Plans and Goals/Summer-Fall 2011

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Plans and Goals, Summer-Fall '11

Brad

Projects

  • Support the ongoing VRL Group projects:
    • Jadrian's brain research.
    • Wenjin's Axon estimation project.
    • Radu's Protein project:
Assist Radu to integrate a test and any recent code.
  • Support collaborative projects.
    • Revised wrist registration.
  • Contribute to the design and development of the new cave. Integrate changes to vrg3d. Develop an API for new devices. Test and support vrg3d in the new cave.
  • Add to the public distribution of diffusion imaging data.


Infrastructure

  • Continue to write Wiki entries as needed.
  • Continue setting up third party software for students to use.
  • Extend the build system to make kits for public source and binary distributions.
  • Continue extend the make files to support new features such as additional third party packages.
  • Continue to integrate any new tests written by students into nightly test runs.


Çağatay

  1. Give a good proposal talk.

Caroline

Fall Goals

  • Apply for jobs!
  • Make a good showing at VisWeek. Find some outside references for job search.
  • Submit a small IIS grant proposal.
  • Submit a CHI paper or note on CBDM data.
  • Publish a Vis Viewpoint on personality research.
  • Prepare publications for EuroVis and VisWeek.
  • Keep working on research ideas with Steve & Radu.
  • Contribute to CS295J. Get research and teaching ideas.


David

  1. get diffusion normals, one library, and one executable distributed (late...)
  2. get one diffusion analysis completed and out (Paul? Cohen? hire?)
  3. visweek papers
    • Steve: comps (need title, brain diagrams and events expanded?)
    • Cagatay: coloring manifesto
    • Cagatay: metric learning via interaction (?)
    • Cagatay: cycles of brains (?)
    • Radu: Analysis nudges: guiding scientists towards improved analytic practices
    • Caroline: A Task Analysis of Reasoning with Multi-View Visualization (is vis appropriate?)
    • Ryan: get involved with Cagatay's? Cohen analysis (maybe not vis)?
    • Wenjin: too far from Vis?
    • Jadrian: modeling curve bundles? small problem results?
  4. support 7 phd students' progress toward graduation and careers
  5. new Cave creation on track
  6. more dissemination: talks/slides?, datasets (animals?)?, more/better images (>2004..., analytics)?
  7. funded grants happy: nih (ext?), immgen, nmrkrs, sa, aptima, jian
  8. si^2 and expedition proposal followthrough?
  9. teach a good CS16
  10. keep Vis '11 on track
  11. cs facilities vision document


Eni

  • Make progress in the surface analysis/congruency problem
  • Draft a proposal for my work
  • Read more literature that’s related to my work
  • Submit a paper to MRM on tracts


Jadrian

  • Objective: Finish the toy problem.
    • Key result: Quick-and-dirty solver produces output by 09/16.
      • Solver complete 10/13.
    • Key result: Necessary refinements to the solver are defined by 09/20.
      • Progress by end of semester, but not done.
    • Key result: Principled solver produces output by 10/07.
      • Not done.
  • Objective: Submit an abstract to ISMRM.
    • Key result: At least one topic is defined by 09/16.
      • Potential topic: tractography curve noise-sensitivity analysis
      • Topic defined on time.
    • Key result: Abstract is submitted by 11/9.
      • Abstract submitted on time.

Nathan

  • Independent research
    1. Develop platform for cooperative experiments using Mechanical Turk
      • (Mostly) done
    2. Obtain IRB approval
      1. Draft protocol
      2. Edit/revise protocol with David
      3. Submit protocol
      4. Get approval!
    3. Using games from experimental economics (Prisoner's Dilemma, Trust Game, Ultimatum Game), attempt to replicate some of their findings
    4. Test the effect of the incentive level on people's behavior
    5. Test the effects various manifestations of online identity have on behavior
      • Attempt to replicate findings with faces increasing other-regarding behavior
      • Repeat experiment with avatars
      • Also names and nicknames
    6. Test effects of different interface elements
      • Colors, borders, overall "prettiness", ...
    7. Test effects of priming
  • Work with David, Win, and Ryan to provide metrics for brain area research
  • (Ongoing) Provide support and documentation for previously-written tools


Radu

  1. CHI paper submission (end June)
  2. Resubmit/Revise CG&A paper
  3. Converge on paper idea with Steve and Caroline
  4. Apply for jobs
  5. Finish dissertation
  6. Defend

Wenjin

  • Complete Neuroimage paper on simulation results
  • Axon application on real data: human/pig/macaque
    • EPI implementation of double-PGSE on our scanner - work with Ed
    • IACUC - work with David on submission
    • IRB - work with David and Ed on submission
    • Iterate on Axonal Model for real data fitting
  • Submit real data results to ISMRM (Nov. 19th), then follow-up with journal submission
  • Start job search - CVs, statements, etc.

Steve

Winter-Spring

  • Finish camready materials for CHI (due Jan 13)
  • Prepare CHI talk for the conference in May, test-run at scivis lunch
  • Prepare submission(s) for VisWeek
    • Slideshow analysis and live study by end of Feb; draft paper by March 5
    • Revisit diagram work ("querying/visualizing by sketching network")
      • Touch base with Jian in early January -- talk about VisWeek deadline
      • UIST is in Cambridge, MA this fall... submit some work?
      • Vis Viewpoint? (maybe with crowdsourcing focus)
  • Have a good course for outside minor ("Visualizing Vision" in CLPS?)
    • or, learn about and pursue the new alternative req
  • NIH-style proposal draft (beyond the outline) by April 15
    • Get feedback from dhl/Jian/(committee?) by end of semester


Ryan

Fall

  • Comps project implementation
    • TOI shape metrics
    • Surface shape metrics
  • Comps project paper
  • Coursework
    • Topics in Comp Bio
    • Topics in Databases
    • Intro to MRI
  • Track metrics pipeline
    • Connectivity metrics
    • Comps project metrics

Summer:

  • Comps project implementation
    • File formats
    • Stuctural/diffusion Image registration
    • Track-surface intersection
    • TOI shape metrics
    • Surface shape metrics
  • Maintain contact with comps collaborators
  • Work on group diffusion pipelines in progress
  • Explore possibilities for wrist shape analysis
  • Submit MRI IRB Renewal

Hua

  • Fall
    • Research
      • Produce Preliminary proposal for research comp
    • Coursework
      • Computer Graphics
      • Computational Biology
      • Cognition, HCI and Visual Analysis
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