faculty1.xml

 

  <faculty_member>

    <name>

      <first_name>Chandrajit</first_name>

      <last_name>Bajaj</last_name>

    </name>

    <faculty_types>

      <faculty_type>professor</faculty_type>

    </faculty_types>

    <office>

      <building>

        <abbreviation>ACE</abbreviation>

        <long_name>Applied Computational Engineering and Sciences</long_name>

      </building>

      <room>2.324</room>

    </office>

    <email_addresses>

      <email>bajaj@cs.utexas.edu</email>

    </email_addresses>

    <websites>

      <website>http://userweb.cs.utexas.edu/users/bajaj/</website>

    </websites>

    <phone_numbers>

      <phone_number>

        <phone_type>work</phone_type>

        <country_code>1</country_code>

        <area_code>512</area_code>

        <number>4715133</number>

      </phone_number>

          <phone_number>

        <phone_type>fax</phone_type>

        <country_code>1</country_code>

        <area_code>512</area_code>

        <number>4710982</number>

      </phone_number>

    </phone_numbers>

    <research_areas>

      <research_area>Computational Biology</research_area>

      <research_area>Geometric Modeling</research_area>

          <research_area>Image Processing</research_area>

          <research_area>Computational Geometry</research_area>

          <research_area>Computer Graphics</research_area>

          <research_area>Compression</research_area>

          <research_area>Mesh Generation</research_area>

          <research_area>Scientific Computation</research_area>

          <research_area>Visualization</research_area>

    </research_areas>

    <degrees>

      <degree>

        <year_awarded>1980</year_awarded>

        <institution>Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi, India</institution>

        <degree_type>Bachelor's Degree</degree_type>

        <specialization>Computer Science</specialization>

      </degree>

      <degree>

        <year_awarded>1983</year_awarded>

        <institution>Cornell University, Ithaca, New York </institution>

        <degree_type>Master's Degree</degree_type>

        <specialization>Computer Science</specialization>

      </degree>

          <degree>

        <year_awarded>1984</year_awarded>

        <institution>Cornell University, Ithaca, New York </institution>

        <degree_type>Doctoral Degree</degree_type>

        <specialization>Computer Science</specialization>

      </degree>

    </degrees>

    <awards>

      <award>

        <name>Frame Technology Excellence in Publishing Award</name>

        <year_awarded>1993</year_awarded>

      </award>

      <award>

        <name>Purdue University, Provost's Research Center Initiation Award</name>

        <year_awarded>1994</year_awarded>

      </award>

    </awards>

    <office_hours>

      <meeting_time_and_place>

        <start_time>01:30:00</start_time>

        <end_time>02:45:00</end_time>

        <location>

          <building>

            <abbreviation>ACE</abbreviation>

            <long_name>Applied Computational Engineering and Sciences</long_name>

          </building>

          <room>2.324</room>

        </location>

        <days>

          <day>Tuesday</day>

        </days>

      </meeting_time_and_place>

      <meeting_time_and_place>

        <start_time>03:00:00</start_time>

        <end_time>04:00:00</end_time>

        <location>

          <building>

            <abbreviation>ACE</abbreviation>

            <long_name>Applied Computational Engineering and Sciences</long_name>

          </building>

          <room>2.324</room>

        </location>

        <days>

          <day>Wednesday</day>

        </days>

      </meeting_time_and_place>

    </office_hours>

    <classes>

      <class>

        <unique_number>54255</unique_number>

        <course>

                  <title>Computer Graphics</title>

          <field_of_study>CS</field_of_study>

                  <number>354</number>

                  <level>undergrad</level>

                  <description>Introduction to techniques for human-machine communication through imagery. Topics include display hardware, transformations, interactive techniques, geometric modeling, two- and three-dimensional display algorithms, graphics software systems architecture, and hidden-line and surface elimination. Projects are assigned and in-depth exploration is encouraged. Three lecture hours a week for once semester. Prerequisite: The following courses, with a grade of at least C in each: CS 310 or 310H, 336 or 336H, M 408D or 408M, and M 341 or 340L.</description>

        </course>

        <semester>spring</semester>

        <year>2010</year>

        <meeting_times_and_places>

          <meeting_time_and_place>

            <start_time>11:00:00</start_time>

            <end_time>12:15:00</end_time>

            <location>

              <building>

                <abbreviation>JES</abbreviation>

                <long_name>Jester</long_name>

              </building>

              <room>A303A</room>

            </location>

            <days>

              <day>Tuesday</day>

              <day>Thursday</day>

            </days>

          </meeting_time_and_place>

        </meeting_times_and_places>

      </class>

    </classes>

    <published_books>

      <book>

        <ISBN>0471963569</ISBN>

        <title>Data Visualization Techniques </title>

        <publisher>Wiley, John &amp; Sons, Incorporated</publisher>

        <year_published>1999</year_published>

      </book>

    </published_books>

    <journal_articles>

      <article>

        <journal>IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications</journal>

        <title>The Transfer Function Bake-off</title>

                <issue_number>3</issue_number>

        <issue_date>2001-05</issue_date>

      </article>

    </journal_articles>

    <conferences>

      <conference>

        <year>1995</year>

        <name>Computer Graphics Annual Conference Series</name>

        <location>Los Angeles, USA</location>

        <presentation_title>Automatic Reconstruction of Surfaces and Scalar Fields from 3D Scans</presentation_title>

      </conference>

    </conferences>

    <grad_students>

      <grad_student>

        <name>

          <first_name>Xiaoyu</first_name>

          <last_name>Zhang</last_name>

        </name>

        <type>Doctoral Degree</type>

        <thesis_title>Scalable Isocontour  Visualization for Large Datasets</thesis_title>

                <thesis_date>2001-12</thesis_date>

      </grad_student>

    </grad_students>

  </faculty_member>