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 (Spring '12)

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Caroline

• Get a job!
  • Go on interviews, network, improve job talk, etc.
• Prepare a VisWeek submission extending task analysis work
• Help Steve's group on the whiteboard/explanations project; also aim for VisWeek
• Submit TVCG article based on VAST locus of control paper
• Service activities
  • VisWeek program committee
  • Reviews
  • NSF panel?

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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

• UTRA application?
• Independent research
  1. API for experimental platform to interact with Mechanical Turk
  2. Using games from experimental economics (Prisoner's Dilemma, Trust Game, Ultimatum Game), attempt to replicate some of their findings
  3. Test the effect of the incentive level on people's behavior
  4. 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
  5. Test effects of different interface elements
     • Colors, borders, overall "prettiness", ...
  6. Test effects of priming

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Radu

• Finish dissertation (send to committee by end of Jan)
• Set defense date by end of Jan
• Defend
• Find job
• Vis paper with Steve, Caroline, Hua
• Follow up mechturk study on nudges (April)
• Assist Wenjin and Ryan on brain vis
• Ensure PhD code is reusable

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Wenjin

• Axon Application on real data
  • data from Ed
  • intense data search from everywhere: Israel, Germany, NIH, etc.
  • find alternatives
• Finish thesis and defend by May
• Get a job
  • prepare job talks and interviews
  • postdoc and fellowship applications
• Address NeuroImage reviews
  • resubmit with new real data results
  • or, submit somewhere else with simulation only
• Brain cortical connectivity VIS with Ryan, Radu and Win
  • aim for VIS/MICCAI?

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Past Plans and Goals

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