JOHN KEYSER

Associate Professor and Associate Head for Academics

Email: keyser@cse.tamu.edu
Phone: 979/458-0167
Office: HRBB 527C
http://faculty.cse.tamu.edu/keyser

Ph.D. Computer Science; University of North Carolina, 2000
B.S. Computer Science, Engineering Physics, Applied Mathematics; Abilene Christian, 1994

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Geometric computing, graphics and visualization, simulation and modeling, and computer algebra

SELECTED RESEARCH SUPPORT

HCC: Small: "Rethinking Simulation in Computer Graphics." NSF Grant #0917286. PI: J. Keyser, 9/1/09 - 8/31/12.

CRCNS Data Sharing: "Whole Mouse Brain Neuronal Morphology and Neurovasculature Browser." NSF Grant #0905041. PI: Y. Choe, co-PIs: L. Abbott, J. Keyser, 9/1/09 - 8/31/11.

AWARDS

William Keeler Faculty Fellow, 2009-2010

Association of Former Students Distinguished Achievement Award in Teaching - College Level, 2007

Tenneco Meritorious Teaching Award, 2007

Montague Scholar, Center for Teaching Excellence, 2003-2004

EXPERIENCE

Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Texas A&M University, 2006 - present

Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, Texas A&M University, 2000-2006

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Shu-Wei Hsu, John Keyser, "Piles of Objects," ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proceedings of ACM SIGGRAPH Asia), vol. 29, no. 6, article 155, 2010.

Cem Yuksel, John Keyser, Donald House, "Mesh Colors," ACM Transactions on Graphics, vol. 29, no. 2, article 15, 2010.

Cem Yuksel, Scott Schaefer, John Keyser, "Hair Meshes," ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proceedings of ACM SIGGRAPH Asia), vol. 28, no. 5, article 166, 2009.

Shu-Wei Hsu, John Keyser, "Statistical Simulation of Rigid Bodies," Proceedings of ACM SIGGRAPH/Eurographics Symposium on Computer Animation, pp. 139-148, 2009.

David Mayerich, John Keyser, "Hardware Accelerated Segmentation of Complex Volumetric Filament Networks," IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, vol. 15, no. 4, pp. 670-681, 2009.

David Mayerich, Louise Abbott, John Keyser, "Visualization of Cellular and Microvessel Relationships," IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (Proceedings of IEEE Visualization), vol. 14, no.6, pp. 1611-1618, 2008.

Arno Zinke, Cem Yuksel, Andreas Weber, John Keyser, "Dual Scattering Approximation for Fast Multiple Scattering in Hair," ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proceedings of ACM SIGGRAPH), vol. 27, no. 3, article 32, 2008.

Koji Ouchi, John Keyser, "Rational Univariate Reduction via Toric Resultants," Journal of Symbolic Computation, vol. 43, no. 11, pp. 811-844, 2008.

Cem Yuksel, Donald House, John Keyser, "Wave Particles," ACM Transactions on Graphics (proceedings of ACM SIGGRAPH), 99, 2007.