Plans and Goals/Spring 2010

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Plans and Goals (Spring '10)

Brad

Projects

  • Support the ongoing projects including collaborators. Active projects are wrist, brain, adviser, and protein.
  • Assist Radu to integrate a test and any recent code.
  • Contribute to the design and development of the new cave. This includes integrating g3d, vrpn and hosting vrg3d. Once the software is running simplify the configuration and provide a quick start path for student projects.
  • Set up a distribution of diffusion imaging data.

Infrastructure

  • Continue to write Wiki entries as needed.
  • Continue setting up external software for students to use. Current imported packages are: blitz, cg, g3d, qt, camino, dtk, vrpn, glut, and sdl.
  • Finish extending make files for local installs and kits for source and binary distributions.
  • Continue to make improvements to the make files so they are easier to use.
  • Upgrade migrated Linux code to work with gcc 4.3.
  • Continue to integrate any new tests written by students into nightly test runs.


  • Finish integrating the new version of the Nag libraries.


Knowledge

  • Learn more about the cave; particularly vrg3d software development.
  • Meet (SciVis talk) with students to address any integration issues.
  • Learn how to manage a project using Source Forge.

Çağatay

  1. Stay alive through the military service.
  2. Focus on realizing the proposal timeline milestones.
  3. Submit 'On Coloring' to vis'10 and/or siggraph.
  4. Submit '2D Brain Maps' to vis'10 w/ Radu.
  5. Submit the non-parametric tract-based statistics paper to miccai'10.
  6. Submit the improved surface deformation paper to sgp'10 or siggraph asia'10.
  7. Develop new collaborations.
  8. Do not waste time on insignificant problems/collaborations.
  9. Add a 4th person (outside Brown) to the committee.
  10. Arrange an internship with someone who is the best in his/her field--consider MSR Cambridge, UK (vision group), MSR Richmond, US (graphics group), and IST Austria (topology group).

David

  1. get diffusion normals, one library, and one executable distributed
  2. wrist proposal submission (check with Trey?)
  3. support 5 phd students' + trevor's progress
  4. write a plan for HCI modeling work
  5. minimize professional service

Jadrian

  1. Further refine the thesis proposal in response to new information
    • Complete
  2. Create a list of papers to spawn from the proposal
    • Complete (finally!)
  3. Present the proposal formally to the department
    • Delayed until October
  4. Implement a macrostructure model and derive it from diffusion data (by clustering or otherwise, with possible manual adjustment)
    • Mostly complete (slice-ring model from manual clustering of curves)
  5. Create a 3D surface rendering of a macrostructure model instance
    • Incomplete
  6. Continue working with Ed Walsh, et al. to settle on some HARDI parameters
    • Work is ongoing, but emphasis has shifted to a generic protocol for other studies
  7. Take at least one HARDI scan, even if parameters have not been finalized
    • Incomplete
  8. Get preliminary histological data of some kind, either by doing it in-house, working with collaborators, or outsourcing
    • Incomplete
  9. Continue working with DifSim/MCell developers to get source access and a working install here
    • Continued to reach out but got very little response from these folks. May have to roll my own.
  10. Derive a minimal set of microstructure measurements from histological data
    • Incomplete
  11. Make a plan for a future summer industry or academic internship
    • Talked it over with dhl but no written plan yet.
  12. Make a plan for completing the outside minor requirements
    • Talked it over with dhl but no written plan or timing set down yet.


Radu

  1. deploy my current work (as application or google maps) to: Christophe, Hardy, Art, and Neuroscience
  2. gather structured feedback from the above mentioned labs
  3. write "Related Work" section of dissertation and updated thesis proposal.
  4. submit to Vis:
    • one paper on large map-like visualizations to InfoVis (100% submission probability),
    • one on comparing clusterings to VAST (50% submission probability)
    • one on 2D brain visualizations with Cagatay to Vis (25%).
  5. finalize my course requirements

Steve

  1. Staying on track for candidacy
    1. Complete programming comp (late January)
    2. Complete research comp proposal and presentation to committee (mid April)
    3. Do well in courses
  2. Research goals
    1. Explore current research in HCI related to creativity, and user interaction modeling
    2. Identify significant, well-scoped research project in this area for the research comp proposal
    3. Develop research skills, including paper reading/analysis and learning to communicate effectively
  3. Other academic goals
    1. Work on collaboration skills (finding and communicating with colleagues in or outside of CS)
    2. Work on time management and project planning
    3. Learn what working with DHL is like, his expectations, etc.
    4. Plan for the summer

Trevor

  1. I3D poster & demo
    1. Revised abstract: January 29
    2. Conference: February 19th (poster complete by February 17)
  2. Vis Papers - Iterate often
    1. Abstract: March 21
    2. Full paper: March 31
      1. Gene visualization paper
      2. Confocal microscopy paper
  3. Genome Research paper
  4. Grad TA for CS224
  5. Paper with Paul Kulesa
    1. Define goals contributions from Vis perspective
  6. Look for themes between work with Paul, Trey, and maybe Ben
    1. Coordinate spaces? (Tensor invariances?)
    2. Morphometrics? (Non-dimensionalization)
    3. Other feature detection?
  7. Organize code, papers, tools, other resources to be backed up, handed off

Wenjin

  1. Submit to MICCAI (March 11th) + good collaboration with Matt
  2. Successful ISMRM talk
  3. Prepare histology data - do homework about the right path to choose, acquire, and prepare the tissue
  4. Derive and test optimal double-PGSE imaging on Brown 3T scanner
  5. Propose by 10/15
  6. Submit MRM/TMI journal paper

Eni

  1. Process and analyze data from subjects that are currently being scanned for the cmc study
  2. Write an abstract for the American Society of Biomechanincs Meeting (August 2010 in Prov.)on the TPM & MC1 surface curvatures and joint congruency
  3. Write a short paper that compares capitate/lunate/scaphoid movement in old and young subjects during dart thrower’s motion
  4. Learn algo & data structures
  5. Think about the direction of my work

Fuyi

  1. Familiarize the working environment and check out any progress about vrg3d.
  2. Play with the vrg3d demo for a while and figure out what it does and how it works.
  3. Write a tutorial describing the way I have been using the demo to let others understand what it does.
  4. Define a feature that the demo needs in order to be more useful as an example to our group.
  5. Add the new feature to the demo.
  6. Think of an application that the vrg3d may be used on and try to construct a basic structure.
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