JCISE EDITORIAL BOARD

JCISE Term: 7/2000 – 05; 7/2005-2010

Prof. Shah is the Director of Design Automation Lab at ASU. He is the founding Editor of JCISE and Fellow of ASME. He has held visiting positions at Berkeley, Melbourne (Australia) and Helsinki U. Tech (Finland). Prior to his academic position, he worked in the manufacturing industry for seven years. His research is in the areas of geometric modeling, features, tolerance analysis, conceptual design and ideation methods. He is the principal author of two books on Features and Parametric CAD/CAM.

Ph.D., Mech. Eng., Ohio State j.shah@asu.edu

JCISE Term: 7/2003-06; 7/2006-09

Prof. Shapiro is the Director of the Spatial Automation Lab. His research expertise is in solid modeling; topology, computational geometry; physical modeling and simulation. He previously worked for General Motors Research and has held visiting positions at Berkeley, Roma Tre (Italy), Cambridge (UK) and IMPA (Brazil). He was the recipient of an NSF CAREER award.

Ph.D., Mech. Eng., Cornell University   vshapiro@engr.wisc.edu

JCISE Term: 12/2004-07

Dr. Vandenbrande’s past work was in geometric modeling and features done at Cornell and USC. Prior to joining Boeing, he was at EDS/Unigraphics where he developed parts of the UG CAD system.  At Boeing he was project lead for the General Geometry Generator project for design space exploration and optimization of aircraft and space vehicles.

Ph.D., Comp Sci, U. of Southern California        jan.h.vandenbrande@boeing.com

JCISE Term: 1/2007-2010

Prof. Fischer’s research interests include Visualization and Multi-resolution Meshing Methods, Reverse Engineering, Rapid Prototyping, Lifecycle Knowledge Management and Geometrical Design Methods. She is the recipient of many awards, including the M. Landau Prize for Doctoral Research, Alexander Goldberg Prize, and the 2006 Technion Henry Taub Prize for Excellence in Research. She was the Guest Editor for 2 JCISE special issues on Computational Metrology and Surface Reverse Engineering.

D.Sc.,  Mech Eng, Technion, Israel   meranath@techunix.technion.ac.il

JCISE Term: 2009-2012

Prof. Xiaping Qian is an Assistant Professor at Illinois Inst of Technology Chicago. His PhD is from Michigan. He spent 3+ years at GE research after his PhD before taking an academic position. His research area is computational metrology and reverse engineering. He also works in Nano-imaging manipulation and 3D sensing and automation.

Ph.D., Michigan        qian@iit.edu

JCISE Term: 2008 - 2011

Prof. Ian R. Grosse is Associate Professor and Co-Director for the NSF Center for e-Design, Mechanical & Industrial Engineering, University of Massachusetts Amherst. His areas of expertise are in optimization, simulation. Current and recent research projects involve interoperability, reusability, and adaptability of engineering analysis models in a web-based environment, the use of ontologies for engineering knowledge modeling, management, and sharing, FEM in biomechanics, and multimedia engineering software tutor development.

grosse@ecs.umass.edu

JCISE Term: 06/2008 - 06/20011

Dr. Michopoulos is a Research Scientist/Engineer and the Director of Computational Multiphysics Systems Lab at Center of Computational Material Science at the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington DC. His previous positions included: CTO of Logicwire Inc DC, and Senior Scientist, Geo-Centers Inc, Ft. Washington MD. He has held academic positions at Lehigh University PA where he was a Research Engineer at the Institute of Solid and Fracture Mechanics and Head of the Computer and Image Processing Laboratory of IFSM and also taught at Lehigh University and Lafayette College PA. He is an author and co-author of two books and more than 160 publications. His expertise is in Data Driven Mechatronic Characterization of Materials, FEA , Multiphysics, Simulation, Optimization and Inverse Methods.

Ph.D., Theor. and Applied Mechanics. National Tech. Univ, Athens, Greece.    michopoulos@gmail.com

JCISE Term: 2009-2012

Prof. Kazuhiro Saitou is an Associate Professor at Michigan with PhD from MIT. He has a long publication list in archival journals in areas of simulation and assembly modeling, He has served as Program and Conference chair of the ASME Design Automation Conference. Other research projects that he has been involved in include DFM, DFA, and DFD; planning, scheduling, and optimization, structural optimization and finite element methods.

Ph.D., MIT        kazu@umich.edu

JCISE Term: 3/2003-2006; 4/2006-2009

Prof. Corney recently moved from Heriot-Watt to Strathclyde. At Heriot-Watt he was part of the team that established the Scottish Manufacturing Institute. He previously worked for Westinghouse. His research centers on Geometric Reasoning for applications such as path planning or intelligent sub-division. Some of his feature recognition algorithms are embedded in the Pathtrace's commercial part programming system, EdgeCAM. He has also co-authored several books, including one on the popular ACIS geometry kernel. His current research interests are 3D printing technology, haptic interfaces for CAD/CAM, the manufacture of heterogeneous cellular materials and B-rep watermarking.

Ph.D., Mech. Eng, Heriot-Watt, Scotland.    Jonathan.Corney@strath.ac.uk

JCISE Term: 1/2009 - 12/2011

Prof. Gupta is known for his work in CAPP, RP and CAM. He is a recipient of NSF’s CAREER award and Presidential (PECASE) award, as well as, SME’s Outstanding Young Manufacturing Engineer award.

Ph.D., Mech. Eng, Maryland   skgupta@eng.umd.edu

JCISE Term: 8/2006-09

Professor Law’s professional and research interests focus on the application of advanced computing principles and techniques to structural and facility engineering. His work deals with various aspects of computational science and engineering, computer aided-design, regulatory and engineering information management, and engineering enterprise integration.  Examples include application of artificial intelligence and internet-based technologies to facilitate engineering analysis and design processes and to coordinate concurrent engineering activities. 

Ph.D., Civil Eng., Carnegie-Mellon   law@stanford.edu

JCISE Term: 2009-2012

Prof. Ashok Goel is Associate Professor of Computer and Cognitive Science at School of Interactive Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology. His primary area is AI/Knowledge based systems. He has researched case based reasoning in design, ideation and learning algorithms.

goel@cc.gatch.edu

JCISE Term: 2009-2012

Prof. Shuming Gao is a Professor and past Associate Director of the State Key Lab of CAD&CG, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China. This is China’s premier CAD/CAM lab. Prof. Gao’s expertise is in computational geometry and solid modeling. His research areas include: Feature based CAD/CAM, distributed and collaborative design, virtual prototyping, MEMS CAD and PLM. He has been a Visiting Professor at Fraunhofer Institute of Production and Design(IPK, Germany), and also at the Design Automation Lab at Arizona State University,

smgao@cad.zju.edu.cn

JCISE Term: 2008 - 2011

Prof. Sara McMains is an Associate Professor in Mechanical Engineering at UC Berkeley. Her PhD is in Computer Science from the same school. Her research areas are geometric solid modeling, computational geometry, GPU algorithms, computer graphics and visualization. She has applied geometric modeling methods to machining and injection molding.

Ph.D., Computer Science, UC, Berkeley        mcmains@me.berkeley.edu

JCISE Term: 2009-2012

Prof. Chris Geiger is Professor of “Mixed Reality” at University of Applied Sciences, Düsseldorf. He previously worked for Siemens on multimedia authoring, interactive 3D animation, mobile computing and augmented reality. In 2000 he was one of the winners of the German multimedia start-up competition He served as PC member for ISMAR05-07, Web3D conference.

JCISE Term: 6/2008 - 6/2011

Prof. Oliver is also Director, of CyberInnovation Institute, Virtual Reality Applications Center, and the Graduate Program in Human Computer Interaction. His research areas are in computational geometry, VR, Haptics. Previously he was VP, Product Development, Cognicity, Inc., Minneapolis, and Senior Director of Product Development at Engineering Animation Inc., Ames, Iowa (now part of Siemens/UGS).

Ph.D., Mech. Eng., Michigan State   oliver@iastate.edu

JCISE Term: 3/2006 – 3/2009

Dr. Callahan specializes in advanced product data representation, design automation and engineering informatics. He has been the leader on several design projects at Boeing, serving as the data architect for the 787 Functional Integration Team that is developing custom system design tools.  He is currently working to extend his product representations to support the capture of simulations at multiple levels of abstraction, so that those simulations can be explicitly integrated with the downstream, more detailed product design data.

Ph.D., Physics, Cal Tech.    Sean.Callahan@boeing.com

JCISE Term: 6/2002-2005; 1/2006-09

Prof. Crawford is Roberta Woods Ray Centennial Fellow in Engineering. He co-founded the Manufacturing and Design Research Laboratory.  He was the recipient of the 2005 Lockheed Martin Award for Excellence in Engineering Teaching.He is past Chair of CIE Division and past Program Chair of the CIE conference. His research areas are solid modeling, features and rapid prototyping.

Ph.D., Mech. Eng., Purdue University   rhc@mail.utexas.edu

JCISE Term: 5/2005-08

Prof. Joskowicz is Director of the Leibniz Center for Research in Computer Science. He has held visiting positions at IBM Research and Courant Institute. His research areas are Artificial Intelligence, Kinematics, Biomechanics and Tolerance Modeling.

Ph.D., Computer Science, New York University   josko@cs.huji.ac.il