Plans and Goals

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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 '12)

Çağatay

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


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?



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


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

  • 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


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


Wenjin

  • Axon Application on real data
    • data from Ed
    • 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?



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)


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


Hua

  • Required coursework: complete two CS courses
    • CS1950F Intro to Machine Learning
    • CS1550/CS2951A/CS1320
  • Progress on the research comp
    • Propose the research comp project
    • Implement a prototype of the brain circuit visual analysis tool
    • Implement a prototype of the embedded task model
  • Submit a poster on EEG Tool Task Analysis to Vis
  • Contribute to the visual thinking project

Wesley

  • Learn
    • about graphics and virtual reality
    • about CVS and how to use it
    • what it is like to work in a research lab
    • more about software development
  • Build cave painting in the graphics lab, in the old cave, and for the new cave
  • Assist in working with Scalable software

Past Plans and Goals

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