More on Research Interests

Selected Ph.D Students and PostDocs Students/Postdocs

My (former!) Ph.D. student Dianna Xu's home page
Dianna Xu's dissertation

My Ph.D student Marcelo Siqueira's home page (Brazil)
Marcelo Siqueira's dissertation

My Ph.D student (Gary) Hui Zhang's home page

Detailed Description of Research interests

Closest Collaborators at Penn Collaborators

Teaching

Spring 2023

CIS 6100 :
Advanced Geometric Methods in Computer Science
Differential Geometry and Lie Groups

Fall 2024

CIS 5150 :
Fundamentals of Linear Algebra and Optimization

Some Courses Taught in the Past Few Years

CIS 700 (Spring 2002) : More Advanced Geometric Methods in Computer Science
CIS 510/CSE410 (Fall 2002) : Curves and Surfaces: Theory and Applications
CIS 511 (Spring 2003) : Introduction to the theory of computation
CIS 610 (Fall 2003) : Advanced Geometric Methods in Computer Science
CIS 511 (Spring 2004) : Introduction to the theory of computation
CIS 700/005 (Spring 2004) (with Kostas Daniilidis) : Special Topics in Machine Perception
CSE260 (Fall 2005) : Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science
CIS610 (Spring 2005) : Advanced Geometric Methods in Computer Science
CIS610 (Spring 2006) : Advanced Geometric Methods in Computer Science
CIS610 (Spring 2008) : Advanced Geometric Methods in Computer Science
CSE260 (Fall 2008) : Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science
CIS 511 (Spring 2009) : Introduction to the theory of computation
CIS 610 (Summer 1, 2009): Advanced Geometric Methods in Computer Science
CIS 160 (Fall 2009) : Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science
CIS 511 (Spring 2010) : Introduction to the Theory of Computation
CIS 160 (Fall 2010) : Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science
CIS 610 (Spring 2011): Advanced Geometric Methods in Computer Science
CIS 515 (Spring 2012) : Fundamentals of Linear Algebra and Optimization
CIS 511 (Spring 2013) : Introduction to the Theory of Computation
CIS 511 (Spring 2014) : Introduction to the Theory of Computation
CIS 610 (Spring 2018): Advanced Geometric Methods in Computer Science
CIS 515 (Fall 2016) : Fundamentals of Linear Algebra and Optimization

Some Talks

A panorama of Geometric modeling (March 20, 2004)
slides, links
Aspects of Geometric modeling (November 5, 2004 and Spring 2007)
slides (powerpoint)
What is a proof? (November 6, 2008)
slides (pdf) slides (keynote)
Quadratic Optimization Problems Arising in Computer Vision (October 8, 2010)
slides (pdf)
Quadratic Optimization Problems Arising in Computer Vision (February 16, 2011)
slides (pdf)
The Classification Theorem for Compact Surfaces (October 31, 2012)
slides (pdf)
What is a proof? (version 2. November 1, 2012)
slides (pdf) slides (keynote)
Rotation Logic (Robotics Symposium, September 27, 2013)
slides (pdf)
Normalized Graph Cuts, Some Observations (Theory Group, January 24, 2014)
slides (pdf)
Clustering of Unsigned and Signed Graphs Using Normalized Graph Cuts
(Normalized Cuts 15+ years later) (September 29, 2015), Part I
slides (pdf)
Clustering of Unsigned and Signed Graphs Using Normalized Graph Cuts
(Normalized Cuts 15+ years later) (October 1, 2015), Part II
slides (pdf)
Clustering of Unsigned and Signed Graphs Using Normalized Graph Cuts
(October 12, 2016)
slides (pdf)