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 (Fall '12)

Çağatay

• Finish thesis
  • Model Selection
  • Topology
• Send the revised article on theory of visualization to CG & A

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David

• keep grad students moving along
• keep Cave project moving along (Provost approval, facilities, external dependencies)
• be ready for cs237 in the Fall
• set up longer-term (5 year) plan

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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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Steve

• Proposal draft sent out to committee; feedback received and incorporated
• Revise our InfoVis paper if it's conditionally accepted
• Vis evaluation taxonomy
  • Taxonomy drafted (June 5)
  • Vis 2011 papers coded, and a sketch of a meta-visualization of this taxonomy space (July 1)
• Visualization interaction by sketching over static diagrams
  • Data for brain and other domain (baseball stats?) collected (June 20)
  • "Database selection by sketching over image" module (July 15)
  • 2 simple visualizations for both domains (Aug 15)
  • Tool online and anecdotally evaluated (Sept 1)
  • CHI paper draft (Sept 15), final deadline (Sept 24)

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Ryan

• Start thesis proposal
  • Choose committee
  • Choose topic
  • Conduct preliminary work
• Brain Imaging
  • Run South Africa through pipeline
  • Run St Louis 2nd timepoint through pipeline
  • Manually select tracts for evaluation of automated tract pipeline
  • Develop web-based circle vis
  • Send out Edinburgh normal study paper
• Big Data Vis
  • Make reading list
  • Continue work with Jian developing visual interface to SciDB
  • Design DB structure for the brain imaging projects
  • Explore ideas: collaboration, caching, suggestions, level of detail, CAVE applications, user studies

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Hua

• Required coursework: complete two CS courses (or three)
  • Topics in Distributed Databases and System (big data analysis focus!)
  • Computational Photography
  • Human Factors and Interface Design (just sitting-in, perhaps)
• Progress on the research comp
  • Implement the interface with support for user goals
  • Do the user study
  • Submit to CHI as a work-in-progress

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Past Plans and Goals

• Summer '12
• Spring '12
• Summer-Fall '11
• Spring '11
• Summer-Fall '10
• Spring '10
• Fall '09
• Summer '09
• Spring '09
• Fall '08
• Summer '08