Plans and Goals

On this page the members of the VRL record and refine their goals for the current semester. This is a living document in which dhl will provide feedback. See the bottom of the page for links to past plans & goals documents.

Current Schedule

Meetings are on Tuesdays. The authoritative list is in dhl's calendar. (updated here 9/24/10)

Current 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.

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Çağatay

1. Give a good proposal talk.

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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.

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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

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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

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Jadrian

• Initial thesis proposal, submitted 2009-06-22
• Proposal second revision, prepared 2009-10-15

Today's Date: 12/10

• Meta-objective: Be ready to graduate and move on in May.
  • Objective: Teach CS 931 well without it taking over my other responsibilities.
    • Key Result: Prep & teaching time are monitored throughout the semester and limited to 10 hours per week.
  • Objective: Demonstrate novelty & significance of the "blockhead" method in the dissertation.
    • Key Result: Drafts for graphics- and medical-focused voxelization papers to dhl by 01/14.
    • Key Result: Software generates large, multi-component slicemaps by 01/18.
      • Completed 01/20.
    • Key Result: Software generates voxel maps by 01/22.
    • Key Result: Software generates antialiased voxel maps by 01/31.
    • Key Result: Software generates synthetic MRIs by 02/05.
    • Key Result: Software generates chi-squared images by 02/08.
    • Key Result: Software identifies plausible optimization moves for a two-component test dataset by 02/13.
    • Key Result: Software improves objective function for two-component test dataset by 02/15.
    • Key Result: Software improves objective function for fiber cup phantom by 03/05.
    • Key Result: Software converges for fiber cup phantom by 03/15.
    • Key result: Software improves objective function for real data by 03/18.
    • Key Result: Graphics-focused paper on voxelization submitted by 02/01.
    • Key Result: Medical-focused paper on voxelization submitted by 02/22.
  • Objective: Write and defend a dissertation that covers and synthesizes the work I've done.
    • Key Result: Dissertation chapters outlined by 01/17.
      • Completed 01/16.
    • Key Result: Defense dates proposed to committee by 01/17.
      • Completed 01/16.
    • Key Result: Draft dissertation to committee by 03/20.
    • Key Result: Defense scheduled with Lauren by 03/20.
    • Key Result: Dissertation defended by 04/30.
  • Objective: Graduate.
    • Key Result: Dissertation submitted to the grad school by 04/30.
    • Key Result: Application to Graduate (and other forms) submitted through Banner by 04/30.
  • Objective: Get a job.
    • Key Result: All academic job applications complete by 01/15.
      • Applications complete 01/13.
    • Key Result: Job interviews attended as invited.
    • Key Result: Non-academic job applications in process by 01/22.
  • Objective: Transition smoothly out of Brown.
    • Key Result: Software and documentation archived by 05/17.

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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

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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

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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.

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Steve

Updated 11/29 Fall

• Work-in-progress
  • Plan for TVCG submission (or hold-off for Vis '12) by 12/31
    • Continue work on Diagrams project
  • CHI 4-pg Note submitted
  • InfoVis poster prepared
• Build or get Testbed environment for parameterized visualization -- 9/30
  • Mentioned in Jian's grant, but I also want to use it for crowdsourcing experiments (e.g., Can we build a human-centered visualization "editing" framework that is the graphics equivalent of the Soylent paper from UIST '10?) -- Presented Scivis lunch about this topic...
  • Sketch of that MTurk project in Nascent Papers by 9/1
• NIH-style proposal outline to DHL by December
  • "Vision" by 9/15
  • "Significance" and "Contributions" by 9/30
  • "Research Plan" by 10/31
• Coursework
  • DHL's HCI/Visual Analysis

Summer

• Project planning
  • Model visual scan behavior / learn 'interesting' windows of a vis canvas, sketch by 5/27 see 'Nascent Papers'
  • Trust idea, kill or revise by 5/24
• Review rounds for InfoVis paper submission - if rejected, see about poster? - 6/27
• Vis Poster submission - 6/27

Jian-DHL "Scientific Vis Language" Grant

• Get status update of preliminary/current progress
  • What are the highest priority activities to get this moving? e.g. task space analysis?

• List of papers to write - draft by 5/24
• Gather domain data (DTI, bioflow?) Is bioflow a part of Jian's project any more?

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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

Past Plans and Goals

• Spring '11
• Summer-Fall '10
• Spring '10
• Fall '09
• Summer '09
• Spring '09
• Fall '08
• Summer '08