modeling 2004), June 9-11, 2004, Genova, Italy (Best Paper Award).

• "Surface Reconstruction with Trangular B-splines,'' Geometric Modeling and Processing 2004 (GMP2004), April 13-15, 2004, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.

• "Shape Design, Reconstruction, and Manipulation Using Volumetric Implicit PDEs,'' (abstract), The Eighth SIAM Conference on Geometric Design and Computing (SIAM-GD'03), Seattle, Washington, November 10-13, 2003.

• "Sketch-based Adaptive Free-Form Deformation,'' The Eighth SIAM Conference on Geometric Design and Computing (SIAM-GD'03)}, Seattle, Washington, November 10-13, 2003.

• "Dynamic Points: A Real-time Sculpting System on Point Set Surfaces,'' The Eighth SIAM Conference on Geometric Design and Computing (SIAM-GD'03), Seattle, WA, November 10-13, 2003.

• "Optimization-driven Subdivision Surface Design,'' The Eighth SIAM Conference on Geometric Design and Computing (SIAM-GD'03), Seattle, WA, November 10-13, 2003.

• "Virtual Clay: Haptics-based Deformable Solids of Arbitrary Topology,'' The Second International Workshop on Articulated Motion and Deformable Objects (AMDO 2002), Palma de Mallorca, Spain, November 21-23, 2002.

• "A Physics-based Framework for Subdivision Surface Design with Automatic Rules Control,'' The Tenth Pacific Conference on Computer Graphics and Applications (Pacific Graphics 2002)}, Beijing, P.R. China, October 9-11, 2002.

• "Physics-Based CAGD: Theory, Methodology, Techniques, and Design Environments,'' The First Chinese Conference on Geometric Design and Computing, Qingdao, P.R. China, June 1, 2002.

• "Subdivision: Its Past, Present, and Future (invited tutorial),'' The Advanced Course Session of the First Chinese Conference on Geometric Design and Computing, Qindao, P.R. China, May 31, 2002.

• "Dynamic NURBS with Time-varying Knot Vectors,'' SIAM Conference on Geometric Design and Computing, Sacramento, California, November 5-8, 2001.

• "A Novel Subdivision-Based Deformable Model for Surface Reconstruction of Arbitrary Topology,'' SIAM Conference on Geometric Design and Computing, Sacramento, California, November 5-8, 2001.

• "Real-time Volume Sculpting System Using Implicit Functions,'' SIAM Conference on Geometric Design and Computing, Sacramento, California, November 5-8, 2001.

• "Physics-Based PDE Solids with Global and Local Constraints for Geometric Design,'' SIAM Conference on Geometric Design and Computing, Sacramento, California, November 5-8, 2001.

• "Haptic Sculpting of Volumetric Implicit Functions,'' The Ninth Pacific Conference on Computer Graphics and Applications (Pacific Graphics 2001), Tokyo, Japan, October 16-18, 2001.

• "Integrating Physics-Based Modeling with PDE Solids for Geometric Design,'' The Ninth Pacific Conference on Computer Graphics and Applications (Pacific Graphics 2001), Tokyo, Japan, October 16-18, 2001.

• "Hierarchical D-NURBS Surfaces and Their Physics-Based Sculpting,'' International Conference on Shape Modeling and Applications (SMI 2001), Genova, Italy, May 7-11, 2001.

• "FEM-Based Dynamic Subdivision Splines,'' (invited talk), The Eighth Pacific Conference on Computer Graphics and Applications (Pacific Graphics 2000), Hong Kong, October 3-5, 2000.

• "Dynamic PDE Surfaces with Flexible and General Geometric Constraints,'' The Eighth Pacific Conference on Computer Graphics and Applications (Pacific Graphics 2000), Hong Kong, October 3-5, 2000.

• "Manipulating Butterfly Subdivision Surfaces with Forces,'' Sixth SIAM Conference on Geometric Design, Albuquerque, New Mexico, November 2-5, 1999.

• "A Subdivision-Based Finite Element Method and its Applications,'' Sixth SIAM Conference on Geometric Design, Albuquerque, New Mexico, November 2-5, 1999.

• "Haptic Manipulation of Virtual Spline Objects,'' Sixth SIAM Conference on Geometric Design, Albuquerque, New Mexico, November 2-5, 1999.

• "A Novel FEM-Based Dynamic Framework For Subdivision Surfaces,'' Fifth ACM Symposium on Solid Modeling and Applications (Solid Modeling 1999), Ann Arbor, Michigan, June 9-11, 1999.

• "Physics-Based Modeling Framework for Graphics, Computer-Aided Design, and Visualization,'' International Symposium on Computing and Microelectronics Technologies, Peking University, Beijing, P.R. China, May 3, 1998.

• "Dynamic Catmull-Clark Subdivision Surfaces,'' Fifth SIAM Conference on Geometric Design, Nashville, Tennessee, November 3-6, 1997.

• "D-NURBS for Physics-Based Shape Modeling,'' Twenty-Third International Conference on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques (ACM Siggraph'96 Technical Sketches), New Orleans, Louisiana, August 4-9, 1996.

• "Dynamic Sculpting of Triangular NURBS Objects,'' Fourth SIAM Conference on Geometric Design, Nashville, Tennessee, November 6-9, 1995.

• "Dynamic Manipulation of Triangular B-Splines,'' Third Symposium on Solid Modeling and Applications (Solid Modeling'95), Salt Lake City, Utah, May 17-19, 1995.

• "Physics-Based NURBS Swung Surfaces,'' Sixth IMA Conference on the Mathematics of Surfaces, London, UK, September, 1994.

• "Physics-Based Design Paradigms,'' University of Toronto and University of Waterloo Computer Graphics Joint-Meeting, Toronto, May, 1994.

• "NURBS with Lagrangian Dynamics,'' Third SIAM Conference on Geometric Design, Tempe, Arizona, November 1-5, 1993.

Invited Talks:

• "Dynamic Points: When Geometry Meets Physics,'' at Center for Information Science, Peking University, Beijing, P.R. China, September 1, 2005.

• Invited instructor for "Advanced Graphics and Visualization: Theory, Algorithms, and Applications,'' an advanced graduate course of the Dragon Star Initiative sponsored by National Natural Science Foundation of China, Zhongshan University, Guangzhou, China, August 22-26, 2005.

• "Dynamic Points: When Geometry Meets Physics,'' at Department of Computer Science, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, August 19, 2005.

• "Manifold Splines: From Points to Surfaces of Arbitrary Topology,'' at Department of Computer Science and Technology, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, August 16, 2005.

• "Manifold Splines: From Points to Surfaces of Arbitrary Topology,'' at Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, August 15, 2005.

• "From Points to Splines for Virtual-Part Engineering,'' at ARO VPERI Workshop (Virtual Parts Engineering Research Initiative, Army Research Office), University of Utah, Salt Lake City, June 7-8, 2005.

• "Digital Geometric Processing: Interactive Manipulation and Dynamic Deformation of Point-Set Geometry with Physical and Haptic Interaction,'' at Workshop on Image Processing and Computer Vision/Graphics, Hangzhou, China, December 20-24, 2004.

• "Digital Geometry Processing: Interactive Editing and Manipulation of Point Set Geometry with Physical and Haptic Interaction,'' at Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, August 31, 2004.

• "A Deformable Modeling Paradigm for 3D Shape Recovery from Visual Inputs,'' at International Symposium on Computer Vision, Object Tracking and Recognition, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, August 30-31, 2004.

• "Digital Geometry Processing: Interactive Editing and Manipulation of Point Set Geometry with Physical and Haptic Interaction,'' at Institute of Systems Science, Academy of Mathematics and Systems Sciences (AMSS), Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, August 27, 2004.

• "Digital Geometry Processing: Interactive Editing and Manipulation of Point Set Geometry with Physical and Haptic Interaction,'' at Peking University, Beijing, China, August 27, 2004.

• Invited instructor for "Advanced Graphics and Visualization: Theory, Algorithms, and Applications,'' an advanced graduate course of the Dragon Star Initiative sponsored by National Natural Science Foundation of China, Beijing University of Technologies, Beijing, China, May 24-28, 2004.  

• Invited instructor for ``Advanced Graphics and Visualization: Theory, Algorithms, and Applications,'' a graduate course of the Dragon Star Initiative sponsored by National Natural Science Foundation of China, Peking University, Beijing, China, August 18-22, 2003.

• "I-DEFORM: Interactive, Dynamic, Efficient Flow for Object Rendering and Modeling,'' at Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, August 20, 2003.

• "I-DEFORM: Interactive, Dynamic, Efficient Flow for Object Rendering and Modeling,'' at Army High Performance Computing Research Center (AHPCRC) Workshop on Graphics Modeling, Simulation and Visualization, Florida A&M University, Tallahassee, Florida, June 23-24, 2003.

• "I-DEFORM: Interactive, Dynamic, Efficient Flow for Object Rendering and Modeling,'' at the Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics, SUNY at Stony Brook, May 27, 2003.

• "Virtual Clay: Haptics-based Deformable Solids of Arbitrary Topology,'' at The Second International Workshop on Articulated Motion and Deformable Objects (AMDO 2002), Palma de Mallorca, Spain, November 21, 2002.

• "DYNASOAR: DYNAmic Solid Objects of ARbitrary topology,'' at Peking University, Beijing, P.R. China, June 5, 2002.

• "Physics-Based CAGD: Theory, Methodology, Techniques, and Design Environments,'' at the First Chinese Conference on Geometric Design and Computing, Qingdao, P.R. China, June 1, 2002.

• "Subdivision: Its Past, Present, and Future (invited tutorial),'' at the Advanced Course Session of the First Chinese Conference on Geometric Design and Computing, Qindao, P.R. China, May 31, 2002.

• "DYNASOAR: DYNAmic Solid Objects of ARbitrary topology,'' at Microsoft Research Asia, Beijing, P.R. China, May 30, 2002.

• "DYNASOAR: DYNAmic Solid Objects of ARbitrary topology,'' at Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, P.R. China, May 29, 2002.

• "DYNASOAR: DYNAmic Solid Objects of ARbitrary topology,'' at Tsinghua University, Beijing, P.R. China, May 28, 2002.

• "Manipulating Virtual Clay with Haptic Toolkits,'' at Department of Computer Science, The University of California at Davis, Davis, California, November 6, 2001.

• "Intelligent Balloon: A Subdivision-Based Deformable Model for Surface Reconstruction of Arbitrary, Unknown Topology,'' at Ford Motor Company Research Laboratory, Dearborn, Michigan, June 7, 2001.

• "FEM-Based Dynamic Subdivision Splines,'' at Pacific Graphics, Hong Kong, October 4, 2000.

• "Physics-Based Modeling For Visual Computing Applications,'' at Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto, Toronto, June 14, 2000.

• "Physics-Based Modeling For Visual Computing Applications,'' at SGI Alias|Wavefront, Toronto, June 13, 2000.

• "Physics-Based Modeling for Visual Computing Applications,'' at Center for Data Intensive Computing, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York, April 14, 2000.

• "Physics-Based Modeling for Engineering Design,'' at Ford Motor Company Research Laboratory, Dearborn, Michigan, June 9, 1999.

• "Physics-Based Modeling Framework for Graphics, CAD, and Visualization,'' at Tsinghua University, Beijing, P.R. China, January 7, 1999.

• "Physics-Based Modeling and Shape Design Framework for CAD/CAM, Graphics, and Visualization,'' at National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Gaithersburg, Maryland, December 14, 1998.

• "Dynamic Catmull-Clark Subdivision Surfaces,'' at Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, D.C. June 1, 1998.

• "Dynamic Subdivision Surfaces and Their Applications in Graphics,'' at ChenXing Mathematics Center, Academia Sinica, Beijing, P.R. China, May 7, 1998.

• "Dynamic Subdivision Surfaces and Their Applications in Graphics,'' at Tsinghua University, Beijing, P.R. China, May 6, 1998.

• "Physics-Based Modeling Framework for Graphics, Computer-Aided Design, and Visualization,'' at Peking University, Beijing, P.R. China, May 3, 1998.

• "Physics-Based Modeling Framework for Graphics, CAD, and Visualization,'' at IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Hawthorne, New York, April 27, 1998.

• "Physics-Based Catmull-Clark Subdivision Surfaces for CAD/CAM,'' at Structural Dynamics Research Corporation, Milford, Ohio, April 24, 1998.

• "D-NURBS for Physics-Based Shape Design,'' at Peking University, Beijing, P.R. China, June 10, 1997.

• "D-NURBS for Physics-Based Shape Design,'' at Tsinghua University, Beijing, P.R. China, June 11, 1997.

• "D-NURBS for Physics-Based Shape Design,'' at Institute of Computing, Academia Sinica, Beijing, P.R. China, June 12, 1997.

• "Physics-Based Geometric Modeling for Computer Graphics and CAD,'' at Department of Computer Science, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, April 30, 1997.

• "Physics-Based Geometric Modeling for Computer Graphics and CAD,'' at Department of Computer Science, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, April 7, 1997.

• "Physics-Based Geometric Modeling for Computer Graphics and CAD,'' at Department of Computer Science, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, April 4, 1997.

• "Physics-Based Geometric Modeling for Computer Graphics and CAD,'' at Department of Computer Science, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, March 31, 1997.

• "Physics-Based Geometric Modeling for Computer Graphics and CAD,'' at Department of Computer Science, State University of New York at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, New York, March 17, 1997.

• "Towards an Interactive Physics-Based Design Environment for Automobile CAD/CAM,'' at Ford Motor Company Research Laboratory, Dearborn, Michigan, January 30, 1997.

• "Physics-Based Geometric Modeling and Design,'' at Structural Dynamics Research Corporation, Milford, Ohio, November 8, 1996.

• "Physics-Based Geometric Modeling for Graphics and CAGD,'' at Computer Science Department, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, June 21, 1996.

• "D-NURBS for Physics-Based Modeling,'' at School of Computing Science, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, June 20, 1996.

• "Physics-Based Geometric Modeling for Graphics and CAGD,'' at Department of Ocean Engineering and Department of Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, May 8, 1996.

• "Dynamic Non-Uniform Rational B-Splines,'' at XOX Corporation, St. Paul, Minnesota, October 20, 1995.

• "Dynamic Non-Uniform Rational B-Splines,'' at SGI Alias|Wavefront, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, September 6, 1995.

• "Dynamic NURBS: Physics-Based Models for Graphics and CAGD,'' at Department of Computer Science, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, May 30, 1995.

• "Dynamic NURBS: Physics-Based Models for Graphics and CAGD,'' at College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, April 12, 1995.

• "Dynamic NURBS for Computer Graphics and CAGD,'' at Department of Computer and Information Sciences, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, February 27, 1995.

Professional Activities:

EDITORIAL BOARD MEMBER:

• IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 2005 -- present.

• The journal of The Visual Computer, 2003 -- present.

CONFERENCE CHAIR:

• The 23rd International Conference on Computer Graphics (CGI'05), June 8-10, 2005, Stony Brook, New York.

CONFERENCE SESSION CHAIR:

• ACM Symposium on Solid and Physical Modeling (SPM 2005), June 13-15, 2005, MIT, Cambridge, Massacusetts.

• International Conference on Shape Modeling and Applications (SMI'05), June 15-17, 2005, MIT, Cambridge, MA.

• Geometric Modeling and Processing 2004 (GMP2004), Beijing, China, April 13-15, 2004.

• The Second International Workshop on Articulated Motion and Deformable Objects (AMDO 2002), Palma de Mallorca, Spain, November 21-23, 2002.

• The Seventh ACM Symposium on Solid Modeling and Applications (Solid Modeling 2002), Saarbruecken, Germany, June 17-21, 2002.

• IEEE Computer Animation Conference (Computer Animation 2000), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, May 3-5, 2000.

INTERNATIONAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE MEMBER:

• The 19th Brazilian Symposium on Computer Graphics and Image Processing (SIBGRAPI 2006), October 8-11, 2006, Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil.

• The ACM SIGGRAPH/Eurographics Symposium on Computer Animation (SCA 2006), September 2-4, 2006, Vienna, Austria.

• Geometric Modeling and Processing 2006 (GMP2006), July 26-28, 2006, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.

• The Fourth International Conference on Articulated Motion and Deformable Objects (AMDO-e 2006), July 11-14, 2006, Puerto Andratx, Mallorca, Spain.

• The 24th Computer Graphics International Conference (CGI'2006), June 26-28, 2006, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, P.R. China.

• International Conference on Shape Modeling and Applications 2006 (SMI'06), June 14-16, 2006, Tohoku University, Sendai, JAPAN.

• The ACM Solid and Physical Modeling Symposium 2006 (ACM SPM'06), June 6-8, 2006, Cardiff University, Wales, UK.

• International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications 2006 (VISAPP 2006), February 25-28, 2006, Setubal, Portugal.

• The 9th International Conference on Computer Aided Design and Computer Graphics (CAD/Graphics 2005), December 7-10, 2005, Hong Kong.

• The Thirteenth Pacific Conference on Computer Graphics and Applications (Pacific Graphics 2005), Macao, China, October 12-14, 2005.

• The Fifth IASTED International Conference on Visualization, Imaging and Image Processing (VIIP 2005), September 7-9, 2005, Benidorm, Spain.

• The Eleventh IMA Conference on the Mathematics of Surfaces, University of Loughborough, UK, September 5-7, 2005.

• The Eighty IASTED International Conference on Computer Graphics and Imaging (CGIM 2005), August 15-17, 2005, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA.

• ACM SIGGRAPH/Eurographics Symposium on Computer Animation 2005 (SCA 2005), July 29-31, 2005, Los Angeles, CA.

• International Conference on Shape Modeling and Applications 2005 (SMI 2005), June 13-17, 2005, MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA.

• The Tenth ACM Symposium on Solid and Physical Modeling (SPM 2005), June 13-15, 2005, MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA.

• The Third International Workshop on Articulated Motion and Deformable Objects (AMDO 2004), September 22-24, 2004, Palma de Mallorca, Spain.

• The 7th IASTED International Conference on Computer Graphics and Imaging (CGIM 2004), August 16-18, 2004, Kauai, Hawaii, USA.

• Computer Graphics International 2004 (CGI2004) Conference, Crete, Greece, June 16-19, 2004.

• The Ninth ACM Symposium on Solid Modeling and Applications (SM 2004), Genova, Italy, June 9-11, 2004.

• International Conference on Shape Modeling and Applications 2004 (SMI 2004), Genova, Italy, June 7-9, 2004.

• Geometric Modeling and Processing 2004 (GMP2004), Beijing, China, April 13-15, 2004.

• The Eighth International Conference on Computer Aided Design and Computer Graphics (CAD/Graphics'2003), Macao, October 29-31, 2003.

• The Eleventh Pacific Conference on Computer Graphics and Applications (Pacific Graphics 2003), Canmore, Alberta, CANADA, October 8-10, 2003.

• The Sixth IASTED (International Association of Science and Technology for Development) International Conference on Computers, Graphics, and Imaging (CGIM 2003), Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, August 13-15, 2003.

• The Third International Workshop on Volume Graphics (VG03), Tokyo, Japan, July 7-8, 2003.

• Computer Graphics International Conference 2003 (CGI 2003), Tokyo, Japan, July 9-11, 2003.

• The 5th International Conference on Shape Modeling and Applications (SMI 2003), Seoul, Korea, May 12-16, 2003.

• The 16th International Conference on Computer Animation and Social Agents (CASA'2003), New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA, May 7-9, 2003.

• The Asian Symposium on Computer Mathematics 2003 (ASCM'03), Beijing, P.R. China, April 17-19, 2003.

• The Second International Workshop on Articulated Motion and Deformable Objects (AMDO'2002), Palma de Mallorca, Spain, November 21-23, 2002.

• The Tenth Pacific Conference on Computer Graphics and Applications (Pacific Graphics 2002), Beijing, P.R. China, October 9-11, 2002.

• The 15th International Conference on Computer Animation (Computer Animation 2002), Geneva, Switzerland, June 19-21, 2002.

• Computer Graphics International Conference 2002 (CGI2002), University of Bradford, Bradford, UK, July 1-5, 2002.

• The Seventh ACM Symposium on Solid Modeling and Applications (Solid Modeling 2002), Saarbruecken, Germany, June 17-21, 2002.

• Geometric Modeling and Processing 2002: Theory and Applications, Tokyo, Japan, July 10-12, 2002.

• The 4th International Conference on Shape Modeling and Applications (SMI 2002), Banff, Alberta, Canada, May 17-22, 2002.

• ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology 2001 (VRST), Banff, Alberta, Canada, November 15-17, 2001.

• Eurographics Workshop on Animation and Simulation 2001 (EG CAS'2001), Manchester, UK, September 2-3, 2001.

• CAD/Graphics'2001 (The Seventh International Conference on Computer Aided Design and Graphics), Kunming, China, August 20-22, 2001.

• IEEE Computer Animation 2001 (The 14th Conference on Computer Animation), Seoul, Korea, November 6-8, 2001.

• Pacific Graphics 2001 (The Ninth Pacific Conference on Computer Graphics and Applications), Tokyo, Japan, October 16-18, 2001.

• Computer Graphics International Conference 2001 (CGI2001), Hong Kong, July 3-6, 2001.

• The Second International Workshop on Volume Graphics 2001 (VG01), Stony Brook, NY, June 21-22, 2001.

• Pacific Graphics 2000 (The Eighth Pacific Conference on Computer Graphics and Applications), Hong Kong, October 3-5, 2000.

• IEEE Computer Animation 2000 Conference, Philadelphia, May 3-5, 2000.

• Geometric Modeling and Processing 2000: Theory and Applications, Hong Kong, April 10-12, 2000.

PANEL MEMBER and REFEREE for (Funding Agencies):

• National Science Foundation, 1997 -- present.

• The Research Council of Norway, 2002 -- present.

• National Natural Science Foundation of China, 2004 -- present

REFEREE for (Books, 1999 -- present):

• McGraw-Hill.

• Springer-Verlag.

REFEREE for (Journals, 1994 -- present):

• IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications.

• ACM Computing Surveys.

• Computer Aided Geometric Design.

• Graphical Models.

• Communications of the ACM.

• ACM Transactions on Graphics.

• Image and Vision Computing.

• The International Journal of High Performance Computer Graphics, Multimedia and Visualization.

• IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics.

• IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence.

• Computer Aided Design.

• The Visual Computer.

• Graphical Models and Image Processing.

• Computer Graphics Forum (The International Journal of the Eurographics Association).

• International Journal of Shape Modeling.

• ASME Transactions, Journal of Computing and Information Science in Engineering (JCISE).

• IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging.

• Journal of Robotics and Computer Integrated Manufacturing.

• SPIE Journal, Optical Engineering.

• ASME Journal of Manufacturing Science and Engineering.

• IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems.

• Journal of Computer Science and Technology (JCST).

• Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics.

• The Electronic Letters on Computer Vision and Image Analysis (ELCVIA), Special Issue on Articulated Motion & Deformable Objects.

• SIAM Journal on Computing.

• Journal of Image Analysis & Stereology (IAS).

• Computers & Graphics.

• Electronics and Telecommunication Research Institute (ETRI) Journal.

• International Journal of Computers and Their Applications.

• International Journal of Computational Geometry and Applications (IJCGA).

• The ASME Journal of Mechanical Design.

REFEREE for (Conferences, 1994 -- present):

• ACM Siggraph.

• ACM Solid Modeling and Applications.

• Eurographics Workshop on Animation and Simulation.

• Computer Graphics International.

• Graphics Interface.

• IEEE Visualization.

• ACM Conference on User Interface Software Technology (ACM UIST).

• International Conference on Shape Modeling and Applications (SMI).

• Eurographics.

• ACM Conference on User Interface Software Technology (ACM UIST).

• IEEE/ACM SIGGRAPH Symposium on Volume Visualization and Graphics.

• ACM Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics.

• ASME Design Automation Conference.

• Dagstuhl Conference on Geometric Design.

• IASTED International Conference on Computer Graphics and Imaging.

• International Symposium on Tools and Methods of Competitive Engineering (TMCE).

• Geometric Modeling and Processing.

• ASME International Design Engineering Technical Conferences & Computers and Information in Engineering Conference.

• ACM Symposium on Computational Geometry.

EXTERNAL EXAMINER for Ph.D. DISSERTATION:

• Dr. Xuetao Li, Computer Science Department, National University of Singapore, September 2002.

AWARD COMMITTEE MEMBER:

• Best Paper Award Committee for ACM Symposium on Solid and Physical Modeling, June 13-15, 2005, MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Courses Taught:

• "Geometric Foundations for Graphics and Visualization (CSE530),'' Spring Semesters, Years 1999-2006, Department of Computer Science, SUNY at Stony Brook.

• "Fundamentals of Computer Graphics (CSE328),'' Fall Semesters, Years 1999-2006, Department of Computer Science, SUNY at Stony Brook.

• "Introduction to Engineering and Applied Sciences (EAS101),'' Fall 1999, Department of Computer Science, SUNY at Stony Brook.

• "Seminar in Modeling and Simulation (CSE655),'' 1999 -- present (Spring, Fall, and Summer Semesters), Department of Computer Science, SUNY at Stony Brook.

• "Introduction to Visualization (CSE332),'' Fall 1998, Department of Computer Science, SUNY at Stony Brook.

• "Scientific Visualization (CSE564),'' Spring 2004, Department of Computer Science, SUNY at Stony Brook.

• "Physics-Based Modeling for Visual Computing (CSE621),'' Spring Semesters, Years 1998, 2001-2006, Department of Computer Science, SUNY at Stony Brook.

• "Introduction to Computer Graphics (CAP4700),'' Spring Semesters, Years 1996-1997, Department of CISE, University of Florida (UFL).

• "Computer Graphics (CAP5705),'' Spring Semesters, Years 1996-1997, Department of CISE, UFL.

• "Selected Topics on 3-D Interactive Graphics (CIS6930),'' Fall 1996, Department of CISE, UFL.

University Services:

• Member of the Faculty Academic Advisory Group for Chinese-mother-tongue International Freshmen, Stony Brook University, 2005 -- present.

• Computer Science Graduate Admission Committee co-Chair, 2004 -- present.

• Computer Science Faculty Recruiting Committee Member, 2003 -- present.

• One M.Sc. student graduated in May, 2005.

• One Ph.D. student graduated in June, 2005.

• Examiner for CS Ph.D. Qualification Exams, January, 2005.

• One M.Sc. student graduated in December, 2004.

• One Ph.D. student graduated in August, 2004.

• One Ph.D. student graduated in June, 2004.

• Examiner for CS Ph.D. Qualification Exams, May, 2004.

• Faculty Judge, Graduate Research Conference 2004, Department of Computer Science, Stony Brook University, May 7, 2004.

• One Ph.D. student graduated in March, 2004.

• Draft and update the Alumni/Perspectives Section for the new version of our CS graduate brochure.

• Computer Science Faculty Recruiting Committee Member, 2003 -- 2004.

• Two Ph.D. students graduated in August, 2003.

• One M.Sc. student graduated in August, 2003.

• Examiner for CS Ph.D. Qualification Exams, May, 2003.

• Faculty Judge, Graduate Research Conference 2003, Department of Computer Science, SUNY at Stony Brook, April, 2003.

• Computer Science Graduate admission Committee Member, 2002 -- present.

• Computer Science Faculty Recruiting Committee Member, 2000 -- 2001.

• Computer Science Graduate Admission Committee Member, 1997 -- 2001.

• Creator and Organizer for annual Computer Science Graduate Student Orientation, 1998 -- 2000.

• Examiner for CS Ph.D. Qualification Exams, October, 1999.

• One Ph.D. student graduated (at the University of Florida) in December, 1998.

• Two M.Sc. students graduated (at SUNY at Stony Brook) in June, 1999.

• Three M.Sc. students graduated (at SUNY at Stony Brook) in December, 2000.

• Advisor of more than ten Ph.D. students, five M.Sc. students, and one undergraduate student (at SUNY at Stony Brook).

• Advisor of three Ph.D. students, three M.Sc. students and one undergraduate student (at UFL from 1996 to 1997)

• Examination and Dissertation Committee member for many other Ph.D. and M.Sc. students at Department of CS, SUNY at Stony Brook (including: Jianning Wang, Liu Yang, Eli Packer, Mohit Gupta, Nan Zhang, Hui Guo, Kyle Hegeman, Xin Guan, Anurag Purwar (Mechanical Engineering), Neophytos Neophytou, Yang Wang, Ye Zhao, Wei Hong, Chuan-Kai Yang, Baoquan Chen, Frank Dachille, Yan Chen, Jihad El-Sana, Xiaoming Wei, Hoijung Chung (M.Sc.), Kefei Lu (M.Sc.), etc.).

• Examination and Dissertation Committee Member for: Minbo Shim (CS Ph.D. candidate), Yanling Guo (EE Ph.D. candidate), Shuangying Huang (CS M.Sc. candidate)  (previously at UFL from 1996 to 1997).

Current and Other Former Ph.D. Advisees:

• Yunfan Bao, Xin Li, Sumantro Ray, Christopher Carner, Ying He, Kexiang Wang, Xiaohu Guo, Robert A. Wlodarcyzk, Peng Du (at SUNY at Stony Brook).

• Meijing Zhang, Xiangying Ma, Jing Luo, Xiaojing Li, Tao Yang (at SUNY at Stony Brook).

• Tamara Pearson (CS Ph.D. candidate), Carol Will (ME Ph.D. candidate) (previously at UFL from 1996 to 1997).

Current and Other Former M.Sc. Advisees:

• None

Former Undergraduate Advisees:

• Robert A. Wlodarcyzk (at SUNY at Stony Brook)

• Chris Gilmore (at UFL in 1996)

Memberships:

• Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).

• IEEE Computer Society.

• Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).

• Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM).

• The European Association for Computer Graphics (EUROGRAPHICS).