Computer Graphics and Visualization Fellowship
at UMBC

Graphics, Animation, and Visualization Lab

Computer Science and Electrical Engineering Department
University of Maryland Baltimore County
1000 Hilltop Circle
Baltimore, MD 21250
(410) 455-3500

The following fellowships and assistantships in Computer Graphics and Visualization are currently offered by Dr. David Ebert: Students meeting the following qualifications are eligible: Dr. David Ebert is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at the University of Maryland Baltimore County. He received his Ph.D. in Computer and Information Science in June, 1991 from The Ohio State University. His current research interests include realistic volumetric visualization (scientific, medical, information), rendering and animating gases and fluids, realistic rendering, procedural graphics, and animation. Ebert has written numerous journal articles, book chapters, and conference papers on visualization and computer graphics, produced several international award winning computer animations and images, taught courses at five ACM SIGGRAPH conferences, and edited and co-authored the book `` Texturing and Modeling: A Procedural Approach'' for AP Professional.

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Application material is available either via the department's on-line pre-application form, or directly from the graduate school.

The Visualization Group

The Visualization Group in the Graphics, Animation, and Visualization Lab (GAVL) is part of the Computer Science and Electrical Engineering Department (CS EE) at University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC). The group studies two focus areas: information visualization with emphasis on perception-based, two-handed, minimally-immersive interaction techniques; and, realistic volumetric visualization and rendering using advanced modeling techniques.

Group Members

CSEE Department

The Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at UMBC offers B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees. Its programs provide opportunities for studies in all important areas of computer science and electrical engineering, with emphases in telecommunications and computer networking, computer graphics and interface technology, computability and algorithms, computer architecture and VLSI, programming languages, software engineering, artificial intelligence and machine learning, symbolic and numerical computation, digital signal processing, optical communication, and image processing. The department currently has 25 full time faculty and 30 part-time adjunct faculty. There are approximately 700 undergraduate Computer Science majors and about 360 CSEE graduate students. The department currently has grants from a number of government agencies including NASA, ARPA, AFOSR, NIST, and NSF.

The departmental research facilities are focused in several laboratories and offices, and consist of 2 SGI ONYX RealityEngine2 workstations, 5 SGI Indigo2 Extreme workstations, 50 SGI Indy workstations, 15 SPARCstation 10 workstations, 6 DECstation 5000 workstations, and 25 Sun 3/60 workstations. The department also maintains compute servers: an SGI Power Challange with 208 MB of memory, an SGI Crimson with 208 MB of memory, and two Sun SPARCservers with 128M of memory each. It also operates a number of PowerPC Macs and Pentium PCs. The College of Engineering operates a Cray YMP-EL with 2 processors, 256 MB memory, and 4 GB disk space. The Computer Science and Electrical Engineering Department is affiliated with the University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies (UMIACS) which maintains a CM-5 with 32 processors which is available to support research projects.

Imaging Research Center

The Imaging Research Center (IRC) has both a research and a service component. The IRC has a number of affiliated faculty, staff and students drawn primarily from the departments of Visual Arts and Computer Science who conduct research in computer graphics, visualization, digital imaging and multi-media technology. The IRC also has a dedicated staff which provides the campus with high-quality technical graphics services. The center maintains two SGI ONYX workstations with high performance Reality Engine graphics, supported by a miscellany of workstations and PCs. Video I/O is provided via two video frame buffers (VideoLab and Avinzar) driving an automated network of video devices, including SVHS, 8mm, BetaCam, and digital disk. The center also offers several film recorders, scanners and print devices, and high quality dye sublimation printers.

University Computing Services

The general computational facilities for education and research are operated by University Computing Services (UCS) These include four SGI Crimsons, and three DECstation 5000s, one VAX 4000 Model 500, and a large number of SGI workstations, Mac, and PCs. Several new laboratories have opened recently which provide over 300 SGI workstations for general educational use. These workstations feature the complete line of Indigo graphics, including entry level (8-bit), Elan (24-bit accelerated), Indy multimedia workstations, and Indigo2 Extreme workstations. These are arranged in a number of laboratory groups which can be utilized for hands on teaching.

The SGI Challenge-XL--a symmetric multiprocessing system with 20 R4400 processors, 1 GB of shared memory, and 10 GB of user disk space-- provides an excellent system for exploring shared memory multiprocessing, distributed computing, and course to medium grain parallelism.

Amen Zwa (zwa@cs.umbc.edu)
Last modified: 21 November 1996