Dr. Jing Hua is an Associate Professor (with Tenure) of Computer Science at Wayne State University  (WSU) and the founding director of Graphics and Imaging Lab (GIL) and Visualization Lab (VIS). He joined Wayne State University in the Fall of 2004 and received early tenure and promotion in 2009. In 2007, he established the Center for Visual Informatics and Intelligence (VII) with his colleagues. Dr. Hua received his Ph.D. degree (2004) and M.S. degree (2002) in Computer Science from the State University of New York at Stony Brook. He also received his M.S. degree (1999) in Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence from the Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing, P. R. China and his B.S. degree (1996) in Electrical Engineering from the Huazhong University of Science & Technology in Wuhan, P. R. China. His research interests include Computer Graphics, Visualization, 3D Image Analysis and Informatics. He has published over 80 peer-reviewed papers in the above research fields at top journals and conferences, such as IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, IEEE Visualization, MICCAI, CVPR, ICDM, SPM, etc. He received the Best Paper Award at ACM Solid Modeling 2004, the Faculty Research Award from WSU in 2005, and the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Excellence in Teaching Award in 2008. He is a Principal Investigator for research projects funded by the National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health, Michigan Technology Tri-Corridor, 21st Century Jobs Funds, Ford Motor Company, and WSU Research Foundation. Dr. Hua serves as an Editorial Board Member for the Open Virtual Reality Journal, International Journal of Technology Enhanced Learning, Scientific Journals International and Journal of Digital Culture as well as a Program Committee Member for many international conferences. He is a member of IEEE.

Research Areas

selected recent publications (Click here for the full publication list)

1. Guangyu Zou, Jing Hua, Zhaoqiang Lai, Xianfeng Gu, and Ming Dong, "Intrinsic Geometric Scale Space by Shape Diffusion," IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, Vol. 15, No. 6, pp. 1193 - 1200, 2009.

2. Yanhua Chen, Lijun Wang, Ming Dong, and Jing Hua, "Exemplar-based Visualization of Large Document Corpus," IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, Vol. 15, No. 6, pp. 1169 - 1176, 2009.

3. Yuanhong Li, Ming Dong, and Jing Hua, "Simultaneous Localized Feature Selection and Model Detection for Gaussian Mixtures," IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, Vol. 31, No. 5, pp. 953 - 960, 2009.

4. Jing Hua, Zhaoqiang Lai, Ming Dong, Xianfeng Gu, and Hong Qin. "Geodesic Distance-Weighted Shape Vector Image Diffusion," IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, Vol. 14, No. 6, pp. 1643 - 1650, 2008.

5. Cui Lin, Shiyong Lu, Xubo Fei, Artem Chebotko, Darshan Pai, Zhaoqiang Lai, Farshad Fotouhiz, and Jing Hua. "A Reference Architecture for Visual Scientific Workflow Management Systems and the VIEW SOA Solution," IEEE Transactions on Service Computing, Vol. 2, No. 1, pp. 79-92, 2009.

6. Yunhao Tan, Jing Hua, and Hong Qin, "Physically Based Modeling and Simulation of Dynamic Spherical Volumetric Simplex Splines," Computer-Aided Design, Vol. 41, 2009 (in press, invited as one of the best papers at ACM SPM'08).

7. Jiaxi Hu and Jing Hua, "Salient Spectral Geometric Features for Shape Matching and Retrieval," The Visual Computer, Vol. 25, No. 5-7, pp. 667 - 675, 2009.

8. Yanhua Chen, Manjeet Rege, Ming Dong, and Jing Hua, "Nonnegative Matrix Factorization for Semi-supervised Data Clustering," Knowledge and Information System, Vol. 15, 2008 (invited as one of the best papers at ICDM'07)

9. Zhaoqiang Lai and Jing Hua, "3D Surface Matching and Registration through Shape Images," In Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI), 2008.

10. Guangyu Zou, Jing Hua, and Otto Muzik. Non-rigid Surface Registration Using Spherical Thin-plate Splines. In Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI), Part I, LNCS 4791, 2007.

11. Changbo Yang, Ming Dong, and Jing Hua. Region-Based Image Annotation Using Asymmetrical Support Vector Machine-Based Multiple-Instance Learning. In Proceedings of IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), pp. 2057 - 2063, New York, NY, 2006.

12. Jing Hua, Ying He, and Hong Qin. Trivariate Simplex Splines for Inhomogeneous Solid Modeling in Engineering Design. ASME Transactions: Journal of Computing and Information Science in Engineering, Vol. 5, No. 2, pp. 149 - 157, 2005. (won the BEST PAPER AWARD at ACM SM'04)

13. Jing Hua and Hong Qin. Haptics-based Dynamic Implicit Solid Modeling. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, Vol. 10, No. 5, pp. 574 - 586, 2004.

14. Xiaohu Guo, Jing Hua, and Hong Qin. Touch-based Haptics for Interactive Editing on Point Set Surfaces. IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, Vol. 24, No. 6, pp. 31 - 39, 2004.

15. Xiaohu Guo, Jing Hua, and Hong Qin. Scalar-Function-Driven Editing on Point Set Surfaces. IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, Vol. 24, No. 4, pp. 43 - 52, 2004.

External research grants (current and past)

Teaching

CSC5870 Computer Graphics I, Fall 2009

CSC7991 Advanced Visual Computing, Winter 2008

CSC6870 Computer Graphics II, Winter 2008

CSC5870 Computer Graphics I, Fall 2008

CSC5991 Interactive Data Visualization, Winter 2008

CSC6870 Computer Graphics II, Winter 2008

CSC5870 Computer Graphics I, Fall 2007

CSC6870 Computer Graphics II, Winter 2007

CSC7991-003 Advanced Visual Computing, Winter 2007

CSC3400 Human Computer Communication

CSC5870 Computer Graphics I,  Fall 2006

CSC6870 Computer Graphics II, Winter 2006

CSC5870 Computer Graphics I,  Fall 2005

CSC6870 Computer Graphics II, Winter 2005

CSC5870 Computer Graphics I,  Fall 2004

Professional Activities

NSF Panelist and Reviewer

Editorial Board Member of The Open Virtual Reality Journal, since 2008

Editorial Board Member of International Journal of Technology Enhanced Learning, since 2007

Editorial Board Member of Scientific Journals International, 2008 – present

Editorial Board Member of Journal of Digital Culture, 2008 – present

Program Committee Member of SMI 10 |

Program Committee Member of SMI 09 | PG 09 | ASM 09

Program Committee Member of SMI 08 | CASA 08 | ASM 08 | HAID 08

Session Chair of ICME 2007

Program Committee Member of IEEE HAVE 07 | CAD/Graphics 07 | ASM 07 | ISCAMP 07 | SIBGRAPI 07 | SWF 07

Program Committee Member of SIBGRAPI 06

Program Committee Member of SIBGRAPI 05 | IEEE Volume Graphics 05

Referee for many journals including IEEE TVCG, ACM TOG, IEEE CGA, CAD, ACM TOC, IEEE Multimedia, JCISE, IEEE TASE, Springer Virtual Reality Journal, IJCGA, PAA, etc., and conferences including SIGGRAPH, IEEE Visualization, ACM SPM, Eurographics, Pacific Graphics, IEEE VR, ASME IDETC, IEEE Computer Animation, IEEE Volume Graphics, MICCAI, etc.

Graduate Program Committee Member, 2006 -

Undergraduate Honor Advisor, 2006 - 2007 

Current Ph.D. Students

Yunhao Tan

Chang Liu

Darshan Pai

Zhaoqiang Lai

Jiaxi Hu

Vahid Taimouri

Cui Lin

Current Master Students

Hui Ouyang

Students Graduated

Guangyu Zou, Ph.D., "Multiscale Geometry Constrained Shape Diffeomorphism," November 2008 (Postdoc at Harvard University)

George Liang, M.S., "Visual Analytics in Diffusion Tensor Imaging," August 2006 (Ph.D. study at University of Kentucky).

Danqing Wu, M.S., "Constrained Conformal Surface Mapping and Registration," August 2007 (Autodesk, Inc.).

Neha Chandila, M.S., "Constraint Based Region Growing with Local Shape Fitting," August, 2007. (Senior IT Consultant at the PMA Consultants)

Directed Undergraduate Students' Projects

Martin Alther, "Virtual Prototype Modeling and Simulation of a Real-World Environment", 2007.

Gus Nassar, "Algorithms for Dynamic Rainbow Effect Removal in Video", 2005.