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


== Current Plans and Goals (Summer-Fall '11) ==
== Current Plans and Goals (Spring '12) ==
 


=== [[User:Brad Berg|Brad]] ===
=== [[User:Brad Berg|Brad]] ===


Projects


* Support the ongoing VRL Group projects:
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** Jadrian's brain research.
** Wenjin's Axon estimation project.
** Radu's Protein project:<br>
::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.
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=== [[User:Cagatay Demiralp|Çağatay]] ===


* Add to the public distribution of diffusion imaging data.




Infrastructure
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* Continue to write Wiki entries as needed.


* Continue setting up third party software for students to use.
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=== [[User:Caroline Ziemkiewicz|Caroline]] ===


* 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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=== David ===


=== [[User:Cagatay Demiralp|Çağatay]] ===


# Give a good proposal talk.
 
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=== Eni ===


=== [[User:Caroline Ziemkiewicz|Caroline]] ===
 
Fall Goals
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* 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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=== [[User:Jadrian Miles|Jadrian]] ===
* [[:Image:Jadrian Miles PhD Proposal original 2009-06-22.pdf‎|Initial thesis proposal, submitted 2009-06-22]]
* [[:Image:Jadrian Miles PhD Proposal rev2 2009-10-15.pdf|Proposal second revision, prepared 2009-10-15]]


=== David ===
{{User:Jadrian Miles/OKRs}}
#get diffusion normals, one library, and one executable distributed (late...)
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#get one diffusion analysis completed and out (Paul? Cohen? hire?)
#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?
#support 7 phd students'  progress toward graduation and careers
#new Cave creation on track
#more dissemination: talks/slides?, datasets (animals?)?, more/better images (>2004..., analytics)?
#funded grants happy: nih (ext?), immgen, nmrkrs, sa, aptima, jian
#si^2 and expedition proposal followthrough?
#teach a good CS16
#keep Vis '11 on track
#cs facilities vision document




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=== [[User:Nathan Malkin|Nathan]] ===


=== Eni ===


* Make progress in the surface analysis/congruency problem
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* 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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=== Radu ===


=== [[User:Jadrian Miles|Jadrian]] ===


* [[:Image:Jadrian Miles PhD Proposal original 2009-06-22.pdf‎|Initial thesis proposal, submitted 2009-06-22]]
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* [[:Image:Jadrian Miles PhD Proposal rev2 2009-10-15.pdf|Proposal second revision, prepared 2009-10-15]]


{{User:Jadrian Miles/OKRs/Fall 2011}}


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=== Wenjin ===


=== [[User:Nathan Malkin|Nathan]] ===
* Independent research
*# Develop platform for cooperative experiments using Mechanical Turk
*#* (Mostly) done
*# Obtain IRB approval
*## <s>Draft protocol</s>
*## '''Edit/revise protocol with David'''
*## Submit protocol
*## Get approval!
*# Using games from experimental economics (Prisoner's Dilemma, Trust Game, Ultimatum Game), attempt to replicate some of their findings
*# Test the effect of the incentive level on people's behavior
*# 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
*# Test effects of different interface elements
*#* Colors, borders, overall "prettiness", ...
*# 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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=== [[User:Steven Gomez|Steve]] ===


=== Radu ===


# CHI paper submission (end June)
 
# Resubmit/Revise CG&A paper
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# Converge on paper idea with Steve and Caroline
 
# Apply for jobs
# Finish dissertation
# Defend


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=== Ryan ===


=== 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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=== [[User:Steven Gomez|Steve]] ===
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'''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




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=== [[User:Hua Guo|Hua]] ===


=== 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:
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* 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


=== [[User:Hua Guo|Hua]] ===


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


== Past Plans and Goals ==
== Past Plans and Goals ==

Revision as of 21:02, 17 January 2012

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 (Spring '12)

Brad

Çağatay

Caroline

David

Eni

Jadrian

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.
    • 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.


Nathan

Radu

Wenjin

Steve

Ryan

Hua

Past Plans and Goals

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