Hong Qin

Rank/Position Title:

Professor

Home Page:

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

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

State University of New York at Stony Brook, Department of Computer Science, Stony Brook, New York, USA September, 2001 (present) Professor in computer science (with tenure).

Degrees:

Conferences, workshops, and professional development:

• Virtual Clay: Haptics-based Deformable Solids of Arbitrary Topology,'' The Second International Workshop on Articulated Motion and Deformable Objects (AMDO 2002), Palma de Mallorca, Spain, November 21-23, 2002.
• A Physics-based Framework for Subdivision Surface Design with Automatic Rules Control,'' The Tenth Pacific Conference on Computer Graphics and Applications (Pacific Graphics 2002, Beijing , P.R. China, October 9-11, 2002 .
• Physics-Based CAGD: Theory, Methodology, Techniques, and Design Environments,'' The First Chinese Conference on Geometric Design and Computing, Qingdao , P.R. China, June 1, 2002 .
• Subdivision: Its Past, Present, and Future (invited tutorial),'' The Advanced Course Session of the First Chinese Conference on Geometric Design and Computing, Qindao, P.R. China, May 31, 2002.
• Dynamic NURBS with Time-varying Knot Vectors,' SIAM Conference on Geometric Design and Computing, Sacramento , California , November 5-8, 2001 .
• A Novel Subdivision-Based Deformable Model for Surface Reconstruction of Arbitrary Topology , SIAM Conference on Geometric Design and Computing, Sacramento , California , November 5-8, 2001 .
• Real-time Volume Sculpting System Using Implicit Functions, SIAM Conference on Geometric Design and Computing, Sacramento , California , November 5-8, 2001 .
• Physics-Based PDE Solids with Global and Local Constraints for Geometric Design , SIAM Conference on Geometric Design and Computing, Sacramento , California , November 5-8, 2001 .
• Haptic Sculpting of Volumetric Implicit Functions, The Ninth Pacific Conference on Computer Graphics and Applications (Pacific Graphics 2001), Tokyo, Japan, October 16-18, 2001.
• Integrating Physics-Based Modeling with PDE Solids for Geometric Design, The Ninth Pacific Conference on Computer Graphics and Applications (Pacific Graphics 2001), Tokyo , Japan , October 16-18, 2001 .
• Hierarchical D-NURBS Surfaces and Their Physics-Based Sculpting, International Conference on Shape Modeling and Applications (SMI 2001), Genova , Italy , May 7-11, 2001 .

Other related computing experience:

• Geometric Foundations for Graphics and Visualization (CSE530), Spring 1999, Spring 2000, Spring 2001, Spring 2002, Department of Computer Science, SUNY at Stony Brook.
• Fundamentals of Computer Graphics (CSE328), Fall 1999, Fall 2000, Fall 2001, Department of Computer Science, SUNY at Stony Brook.
• Introduction to Engineering and Applied Sciences (EAS101), Fall 1999, Department of Computer Science, SUNY at Stony Brook.
• Seminar in Modeling and Simulation (CSE665), 1999 - present (both Spring and Fall), Department of Computer Science, SUNY at Stony Brook.
• Introduction to Visualization (CSE332), Fall 1998, Department of Computer Science, SUNY at Stony Brook.
• Physics-Based Modeling for Visual Computing (CSE631), Spring 1998, Spring 2001, Spring 2002, Department of Computer Science, SUNY at Stony Brook.
• Introduction to Computer Graphics (CAP4700), Spring 1996, Spring 1997, Department of CISE, University of Florida (UFL).
• Computer Graphics (CAP5705), Spring 1996, Spring 1997, Department of CISE, UFL.
• Selected Topics on 3-D Interactive Graphics (CIS6930), Fall 1996, Department of CISE, UFL.

Department, college, and/or university committee membership:

• Computer Science Graduate admission Committee Member, 1997 - present.
• Computer Science Faculty Recruiting Committee Member, 2001, 2004.

Principal publications of the last five years.

YEAR 2004

• Xiaohu Guo, Jing Hua, and Hong Qin. "Enhancing Interactive Editing on Point Set Surfaces Through Touch-based Haptics," To appear in IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, Vol. 24, No. 6, 2004.
• Haixia Du and Hong Qin, "A Shape Design System Using Volumetric Implicit PDEs,'' Computer Aided Design, 2004, to appear, (special issue of Solid Modeling 2003).
• Kevin T. McDonnell, Yusung Chang, and Hong Qin, "Interpolatory, Solid Subdivision of Unstructured Hexahedral Meshes,'' The Visual Computer, accepted, 2004.
• Jing Hua and Hong Qin, "Haptics-based Dynamic Implicit Solid Modeling," IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 2003, to appear.
• Jing Hua and Hong Qin, "Scalar-Field Guided Adaptive Shape Deformation and Animation,'' The Visual Computer, 2004, in press.
• Haixia Du and Hong Qin, "Dynamic PDE Surface Design Using Geometric and Physical Constraints,'' Graphical Models, 2004, to appear.
• Kevin T. McDonnell and Hong Qin. "Sculpting, Simulation and Visualization of Dynamic Free-form Solids," January 2004, submitted for journal review.
• Ying He and Hong Qin, "Surface Reconstruction with Trangular B-splines," Proceedings of Geometric Modeling and Processing 2004 (GMP2004), April 13-15, 2004 , Tsinghua University , Beijing , China . To appear.

YEAR 2003

• Kevin T. McDonnell, Yu-Sung Chang, Hong Qin and Klaus Mueller. ``DigitalSculpture: Interactive Implicit Surface Modeling over 3D Unstructured 3D Meshes,'' July 2003, submitted for journal review.
• Ye Duan and Hong Qin, "2.5D Active Contour for Surface Reconstruction,'' Proceedings of the 8th Fall Workshop on Vision, Modeling, and Visualization (VMV 2003), Munich, Germany, November 19-21, 2003, pages 431 - 439.
• Haixia Du and Hong Qin, "Shape Design, Reconstruction, and Manipulation Using Volumetric Implicit PDEs,'' (abstract), H. Du and H. Qin, The Eighth SIAM Conference on Geometric Design and Computing (SIAM-GD'03), Seattle, Washington, November 10-13, 2003.

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

• Co-Principal Investigator, ``ITR: Intelligent Deformable Models,'' National Science Foundation, $1,240,000, September 2003 to August 2007 (a collaborative research project among SUNY at Stony Brook , New York University, Stanford University , and UCLA, with Demetri. Terzopoulos from New York University as PI, Ronald Fedkiw from Stanford University and Stanley Osher from UCLA as another two co-PIs).
• Principal Investigator, ``Visualization/MASSIVE: Multiresolution, Adaptive, Subdivision Surfaces for Interactive Visualization and Exploration,'' National Science Foundation, $350,002, (additional $36,000 university matching fund from SUNY at Stony Brook), September 2003 to August 2006.
• Principal Investigator, ``Parallel Software Development for BNL Aerosol Chemical Transport and Transformation Model,'' Brookhaven National Laboratory, $27,062, November 2001 to October 2002.
• Principal Investigator, ``Parallel Computation Techniques and System Development for Chemical Transport Modeling and Simulation,'' Brookhaven National Laboratory, $15,432, May 2001 to November 2001.
• 2001 Sloan Research Fellowship, $40,000, September 2001 to September 2003.
• Principal Investigator, ``A Haptics-Based Interface and Interactive Sculpting System for Virtual Environments,'' National Science Foundation, $546,446, (additional $100,000 university matching fund from SUNY at Stony Brook), July 2001 to June 2004.

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

• Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).
• IEEE Computer Society.
• Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).
• Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics ( SIAM ).
• The European Association for Computer Graphics (EUROGRAPHICS).

Honors and awards:

• Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow, 2001 -- 2003.
• Honda Initiation Grant Award, 2001.
• NSF ITR Grant Award, National Science Foundation, 2000 - 2003.
• NSF CAREER Award, National Science Foundation, 1997 - 2001.
• University of Toronto Open Doctoral Fellowship, 1991 - 1993.
• International Student Differential Fee Waiver Scholarship, University of Toronto , 1991 - 1993.
• Best Graduate Award, Peking University , Beijing , 1986.
• Honor Student Award, Peking University , Beijing , 1983 - 1985.
• Silver Medal of National High School Mathematics Competition, Beijing , 1982.
• Bronze Medal of Metro Beijing Junior High School Mathematics Competition, Beijing, 1980

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:

• Current funded projects and research activities in the following areas:
• Computer Graphics
• Geometric and Physics-Based Modeling
• Computer Aided Design
• Computer Integrated Manufacturing
• Computer Aided Geometric Design
• Virtual Environments
• Virtual Engineering
• Animation, Simulation, and Robotics