Chris Shaw, Ph.D.

Associate Professor       Email:    shaw at sfu.ca

School of Interactive Arts and Technology

(Formerly at GVU Center + Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology , Georgia Tech)

Research Lab

Research: BioInformatics Visualization

  • IMAS Interactive Multigenomic Analysis System
  • RAShips available! I am looking for talented
    Informatics people to research new techniques for
    analyzing and interacting with Biological Sequence
    Data, as well as other types of sequence data such
    as timelines, schedules, and so on.

Papers.

Research: Two-Handed Interfaces.

  • Screenshot
  • RAShip available!I am looking for talented
    Informatics people to research new techniques for
    Two-Handed 3D interaction with 3D Surfaces, such
    as those found by digitizing arbitrary surfaces.
    For example, 3D scans of blood vessels.

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Courses:

Recent Courses:

Documentation:

Editorships, Etc

Current Students

Former Students

  • Ph.D.
    • Ignacio Llamas (2001-2005)  Joined nVidia in 2005
    • Justin Jang (2001-2005)   Now working with Jarek Rossignac on 3D model repair and simplification
    • Ari Lamstein (2002-2003)  Joined Maxis to work on Spore
  • Master's
    • Amit Kanwal (2005-2007) (Vadim Kyrylov co-sup)  A Gaming Framework for Modelling Competitive Service Industries
    • Eddie Hou (2005-2007) (Vadim Kyrylov co-sup)  Optimal Defensive Player Positioning with Collaboration in Digital Soccer Simulation
    • Robbie Foster (2003-2005)   3D Volume-Rendered Weather
    • Tazama U St Julien (2000-2005)   Firefighter Training Virtual Environment, Mobile Situational Visualization Joined Norfolk Southern in 2005
    • J. Y. Hong (2002-2004)   Zoomable Visualization of Bioinformatic Data
    • Brad P Kram (1999-2002)   Multiple Camera Considerations in a View-Dependent Continuous Level of Detail Algorithm Now at Blue Castle Games
    • James A Hall (1999-2002)   Visual Simulation of Candle Flames Now at Blue Castle Games
    • Dee Jay Randall (1998-2000)   3D Visualization Now at Blue Castle Games
    • Brook Bakay (1999-2000)   3D Visualization Now at BioWare, Edmonton
    • Carl Zhang (2005-2006)   IMAS: Metadata Facility
  • Undergraduate
    • Ciarán Llachlan Leavitt   BioInformatics Now UBC Computer Science Undergrad
    • Will Chao (2008)   Email Visualization Now at Grad School at UBC Computer Science
    • Johnny Ho (2007)   Strategy Game Development
    • Jason Chih (2007)   IMAS Layout Algorithms
    • Alex Tsai (2006)   IMAS Scene Graph Restructring
    • Qixia Athena Deng (2005-2006)   Bioinformatics: IMAS: Primer Design Integration Now at BC Genome Sciences Centre
    • Sharjeel Hooda (2005)   IMAS: TransTerm Integration Now at Emory School of Medicine
    • Justin Purdy (2005)   IMAS: Gene relationship Vis
    • Nirav Shah (2005)   IMAS: GeneBank sequence integration Now at Electronic Arts, California
    • Brian Henke (2004-2005)   IMAS: Primer Design
    • Fred "Buddy" Moore (2004-2005)   IMAS: Hmmer Visualization
    • Hemal Shah (2004-2005)   IMAS: Multialignment Visualization Now at Stanford Grad School/ Electronic Arts
    • Jeff Boyles (2004)   Mass Spec Visualization
    • Devin Cline (2004)   Mass Spec Visualization
    • Dusty Embrey (2004)   Mass Spec Visualization
    • Kyle Mahan (2004)   Mass Spec Visualization Working in San Diego
    • Donko Jeliazkov (2004)   Simulation of Partial Blindness Virtual Environment Now at RISD/Brown University
    • Priyanka Karan (2004)   Simulation of Partial Blindness Virtual Environment Project Manager at Sapient
    • Derrick Karimi (2004)   IMAS: Zoomable Navigation
    • Jessie Pledger (2004)   IMAS: GenBank data model
    • Miles Thomason (2004)   IMAS: Metabolic Networks CEO at Levia Software
    • Pravin "Pro" Bhat (2003)   Genia: Sequence Identity Plots Now at U. Washington, working with Michael Choen & Brian Curless
    • Jee Choi (2003)   SFA Info Vis support
    • Dan Cunning (2003)   Fire Simulation: Rapidly culled fire & smoke
    • Andrew Drummond (2003)   IMAS: Blast visualization
    • Vitaly Parnas (2003)   IMAS: Blast visualization
    • John Goldis (2003)   GVis data management
    • Michael Turnley (2003)   GVis data management
    • Ahmad Sharif (2003)   GVis Sequence alignment visualization
    • Akshay Dayal (2002)   Fire Simulation data management, volume tree precomputation
    • Diana Blanshey (2002)   Zoomable Visualization with PAD++
    • Shannon Easley (2002)   Zoomable Visualization with PAD++
    • Ty Howard (2002)   Zoomable Visualization with PAD++
    • Ron Jacak (2002)   Multialigment Visualization Now at UNC Chapel Hill, getting Ph.D. in Biochemistry
    • David Meatte (2002)   Multialigment Visualization

Address:
shaw at sfu.ca Phone: (778) 782-7506   Fax: (778) 782-7488
Room 14-350 Central City Tower,
250 - 13450   102 Ave
Simon Fraser University Surrey
Surrey, BC, Canada, V3T 5X3

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