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 (Fall '12)

Çağatay

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


Connor

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


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

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


Past Plans and Goals

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