Steven M

Education

Ph.D. Computer Science, Dept. of Computer Sciences,

Purdue University, August 2000. Thesis: Flexible User Interface Coupling with Operation Transformation

M.S. in Computer Science, Dept. of Computer Sciences, Purdue

University, May 1993.

B.S. Double Major in Computer Science and Mathematics, Purdue

University, May. 1990

Employment History

q Nov 2000- Visualization Scientist, San Diego Supercomputer Center, UCSD, La Jolla, CA.

q Nov 1999-Nov 2000 Senior Software Engineer, Walt Disney Feature Animation, Walt Disney Studios, Burbank, CA.

q May 1997 - Nov 1999 Research Scientist, Texas Institute for Computational and Applied Mathematics, University of Texas at Austin, TX

q Aug 1991 - May 1997 Research Assistant, Department of Computer Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN

q Summer 1995 Summer Internship, Institute for Defense Analysis, Washington D.C

q June 1990 - Aug 1991 Software Engineer, Intergraph Corporation, Huntsville, AL

Research Interests

q Collaborative User Interfaces and Systems

q Adaptive User Interfaces

q Group based Human Computer Interaction

q Collaborative Virtual Environments

Teaching Experience

q Aug 1993 – Dec 1993 Teaching Assistant, Introduction to Data Structures, Department of Computer Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN

q Aug 1994 – Dec 1994 Teaching Assistant, Graduate Level Operating Systems, Department of Computer Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN

q Aug 1996 – Dec 1996 Teaching Assistant, Topics in Artificial Intelligence, Department of Computer Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN

Professional Memberships

q Association of Computing Machinery

Awards and Honors

q Certificate of Recognition for Outstanding Accomplishment in Assistant Teaching, Purdue ACM Student Chapter, 1995.

Projects

q Scalable visualization user interface toolkit for the display and manipulation of very large datasets using the Scalable Visualization Mesh toolkits under development at SDSC.

q Chip2D – a workflow system for managing the production of full length feature animations at Walt Disney Feature Animation.

q ShastraWeb - a Web based collaborative environment. Provides sophisticated collaboration capabilities through web browsers over the World Wide Web. Supports shared three dimensional visualization and manipulation. Implemented using Java, VRML, and CORBA. http://www.ticam.utexas.edu/CCV/projects/collabweb

q NLS - Networked Learning Spaces: a wide area network collaborative synthetic environment for exploration of learning spaces. Joint work with Nippon Telephone and Telegraph America. Involved in joint live demonstration between Purdue University, West Lafayette, and NTT Mountain View California using NLS software for interactive environment exploration.

q SEABS - Synthetic Environment for Analysis of Business Systems: a synthetic environment for the visualization of business war-gaming. Involved in two demonstrations at Purdue University School of Management and Institute for Defense Analysis, Washington D.C.

q GATI - A 2D/3D animation and visualization server. An application developed to simplify the task of creating animated visual representations of problems in geometrical modeling.

q GANITH - An algebraic surface toolkit. Developed software for the visualization of implicit surfaces, and manipulation of polynomials as abstract data types.

q BHAUTIK - A finite element preprocessor. Developed software to generate a tetrahedral mesh of 3D solids for finite element analysis.

Publications

1. Steve Cutchin. Flexible User Interface Coupling With Operation Transformation. PhD thesis, Purdue University, August 2000.

2. C. Bajaj and S. Cutchin. Web Based Collaborative Visualization in Shastra. In Visualization 98 Workshop on Distributed Visualization, pages 320-332, 1998.

3. C. Bajaj and S. Cutchin. Web Based Collaboration Aware Synthetic Environments. In Proc. of TeamCAD Gvu/Nist Workshop on Collaborative Design, pages 143-150, May 1997. ed. J. Rossignac.

4. C. Bajaj, F. Bernardini, S. Cutchin, K. Lin, E. Sacks, and D. Schikore. Comprehensive Analysis of Joints from Patient Clinical Data. Technical report, Purdue University, 1997.

5. N. Osumi, M. Shinya, T. Mori, T. Sunaga, C. Bajaj, S. Cutchin, and R. Merkert. NLS: Collaborative Virtual Environment to Promote Shared Awareness. In Workshop on New Paradigms in Information Visualization and Manipulation, NPIV '96, In conjunction with Fifth ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM '96), pages 41-45, 1996.

6. C. Bajaj, F. Bernardini, S. Cutchin, and R. Merkert. A CSCW Framework for Networked Multimodal Synthetic Environments. Technical report, Purdue University, 1996.

7. C. Bajaj and S. Cutchin. Collaborative Multimedia Scientific Design in SHASTRA - Demonstration . In Proc. of the third ACM International Conference on Multimedia, ACM MULTIMEDIA 95. ACM Press, 1995.

8. V. Anupam, C. Bajaj, F. Bernardini, S. Cutchin, J. Chen, D. Schikore, G. Xu, P. Zhang, and W. Zhang. Scientific Problem Solving in a Distributed and Collaborative Multimedia Environment. Mathematics and Computers in Simulation, 36:433-442, 1994. Special Issue on Problem Solving Environments for Computational Science and Engineering (E. Houstis Ed.).

9. C. Bajaj, F. Bernardini, and S. Cutchin. Sweeping and Docking Motion Strategies. Presented at the 2nd Workshop on Robot Motion Planning, L'Escala, Spain, October 1994.

10.Bajaj C., Bernardini F., Cutchin S., and Sugihara K. Path Planning for a Mobile Robot Sweeper. Technical Report 94-060, Purdue University Computer Sciences, 1994.

11.V. Anupam, C. Bajaj, S. Cutchin, S. Evans, I. Ihm, J. Chen, A. Royappa, D. Schikore, and G. Xu. Scientific Problem Solving in a Distributed and Collaborative Geometric Environment. In 3rd International Conference on Expert Systems for Numerical Computing, pages 17-19, May 1993.

12.C. Bajaj and S. Cutchin. The GATI Client-Server Animation Toolkit. In Proc. of Computer Graphics International, CGI93, pages 128-135. Springer Verlag, 1993.