Klaus Mueller

Rank/Position Title:

Assistant Professor

Home Page:

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

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

9/1/1999

Degrees:

Conferences, workshops, and professional development:

• Annual Ohio State College Teacher's Workshop, 1998
• Annual ACM Computer Graphics Conference (SIGGRAPH) 1992-2004
• Annual IEEE Visualization Conference 1995-2004
• Bi-Annual TCVG Volume Graphics Workshop 2001, 2003, 2005
• Annual Radiology Conference, RSNA 1998, 2003
• Bi-Annual IEEE/ACM Volume Visualization and Graphics Symposium, 1996-2004
• Annual Information Visualization Symposium, 1996-2004
• Bi-Annual IEEE/ACM Symposium on Parallel and Large Data Visualization, 1996-2004

Other related computing experience:

• Tutorial: "Advanced Virtual Medicine", MICCAI'2003 (Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention)
• (also IEEE Visualization 2004, 2003, Eurographics 2004)
• Tutorial: “State of the Art in Data Representation in Visualization,” IEEE Visualization 2002

Department, college, and/or university committee membership:

• Graduate Admissions Committee, 2000-2003
• Undergraduate Curriculum Committee, 2002
• Faculty Search Committee, 2000
• Search Committee for Associate Dean of College of Engineering, 2002-2003
• Chair, Alumni relations committee, 2004-

Principal publications of the last five years.

BOOK CHAPTERS:

• A. Kaufman and K. Mueller, "Overview of Volume Rendering", The Visualization Handbook, C. Johnson and C. Hansen, editors, Academic Press, 2004.
• A. Kaufman and K. Mueller, "Volume Visualization", The Computer Science and Engineering Handbook 2nd edition, A. Tucker, editor, CRC Press, 2004.

PAPERS:

• S. Li and K. Mueller, “Spline-Based Gradient Filters For High-Quality Refraction Com­putations in Discrete Datasets,” Eurographics/IEEE-VGTC Symposium on Visualization 2005, (to appear), June 2005.
• S. Pamudurthy, E Guan, K. Mueller, and M. Rafailovich, “Dynamic Approach for Face Recognition using Digital Image Skin Correlation,” Audio- and Video-based Biometric Person Authentication (AVBPA) 2005, (to appear) July 2005.
• N. Neophytou and K. Mueller, “GPU Accelerated Image Aligned Splatting,” IEEE/ACM Volume Graphics Workshop 2005, (to appear), Stony Brook, June 2005.
• S. Li and K. Mueller, “Accelerated, High-Quality Refraction Computations for Volume Graphics,” IEEE/ACM Volume Graphics Workshop 2005, (to appear), Stony Brook, June 2005.
• K. Mueller, S. Lakare, and A. Kaufman, "Volume exploration made easy using feature maps," Proc. 2003 Dagstuhl Workshop on Visualization (to appear).
• F. Xu and K. Mueller, "Accelerating popular tomographic reconstruction algorithms on commodity PC graphics hardware," IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science, (to appear), 2004.
• R. Schulte, V. Bashkirov, T. Li, Z. Liang, K. Mueller, et al., "Conceptual design of a pro­ton computed tomography system for applications in proton radiation therapy," IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science, vol. 51, no. 3, pp. 866-872, 2004.
• L. Wang and K. Mueller, “Enhancing volumetric datasets with sub-resolution detail using texture synthesis,” Proc. IEEE Visualization ’04, pp. 75-82, Austin, October 2004.
• F. Qiu, Y. Zhao, Z. Fan, X. Wei, H. Lorenz, J. Wang, S. Yoakum-Stover, A. Kaufman, and K. Mueller, “Accelerated dispersion simulation for urban security,” Proc. IEEE Visualiza­tion ’04, pp. 553-560, Austin, October 2004.
• X. Wei, W. Li, K. Mueller and A. E. Kaufman, “The Lattice-Boltzmann Method for Simulating Gaseous Phenomena", IEEE Trans. On Visualization and Computer Graphics, vol. 10, no. 2, pp. 164-176, 2004.

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

• 2005-2007: “A Unified Framework for Rapid CT on Commodity GPUs,” Principal Investigator, NIH, $408,932,
• 2004-2006: “An Algorithm for Dynamic Facial Recognition,” Co-Principal Investigator (with Miriam Rafailovich, Materials Science and Engineering Department), funded by the Center for Port Security. Annual direct cost: $50,000,.
• 2004 - "Acceleration of the Feldkamp CT Algorithm using commodity graphics hardware" Industry Grant, Breakway Imaging, LLC ($50k).
• 2002 - "Visualization of Atmospheric Data", DOE (with Dan Imre (BNL), Wei Zhu, Co-PI: my portion $116)
• 2001 - 06 "Point-Based and Image-Based Volume Rendering and Detail Modeling for Volume Graphics", NSF CAREER Award (PI: $346k).
• 2001 - 05 "Visual Data Classification and Mining for Atmospheric Science," DOE / PNL, (PI: 23k annually).
• 2001 - 04 "Imaging the Awake Animal Brain", DOE (with Thomas Ernst (BNL) PI, Co-Investigator: my portion $210k).

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

• IEEE - Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, Computer Society Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
• Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES) Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society.

Honors and awards:

• Annual Teaching Award (for Graduate classes), Computer Science Department, Stony Brook University, 2002.
• LISA (Long Island Software Award) award for the BrainMiner package, 2001.
• NSF CAREER award/grant, 2000.
• Best Hot Topic Award, Visualization'99 conference, 1999.
• Naval Notable Achievement Award, 1999.
• Honorary Mention, poster competition, SPIE International Medical Imaging Conference, San Diego, 1998.
• Best Paper Award, Visualization'97 conference, 1997.

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

Academic advising:

• 2 UG - Built a virtual reality interface for teaching motor skills, such as juggling
• 10 Graduate (MS, PhD) - Research on scientific visualization, medical imaging, and computer graphics
• Assigned advisor for 18 undergraduate students during 2004/2005 academic year.

Brief description of major research and scholarly activities:

My expertise lies in computer graphics, data visualization, volume rendering, graphics hardware, medical imaging, computed tomography image processing, image analysis, image segmentation, knowledge-based systems, artificial intelligence, digital signal processing, parallel algorithms and hardware, and graphical user interface design.