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Chris D Shaw, Ph.D.
Associate Professor Email: shawat sfu.ca School of Interactive Arts and Technology
(Formerly at GVU Center + Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology , Georgia Tech)
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Papers.
Research Lab
Conferences / Special Issues:
- IEEE VisWeek 2010
VAST Posters/Demos: July 1, 2010
Paper abstracts: March 21, 2010
Conference: Salt Lake City, October 24-29, 2010Research: 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
Research: Visual Analytics
CZSaw Visual Analytics System
RAShips available! I am looking for talented Informatics
people to research new techniques for analyzing and interacting with
text databases. The CZSaw system keeps an interactive history of analysis,
and maintians analyses in a dependency structure similar to spreadsheets.Research: Two-Handed Interfaces.
Screenshot Video 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.
Courses:
Recent Courses:
- IAT 334
- IAT 800
- IAT 410
- IAT 842
- IAT 312
- INTD 401,2,3
- IART 404-5-6
- CS 4455 Video Game Design & Programming
Documentation:
Editorships, Etc
- Special Issue Co-Editor IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications
Serious Games Special Issue
March/April 2009- Program Co-Chair Graphics Interface 2008 Conference: Windsor, ON, Canada, May 28-30, 2008
- Associate Editor IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics 2003-2006
- Panels Chair SIGGRAPH 2002 Conference: San Antonio, TX, 21-26 July, 2002
- Program Co-Chair VRST 2001 Conference: Banff, Alberta, November 15 - 17, 2001
Current Students
- Ph.D.
- Nis Bojin Espistemology of Play, Grinding in MMOGs
- JiDong Yim CALLY: A Robot Cellphone
Recently featured on MIT's Technology Review Magazine- Master's
- Minoo Erfani Email Visualization & Analysis
- Mahshid Zeinaly IMAS HMMer Visualization
- Saba Alimadadi CZSaw
- Undergraduate
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
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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 ![]()
VR Links
- Computer Graphics Research Laboratory at University of Alberta
- U Washington Virtual Internet Resources in Virtual Reality
- Chris Hand's Virtual Reality page
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