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The UAB CIS department is now seeking candidates for a new faculty position beginning August 15, 2008.
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John Johnstone
Associate Professor
Homepage: http://www.cis.uab.edu/jj/
Education
Ph.D., Computer Science, Cornell University, 1987 M.S., Computer Science, Cornell University, 1987 B.Sc., Mathematics, University of Saskatchewan, 1983
Research Interests
Geometric modeling, the design and analysis of geometric models built from curves and surfaces. These geometric models are used in computer graphics, animation, CAD/CAM, and robotics. An active research project is on bitangency, which is supported by the National Science Foundation under grant CCR-0203586. The present emphasis of this project is on visibility analysis in a smooth scene, smooth kernels and hulls, smooth shadows, and smooth motion. All of these problems are tightly connected to the construction of bitangents and bitangent developables of a collection of curves and surfaces.
Other research is in the analysis of triangular meshes, game design, motion design for animation and robotics, morphing between different topologies, and anatomical modeling (especially contour reconstruction) for biomedical visualization and analysis. My early research focused on the design and analysis of algebraic curves and surfaces, and my interest continues in this area, especially swept surfaces.
Contact Information
Telephone: 205.975.5633 E-Mail: jj (at) cis.uab.edu Mailing and Other: Department of Computer and Information Sciences University of Alabama at Birmingham 125 Campbell Hall Birmingham, AL 35294-1170 LAB: 143 Campbell Hall
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