Jyh-Ming Lien Contact info: Office: ENGR 4442 Department of Computer Science George Mason University, MSN 4A5 Fairfax, VA, 22030, USA http://cs.gmu.edu/~jmlien/ jmlien@cs.gmu.edu phone: (703) 993-9546 (Note: Email is the best way to contact me) office hours: on leave (Spring 2012) I am an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science at the George Mason University. My research is in the areas of computational geometry, computer graphics, GIS and robotics. My research goal is to develop efficient algorithms for representing, manipulating and analyzing massive geometric data of shape and motion. Visit MASC group project page for our most recent research and publications. CV text, pdf (last update: Aug. 2011) Teaching Spring 2012 | Past Courses | CS426 Game Programming 2 Research Group Projects Seminar Services Funding Recent publications | Full List | Fernando Camelli, Rainald Löhner, Jyh-Ming Lien and David Wong, "Comparing Four Different CFD Approaches to Simulate Transport and Dispersion in Oklahoma City", 17th Conference on Air Pollution Meteorology with the A&WMA, part of the 92nd AMS Annual Meeting, Louisiana, New Orleans, Jan. 2012. [web] Jyh-Ming Lien, Fernando Camelli, David Wong, Yanyan Lu and Benjamin McWhorter "Creating Building Ground Plans via Robust K-way Union", the Visual Computer, accepted 2011. [web] Fernando Camelli, Jyh-Ming Lien, Dayong Shen, David W. Wong, Matthew Rice, Rainald Löhner and Chaowei Yang, "Generating Seamless Surfaces for Transport and Dispersion Modeling in GIS", Geoinformatica, August 2011, DOI: 10.1007/s10707-011-0138-3. [web] Stephen Donnelly, Yanyan Lu, Evan Behar and Jyh-Ming Lien, "Estimating Penetration Depth of Convex Polyhedra Using Dynamic Minkowski Sum", Contributed Presentation Abstract, SIAM Conference on Geometric and Physical Modeling (GD/SPM11), Orlando, Florida, Oct. 2011. Yanyan Lu, Evan Behar, Stephen Donnelly, Jyh-Ming Lien, Fernando Camelli, and David Wong, "Fast and Robust Generation of City-Scale Seamless 3D Urban Models", Computer-Aided Design, accepted 2011. Also appear in Proc. SIAM Conference on Geometric and Physical Modeling (GD/SPM), Orlando, Florida, Oct. 2011. [web] Christopher Vo and Jyh-Ming Lien, "Reusable Sampling-Based Techniques for Manipulation via Pushing", the Workshop on Progress and Open Problems in Motion Planning, IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2011), San Francisco, CA, Sep. 2011. Yanyan Lu and Jyh-Ming Lien, "Finding Critical Changes in Dynamic Configuration Spaces ", in Proc. of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2011), San Francisco, CA, Sep. 2011. [web] Evan Behar and Jyh-Ming Lien, "Fast and Robust 2D Minkowski Sum Using Reduced Convolution", in Proc. of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2011), San Francisco, CA, Sep. 2011. [web] Jyh-Ming Lien, Fernando Camelli, and David Wong, "Fast and Robust Generation of City Scale Urban Ground Plan", In Proc. Computer Graphics International (CGI), Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, June 2011. Also invited to republish in the Visual Computer. [web] Evan Behar and Jyh-Ming Lien, "Dynamic Minkowski Sum of Convex Shapes", In Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. Robot. Autom. (ICRA), Shanghai, China, May 2011. [web] Department of Computer Science Volgenau School of Information Technology and Engineering George Mason University