Arie Kaufman

Rank/Position Title:

Distinguished Professor and Chairman, Computer Science Department

Home Page:

http://www.cs.sunysb.edu/~ari

Date of original appointment to this faculty, followed by dates and ranks of advancement:

• 2004-Present Distinguished Professor and Chairman, Computer Science Department, Stony Brook University, NY
• 1999-Present Chairman, Computer Science Department, Stony Brook University, NY
• 1993-Present Leading Professor, Computer Science Department, Stony Brook University, NY.
• 1993-Present Leading Professor, Radiology Department, Stony Brook University, NY.
• 1989-93 Professor, Computer Science Department, Stony Brook University, NY.
• 1992-93 Visiting Professor, Computer Science Department, Columbia University, NY.
• 1985-89 Associate Professor, Computer Science Department, Stony Brook University, NY.

Degrees:

Conferences, workshops, and professional development:

• Keynote Speaker on "From Voxels to Sampling Points," Volume Visualization and Graphics Symposium 2000, Salt Lake City , UT (October 2000).
• Distinguished Lecturer, Distinguished Lecturer Series, Rutgers University , NJ (April 2001).
• Chair, International Workshop on Volume Graphics, VG'01, Stony Brook , NY (June 2001).
• Distinguished Lecturer, Distinguished Lecture Series, Johns Hopkin University , Baltimore , MD (December 2001).
• Keynote Speaker on "Accelerated Volume Graphics," Geometric Modeling and Processing Conference (GMP'02) Wako, Saitama , Japan (July 2002).
• Chair, International Workshop on Volume Graphics (VG'03), Tokyo , Japan (July 2003).

Other related computing experience:

Department, college, and/or university committee membership:

• Chairman, Computer Science Department (1999 – Present)
• Director, Center for Visual Computing (1996 – present)
• Member, Search Committee for Asst. Director of Technology Licensing (2002)
• Coordinator, Brookhaven National lab, Center for Data Intensive Computing

Principal publications of the last five years.

• "An Automatic Colon Segmentation for 3D Virtual Colonoscopy," IEICE Transactions on Information Systems, vol. E84-D, no. 1, January 2001, pp. 201-208 (with M. Sato, S. Lakare, M. Wan, Z. Liang, and M. Wax).
• "Extracting Colon Lumen from CT Images for Virtual Colonoscopy: Method and Validation," Medical Imaging International, vol. 11, no. 4, February 2001, pp. 6-8 (with D. Chen, Z. Liang, M. Max, L. Li, K. Kreeger, and B. Li).
• "Interactive Electronic Biopsy for 3D Virtual Colonoscopy," SPIE Medical Imaging, vol. 4321, February 2001, pp. 483-488 (with M. Sato, S. Lakare, M. Wan, M. Wax, and J. Liang).
• "Interactive Navigation for PC-Based Virtual Colonoscopy," SPIE Medical Imaging, vol. 4321, February 2001, pp. 500-504 (with F. Dachille, K. Kreeger, M. Wax, and J. Liang).
• "A Novel Haptics-Based Interface and Sculpting System for Physics-Based Design," Computer Aided Design, 33(5), April 2001, pp. 403-420 (with F. Dachille and H. Qin).
• "Image Based Rendering of Surfaces from Volume Data," Proceedings of the International Workshop on Volume Graphics, June 2001, pp. 279-296 (with B. Chen, and Q. Tang).
• "Accelerating Voxel-Based Terrain Rendering with Keyframe-Free Image-Based Rendering," Proceedings of the International Workshop on Volume Graphics, June 2001, pp. 297-308 (with J. Qin, M. Wan, and H. Qu).
• "Two-Pass Image and Volume Rotations," Proceedings of the International Workshop on Volume Graphics, June 2001, pp. 321-335 (with B. Chen).
• "Real-Time Volume Rendering for Virtual Colonoscopy," Proceedings of the International Workshop on Volume Graphics, June 2001, pp. 363-374 (with W. Li and K. Kreeger).
• "Multiresolution Rendering of Large-Scale Voxel-Based Terrain," International Conference on CAD and Graphics Proceedings, International Academic Publishers, August 2001, pp. 209-216 (with M. Wan, H. Qu, and N. Zhang).

Other scholarly activity: grants, sabbaticals, software development, etc:

Scientific, professional, and honor societies of which you are a member:

• Editor, Computer Graphics Forum journal (1986-1993).
• Editor, Computers & Graphics journal (1988-2003).
• Guest-editor, special issue of Computers & Graphics, 13, 2, on "3D Voxel Graphics" (April 1989).
• Guest-editor, special issue of The Visual Computer, 6, 1, on "Volume Visualization" (February 1990).
• Editor, The Visual Computer journal (1990-present).
• Chair, IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Computer Graphics (1991-1994).
• Editor, IEEE Computer journal (1992-1995).
• Co-guest-editor, special issue of The Visual Computer on "Visualization - Role of Interactivity and Realtime" (August 1993; with W. Krueger).
• Co-guest-editor, special issue of IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications on "Visualization" (July 1993; with G. Nielson and L. Rosenblum).
• Guest-editor of special issue of IEEE Computer on "Scientific Visualization" (July 1994).
• Co-guest-editor, special issue of IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications on "Visualization" (September 1994; with G. Nielson).
• Director, IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Computer Graphics (1994-present).
• Editor-in-Chief, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG) (1995-1998).
• Member, Editorial Board, Encyclopedia of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Wiley (1995-1999).
• Member, Advisory Board, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG) (1999-present).
• Editor, International Journal of Computer Graphics & Geometry, 2000 - present.
• Guest-editor, Graphical Models, special issue on "Volume Modeling," vol. 63, no. 6, November 2001 (with M. Chen and G.M. Nielson).

Honors and awards:

• Senior Member IEEE (1994-1997).
• Merit Award for Teaching and Curriculum Development, SUNY Stony Brook, 1994.
• IEEE Computer Society's Outstanding Contribution Award, 1995.
• IEEE Computer Society's Golden Core Member, 1996.
• Listed in Who's Who in America Science and Engineering, 1997-present.
• IEEE Fellow, 1998.
• ACM Service Award, October 1998.
• IEEE Computer Society's Meritorious Service Award, 1999.
• Nominated International Scientist of the Year for 2001, IBC, Cambridge, England.
• Listed in Who's Who in Engineering Education (WWEE), 2002.
• Entrepreneur Award, State of New York, May 2002.
• Elected member of European Academy of Sciences, August, 2002.
• Listed in Who's Who in Engineering Sciences Higher Education (WWSHE), 2003.
• IEEE Long Island Section's Harold Wheeler Award, April 2004.

Courses taught this and last academic year term-by-term

Academic advising:

Assigned advisor for 18 undergraduate students during 2004/2005 academic year.

Brief description of major research and scholarly activities: