Received Honor Student Award from 1983 to 1986 and Best Graduate Award in 1986 from Peking University; received UofT Open Doctoral Fellowship during his years at the University of Toronto; awarded NSF CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) in 1997; awarded a newly-established NSF Information Technology Research (ITR) grant in September 2000; received Honda Initiation Grant Award in December 2000; selected as an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow by the Sloan Foundation in February 2001; awarded another NSF ITR grant in September 2003; served as the general Co-Chair for Computer Graphics International 2005 (CGI'2005) and organized Stony Brook Graphics Week which included CGI'2005, PBG'2005, and VG'2005 in June 2005; currently an associate editor for IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (IEEE TVCG) and on the editorial board of The Visual Computer (International Journal of Computer Graphics); Conference Co-Chair for ACM Solid and Physical Modeling Symposium 2007; will be chairing Stony Brook Modeling Week in June 2008.
Research Experience
Worked as a research scientist at North-China Institute of Computing Technologies from 1989 to 1990; was a Ph.D. candidate in Computer Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from 1990 to 1991; worked as a research scientist in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Toronto from September to December 1995; served as an Assistant Professor of Computer and Information Science and Engineering at the University of Florida from December 1995 to 1997; served as an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at State University of New York at Stony Brook from September 1997 to July 2001; served as an Associate Professor (with tenure) at State University of New York at Stony Brook from August 2001 to July 2006; currently a Full Professor (with tenure) in the Department of Computer Science at State University of New York at Stony Brook and a member of SUNYSB's Center for Visual Computing.
Education
Received B.S. (1986) and M.S. (1989) degrees in Computer Science from Peking University; received Ph.D. (1995) degree in Computer Science from the University of Toronto.
Background
Research interests include Computer Graphics, Geometric and Physics-based Modeling, Computer Aided Design and Manufacturing, Computer Aided Geometric Design, Computer Animation and Simulation, Scientific Computing and Visualization, Virtual Environments and Virtual Engineering, Computational Vision, Medical Imaging and Applications, Computational Geometry, Applied Mathematics, Numerical Techniques, Engineering Design, Finite Element Analysis, Human-Computer Interaction and User Interface, Robotics.
Miscellany
Currently a Full Professor (with tenure) in the Department of Computer Science at State University of New York at Stony Brook and a member of SUNYSB's Center for Visual Computing.