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Chris 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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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.
Conferences / Special Issues:
- IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications
Serious Games Special Issue
March/April 2009
Courses:
Recent Courses:
- IAT 355
- 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
To Appear 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
- Evan Dickinson (Interim) HCI
- Saba Alimadadi (starting January 2010) 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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