JOHN KEYSER

Associate Professor

Email: keyser@cse.tamu.edu
Phone: 979/458-0167 Fax: 979/847-8578
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

"MSM: Multiscale Imaging/Analysis/Integration of Brain Networks," NIH — National Institute for Neurological Disease and Stroke Grant, 9/1/2005-8/31/2008.

"ITR: Accurate and Robust Operations on Curved Geometry," NSF ITR program, September 2002-August 2007.

"CARGO: Degeneracy Detection for Curved Solids," NSF/DARPA CARGO program, March 2002-February 2003.

"Exploring the Brain Forest," Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board, Advanced Technology Program, January 2002-December 2003.

AWARDS

Tenneco Meritorious Teaching Award, 2007

Montague Scholar, Center for Teaching Excellence, 2003-2004

Coalition to Diversify Computing Mentor Travel Award, 2003

Office of Naval Research Graduate Fellowship, 1994-1998

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

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

Zeki Melek, John Keyser, "Driving Object Deformations from Internal Physical Processes," proceedings of ACM Symposium on Solid and Physical Modeling, pp. 51-59, 2007.

Zeki Melek, David Mayerich, Cem Yuksel, John Keyser, "Visualization of Fibrous and Thread-like Data," IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (proceedings of IEEE Visualization), vol. 12, no. 5, pp. 1165-1172, 2006.

Zeki Melek, John Keyser, "Multi-Representation Interaction for Physically-Based Modeling," proceedings of ACM Symposium on Solid and Physical Modeling, pp 187-196,299, 2005.

John Keyser, Koji Ouchi, J. Maurice Rojas, "The Exact Rational Univariate Representation and its Application," Geometric and Algorithmic Aspects of Computer-Aided Design and Manufacturing, DIMACS series in Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science, vol. 67, pp. 299-328, 2005.