Dr. Jing Hua is an assistant professor of Computer Science at Wayne State University and the director of Graphics and Imaging Lab (GIL). He 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. In 2007, he established the Visual Informatics and Intelligence (VII) group with his colleagues. 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 Computer Graphics and Applications, The Visual Computer, IEEE Visualization, MICCAI, CVPR, ICDM, SPM, etc. His research is currently funded by the National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health, Michigan Technology Tri-Corridor, 21st Century Jobs Funds, and WSU Research Foundation. Dr. Hua serves as an Editorial Board Member for Scientific Journals International and International Journal of Technology Enhanced Learning and a Program Committee Member for many international conferences. He is a member of IEEE and ACM.

Research Areas

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

1. 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, 2008.

2. Guangyu Zou, Jing Hua, Ming Dong, and Hong Qin. "Surface Matching with Salient Keypoints in Geodesic Scale Space," Journal of Computer Animation and Virtual Worlds (formerly known as Journal of Visualization and Computer Animation), 2008.

3. Yunhao Tan, Jing Hua, and Hong Qin, "Physically Based Modeling and Simulation of Dynamic Spherical Volumetric Simplex Splines," Computer-Aided Design, 2008 (invited as one of the best papers at ACM SPM'08).

4. 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)

5. Yuanhong Li, Ming Dong, and Jing Hua. Localized Feature Selection for Clustering. Pattern Recognition Letters, Vol. 29, No. 1, pp. 10 - 18, 2008.

6. Yunhao Tan, Jing Hua, and Ming Dong. 3D Reconstruction from 2D Images with Hierarchical Continuous Simplices. The Visual Computer, Vol. 23, No. 9, 905-914, 2007.

7. 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.

8. 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.

9. Guangyu Zou, Jing Hua, Xianfeng Gu, and Otto Muzik. An Approach for Intersubject Analysis of 3D Brain Images based on Conformal Geometry. In Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), pp. 1193 - 1196, 2006.

10. 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.

11. Ye Duan, Jing Hua, and Hong Qin. Interactive Shape Modeling Using Lagrangian Surface Flow. The Visual Computer, Vol. 21, No. 5, pp. 279 - 288, 2005.

12. 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.

13. 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.

14. 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

·       Principal Investigator (Leading). Collaborative Research: Integrated Modeling and Learning of Multimodality Data across Subjects for Brain Disorder Study. National Science Foundation (NSF). 9/01/2007-8/31/2010, $330,000 (Co-PI: Ming Dong).

·       Co-Principal Investigator. CRI: IAD: Acquisition of Research Infrastructure for Knowledge-enhanced, Large-scale Learning of Multimodality Visual Data. National Science Foundation (NSF). 5/1/2008-4/30/2011. $295,022. (PI: Ming Dong, other Co-PIs: Farshad Fotouhi, E. Mark Haacke).

·       Co-Principal Investigator. Electrical, Molecular and Clinical Correlates of Human Interictal Spiking. National Institutes of Health (NIH). 1R01NS058802-01A2. 7/1/2008-6/30/2013. $1,600,000. (PI: Jeffrey Loeb, other Co-PIs: Aashit Shah, Darren Fuerst).

·       Co-Investigator. Longitudinal Neuroimaging in Sturge-Weber Syndrome. National Institutes of Health (NIH). 2R01NS041922-05A1. 7/1/2008-6/30/2013. $1,485,165. (PI: Csaba Juhasz, other Co-Investigators: Harry Chugani, Otto Muzik, Malek Makki, Jiani Hu, Joel Ager, James Janisse, William Kupsky).

·       Principal Investigator. Virtual Histology with Volumetric Computerized Tomography. Michigan Technology Tri-Corridor. 9/01/2005-8/31/2008, $401,809 (including WSU match) (Co-Investigator: Weiping Ren).

·       Co-Principal Investigator. Software Tool for Neuroimaging in Epilepsy. Michigan Technology Tri-Corridor. 9/1/2005-8/31/2008, $475,881 (including WSU match) (PI: Otto Muzik, other Co-PI: Shiyong Lu).

·       Co-Principal Investigator. HyperEye: Susceptibility Weighted Imaging-based Informatics Tools for Brain Tumor Studies. Michigan 21^st Century Jobs Funds. 9/1/2005-8/31/2008, $1,174,404 (including WSU match) (PI: Ming Dong, other Co-PI: E. Mark Haacke).

Teaching

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 International Journal of Technology Enhanced Learning, since 2007

Editorial Board Member of Scientific Journals International, 2008 – present

Program Committee Member of SMI 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, IEEE CGA, CAD, ACM TOC, IEEE Multimedia, JCISE, IEEE TASE, Springer Virtual Reality Journal, IJCGA, PAA, etc., and conferences including IEEE Visualization, ACM SPM, Pacific Graphics, IEEE VR, Eurographics, ASME IDETC, IEEE Computer Animation, IEEE Volume Graphics, MICCAI, etc.

Graduate Program Committee Member, 2006 -

Undergraduate Honor Advisor, 2006 - 

Current Ph.D. Students

Guangyu Zou

Yunhao Tan

Chang Liu

Darshan Pai

Zhaoqiang Lai

Jiaxi Hu

Vahid Taimouri

Current Master Students

Hui Ouyang

Students Graduated

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.