Resume of M. Gopi

GOPI MEENAKSHISUNDARAM
Assistant Professor,
Department of Computer Science,
University of California, Irvine 92697-3425
gopi_at_ics_dot_uci_dot_edu
949 824 9498

RESEARCH INTERESTS Computer Graphics Visualization Surface Reconstruction	Geometric Modeling Model Simplification Computational Geometry
EDUCATION University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Ph.D. (Sept. 2001) Dissertation: Theory and Practice of Sampling and Reconstruction for Manifolds with Boundaries Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India M.S. Computer Science (Aug 1992- Jan 1995) Thesis: Special Purpose Architectures for B-Splines Thiagarajar College of Engineering, Madurai, India B.E. Computer Science and Engineering (Aug 1988- May 1992)
CONFERENCE PUBLICATIONS Constrained Strip Generation and Management for Efficient Interactive 3D Rendering Pablo Diaz-Gutierrez, Anusheel Bhushan, M. Gopi, Renato Pajarola Computer Graphics International Conference, 2005 Weighted Strip Generation for Accelerated Rendering Pablo Diaz-Gutierrez, Anusheel Bhushan, M. Gopi, Renato Pajarola ACM Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics and Games 2005 (Poster) Curvature Minimizing Depth Interpolation for Intuitive and Interactive Space Curve Sketching Gautam Chaudhary, Koel Das, M. Gopi UCI-ICS Technical Report TR# 05-07. Computer Graphics International Conference 2005 (Poster) [2 pages]. Controllable Single-Strip Generation for Triangulated Surfaces M. Gopi Pacific Graphics 2004. Silhouette-Opaque Transparency Rendering O. Sen, C. Chemudugunta, M. Gopi 6th IASTED Conference on Computer Graphics and Imaging, pp 153-158, 2003. Fast and Efficient Projection Based Approach for Surface Reconstruction M. Gopi, S. Krishnan 15th Brazilian Symposium on Computer Graphics and Image Processing, SIBGRAPI 2002. On Sampling and Reconstructing Surfaces with Boundaries M. Gopi Canadian Conference on Computational Geometry, 2002, Lethbridge, Canada. Hardware Accelerated Real Time Charcoal Rendering Aditi Majumder, M. Gopi Proceedings of International Symposium on Non-Photorealistic Animation and Rendering, 2002, Annecy, France, pp 59--66. Geometric Stitching for Real-Time Panoramic Image Generation Using Texture Maps A. Majumder, M. Gopi, B. Seales, H. Fuchs ACM Multimedia '99. The Impact of Dense Range Data on Computer Graphics L.Nyland, D.McAllister, V.Popescu, C.McCue, A.Lastra, P.Rademacher, M.Oliveira, G.Bishop, M.Gopi, M.Cutts, H.Fuchs. Proceedings of Multi-View Modeling and Analysis Workshop (MVIEW99) (Part of CVPR99), (Fort Collins, CO), June 23-26, 1999. A Unified Approach for Simplifying Polygonal and Spline Models M. Gopi, D. Manocha Visualization '98. VLSI architecture for the computation of NURBS patches M.Gopi, S.Manohar Proc. of International Conf. on VLSI Design, New Delhi, India, Jan 1995. JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS Quadrilateral and Tetrahedral Mesh Stripification Using 2-Factor Partitioning of the Dual Graph Pablo Diaz-Gutierrez, M. Gopi The Visual Computer (Pacific Graphics), 2005. Hierarchyless Simplification, Stripification and Compression of Triangulated Two-Manifolds Pablo Diaz-Gutierrez, M. Gopi, Renato Pajarola Computer Graphics Forum (EUROGRAPHICS), Volume 24, Number 3, 2005. 2nd Best Paper Award. Modeling Color Properties of Tiled Displays Aditi Majumder, M. Gopi Computer Graphics Forum, Volume 24, Number 2, 2005. Single-Strip Triangulation of Manifolds with Arbitrary Topology M. Gopi, David Eppstein Computer Graphics Forum (EUROGRAPHICS), Volume 23, Number 3, 2004. 2nd Best Paper Award. BOOLE: A Boundary Evaluation System for Boolean Combinations of Sculptured Solids S. Krishnan, D. Manocha, M. Gopi, T. Culver, J. Keyser International Journal of Computational Geometry and Applications (IJCGA) Vol. 11, No. 1 (Febraury 2001) 105-144. Surface Reconstruction based on Lower Dimensional Localized Delaunay Triangulation M. Gopi, S. Krishnan, C. T. Silva Computer Graphics Forum, 19(3), pp C467-C478, 2000. Simplifying Spline Models M. Gopi, D. Manocha Computational Geometry, Theory and Applications, Vol 14, Issue 1-3, pp 67-90, Nov. 1999. Rapid Accurate Contact Determination between Spline Models using ShellTrees S. Krishnan, M. Gopi, M. Lin, D. Manocha, A. Pattekar Computer Graphics Forum, 17(3), pp C315-C326, 1998. Interactive Boundary Computation of Boolean Combinations of Sculptured Solids S.Krishnan, M.Gopi, D.Manocha, M.Mine Computer Graphics Forum, 16(3), pp C67-C78, 1997. A Unified Architecture for the computation of B-Spline Curves and Surfaces M.Gopi, S.Manohar IEEE Trans. on Parallel and Distributed Systems, Vol 8, No.12, Dec. 1997. Parallel architecture for the computation of Uniform Rational B-Spline Patches M.Gopi, S.Manohar Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, Nov. 1995. A VLSI architecture for the computation of Uniform B-Spline curves M.Gopi, S.Manohar Microprocessing and Microprogramming, EUROMICRO Journal, Nov. 1994.
PROJECTS Compression of Implicit Functions Linear ordering of geometric primitives using K-factorization of Dual Graphs Efficient Surface Reconstruction from Unorganized Point Clouds Parallel Solid Modeler Parameterization independent texture mapping on a NURBS surface Crack-free rendering of NURBS models Curved-Surface Model Simplification Special Purpose architectures for B-Splines (Master's research at Indian Institute of Science)
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE Research Assistant Dept. of Computer Science, UNC. Aug 1999 - May 2000 Project: Office of the Future, under Prof. Henry Fuchs. Summer Job AT&T Research Labs, Florham Park, NJ. May 1999 - Aug 1999 Projects: Surface Reconstruction. Research Assistant Dept. of Computer Science, UNC. Aug 1998 - May 1999 Project: Office of the Future, under Prof. Henry Fuchs. Summer Job AT&T Research Labs, Florham Park, NJ. May 1998 - Aug 1998 Projects: Graph Visualization tool, Surface Reconstruction. Research Assistant Dept. of Computer Science, UNC. Aug 1995 - Dec 1997 Projects: Modeling Group (Parallel Solid Modeler-BOOLE, Interactive rendering of Curved Models, Curved Surface Model Simplification), under Dr.Dinesh Manocha. Senior Engineer Tata Elxsi (India) Ltd. Bangalore, India. Jan 1995 - Jul 1995 Worked on designing and implementing raster subsystem of OpenGL graphics pipeline. Research Assistant Supercomputer Education and Research Center Indian Institute of Science. Aug 1992 - Dec 1994 Project: Special Purpose Architectures for B-Splines, under Prof. Swami Manohar
TEACHING EXPERIENCE Teaching Assistant Dept. of Computer Science, UNC. Jan 2001 - Present Course : COMP 114 : Systematic Programming, Prof. Anselmo Lastra Teaching Assistant Dept. of Computer Science, UNC. Aug 2000 - Dec2000 Course : COMP 114 : Systematic Programming, Prof. Steve Weiss Instructor Dept. of Computer Science, UNC. May 2000 - Aug 2000 Course : COMP 4 : Power Tools of Mind Responsible for framing course syllabus, organizing classes, teaching and grading. Teaching Assistant Dept. of Computer Science, UNC. Jan 1998 - May 1998 Course: COMP 205: Scientific and Geometric Computation, Dr. Dinesh Manocha.
RECENT REVIEWING ACTIVITIES Eurographics Workshop on Sketch-Based Interfaces and Modeling, 2005. SIBGRAPI, 2005. Eurographics, 2005. Symposium on Geometry Processing, 2005. Pacific Graphics, 2005. American Society of Mechanical Engineers IDETC/CIE 2005. International Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics and Games, 2003, 2004, 2005. Journal of Computer Aided Geometric Design (2005) High Performance Visualization, ASTC Symposium on HPC 2004. Eurographics Computer Graphics Forum. Graphics Interface 2003
HONORS Faculty Desktop Computing Initiative, 2005: $3500. Research and Travel Grant, School of ICS, 2004-05: $1500. Excellence in Teaching Award, Instructional Resource Center/Division of Undergraduate Education, University of California, Irvine, 2004. Second Best Paper Award, EUROGRAPHICS Conference, Dublin, Ireland, 2005. Second Best Paper Award, EUROGRAPHICS Conference, Grenoble, France, 2004. Undergraduate Research Orientation Program, University of California, Irvine, 2004-05 (Chris Welch). Research and Travel Grant, Department of Information and Computer Science, 2003: $3000. Research and Travel Grant, Department of Information and Computer Science, 2002: $4500. Link Foundation Fellow (1999-2000). Graduate fellowship at Indian Institute of Science (1992-1995) Gold Medalist in ovarall academic performance at Thiagarajar College of Engineering 1988-1992.
ACTIVITIES Program Committee, Eurographics Workshop on Sketch-Based Interfaces and Modeling, 2005. Program Committee, Pacific Graphics, 2005. Program Committee, SIBGRAPI, 2005. Program Committee, International Symposium on Visual Computing, 2005. Program Chair, High Performance Visualization, ASTC Symposium on HPC 2004. Session Chair, 6th IASTED Conference on Computer Graphics and Imaging, 2003. Various committees including Graduate Admissions Committee, Faculty Recruiting Committee, Graduate Policy Committee, etc. in the Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences since Sept. 2001. Facilities Committee, Department of Computer Science, UNC (1998-1999). Secretary for two consecutive years for "Samskrita Sangha", at Indian Institute of Science. Samskrita Sangha is an organization working for spreading the need for scientific analysis of ancient Indian culture and literature.