Faculty Expertise Guide - College of Engineering - Virginia Tech
Faculty Expertise Guide - College of Engineering - Virginia Tech
Faculty Expertise Guide - College of Engineering - Virginia Tech
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<strong>College</strong> <strong>of</strong> engineering faCulty expertise listing 2010-2012<br />
URL: http://people.cs.vt.edu/~north/<br />
Specialty: Information Visualization, Evaluating Visualizations,<br />
Large High-Resolution Displays, Bioinformatics Visualization,<br />
Geospatial Information Visualization<br />
Applications: Numeric and non-numeric data visualization and<br />
analysis for bioinformatics, geographic information systems,<br />
digital libraries, network intrusion detection, intelligence analysis<br />
and other domains; development <strong>of</strong> user interfaces for<br />
web-based dissemination <strong>of</strong> large or complex information;<br />
designing user interfaces for large high-resolution displays for<br />
control rooms, visualization labs, or classrooms<br />
<strong>Expertise</strong>: Design, development, and evaluation <strong>of</strong> user interfaces<br />
and visualizations; information visualization; multidimensional<br />
data visualization; multiple-view coordination;<br />
information and application integration; web-based s<strong>of</strong>tware<br />
architectures; architecting tiled, high-resolution displays and<br />
visualizations<br />
Examples <strong>of</strong> Funding Sources: National Science Foundation,<br />
National Geospatial-intelligence Agency, Advanced Research<br />
and Development Activity, U.S. Bureau <strong>of</strong> the Census<br />
HUMAN-COMPUTER INTERACTION<br />
Name: Manuel A. Pérez-Quiñones<br />
Department: Computer Science<br />
Office Phone: 540-231-2646<br />
FAX: 540-231-6075<br />
E-mail: perez@cs.vt.edu<br />
URL: www.cs.vt.edu/~perez<br />
Specialty: User Interface S<strong>of</strong>tware, Personal Information Management,<br />
Evaluations <strong>of</strong> Interactive Systems<br />
Applications: Design and development <strong>of</strong> interactive computerbased<br />
applications; assessment <strong>of</strong> computer use in educational<br />
settings; development <strong>of</strong> web-based applications; design<br />
and development <strong>of</strong> applications for multiple devices including<br />
interactive desktop applications, web-based database-driven<br />
applications, and handheld devices such as iPhones<br />
<strong>Expertise</strong>: Design, development and evaluation <strong>of</strong> interactive<br />
systems; usability engineering; experimental design to support<br />
the design and evaluation <strong>of</strong> user interfaces<br />
Examples <strong>of</strong> Funding Sources: National Science Foundation,<br />
IBM Corporation, Micros<strong>of</strong>t<br />
HUMAN-COMPUTER INTERACTION (a) and<br />
COMPUTER VISION (b)<br />
Name: Francis Quek<br />
Department: Computer Science<br />
Office Phone: 540-231-8453<br />
FAX: 540-231-9218<br />
E-mail: quek@vt.edu<br />
Specialty: (a) Embodied Cognition and Interaction, Human<br />
Multimodal Behavior Analysis, Human Multimodal Language<br />
Analysis, Meeting Analysis, Assistive <strong>Tech</strong>nologies for the<br />
Blind, User Interfaces Systems that Support Human Learning<br />
and Knowing, Agent-Based Vision Systems, Computer Vision-<br />
Based Interfaces, (b) Human Multimodal Behavior Analysis,<br />
Human Multimodal Language Analysis, Meeting Analysis,<br />
Computer Vision-Based Interfaces, Medical Imaging, Dynamic<br />
Vision, Agent-Based Vision Systems, Vision Processing Using<br />
Modern Graphical Processing Hardware<br />
Applications: (a) Human meeting analysis; distance tutoring avatars;<br />
systems to support mathematics instruction for the blind;<br />
sensemaking systems; simulation-based training; computer<br />
gaming systems; human creativity nurturing systems; tabletop<br />
interaction technology; (b) Human meeting analysis; tabletop<br />
interaction technology; medical imaging and modeling<br />
<strong>Expertise</strong>: (a) Human computer interaction; embodied cognition<br />
and interaction; computer vision-based interaction; (b) Human<br />
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