Amitabh Varshney

Professor and Dean

3212 Iribe Center

(301) 405-2316

(301) 405-6707

Academic Web Page

Research Group(s):

Center for Automation Research

Center for Medical Innovations in Extended Reality

Education:

Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Computer Science)

Special Awards/Honors:

National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award, IEEE Fellow

Biography:

Amitabh Varshney is a professor of computer science with an appointment in the University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies. He is dean of the College of Computer, Mathematical, and Natural Sciences and lead site PI for the Center for Medical Innovations in Extended Reality.

Amitabh Varshney's research focuses on the applications of high-performance computing and visualization in engineering, science and medicine. His work includes developing algorithms for virtual and augmented reality, as well as innovations in visual computing for big data and healthcare.

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Publications

1996

Cohen J, Varshney A, Manocha D, Turk G, Weber H, Agarwal P, Brooks F, Wright W. 1996. Simplification envelopes. Proceedings of the 23rd annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques. :119-128.

Evans F, Skiena S, Varshney A. 1996. Optimizing triangle strips for fast rendering. Visualization '96. Proceedings.. :319-326.

Xia JC, Varshney A. 1996. Dynamic view-dependent simplification for polygonal models. Visualization '96. Proceedings.. :327-334.

Varshney A, Kaufman A. 1996. FINESSE: a financial information spreadsheet. Information Visualization '96, Proceedings IEEE Symposium on. :70-71,125-70-71,125.

Evans F, Skiena S, Varshney A. 1996. Stripe: a software tool for efficient triangle strips. ACM SIGGRAPH 96 Visual Proceedings: The art and interdisciplinary programs of SIGGRAPH '96. :153–-153–.

He T, Hong L, Varshney A, Wang SW. 1996. Controlled topology simplification. Visualization and Computer Graphics, IEEE Transactions on. 2(2):171-184.

1995

Varshney A, Agarwal P, Brooks F, Wright W, Weber H. 1995. Automatic generation of multiresolution for polygonal models. First Workshop on Simulation and Interaction in Virtual Environments.

He T, Hong L, Kaufman A, Varshney A, Wang S. 1995. Voxel based object simplification. Proceedings of the 6th conference on Visualization '95. :296–-296–.

Varshney A, Brooks Jr FP, Manocha D, Wright WV, Richardson DC. 1995. Defining, Computing, and Visualizing Molecular Interfaces. Proceedings of the 6th conference on Visualization '95. :36–-36–.

Varshney A, Agarwal PK, Brooks Jr FP, Wright WV, Weber H. 1995. Generating levels of detail for large-scale polygonal models. CS-1995-20

1994

Varshney A, Brooks, F.P. J., Wright WV. 1994. Computing smooth molecular surfaces. Computer Graphics and Applications, IEEE. 14(5):19-25.

Varshney A, Brooks FP, Wright WV. 1994. Interactive visualization of weighted three-dimensional alpha hulls. Proceedings of the tenth annual symposium on Computational geometry. :395-396.

1993

Manocha D, Varshney A, Weber H. 1993. Evaluating surface intersections in lower dimensions. Second International Conference on Curves and Surfaces.

Varshney A, Brooks FP. 1993. Fast analytical computation of Richards's smooth molecular surface. Proceedings of the 4th conference on Visualization '93. :300-307.

Varshney A, Wright WV, Brooks Jr FP. 1993. Bounding the number of neighbors in protein molecules. UNC-CS-TR-93-039

1992

Rhoades J, Turk G, Bell A, State A, Neumann U, Varshney A. 1992. Real-time procedural textures. Proceedings of the 1992 symposium on Interactive 3D graphics. :95-100.

Brooks FP, Airey J, Alspaugh J, Bell A, Brown R, Hill C, Nimscheck U, Rheingans P, Rohlf J, Smith D et al.. 1992. Six Generations of Building Walkthrough: Final Technical Report to the National Science Foundation.

Varshney A, Prins JF. 1992. An environment projection approach to radiosity for meshconnected computers. Third Eurographics Workshop on Rendering. :271-281.

1991

Varshney A. 1991. Parallel radiosity techniques for mesh-connected SIMD computers.