February. 2012
 Industry & Academic
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Hello my name is
Nicholas F. Polys, Ph.D.
I have been working to build compelling, interactive 3D visualization systems
since 1998!
If you want to talk about collaboration, please email me at:
npolys at
vt.edu .
You can see my latest CV here;
here is a link to the lab I am managing and developing: VT's Visionarium
I am currently Director of Visual Computing
for Virginia Tech Research Computing. It a great mix
of research, mentoring, managing visualization facilities, and developing visualizations for the lastest
computational science and e-Design applications! I am also an
Affiliate Professor in the Department
Computer Science where I teach an occasional class such as
Intro to HCI, Media Computation, or Information
Visualization and Graphics and GUI Programming.
* Here is a link my homepage with the VT Computer Science Department,
which also has links to my publications *
My favorite areas of
R&D are:
- Graphics and
Interaction Design (Visualization and Virtual
Environments)
- Prototyping,
Modeling, Asset Management
- Server and
client-side scripting and programming :
Java, Perl, C++, UNIX, PHP, Python,
ECMAscript/JavaScript, OpenGL...
- Information
Integration and Content Production:
X3D,
VRML, XML, XSLT, SQL, HTML
Above you have interactive X3D + HTML5 through x3dom.org!
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Current Research:
3D
Information Displays, Interactions, and
Architectures |
I am investigating cognitive approaches to interactive
visualization in virtual environments. Specifically, I am
interested in perception and information design for embedding
and coordinating multiple information types inside 3D
environments. Recent work highlights the use and advantages of
open standards such as XML and X3D for "Information-Rich
Virtual Environments".
In
conjunction with Virginia Tech Research Computing, we are
applying our methods to the visualization of simulation data
from VT's High-Performance Computing facilities. For
example, architectural design & structural engineering,
molecular dynamics simulations, fluid dynamics simulations,
Geospatial visualization such as 3D Blacksburg,
immune system simulations.
In addition, we
are focuing on the further improvement of visualization
services, informatics softwares, and international
standards, especially for volume rendering.
Doctoral
Dissertation:
Display Techniques in Information-Rich Virtual Environments
examines the effects of percetual cues in representing
heterogenous data sets
Advisors: Dr.
Doug Bowman and Dr. Chris North
Committee: Dr.
Scott McCrickard, Dr. Ken Livingston, Dr.
Don Brutzman
Virginia Tech Department and Computer
Science and
Center for
Human Computer Interaction
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International
Service
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As a key contributor to numerous industry initiatives and
technologies, I have presented tutorials and workshops for the
integration of interactive 3D media into concept, workflow,
sharing, and publication. My strong background in web systems
enables a solution-oriented perspective. I have provided
technical and HCI coursewares range from Introductory to
Advanced. I have served on the Web3D Board of Directors since 2000 and as President since 2010; I am the active Web3D Liaison to DICOM pursuing the greatest common denominator to describe n-D Presentation.
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