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Update: I moved to Computer Science at Stanford University on June 1, 2015.

Doug L. James

Full Professor
Department of Computer Science
Stanford University
Gates Computer Science Building
353 Serra Mall
Stanford, CA 94305

[email protected] (email -- best way to reach me)
650-723-0104 (voice)

Assistant: Monica Niemiec ( [email protected], 650-725-9494)

Office Hours: By appointment.

Stanford Profile Webpage

Highlight: I was Technical Papers Chair for ACM SIGGRAPH 2015 in Los Angeles, CA.
Highlight: Keynote lectures on Physics-based Animation Sound: Progress and Challenges given at 2014 SIAM Annual Meeting, and 2014 ACM/Eurographics Symposium on Computer Animation.
Highlight: Received the Katayanagi Emerging Leadership Prize (2013).
Highlight: We received a SciTech Academy Award for Wavelet Turbulence (Feb 2013) [details]

Pictured (left to right): Theodore Kim, Nils Thuerey,

Markus Gross and Doug James

credit: Darren Decker / ©A.M.P.A.S.

Highlight: BBC Radio, Click, The rise of computer-generated sound (Oct 2012)
Highlight: BBC Radio, The Art of Water Music
Highlight: NPR Radio, Science Friday, The Future of Computer-Generated Sound Effects

Curriculum Vitae

Research Interests:
Computer graphics, physically based animation, physically based sound rendering, haptic rendering, algorithms for real-time and interactive physics, and scientific computing. Some research themes are (1) efficient deformation processing; (2) interactive and multi-sensory (graphics, haptics, sound) physical simulation; and (3) motion control and design.

Research Publications and Projects

Funding and Awards:

Fellow, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation (2011)
Cornell's ACSU Faculty of the Year Award (2009)
Cornell's Douglas Whitney '61 College of Engineering Excellence in Teaching Award (2008)
Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship
National Science Foundation (CAREER, EMT, HCC (Physically Based Sound Rendering), ...)
National Institutes of Health (NIBIB)
PIXAR!
BOEING (Commercial Airplanes)
Intel Corporation (Intel Science & Technology Center for Visual Computing)
NVIDIA
PopSci "Brilliant 10" (Popular Science, 2005; CMU press release, USA Today, PghPostGazette)

Students I work with:

Raj Setaluri (Stanford CS PhD)
Dae Hyun Kim (Stanford CS PhD)
Jui-hsien Wang (Stanford ICME PhD)
Timothy Langlois(Cornell PhD)
Eston Schweickart (Cornell PhD)
PAST STUDENTS:

Pu Zhang (Cornell PhD)
Brandon Benton (Cornell PhD)
Rafael Marinheiro (visiting student, Brazil)
Kelvin Jin (Cornell ugrad)
Andrew Wolfers (Cornell ugrad)
Arthus Sams (Cornell ugrad 2013)
Cem Yuksel (Cornell Postdoc, CIFellow → prof@School of Computing, Utah)
Steven An (Cornell PhD 2013)
Jeffrey Chadwick (Cornell PhD 2013 → D. E. Shaw)
Changxi Zheng (Cornell PhD 2012 → prof@Columbia)
Jonathan Kaldor (Cornell PhD 2011, co-advised with Steve Marschner → Facebook)
Theodore (Ted) Kim (Cornell Postdoc → prof@UC Santa Barbara)
Christopher Twigg (CMU PhD, 2008 → ILM)
Jernej Barbič (CMU PhD, 2007 → postdoc@MIT → prof@USC)
Alec Rivers (Cornell BSc, 2007 → PhD@MIT)
Christopher Cameron (CMU/Cornell → NVIDIA)
Andrew Cove (CMU MSc, 2007)
Robert Wang (CMU BSc, 2004 → PhD@MIT)
Kayvon Fatahalian (CMU BSc, 2003 → PhD@Stanford)
Matthew Trentacoste (CMU BSc, 2003 → PhD@UBC)

ON WORKING WITH ME:

Teaching:

15-863 Physically Based Modeling and Interactive Simulation (Spring 2003, Spring 2005)
15-462 Introduction to Computer Graphics (Fall 2003, Spring 2006)
15-864 Advanced Computer Graphics (Spring 2004, Spring 2005, Spring 2006)

"Education is not the filling of a bucket, but the lighting of a fire." --W.B. Yeats
"Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible." --Richard P. Feynman

An early unpublished collaboration in the Program of Computer Graphics (circa 2007)...