Research Group and Collaborators:

I have worked extensively with several undergraduate and graduate students and collaborators from several disciplines including
Computer Science, Mathematics, Psychology, Music, Astronomy, Physics, Criminal Justice, Environmental Sciences and Bioinformatics. 
I especially enjoy working with undergraduate students. Several undergraduate students have co-authored papers with me. Here is the record.

I am always looking for motivated undergraduate students to work with me. You need to know graphics and user interface programming using C, OpenGL, and XForms (or Fltk). The areas I am currently interested are Geographic Visualization, Scientific Visualization, Uncertainty Visualization, and Multi-Modal (using audio/music, haptics/skin sensation/force feedback) Visualization.
ACCEPTED STUDENTS

PROSPECTIVE STUDENTS

Undergraduate students

Chaim Chester

Chaim was a student in my Computer Arts Class (CMP 80C) during Winter 2000. His memory inspires me to be a good teacher. He is a talented artist.

Dennis Crowley

  • Suresh K. Lodha, Doug Whitmore, Dennis Crowley and Bryce Edwards, "MultiModal Glyphs for Visualizing Bi-Variate Data", In Preparation.

    • Bryce Edwards

  • Suresh K. Lodha, Doug Whitmore, Dennis Crowley and Bryce Edwards, "MultiModal Glyphs for Visualizing Bi-Variate Data", In Preparation.

    • Nikolai Faaland

    He is doing great work. Stay tuned!

    David Fitzpatrick

    David carved out an independent major in Digital Arts and Media. I was one of the sponsoring members.

    Jeff Furman

  • C. Wittenbrink, J. Furman, E. Saxon, A. Pang and S. K. Lodha, "Glyphs for Visualizing Uncertainty in Environmental Vector Fields", Proceedings of the SPIE Conference on Visual Data Exploration and Analysis II, San Jose, February 8-10 1995, Vol. 2410, pp. 87-100.

    • Nguyet Manh

  • Suresh K. Lodha, Doug Whitmore, Ellen Venable, David Marsh, Doanna Meads, Casey Robinson and Nguyet Manh, "Use of Natural Sounds and Metaphors for Data mapping", Proceedings of the SPIE Conference on Visual Data Exploraion and Analysis, San Jose, California, January 2001, to appear.

    • David Marsh

  • Suresh K. Lodha, Doug Whitmore, Ellen Venable, David Marsh, Doanna Meads, Casey Robinson and Nguyet Manh, "Use of Natural Sounds and Metaphors for Data mapping", Proceedings of the SPIE Conference on Visual Data Exploraion and Analysis, San Jose, California, January 2001, to appear.

    • Casey Robinson

  • Suresh K. Lodha, Doug Whitmore, Ellen Venable, David Marsh, Doanna Meads, Casey Robinson and Nguyet Manh, "Use of Natural Sounds and Metaphors for Data mapping", Proceedings of the SPIE Conference on Visual Data Exploraion and Analysis, San Jose, California, January 2001, to appear.

    • Krishna Roskin

  • Suresh K. Lodha, Jose Renteria and Krishna M. Roskin, "Topology Preserving Compression of 2D Vector Fields", Proceedings of IEEE Visualization '2000, October 2000, pp. 343-350.

    • Elizah Saxon

  • C. Wittenbrink, J. Furman, E. Saxon, A. Pang and S. K. Lodha, "Glyphs for Visualizing Uncertainty in Environmental Vector Fields", Proceedings of the SPIE Conference on Visual Data Exploration and Analysis II, San Jose, February 8-10 1995, Vol. 2410, pp. 87-100.

    • Mike Shafae

  • Christopher Campbell, Michael Shafae, Suresh K. Lodha and D. Massaro, "Multimodal Exploration of Multidimensional Fuzzy Data", In preparation.

    • Tao Starbow

  • A. Joseph, S. K. Lodha and T. Starbow, "Viewing-Angle Uncertainty in Volumetric Visualization", SPIE Conference on Visual Data Exploration and Analysis, San Jose, CA, January, 1998, Vol. 3298, pp. 101-111.

    • Eddo Stern

    Eddo carved out an independent major in Digital Arts and Media. I was one of the sponsoring members.

    John Thomas

    Ellen Venable

  • Suresh K. Lodha, Doug Whitmore, Ellen Venable, David Marsh, Doanna Meads, Casey Robinson and Nguyet Manh, "Use of Natural Sounds and Metaphors for Data mapping", Proceedings of the SPIE Conference on Visual Data Exploraion and Analysis, San Jose, California, January 2001, to appear.

    • Grant Wong

  • Suresh K. Lodha, Nikolai M. Faaland, Grant Wong, Amin Charaniya, Srikumar Ramalingam, and Arthur M. Keller, "Consistent Visualization and Qurying of Spatial Databases by a Location-Aware Mobile Agent", Submitted to ACM GIS, 2002.

    • Brett Zane-Ulman

  • S. K. Lodha, Travis Heppe, John Beahan, Abigail Joseph and Brett Zane-Ulman, "MUSE: A Musical Data Sonification Toolkit", Proceedings of the International Conference on Auditory Display (ICAD), Palo Alto, California, November 1997, pp. 36-40.

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    Graduate Students
     
    Graduate students who have worked with me have done summer internships or taken up jobs in various companies including INRIA (France), IBM Almaden Research Center, NASA Ames Research Center, Sarnoff Corporation, Microsoft, Yahoo, Nvidia, Apple Computer, USGS (United States Geological Survey), Micron Technology, SGI, Raytheon Corporation, AMD, Sumitomo Electronics, Keyhole (Geospatial Visualization) and several startup companies including Digital Square, Live Picture, General Magic, Tech Soft, Geo Met, and EMU systems.

    Those inclined to academic careers are teaching at the California State University (Chico, California), Cabrillo Community College (Aptos, California), and Gavilan College (Gilroy, California).

    Yet, those with independent spirits have become entreprenuers and free lance writers.

    John Beahan

  • S. K. Lodha, Travis Heppe, John Beahan, Abigail Joseph and Brett Zane-Ulman, "MUSE: A Musical Data Sonification Toolkit", Proceedings of the International Conference on Auditory Display (ICAD), Palo Alto, California, November 1997, pp. 36-40.

    • Jim Bill


    Geometric Corporation, Madison, WI

    Degree: M.S., Computer Science, 1994
    Thesis title: Computer sculpting of polygonal models using virtual tools
    bill@geomet.com

    Chris Campbell


    IBM Almaden Research Center, Silicon Valley, California

  • Christopher Campbell, Michael Shafae, Suresh K. Lodha and D. Massaro, "Multimodal Exploration of Multidimensional Fuzzy Data", In preparation.

    • Amin Charaniya


    University of California, Santa Cruz

    Erik Charp


    EMU Systems, Silicon Valley, California

    Hiroya Chiba


    General Magic, Silicon Valley, California

    Degree: MS., Computer Science, 1996
    Thesis title: MUSURF: Visualizing Geometric Uncertainty of Multiple Surfaces
    hiroya@genmagic.com>

    Marc Hansen


    SGI, Silicon Valley, California

    Travis Heppe

  • S. K. Lodha, Travis Heppe, John Beahan, Abigail Joseph and Brett Zane-Ulman, "MUSE: A Musical Data Sonification Toolkit", Proceedings of the International Conference on Auditory Display (ICAD), Palo Alto, California, November 1997, pp. 36-40.

    • Tech Soft, Silicon Valley, California

    Steve Hodges


    Cabrillo College, Silicon Valley, California

    Sanjit Jhala


    University of California, Santa Cruz

    Abigail Joseph


    University of California, Santa Cruz


    Degree: MS., Computer Science, 1998
    Thesis title: UISURF: Visualizing Uncertainty in Isosurfaces
    ajjoseph@cse.ucsc.edu
  • A. Joseph, S. K. Lodha and T. Starbow, "Viewing-Angle Uncertainty in Volumetric Visualization", SPIE Conference on Visual Data Exploration and Analysis, San Jose, CA, January, 1998, Vol. 3298, pp. 101-111.
  • S. K. Lodha, Travis Heppe, John Beahan, Abigail Joseph and Brett Zane-Ulman, "MUSE: A Musical Data Sonification Toolkit", Proceedings of the International Conference on Auditory Display (ICAD), Palo Alto, California, November 1997, pp. 36-40.

    • Doanna Meads


    University of California, Santa Cruz

    Ed Parrish


    Digital Square, Scotts Valley, California


    Degree: MS., Computer Science, 2000
    Thesis title: Stocilicon An Internet-Based System for Visualizing Stock Market Data
    eparrish@cse.ucsc.edu

    Srikumar Ramalingam


    University of California, Santa Cruz

    Jose Renteria


    Raytheon Corporation


    Degree: MS., Computer Science, 1999
    Thesis title: WebVis: Hierarchical Web Home Page Visualization
  • Suresh K. Lodha, Jose Renteria and Krishna M. Roskin, "Topology Preserving Compression of 2D Vector Fields", Proceedings of IEEE Visualization '2000, October 2000, pages 343-350.
  • Jose Renteria and Suresh K. Lodha, "WebVis: A Web Home Page Visualizer", Proceedings of the SPIE Conference on Visual Data Exploration and Analysis, San Jose, CA, January, 2000, pages 50-61.

    • renteria@cse.ucsc.edu

    Eric Rosen

    Bob Sheehan


    Conexant, Silicon Valley, CA


    Degree: MS., Computer Science, 1996
    Thesis title: Visualizing Uncertainty in Surface Geometry and Fluid Flow
    previously worked at Live Picture
    bob.sheehan@conexant.com

    Lilly Spirkovska


    NASA Ames Research Center, Silicon Valley, California

    Clarke Steinback


    California, State University, Chico

    Masami Ueda


    Sumitomo Electronics


    Title: Senior Engineer
    Address: 1-1-3 Shimaya. Konohana-ku, Osaka, 554-0024, Japan.
    Phone: +81-6-466-5643
    Fax: +81-6-466-5732
    Degree: M.S., Computer Science, 1994
    Thesis title: Wavelet Volume Rendering and Compression
    ueda@rinfo.sei.co.jp

    Kartik Venkatraman


    Micron Technology, Silicon Valley, California

    Carl Wescott


    Software Entreprenur

    Doug Whitmore


    Apple, Silicon Valley, California

  • Suresh K. Lodha, Doug Whitmore, Marc Hansen and Erik Charp, "Analysis and User Evaluation of a Musical-Visual System: Does music make any difference?", Proceedings of the International Conference on Auditory Display (ICAD), Atlanta, Georgia, April 2000, pp. 167-172.
  • Suresh K. Lodha, Doug Whitmore, Ellen Venable, David Marsh, Doanna Meads, Casey Robinson and Nguyet Manh, "Use of Natural Sounds and Metaphors for Data mapping", Proceedings of the SPIE Conference on Visual Data Exploraion and Analysis, San Jose, California, January 2001, to appear.

    • Catherine Wilson


    Free Lance Writer


    Degree: MS., Computer Science, 1996
    Thesis title: Listen: A data sonification toolkit
    previously worked at NetCarta (acquired by MicroSoft)
    cmwilson@wildestdreams.com

    Collaborators

     

    Nick Faust

    GTRI

    Georgia Institue of Technology

    Richard Franke

    Department of Mathematics

    Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California

    Ronald Goldman

    Department of Computer Science

    Rice University, Houston, Texas

    Dominic Massaro

    Department of Psychology

    University of California, Santa Cruz

    Alex Pang

    Department of Computer Science

    University of California, Santa Cruz

    Jeff Reuben

    Department of Orthopaedics

    Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas

    Bill Ribarsky

    Graphics, Usability and Visualization Center

    Georgia Institute of Technology

    Pramod Varshney

    Electrical Engineering /h4>

    Syracuse University

    Arvind Verma

    Department of Criminal Justice

    Indiana University, Bloomington, IN

    Joe Warren

    Department of Computer Science

    Rice University, Houston, Texas

    Craig Wittenbrink

    Hewlett Packard Laboratory, Palo Alto, California