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Doug L. James

Associate Professor
Department of Computer Science
Cornell University
5146 Upson Hall
Ithaca, NY 14853-7501, USA

dja...@cs.cornell.edu (email -- best way to reach me)
607-255-9215 (voice)
607-255-4428 (fax)

Cornell Affiliations: Computer Science, Applied Mathematics, Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, Program of Computer Graphics

Assistant: Randy Hess (5147 Upson, rbhess_at_cs.cornell.edu; (607) 255-0985)

Office Hours: By appointment.

Highlight: Received the Katayanagi Emerging Leadership Prize (2013).
Highlight: We received a SciTech Academy Award for Wavelet Turbulence (Feb 2013) [details]

Pictured (left to right): Theodore Kim, Nils Thuerey,

Markus Gross and Doug James

credit: Darren Decker / ©A.M.P.A.S.

Highlight: BBC Radio, Click, The rise of computer-generated sound (Oct 2012)
Highlight: BBC Radio, The Art of Water Music
Highlight: NPR Radio, Science Friday, The Future of Computer-Generated Sound Effects

Curriculum Vitae

Research Interests:
Computer graphics, physically based animation, physically based sound rendering, haptic rendering, algorithms for real-time and interactive physics, and scientific computing. Some research themes are (1) efficient deformation processing; (2) interactive and multi-sensory (graphics, haptics, sound) physical simulation; and (3) motion control and design.

Research Publications and Projects

Funding and Awards:

Fellow, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation (2011)
Cornell's ACSU Faculty of the Year Award (2009)
Cornell's Douglas Whitney '61 College of Engineering Excellence in Teaching Award (2008)
Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship
National Science Foundation (CAREER, EMT, HCC (Physically Based Sound Rendering), ...)
National Institutes of Health (NIBIB)
PIXAR!
BOEING (Commercial Airplanes)
Intel Corporation (Intel Science & Technology Center for Visual Computing)
NVIDIA
PopSci "Brilliant 10" (Popular Science, 2005; CMU press release, USA Today, PghPostGazette)

Students I work with:

Cem Yuksel (Cornell Postdoc, CIFellow)
Steven An (Cornell PhD)
Jeffrey Chadwick (Cornell PhD)
Jonathan Kaldor (Cornell PhD, co-advised with Steve Marschner)
Changxi Zheng (Cornell PhD)

PAST STUDENTS:

Theodore (Ted) Kim (Cornell Postdoc --> prof@USask)
Christopher Twigg (CMU PhD, 2008; --> ILM)
Jernej Barbič (CMU PhD, 2007; --> postdoc@MIT --> prof@USC)
Alec Rivers (Cornell BSc, 2007; --> PhD@MIT)
Christopher Cameron (CMU/Cornell; --> NVIDIA)
Andrew Cove (CMU MSc, 2007)

Robert Wang (CMU BSc, 2004; --> PhD@MIT)

Kayvon Fatahalian (CMU BSc, 2003; --> PhD@Stanford)

Matthew Trentacoste (CMU BSc, 2003; --> PhD@UBC)

ON WORKING WITH ME:

Teaching:

CS 6650 Computational Motion (Fall 2013) --- NOTE ROOM CHANGE (again): Thurston 203
CS 5643 Physically Based Animation for Computer Graphics (Spring 2013)
CS 6650 Computational Motion (Spring 2011)
CS 4620 Graphics I & CS 4621 CG Practicum (Fall 2010)
CS 7690 Computer Graphics Seminar (Fall 2010)
ENGRG 1050 Freshman Advising Seminar (Fall 2010)
CS 5643 Physically Based Animation for Computer Graphics (Spring 2010)
CS 4620 Graphics I & CS 4621 CG Practicum (Fall 2009)
CS 7690 Computer Graphics Seminar (Fall 2009)
CS 5643 Physically Based Animation for Computer Graphics (Spring 2009)
CS 6650 Computational Motion (Fall 2008)
CS 322 Introduction to Scientific Computing (Spring 2008) NSDL BLOG
CS 718 Computer Graphics Seminar (Spring 2008)
CS 465 Graphics I & CS466 Graphics Practicum (Fall 2007)
CS 567 Physically Based Animation for Computer Graphics (Spring 2007)
CS 718 Computer Graphics Seminar (Fall 2006)
Courses taught at CMU:

15-863 Physically Based Modeling and Interactive Simulation (Spring 2003, Spring 2005)
15-462 Introduction to Computer Graphics (Fall 2003, Spring 2006)
15-864 Advanced Computer Graphics (Spring 2004, Spring 2005, Spring 2006)

"Education is not the filling of a bucket, but the lighting of a fire." --W.B. Yeats
"Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible." --Richard P. Feynman