Research Interests

• Virtual Environments
• 3D Free-form surface design
• Two-Handed 3D User Interfaces
• Bioinformatics Visualization
• Scientific Visualization
• Information Visualization
• Human-Computer Interaction
• Computer Graphics

Education

• B. Math in Computer Science with Electrical Engineering Electives (Honours Co-Op) University of Waterloo, 1986
• MSc in Computing Science University of Alberta, 1988 Thesis: The Image Composition Architecture
• PhD in Computing Science University of Alberta, 1997 Thesis: Two-Handed Free-Form Surface Design

Teaching/Research

• Associate Professor, SIAT, 2005-present
• Senior Research Scientist, College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA 2000-2005
• Assitant Professor (with tenure), Computer Science Dept,
• University of Regina, Regina, Sask. 1996-2000

Selected or Recent Publications

• Justin Jang, Peter Wonka, William Ribarsky and Christopher D. Shaw, "Punctuated Simplification of Man-Made Objects", The Visual Computer, Volume 21, Number 2, pages 136-145, 2006.
• Marina E. Eremeeva, Anup Madan, Chris D. Shaw, Kevin Tang, and Gregory A. Dasch, " New Perspectives on Rickettsial Evolution from New Genome Sequences of Rickettsia, particularly R. canadensis, and Orientia tsutsugamushi", Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, Vol 1063, pp 47-63 (2005).
• Jin Hong, Dong Hyun Jeong, Chris D. Shaw, William Ribarsky, Mark Borodovsky, and Chang Song "GVis: A Scalable Visualization Framework for Genomic Data", EUROVIS 2005: Eurographics / IEEE VGTC Symposium on Visualization 2005, pp. 191-198.
• C. D. Shaw, M. E. Eremeeva, H. H. Shah, G. A. Dasch, "Development of an Interactive Multigenome Analysis System (IMAS) for Annotation of Bacterial Sequences", Poster at American Society for Microbiology Biodefense Meeting 2005, Baltimore, MD, March 20-23, 2005.
• Ignacio Llamas, Alexander Powell, Jarek Rossignac, Chris D. Shaw "Bender: A Virtual Ribbon for Deforming 3D Shapes in Biomedical and Styling Applications", Proceedings of ACM Symposium on Solid and Physical Modeling 2005, Cambridge, MA, pp. 89-99. (also GVU Technical Report Number: GIT-GVU-04-25).
• Diane Gromala and Chris Shaw, "Expressing the Immeasurable: A Methodology for Developing a Visualization Tool for Patients\' Assessments of Pain", Convergence, 4 pages, Vol 11, 2005.
• Ignacio Llamas, ByungMoon Kim, Joshua Gargus, Jarek Rossignac, and Christopher D. Shaw, "Twister: A Space-Warp Operator for the Two-Handed Editing of 3D Shapes", ACM Transactions on Graphics, 22(3): 663-668, 2003 (SIGGRAPH 2003, San Diego, CA, July 27-31, 2003).
• David S Ebert and Christopher D Shaw "Minimally-immersive Flow Visualization", IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 7(4):343-350, Oct-Dec 2001.
• David S. Ebert, Randall M. Rohrer, Christopher D. Shaw, Pradyut Panda, James M Kukla, D. Aaron Roberts, "Procedural Shape Generation for Multidimensional Data Visualization", Computers and Graphics, 24(3):375-384, June 2000.
• Christopher D Shaw, James M Kukla, Ian Soboroff, David S Ebert, Charles K Nicholas, Amen Zwa, Ethan L Miller, and D Aaron Roberts, "Interactive Volumetric Information Visualization for Document Corpus Management", International Journal on Digital Libraries, 2(2/3):144-156, September 1999.
• David S. Ebert, David G. Heath, Brian S. Kuszyk, L. Edwards, Christopher D. Shaw, James M. Kukla, T. Bedwell, and Elliot K. Fishman, "Evaluating the Potential and Problems of ThreeDimensional Computed Tomography Measurements of Arterial Stenosis", Journal of Digital Imaging, 11(3):151-157, August 1998.
• David S Ebert, Amen Zwa, Ethan Miller, Christopher D. Shaw, and D. Aaron Roberts, "Two-handed Volumetric Document Corpus Management", IEEE Computer Graphics & Applications, 17(4):60-62, July-August 1997.
• Chris Shaw and Mark Green, "THRED: A TwoHanded Design System", ACMSpringer Multimedia Systems Journal, 5(2):126-139, March 1997.
• Chris Shaw, Mark Green, Jiandong Liang and Yunqi Sun, "Decoupled Simulation in Virtual Reality with The MR Toolkit", ACM Transactions on Information Systems, 11(3):287-317, July 1993.

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