Doug L. James Associate Professor Department of Computer Science Cornell University 4130 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   Office: 5146 Upson Hall (Computer Science)   Assistant: Maria Witlox (4115A Upson; mwitlox_at_cs.cornell.edu;  607-255-9197)   Office Hours:  Any time I'm in my office, or by appointment.

 

Curriculum Vitae

Research Interests:
Computer graphics, physically based animation, haptics and sound rendering, 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:
Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship (2006-2007)
National Science Foundation (CAREER, EMT, ...)
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:

• Theodore (Ted) Kim  (Cornell Postdoctoral Associate)
  
• Jeffrey Chadwick  (Cornell PhD)
  
• Steven An  (Cornell PhD)
  
• Jon Kaldor  (Cornell PhD, co-advised with Steve Marschner)
• Changxi Zheng  (Cornell PhD)
  
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• PAST STUDENTS:
• Christopher Twigg  (CMU PhD, 2008; now at ILM)
• Jernej Barbič (CMU PhD, 2007; now postdoc@MIT)
• 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 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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