Andrzej Szymczak
Assistant Professor
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Colorado School of Mines
Golden, CO 80401-1887
EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND
Degree
Ph.D.
M.S.
M.S.
Year
1999
1999
1994
University
Georgia Tech
Georgia Tech
University of Gdansk (Poland)
Field
Mathematics
Computer Science
Mathematics
EMPLOYMENT HISTORY
Title
Assistant Professor
Adjunct
Assistant Professor
Assistant Professor
Visiting Researcher
Organization
Department of Electrical Engineering
and Computer Science,
Colorado School of Mines
College of Computing,
Georgia Institute of Technology
College of Computing
Georgia Institute of Technology
Fraunhofer IGD
Years
2007-present
2007-2008
2000-2007
1999-2000
FIELDS OF INTEREST
Scientific Visualization, Computational Topology, Computer Graphics, Image Processing
RESEARCH AND CREATIVE SCHOLARSHIP
Theses
[2] Index Pairs: from Dynamics to Combinatorics and Back, Ph.D. Thesis, June 1999.
Prof. Konstantin Mischaikow (advisor). School of Mathematics, Georgia Tech.
[1] The Conley Index for Discrete Semi-Dynamical Systems, M.S. Thesis, June 1994.
Prof. Kazimierz Geba (advisor). Institute of Mathematics, University of Gdansk,
Poland.
Journal Publications
[24] A. Szymczak, Morse Connection Graphs for Piecewise Constant Vector Fields on
Surfaces, Computer Aided Geometric Design, to appear
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[23] A. Szymczak and N. Brunhart-Lupo, Nearly Recurrent Components in 3D Piecewise
Constant Vector Fields, Computer Graphics Forum, to appear
[22] A. Szymczak, Stable Morse Decompositions for Piecewise Constant Vector Fields on
Surfaces, Computer Graphics Forum 30 (3), 851-860, 2011
[21] A. Szymczak and E. Zhang, Robust Morse Decompositions of Piecewise Constant
Vector Fields, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, to appear
[20] G. Chen, Q. Deng, A. Szymczak, R. S. Laramee and E. Zhang, Morse Set Classification and Hierarchical Refinement Using Conley Index, IEEE Transactions on
Visualization and Computer Graphics 18 (5), 767-782, 2012
[19] M. Schaap, C. T. Metz, T. van Walsum, A. G. van der Giessen, A. C. Weustink, N. R.
A. Mollet, C. Bauer, H. Bogunović, C. Castro, X. Deng, E. Dikici, T. O’Donnell, M.
Frenay, O. Friman, M. Hernández Hoyos, P.H. Kitslaar, K. Krissian, C. Kühnel, M.
A. Luengo-Oroz, M. Orkisz, Ö. Smedby, M. Styner, A. Szymczak, H. Tek, C. Wang,
S. K. Warfield, S. Zambal, Y. Zhang, G. P. Krestin and W. J. Niessen, Standardized
Evaluation Methodology and Reference Database for Evaluating Coronary Artery
Centerline Extraction Algorithms, Medical Image Analysis 13(5), 701-714, 2009
[18] J. Choi and A. Szymczak, Fitting Solid Meshes to Animated Surfaces using Linear
Elasticity, ACM Transactions on Graphics 28(1), 1-10, 2009
[17] J. Vanderhyde and A. Szymczak, Topological simplification of isosurfaces in volumetric data using octrees, Graphical Models 70 (1-2), 16–31, 2008
[16] A. Szymczak, A. Stillman, A.Tannenbaum and K. Mischaikow, Coronary vessel trees
from 3D imagery: A topological approach, Medical Image Analysis 10(4), 548–559,
2006.
[15] A.Szymczak, Optimized Edgebreaker Encoding for Large and Regular Triangle Meshes,
Visual Computer, 19(4), 271–278, 2003.
[14] L. Ibarria, P. Lindstrom J. Rossignac and A Szymczak Out-of-core compression
and decompression of large n-dimensional scalar fields, Computer Graphics Forum.
22(3), 343-348, 2003.
[13] H.Lopes, J.Rossignac, A.Safonova, A.Szymczak and G.Tavares Edgebreaker: A simple implementation for surfaces with handles, Computer&Graphics, 27(4), 553–567,
2003.
[12] A.Szymczak, J.Rossignac and D.King, Piecewise Regular Meshes: Construction and
Compression, Graphical Models, 64(3-4), 183–198, 2002.
[11] A. Szymczak, D. King and J. Rossignac, An Edgebreaker-based efficient compression
scheme for regular meshes, Computational Geometry vol.20, no 1-2, 53–68, 2001.
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[10] K. Mischaikow, M. Mrozek and A. Szymczak, Chaos in the Lorenz Equations: a
Computer Assisted Proof. Part III : the Classical Parameter Values, Journal of
Differential Equations, 169(1), 17–56, 2001.
[9] A. Szymczak and J. Rossignac, Grow&Fold: Compressing the connectivity of tetrahedral meshes, Computer-Aided Design. 32(8/9), 527–538, 2000.
[8] J. Rossignac and A. Szymczak, Wrap&Zip decompression of the connectivity of triangle meshes compressed with Edgebreaker, Journal of Computational Geometry,
Theory and Applications, Volume 14(1-3), 119-135, 1999.
[7] K. Mischaikow, M. Mrozek, J. Reiss and A. Szymczak, Construction of Symbolic
Dynamics from Experimental Time Series, Physical Review Letters Vol. 82(6),
p.1144, 1999.
[6] A.Szymczak, A cup product pairing and time-duality for discrete dynamical systems,
Topology 37(1998) 1299-1311.
[5] A.Szymczak, K.Wojcik and P.Zgliczynski, On the discrete Conley index in the invariant subspace, Topology and its Applications 87, 105-115, 1997.
[4] A.Szymczak, A combinatorial procedure for finding isolating neighbourhoods and index
pairs, Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 127A, 1075-1088, 1997.
[3] A.Szymczak, The Conley Index and Symbolic Dynamics, Topology 35, 287-299, 1996.
[2] A.Szymczak, The Conley index for discrete dynamical systems, Topology and its
Applications 66, 215-240, 1995.
[1] A.Szymczak, The Conley index for decompositions of isolated invariant sets, Fundamenta Mathematicae 148, 71-90, 1995.
Book Chapters
[1] A. Szymczak, A Categorical Approach to Contour, Split and Join Trees with Application to Airway Segmentation In: Topological Methods in Data Analysis and
Visualization Pascucci, V.; Tricoche, X.; Hagen, H.; Tierny, J. (Eds.), 205-216,
2011.
Conference Publications
[16] J. Q. Campbell, L. Liang, A. Szymczak, A. Petrella, Optimization of an Automated
Mesh Morphing Algorithm for Lumbar Vertebrae, Orthopaedic Research Society
2012 Annual Meeting, to appear (poster), 2012.
[15] L. Liang, A. Szymczak and A. Petrella, Nonrigid surface registration using multiple two-way correspondences, Computer Graphics International 2011 (short paper),
2011.
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[14] A. Szymczak, W. Hoff and M. Mahfouz, 3D Shape from Silhouette Points in Registered 2D Images Using Conjugate Gradient Method, Medical Imaging 2010: Image
Processing. Proceedings of the SPIE, Volume 7623, pp. 762316-762316-8, 2010.
[13] A. Szymczak and J. Vanderhyde, Airway segmentation by topology-driven local
thresholding, Proc. SPIE Medical Imaging’2008 (Vol. 6914), 69143D, 2008.
[12] J. Choi, A. Szymczak, G. Turk and I. Essa, Element-Free Elastic Models for Volume
Fitting and Capture, Proceedings of CVPR’2006, 2245–2252, 2006.
[11] A. Szymczak, Subdomain-aware contour trees and contour tree evolution in timedependent scalar fields, Proceedings of Shape Modeling International’2005, 136–144,
2005.
[10] A.Szymczak, A.Tannenbaum and K. Mischaikow, Coronary vessels cores from 3D
imagery: a topological approach, Proc. SPIE Vol. 5747, Medical Imaging 2005:
Image Processing, 505-513, 2005.
[9] N. Berglund and A.Szymczak, Making contour trees subdomain-aware, Proceedings of
the 16th Canadian Conference on Computational Geometry (CCCG’04), 188-191,
2004.
[8] J.Choi and A.Szymczak, On coherent rotation angles for as rigid as possible shape
interpolation, Proc. 15th Canadian Conference on Computational Geometry, 111114, 2003.
[7] L.Ibaria, J.Rossignac, P.Lindstrom and A.Szymczak, Out of core compression and
decompression of large n-dimensional scalar fields, Proc. Eurographics’2003, 343348, 2003.
[6] A.Szymczak and J.Vanderhyde, Extraction of topologically simple isosurfaces from
volume datasets, Proc. IEEE Visualization 2003, 67-74, 2003.
[5] J.Rossignac, H.Lopez, A.Safonova, G.Tavares and A.Szymczak, Edgebreaker: a simple compression for surfaces with handles, Proc. ACM. Symposium on Solid Modeling’2002, 289–296, 2002.
[4] A.Szymczak, Optimized Edgebreaker Encoding for Large and Regular Meshes, Proc.
Data Compression Conference’2002, p. 472.
[3] A. Szymczak, D. King and J. Rossignac, An Edgebreaker-based efficient compression
scheme for regular meshes, 12th Canadian Conference on Computational Geometry
Fredericton, New Brunswick August 16-19, 2000.
[2] R. Pajarola, J. Rossignac, and A. Szymczak, Implant Sprays: Compression of Progressive Tetrahedral Mesh Connectivity, IEEE Visualization 1999, 299–305, 1999.
[1] A.Szymczak and J.Rossignac, Grow&Fold: Compression of Tetrahedral Meshes, Proc.
ACM Symposium on Solid Modeling’ 1999, 54-64, 1999.
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Software
[2] Grow&Fold Compression,
http://inside.mines.edu/∼aszymcza/compression.html
[1] Optimized Edgebreaker
http://inside.mines.edu/∼aszymcza/compression.html
Research Funding
[3] W. Hoff and A. Szymczak, Framework for Activity Recognition and Prediction using Semi-Supervised Learning, Northrop Grumman Corporation Rocky Mountain
Aerospace Technology Incubator (RMATI), 2010-2011, $25,000.
[2] X. Hu and A. Szymczak, Surface Representation and Compression with 3D “Beamlets”, GVU Seed Grant, 2000–2001, $30,000.
[1] J.Rossignac, R.Ghrist, A.Szymczak, G.Turk, Multiscale Analysis of Evolving Shapes,
NSF CARGO, 2001–2004, $600,000.
Research Honors
[1] Sigma Xi best thesis award, 2000.
PhD Advisees
[3] Luming Liang
[2] Nicholas Brunhart-Lupo
[1] James Vanderhyde, Thesis title: Topology control of volumetric data, Georgia Tech,
August 2007
MS Advisees
[2] Derek Parks, Thesis title: Seismic Image Flattening as a Linear Inverse Problem,
Colorado School of Mines, Spring 2010
[1] Yann LeCostauec, Thesis title: Constructing Trees from Noisy Point Clouds, Colorado
School of Mines, Spring 2009
SERVICE
Conference Committees
[2] XXIV Sibgrapi – Conference on Graphics, Patterns and Images, Program Committee
member, 2011
[1] Shape Modeling International, Program Committee member, 2004, 2005
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Reviewing
ACM Transactions on Graphics, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer
Graphics, IEEE Transactions on Nanobioscience, The Visual Computer, Computer Aided
Design, Foundations of Computational Mathematics, International Journal of Computer
Vision, Graphical Models, Signal Image and Video Processing, Journal of Computing
and Information Science in Engineering, Illinois Journal of Mathematics, Topology and
its Applications, Topological Methods in Nonlinear Analysis, IEEE Pacific Visualization,
IEEE Visualization, IEEE Eurographics Symposium on Visualization, ACM SIGGRAPH,
Graphics Interface, ACM Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics, Shape Modeling International, Eurographics/IEEE Symposium on Visualization
TEACHING
Colorado School of Mines:
[27] Fall 2011, MACS441A, (Computer Graphics I), 26 students
[26] Fall 2011, MACS447A/MATH598A/CSCI598C, (Scientific Visualization), 6 students
[25] Spring 2011, MACS498/598, (Advanced Computer Graphics), 12 students
[24] Fall 2010, MACS498A/598A, (Scientific Visualization), 10 students
[23] Fall 2010, MACS441A, (Computer Graphics I), 27 students
[22] Spring 2010, MACS498B/598B, (Computer Graphics II), 10 students
[21] Fall 2009, CSCI498B/598B, (Scientific Visualization), 9 studetns
[20] Fall 2009, MACS441A, (Computer Graphics I), 25 students
[19] Spring 2009, MACS498B/598B, (Computer Graphics II), 17 students
[18] Spring 2009, CSCI498C/598D/MATH498D/598D (Computational Geometry), 16
students
[17] Fall 2008, MACS441 (Computer Graphics I), 29 students
[16] Spring 2008, CSCI598B (Geometry Processing), 7 students
[15] Fall 2007, MACS441 (Computer Graphics I), 31 students
Georgia Tech:
[14] Spring 2006, CS3451 (Computer Graphics), 35 students
[13] Fall 2006, CS3451 (Computer Graphics), 45 students
[12] Spring 2006, CS1050 (Constructing and Understanding Proofs), 50 students
[11] Fall 2005, CS4451 (Computer Graphics), 40 students
[10] Spring 2005, CS4451 (Computer Graphics), 37 students
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[9] Fall 2004, CS6491 (Computer Graphics), 20 students
[8] Spring 2004, CS8803CPG (Computational Geometry), 21 students
[7] Spring 2004, CS4451A (Computer Graphics), 40 students
[6] Fall 2003, CS4451A (Computer Graphics), 40 students
[5] Spring 2003, CS4451A (Computer Graphics), 60 students
[4] Fall 2001, CS8803E (Multiresolution Modeling), 8 students
[3] Fall 2001, CS4451A (Computer Graphics), 60 students
[2] Spring 2001, CS8803E (Computational Geometry), 8 students
[1] Fall 2000, CS4451B (Computer Graphics), 41 students
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