Hi! I am a PhD candidate working in the Visualization Lab in the Department of Computer Science at the Stony Brook University. My advisor is Dr. Arie E. Kaufman . My primary research interests are volume visualization and processing, volume rendering architectures, cluster systems, memory and process scheduling algorithms for ray tracing, and memory management of very large data sets. I am also interested in algorithms and volume visualization applications such as medicine and scientific visualization. Currently I am working on the The Stony Brook Visual Computing Cluster. We are developing a universal volume visualization system for processing and rendering very large, dynamic scenes in real-time. Stony Brook is an inaugural member of the Scientific Visualization Collaboration
I have worked extensively with the Hewlett-Packard and with TeraRecon in an effort to stress the system using realistic applications.We are testing this system with applications in amorphous phenomena visualization, ray tracing, and massive volume rendering. Massive volumes rendered on the cluster include the Visible Human and Korean Visible Human RGB data sets, several teeth and fossil data sets from the Stony Brook University Anthropology Department , seismic data, and other medical data sets. See images from these data sets on my Gallery Page This system is being implemented on top of OpenVL - The Open Volume Library, for which I am a developer. For more details see my Research and Publications pages and my Resume.
Susan L. Frank