Doug L. James Associate Professor Department of Computer Science Cornell University 5146 Upson Hall Ithaca, NY 14853-7501, USA djames "at" 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:  Any time I'm in my office, or by appointment.

 

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:
Douglas Whitney '61 College of Engineering 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
NVIDIA
PopSci "Brilliant 10" (Popular Science, 2005; CMU press release, USA Today, PghPostGazette)

Students I work with: (in alphabetical order)

• Steven An  (Cornell PhD)
• Jeffrey Chadwick  (Cornell PhD)
  
• Jonathan Kaldor  (Cornell PhD, co-advised with Steve Marschner)
• Changxi Zheng  (Cornell PhD)
  
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• PAST STUDENTS:
• Theodore (Ted) Kim  (Cornell Postdoc --> USask)
• Christopher Twigg  (CMU PhD, 2008; now at ILM)
• Jernej Barbič (CMU PhD, 2007; now postdoc@MIT --> USC)
• Alec Rivers (Cornell BSc, 2007; now PhD@MIT)
• Christopher Cameron (CMU/Cornell; now at NVIDIA)
  
• Andrew Cove (CMU MSc, 2007)
  
• Robert Wang (CMU BSc, 2004;  now PhD@MIT)
• Kayvon Fatahalian (CMU BSc, 2003;  now PhD@Stanford)
• Matthew Trentacoste (CMU BSc, 2003;  now PhD@UBC)

Teaching:

• CS 5643 Physically Based Animation for Computer Graphics (Spring 2010) --- Note: I am not teaching CS3220 in Spring2010 as previously scheduled
  
• 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)

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