DETAILED RESUME
1. Name
:
Sudhir Pandurang MUDUR
2. Present Official Address
:
Professor & Chair, Department of Computer Science and
Software Engineering, Concordia University
1455, de Maisonneuve West, EV3-159,
Montreal, Quebec, Canada H3G 1M8
3. Education
Examination
University
Year
B. Tech
Indian Institute of
Technology, Bombay
1970
Ph.D
Bombay University
1976
(Tata Institute of Fundamental Research)
Subject of
specialisation
Electrical Engineering
with Electronics
Computer Science
Thesis Title : A Formal Approach to the Design of Microprogram Controlled Computers.
Thesis Advisors:
Prof. R. Narasimhan and Prof. P.V.S. Rao
4. Academic awards/distinctions
(a)
Ranked 9th at the State level (among 100,000 or more students) in High School; State level
topper in 3 subjects: Mathematics, Physics and English.
(b)
Ranked 24th in IIT’s JEE (Joint Entrance Examination), an examination held to select top
students from all over India for admission to one of India’s most prestigious undergraduate
engineering degree programmes.
(c)
National Merit Scholar (Govt. of India) 1964 to 1970
(d)
United Nation's Fellowship 1974 to 1975
(e)
Fellow of the Computer Society of India 1996
(f)
Governor of International Council for Computer Communication(ICCC) from 1998
(g)
Vice President and Executive Secretary of International Council for Computer
Communication(ICCC) since 2002
(h)
Senior Member, IEEE
(i)
Distinguished Alumnus of IIT Bombay 2000 (awarded to a select few every year).
(j)
Distinguished Visiting Lecturer of IEEE (India) for the year 2000
(k)
Awarded third best paper of the year 1999 for “Architecture for Shaping of Indic Scripts”,
published in the international journal “Computers & Graphics” published by Pergamon Press
Ltd. USA; judged by the international editorial board of the journal.
(l)
Awarded Best Paper in the international conference ICVGIP 2002 co-sponsored by ACM for
“Mudur SP, V. Babaji and D. Shikhare, Advancing Fan Front: An Efficient Connectivity
Compression Technique for Large 3D Triangle Meshes”; judged by a committee headed by Dr.
T. Binford, Stanford.
5. Professional career beyond Bachelor's degree to present date in reverse chronological
order:
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2007 June
onwards:
Chair, Dept of Computer Science and Software Engineering, Concordia
University.
2005 (June)
Visiting Professor at Central University of Florida, USA.
2002 January
onwards:
Professor, Dept of Computer Science and Software Engineering, Concordia
University.
2001 March to
Officiating Director, National Centre for Software Technology
2002 January:
2000
Visiting Professor at Concordia University, Canada
(July-August):
1991- 2001 :
Associate Director, National Centre for Software Technology (NCST)
1995
Visiting Professor at Ecole Minerales de Nantes, France
(June-July) :
1995
Visiting Professor at Michigan State University, USA
(Jan-May) :
1985-1991:
Head, Graphics & CAD Division, National Centre for Software Technology
(NCST), Bombay. (Equivalent of Professor in any of the Indian Institutes of
Technology (IIT)).
1981-1985 :
Research Scientist (D) at Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (Equivalent of
Associate Professor in an IIT)
1980-1981 :
Consultant at Shape Data Ltd., Cambridge, U.K. (on leave from Tata Institute
of Fundamental Research.) Worked on Solid Modelling.
1975-1980:
Research Scientist (C) at Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (Initiated the
formation of a research group in Computer Graphics)
1974-1975 :
UN Fellow, worked in various computer graphics laboratories in Europe
(University of Delft, Holland, Cambridge University, UK and INRIA,
Rocquencourt, France).
1970-1974 :
Scientific Officer, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR)
6. Broad field of research interests with specific areas of involvement :
•
3D Computer Graphics and Animation
•
Geometric Modelling
•
Visualisation Tools and Techniques
•
Software Engineering and localization
•
Virtual Environments and Multimedia
•
Web Mining
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I have been actively involved in development of software systems in the areas of Computer
Graphics, Computer Aided Geometric Design, Electronic Publishing, Image Processing and
Computer Animation. I have extensively researched the area of 3D graphics and geometric
modelling, and successfully guided Masters and Doctoral students. In all the above, my primary
emphasis has been and will be on development of algorithms, tools and techniques for modelling
and visualisation.
At Concordia, I have initiated the set up a research laboratory for advanced research in 3D
graphics and visual computing with generous grants from NSERC, Canada and the Canada
Foundation for Innovation. The laboratory includes a powerful 16 node graphics cluster built from
commodity hardware for visualisation and 3D graphics research, a 3D scanner, a full body motion
capture system, Spherical video capture cameras and a suite of VR equipment including Stereo
Glasses with projector, Head Mounted Displays and Sensors for research in immersive
environments.
7. Selected List of Publications
Authored Book
1. Mudur SP, L.S.Wakankar and P.K.Ghosh, "Design Information on Text Composition in
Devanagari'', Published by Research Institute for Newspaper Development, 1980.
2. Kush Kapila and Sudhir Mudur, “Visual Analytics for Protein Folding”, VDM Verlag, 2008,
ISBN-13: 9783639100402
Edited Books
1. Mudur SP, M. Sasikumar and Suresh Dhamapurkar (Eds), Online Learning: Selected Readings,
Proceedings International Conference on Online Learning - Vidyakash-2002, ISBN 81-2591429-3
2. S. V. Raghavan and Mudur SP (Eds), Redefining Internet in the context of4Pervasive Computing ,
ICCC Press Washington, Proceedings ICCC 2002 the 15th International Conference on
Computer Communication, ISBN 1-891365-08-8.
3. Mudur SP, (Ed), Information Technology for Innovation, Tata McGraw Hill, India, Proceedings of
the 34th Annual Convention of the Computer Society of India, 1999, ISBN 0-07-463746-3
4. Mudur SP, Dinesh Shikhare, Jose Encarnacao and Jarek Rossignac, (Eds), "Visual Computing”
Proceedings of the International Conference on Visual Computing (ICVC99), IFIP WG 5.10,
1999, ISBN 81-7764-384-3.
5. Mudur SP and S.N. Pattanaik (Eds), "Graphics, Design and Visualisation'', Published by IFIP and
NORTH-HOLLAND, 1993, ISBN 0-444-81564-3.
Publications in Refereed Journals (published or accepted)
1. Zhou R, Parida L, Kapila K*, Mudur SP, “PROTERAN: animated terrain evolution for visual
analysis of patterns in protein folding trajectory”. Bioinformatics, Oxford, Vol. 23(1): 99-106,
2007 (Impact Factor: 4.894) (SCI)
2. Zhou H, Mudur SP, “3D scan-based animation techniques for Chinese opera facial expression
documentation”, Computers & Graphics, Elsevier, Vol. 31 (6), p788-799, 2007. (Impact Factor:
0.601) (SCI).
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3. Jin C, Fevens T, Li S, Mudur SP, “Motion learning-based framework for unarticulated shape
animation”, The Visual Computer, Wiley, Vol. 23 (9-11), p753-761, 2007. (Impact Factor:
0.708)(SCI)
4. Rilling J, Mudur SP, “3D Visualisation Techniques to Support Slicing Based Program
Comprehension”, Computers & Graphics, Elsevier, Vol. 29(3), pp 311-329, 2006. (Impact
Factor: 0.601)(SCI)
5. Mudur SP, Prachi Gharpure, Parvati Rajan, “A Methodical Assessment of Integrative Model
Based E-Course Development”, IEEE Transactions on Education, Vol. 48(4), pp 605-611,
2005.
6. Mudur SP, V. Babji, D. Shikhare, “Advancing Fan-Front: 3D Triangle Mesh Compression Using
Fan Based Traversal”, Journal of Image and Vision Computing, Vol. 22(5), pp 1165-1173, 2005
7. S. Bhakar, L. Luo, Mudur SP, “View Dependent Stochastic Sampling for Efficient Rendering of
Point Sampled Surfaces”, Journal of WSCG, Vol. 12(1), pp 49-56, 20041
8. N. Kiran, Mudur SP, S. Chandran and N. Dalvi, Anti-aliased Hemicubes for Performance
Improvements in Radiosity Solutions, Journal of WSCG, Vol. 9(2), pp 336-343, 20011
9. J. Preece, C. Busch, R. Guedj, W. Kellog, D. Leevers, Mudur SP, B. Schneiderman, J.
Thomas, D. Roy, J. Yamaguchi, “Defining a research agenda for Online Networked
Communities Graphics”, Siggraph Computer Graphics Journal, Vol. 33(3), pp 55-59, 1999.
10. Mudur SP, Dinesh Shikhare and Deepraj Dixit, “Graphics Research at National Centre for
Software Technology in India”, Siggraph Computer Graphics Journal, Vol. 33(1), pp 21-25,
1999.
11. Deepraj Dixit, Shirish Shanbhag, Mudur SP, Isaac Kurien, S.S.Chinchalkar, “Object Oriented
Design of an Interactive System for Mechanism Design and Simulation”, Computers &
Graphics, Vol. 23(1), pp 85-94, 1999
12. Dinesh Shikhare, S. Gopalsamy, T. Sathi Reddy, Ashwini Patgawkar, Satyashree Mahapatra,
Mudur SP, K.P. Singh, Indira Narayanswamy, Laxmi Ravishankar, “Zeus: Surface Modelling,
Surface Grid Generation, Tetrahedral Volume Discretization”, Computers & Graphics, Vol.
23(1), pp 59-72, No. 1, 1999
13. Mudur SP, Niranjan Nayak, Shrinath Shanbhag and R.K.Joshi, “An Architecture for Shaping of
Indic Scripts” Computers & Graphics, Vol. 23 (1), pp 7-24, 1999 (Was awarded the third best
paper of the year by an international jury).
14. Mudur SP, “Computer Graphics in India” Editorial of Computers & Graphics, Vol. 23(1), pp 3-4,
1999
15. V.V.Kamat, Atul Jain, Mudur SP, "An Evolutionary Programming technique Using Motion
Simulation Features for Animating Articulated Figures'', Computer Science and Informatics,
Vol. 26(4), pp 1-13, 1996.
16. Mudur SP, " Physically Based Modelling for Multimedia Virtual Environments'', Journal of the
Institution of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers (IETE) Vol. 13(6), pp 63-74, 1996.
17. S.N.Pattanaik and Mudur SP, "Adjoint equations and random walks for illumination
computation'', ACM Transactions in Computer Graphics, Vol. 14(1), pp 77-102, 1995.
18. Laxmi Parida and Mudur SP, "Common Tangents to Two Planar Parametric Curves - A
Geometric Approach'', Computer-aided Design Vol. 27(1), pp 41-47, 1995.
19. L.Parida and Mudur SP, "Computational Methods for Evaluating Swept Object Boundaries'',
The Visual Computer, Vol. 10(3), pp 266-276, 1994.
20. Laxmi Parida and Mudur SP, "Constraint-satisfying planar development of complex surfaces'',
Computer-aided Design, Vol. 25(4), pp 225-232, 1993.
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21. S.N.Pattanaik and Mudur SP, "Computation of Global Illumination in a Participating Medium'',
by Monte Carlo Simulation, Journal of Visualisation and Computer Animation, Vol. 4 (3), pp
133-152, 1993.
22. S.N.Pattanaik and Mudur SP, "Efficient Potential Equation Solutions for Global Illumination on
Computation'', Computers & Graphics, Vol. 17(4) pp 387-396, 1993.
23. S.N.Pattanaik and Mudur SP, " The Potential Equation and Importance in Illumination
Computations '', Computer Graphic forum (Eurographics Journal), Vol. 12(2) pp 131-136, 1993.
24. S.Gopalsamy, D.R.Khandekar and Mudur SP, "A New Method of Evaluating Compact
Geometric Bounds for Use in Subdivision Algorithms'', in Computer Aided Geometric Design,
Vol. 8, pp 337-356, 1991.
25. Mudur SP and S.N.Pattanaik, "Multidimensional Illumination Functions for Visualisation of
Complex 3D Environments'', Journal of Visualization and Computer Animation, Vol.1(2), pp.4958 (1990).
26. Y.N.Shinde and Mudur SP, "Algorithms for Handling the Fill Area Primitive of GKS'', Computer
Graphics Forum , 1986, Vol. 5, No.2, p 119-124.
27. P.A.Koparkar and Mudur SP, "Generation of continuous smooth curves resulting from
operations on parametric surface patches'', Computer Aided Design, Vol. 18, No. 4, May 1986
p 193-205.
28. P.K.Ghosh and Mudur SP, "The Brush-Trajectory Approach to Figure Specification: Some
Algebraic-Solutions'', ACM Transactions on Graphics, Vol.3, No.2, April 1984, Pages 110-134.
29. Mudur SP and P.A.Koparkar, "Interval Methods for Processing Geometric Objects'', IEEE
Transactions on Computer Graphics and Applications, Feb 1984 p 7-17.
30. P.A.Koparkar and Mudur SP, "Computational Techniques for Processing Parametric
Surfaces'', Computer Vision, Graphics and Image Processing, Vol. 28, No. 3, 1984 p 303-322.
31. P.A.Koparkar and Mudur SP, "The Development of Programs for the Processing of Parametric
Curves'', Computer Graphics Forum (Eurographics Journal), July-Sep. 1983, Vol.2, No.2/3, p
135-144.
32. P.A.Koparkar and Mudur SP, "A New Class of Algorithms for the Processing of Parametric
Curves'', Computer Aided Design, Jan. 1983, Vol.15, No.1, p 41-45.
33. P.K.Ghosh and Mudur SP, "Parametric Curves for Graphic Design Systems'', Computer
Journal, Vol 26, No. 4, 1983, p 312-319.
34. Mudur SP, "Graphics and Related Activities at NCSDCT'', Computer Graphics Forum
(Eurographics Journal), Jan. - Mar. 1983, Vol.2, No.1. p 25-29.
35. Mudur SP and R. Sujatha, "Three Systems for Typesetting: A Survey'', Computer Science and
Informatics, Jan. 1982. Vol.12, No.1, p 28-36.
36. Mudur SP, J.H.Singh, A.Stanislaus, M.M.Dosabhai and S.B.Patankar, "A Microprocessor
Controlled 3 Axis Milling Machine" NCSDCT Research Review, 1981, Vol.3, p 27-40.
37. Mudur SP, P.K.Ghosh and R.Sujatha, "Software Development for Computer Typography and
Type Design'', NCSDCT Annual Research Review, 1981. Vol.3, p 13-26.
38. A.Moitra, Mudur SP and A. Narwekar, "Design and Analysis of a Hyphenation Algorithm'',
Software Practice and Experience, April 1979. Vol.9, p 325-337.
39. Mudur SP, A.Narwekar and A. Moitra, "Design of Software for Text Composition'', Software
Practice and Experience, April 1979. Vol.9, p 325-337.
40. Mudur SP and J.H.Singh, "A notation for Computer Animation'', IEEE Trans. on Man, Systems
and Cybernetics, April 1978. Vol. SMC8, p 308-311.
41. Mudur SP, "Digital System Simulation based on a Computational Model'', Journal of the Indian
Academy of Sciences, December 1978. Vol Cl, No.4, p 36-64.
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42. Mudur SP, "Device Independent Graphics'', Journal of the Computer Society of India,
December 1975. Vol.6, p 1-7.
43. Mudur SP, "Microprogram control'', Journal of the Computer Society of India, June 1973, Vo.4,
p 11-21.
Book Chapters including LNCS and LNAI publications
1. Padda H*, Seffah A, Mudur SP, “Towards a Metrics-Based Framework for Assessing
Comprehension of Software Visualization Systems”, Chapter 38 in Human Interface and the
Management of Information. Methods, Techniques and Tools in Information Design, Eds: M. J.
Smith and G. Salvendy, LNCS 4557, ISBN 978-3-540-73344-7, Springer, p 335-344, 2007.
2. Zhou H*, Mudur SP, “On the Use of 3D Scanner for Chinese Opera Documentation”, Chapter
41 in Interactive Technologies and Sociotechnical Systems, Eds: H. Zha, Z. Pan, H. Thwaites,
A. C. Addison, M. Forte, VSMM 2006, LNCS 4270, ISBN 978-3-540-46304-7, Springer, p377386, 2006.
3. Kannappady S*, Mudur SP, Shiri N, “Clickstream Visualization Based on Usage Patterns”,
Chapter 31 in Computer Vision, Graphics and Image Processing, Eds: P. Kalra, S. Peleg,
ICVGIP 2006, LNCS 4338, ISBN 978-3-540-68301-8 , Springer, p 339-351, 2006.
4. Suryavanshi B*, Shiri N, Mudur SP. "Adaptive web usage profiling”, Chapter 7 in Advances in
Web Mining and Web Usage Analysis, Eds: O. Nasraoui, O. Zaïane, M. Spiliopoulou, B.
Mobasher, B. M. Philip, S.Yu, LNAI 4198, ISBN 978-3-540-46346-7, Springer, p 119-138,
2006.
5. Mudur SP “On the need for Cultural Representation in Interactive Systems” Frontiers of
Human-Centred Computing, Online Communities and Virtual Environments, Ed Rae
Earnshaw, Richard Guedj, Andries van Dam and John Vince, Springer-Verlag London, 2001,
pp299-310.
6. Mudur SP, Bipin Patwardhan, Alekh Jamsandekar, Dinesh Shikhare, Deepraj Dixit, Yogesh
Ketkar, Yogin Mashruwala, Keyur Shroff, Anjali Bidaye, “Graphics Research at NCST”, Visual
Information Processing in India, Ed C. V. Jawahar and P. J. Narayan, Allied Publishers Ltd.
India, 2000, p 48-53.
7. Mudur SP and S.N. Pattanaik, "Monte Carlo Methods for Computer Graphics'', State of the Art
Reports EG93, Chapter 3, Eurographics Technical Report Series, Eurographics, 1993, p 3.13.24.
8. Y.N.Shinde and Mudur SP, "Algorithms for Handling the Fill Area Primitive of GKS'', GKS
Theory and Practice, Edited by P.R. Bono and I. Herman, Springer-Verlag, 1987, p 101-122.
9. Mudur SP, "CAD Techniques : State of Art and Future Needs'', Information Processing 86,
Edited by H.J. Kugle, Elsevier Science Publishers B.V (North-Holland), IFIP, 1986, p 199-204.
10. Mudur SP, S.N.Pattanaik and S.J.Nath, "VIDURA : An Interactive Multilingual Publishing
System'', Document Manipulation and Typography, Edited by J.C. vanVliet, Cambridge
University Press, 1988, p 249-260.
11. P.K.Ghosh and Mudur SP, "A New set of Operators for Shape Design and Analysis by
Computer'', CAD/CAM/CAE for Industrial Progress, Edited by V. Rajaraman, North Holland,
1986, p 163-188.
12. Mudur SP, G.R Shevare and S.P.Koruthu , "B-Spline Control Vertices for Interpolating
Surfaces'', CAD/CAM/CAE for Industrial Progress, Edited by V. Rajaraman, North Holland,
1986, p 145-152.
13. Mudur SP, "Graphic Input Specification in a General Purpose Interactive Graphics System'',
Methodology of Interaction, Edited by R. Guedj and H. Tucker, North Holland, 1979, , p 164171.
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14. Mudur SP, "Mathematical Elements for Computer Graphics'', Chapter II, Advances Computer
Graphics I, (eds) G. Enderle, M. Grave and F. Lillehagen, Springer-Verlag, , p. 53-134.
15. P.K.Ghosh and Mudur SP, "Theoretical Framework for Shape Representation and Analysis'',
Fundamental Algorithms for Computer Graphics, Editor : R.A. Earnshaw, NATO ASI Series: F,
Springer-Verlag, 1985, Vol.F 17, p 949 - 993.
16. P.A.Koparkar and Mudur SP, "Subdivision Techniques for processing Geometric Objects'',
Fundamental Algorithms for Computer Graphics, Editor : R.A. Earnshaw, NATO ASI Series: F,
Springer-Verlag, 1985, Vol.F 17, p 751-801.
Publications in Peer Refereed Conference/Workshops (published or accepted for
publication)
1. Bhakar S*, Wang Ran*, Mudur SP, “Multi-view 3D Scanned Data Registration”, Proceedings of
Canadian Conference on Computer Science and Software Engineering, Montreal, ACM
International Conference Proceedings Series, 2008.
2. Vashisth A*, Mudur SP, “Deforming Point-based Models using an Electronic Glove”,
Proceedings of Canadian Conference on Computer Science and Software Engineering,
Montreal, ACM, International Conference Proceedings Series, 2008.
3. Padda, H*. Seffah, A. Mudur SP, Joshi Y*, “Comprehension of Visualization Systems:
Towards Quantitative Assessment”, Proceedings of ACHI 2008: First International Conference
on Advances in Human Computer Interaction, IEEE Computer Society, France, 2008.
4. Padda, H*. Seffah, A. Mudur SP. , “Visualization Patterns: A Context-Sensitive Tool to
Evaluate Visualization Techniques”, Proceedings of VISSOFT 2007: 4th IEEE International
Workshop on Visualizing Software for Understanding and Analysis, Canada, 2007.
5. Zhou H*, Mudur SP, “A System for Chinese Opera Facial Expression Animation”, Proceedings
of ARTECH 2006 – Third International conference on Digital and Electronic Art, Spain, 2006.
6. Liu F*, Bhakar S*, Fevens T, Mudur SP, “Environment Lighting for Point Sampled Geometry”,
Proceedings CGIV 2006, (IEEE Computer Society), p353-358, Australia, 2006.
7. Kannappady S*, Mudur SP, Shiri N, “Visualization of Web Usage Patterns”, Proceedings of
IDEAS 2006, (IEEE Computer Society), p220-227, India 2006.
8. Rajagopalan R*, Rajgopalan V*, Mudur SP, “Kolums Revisited: A Study using Shape
Grammars”, in Proceedings of Eurographics VAST 2007: Future technologies to empower
heritage professionals, U.K., 2007.
9. Bhakar S*, Rajagopalan R*, Mudur SP, “Rendering Point-based Representations of
Engineering Models”, Proceedings PLMSS 2006 – International conference on Trends in
Product Life Cycle- Modelling, Simulation and Synthesis, India, December 2006.
10.Bhakar S*, Liu F*, Fevens T, Mudur SP, “Realistic Rendering of Point Cloud Models with
Ambient Shadowing and Environment Lighting”, Proceedings of Game-ON 2006, TU
Braunschweig, Germany, November 2006
11.Rajagopalan R*, Hortop E, El-Khechen D, Dudek C, Sharman L, Szabo M, Fevens T, Mudur
SP, “Inference and Design in Kuba and Zillij Art with Shape Grammars”, Proceedings of
Bridges Conference - Mathematical Connections in Art, Music, and Science, London August
2006.
12.Suryavanshi B*, Shiri N, Mudur SP, "Analysis of Fuzzy Clustering Techniques Used for Web
Personalization", in Proc. NAFIPS, (IEEE Computer Society), Montreal, Canada, June 3-6,
2006.
13.WJ Meng* J. Rilling Y. Zhang R. Witte, Mudur SP, P. Charland, “A Context-Driven
Software Comprehension Process Model”, Proceedings of Second International IEEE
Workshop on Software Evolvability, 2006. SE '06.
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14.S. Kannappady*, K. Demirli, Mudur SP, N. Shiri. "Application of Fuzzy Edge Detection for Fast
Object-based Image Retrieval", in Proc. NAFIPS 2006, (IEEE Computer Society), Montreal,
Canada, June 3-6, 2006.
15.A. Santhanam, Mudur SP, JP Rolland, “An inverse lung deformation analysis for medical
visualization”, Proceedings of CASA 2006 – International Conference on Computer Animation
and Social Agents, Geneva, Switzerland, July 2006.
16.S. Li, C. Jin*, T. Fevens, A. Krzyzak, Mudur SP, “A medical volume reconstruction method
using tetrahedral meshes and level set”, CARS 2006 – 20th International Congress and
Exhibition on Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery, Japan, July 2006.
17.B.S. Suryavanshi, N. Shiri, Mudur SP. "Incremental Relational Fuzzy Subtractive Clustering for
Dynamic Web Usage Profiling", In Proc. WEBKDD Workshop on Taming Evolving, Expanding
and Multi-faceted Web Clickstreams, Chicago, Illinois, USA, August 21, 2005.
18.B.S. Suryavanshi, N. Shiri, Mudur SP. "Improving the Effectiveness of Model Based
Recommender Systems for Highly Sparse and Noisy Web Usage Data", In IEEE/WIC/ACM
Int'l Conf. on Web Intelligence (WI'05), Sept. 19-22, Compiegne, France, 2005.
19.B.S. Suryavanshi, N. Shiri, Mudur SP. "A Fuzzy Hybrid Collaborative Filtering Technique for
Web Personalization", In 3rd IJCAI Workshop on Intelligent Techniques for Web
Personalization (ITWP'05), August 1, Edinburg, Scotland, 2005.
20.T. Radhakrishnan, Mudur SP, N. Heywood, On e-learning by Organ Transplant Patients in a
Hospital Setting, E-Learn 2005--World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government,
Healthcare, and Higher Education, Vancouver, Canada, October 24-28, 2005 (accepted)
21.Mashrur Mia, Mudur SP, T. Radhakrishnan, An Interactive System for negotiation in Ecommerce with incremental user knowledge, CASCON 2005 (accepted).
22.R. Rajagopalan, S. Bhakar, D. Goswami, Mudur SP, Distributed Point Rendering, 12th Annual
IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing, December 2005, (accepted)
23.Gharpure, P., Mudur, S., Patil, R., Mohite, A., Gala, P., & Surti, S. (2005). Automation Support
for Systematic Development of Online Instruction Material. In Proceedings of World
Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia and Telecommunications 2005 (pp. 34473452). Norfolk, VA.
24.B. Suryavanshi, N. Shiri, Mudur SP, An Efficient Technique for Mining Usage Profiles Using
Relational Fuzzy Subtractive Clustering, WIRI 2005 - International Workshop on Challenges in
Web Information Retrieval and Integration In conjunction with The 21st International
Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE 2005), in Proc. of WIRI 2005, pp 23-28..
25.R. Rajagopalan, D. Goswami, Mudur SP, Functionality Distribution for Parallel Rendering,
IEEE 2005 IPDPS - 19th International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium (ACM
sponsored).
26.R. Rajagopalan, D Goswami, Mudur SP, “Functional Parallelism Using Programmable GPUs”,
Poster paper presented at GP2 - ACM Workshop on General Purpose Computing Using
Programmable GPUs, sponsored by and co-located with ACM SIGGRAPH 2004.
27.Mudur SP, Rekha Sharma, “A Reference Model for Localization”, Invited paper in SCALLA
2004, organized by European Commission in Khatamandu, Nepal, Jan 2004.
http://www.elda.org/article144.html
28.Mudur SP, 2003, Rendering and Processing Indian Scripts- A Unified Approach, Invited paper
in International Symposium on Indic Scripts, Japanese Ministry of Education, December 2003,
Tokyo, Japan, p 263-279.
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29.Mudur SP and Dinesh Shikhare, “3D Compression of Engineering Models for Cooperative
Computing Applications”, Invited Paper, Proc. Of the International Conference on Infrastructure
for E-Business, E-Education and E-Medicine on the Internet (SSGRR02W), January 21-25,
L’Aquila, Rome, Italy, , ISBN: 88-85280-62-5 p708-717.
30.J. Rilling, Q. Wang and Mudur SP, MetaViz - Issues in Software Visualization Beyond 3D,
position paper in Proc. of IEEE VISSOFT 2003, pp. 87-92.
31.Hao Zhou, S. P Mudur, “Application of 3D Facial Animation Techniques for Chinese Opera,
Proc. VSMM 2003 – Ninth Int. Conf. on Virtual Systems and Multimedia, October 2003, p 165175.
32. RK Joshi, Keyur Shroff, S. P Mudur, A Unified Code Based Scheme for Effective processing of
Indian Languages, Proc. 23rd Internationalization and Unicode Conference, held in Mar 2003,
Prague, Czechoslovakia.
33. Rekha Sharma, Mudur SP, Keyur Shroff and Parvati Rajan , Development of a Bilingual
Electronic Glossary for Automated Assistance in User Interface Localization, Proc. STRANS
2002, IIT Kanpur, March 2002, p.212-219.
34. Mudur SP, Rekha Gaur, Keyur Shroff and P. Rajan, An Integrated Environment for Software
Localisation, Proc. ICCC-2002- ISBN 1-891365-08-8., p828-842
35. Prachi Gharpure, M. Shah, P. Rajan, Mudur SP, Experiments in Model Driven Web
Courseware Development for Individualized Learning, Proc. ICCC-2002- ISBN 1-891365-08-8.,
p290-303
36. Prachi Gharpure, Mudur SP, P. Rajan, V. Kamat, Effectiveness of Integrative Model for
Development of Web-based Courseware, Proc. of Int. Conf.on Online Learning- Vidyakash
2002, p35-46
37. Mudur SP, P. Gharpure and P. Rajan, 2002, A Model Driven Process for Web Based
Instructional Content Development, E-Learn 2002 World Conference, AACE, held in October
202, Montreal, Canada, p706-713.
38. D. Shikhare, SV Babji and Mudur SP, 2002, Compression Techniques for Distributed Use of
3D Data, ICCC-2002- ISBN 1-891365-08-8, Proc. ICCC 2002, p676-696.
39. J. Rilling and Mudur SP, “On the Use of Metaballs to Visually Map Source Code Structures
and Analysis Results onto 3D Space”, 9th IEEE WCRE 2002, pp. 299-308.
40. Mudur SP, S.V. Babji and D. Shikhare, 2002, “Advancing Fan Front- An Efficient Connectivity
Compression Technique for Large 3D Triangle Meshes”, Proc. ICVGIP 2002, (ACM cosponsored) pp 329-334, Best Paper Award.
41. Mudur SP, K.Shroff, Rekha Gaur, Vinod Kumar and Yogesh Ketkar, 2001, Indic Script
Processing Under X11, ITRANS 2001, p167-174.
42. Dinesh Shikhare, Sushil Bhakar and Mudur SP, “Compression of Large 3D Engineering
Models using Automatic Discovery of Repeating Geometric Features”, 6th International Fall
Workshop on Vision, Modelling and Visualisation (VMV2001), November 21-23, 2001,
Stuttgart, Germany, p 233-240.
43. Dinesh Shikhare and Mudur SP, “Discovery of Repeating Feature Patterns in Large 3D Mesh
Models”, Proceedings of the Workshop on Uncertainty in Geometric Computations 2001, July
5-6, 2001, Sheffield, England,
http://www.angelfire.com/space2/dineshshikhare/papers/dineshugc01.pdf
44. Mudur SP, Dinesh Shikhare and Deepraj Dixit, “Computer Graphics Techniques for Interactive
Visualisation of Very Large Models”, Plenary paper presented at the Indian Conference on
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Computer Vision, Graphics and Image Processing (ICVGIP’2000) held in Bangalore,
December 2000.
45. Mudur SP and Prachi Gharpure, “A Framework for Authoring Multimedia Content for
Individualised Learning”, Proc. of the National Conference on Multimedia based Education,
organised by Jadhavpur University and sponsored by Ministry of Information Technology, held
at Calcutta in November 2000.
46. Prachi Gharpure and Mudur SP, “On Knowledge Representation for Individualised Learning”,
Proc. Of the WEBNET 2000, International Conference organised by Association for
Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE), held at San Antonio, USA, October 2000, p
876-879.
47. Mudur SP, “Online Communities – A Research Agenda for India”, Invited paper presented at
Indian Science Congress held at Pune, 1999.
48. Mudur SP, “Software Innovation – The Real Challenge for the Software Professional in India”,
Inaugural Keynote address presented at IEEE ACE 2000, 26th Annual Convention of the IEEE
India Council, held in Mumbai, December 2000.
49. Mudur SP, “On the Possibility of Software Originating from India”, Proceedings of TiECon
2000, International Conference organized by The Indus Entrepreneurs, held in Mumbai,
November 2000.
50. Mudur SP, “Courseware, Webware, Beware!”, Proceedings of Edunet 1999, ICCC sponsored
International Conference, held in Chennai, December 1999.
51. Mudur SP, “The Technology of Virtual Environments for Science Communication”,
Proceedings of the First International Conference for Science Communicators, held in Pune,
January 2000, p 43-48.
52. Mudur SP, Dinesh Shikhare and Deepraj Dixit, “Research and Development Activities in CAD
at NCST”, Proceedings of the Indian Conference on Computer Vision, Graphics and Image
Processing (ICVGIP’98) held in New Delhi, December 1998, p 60-63.
53. Ashwini Patgawkar, Dinesh Shikhare, Satyashree Mahapatra, S. Gopalsamy and Mudur SP,
"Tetrahedral Discretization of Complex Volumetric Spaces: Implementation, Efficiency,
Robustness and interactive Control”, Proceedings of International Conference on Visual
Computing (ICVC99), held in Goa, India, 1999, p 68-77.
54. Mudur SP and Niranjan Nayak, "A Suite of Performance Enhancement Techniques for Direct
Volume Rendering”, Proceedings of International Conference on Visual Computing (ICVC99),
held in Goa, India, 1999, p 34-52.
55. Dinesh Shikhare, S. Gopalsamy and Mudur SP, "A Two Phase Technique for Optimal
Tessellation of Complex Geometric Models”, Proceedings of 8th International Conference on
Engineering Computer Graphics and Descriptive Geometry, held in Texas, Austin, USA, July
1998, p 175-179.
56. V.V. Kamat and Mudur SP, "Automatic Gait Synthesis Using Generalised Motion
Determinants”, Proceedings of ICIPS 98 held in Queensland, Australia, 1998, p 257-261.
57. Mudur SP, D.S.Dixit and S.H.Shanbhag, "A Distributed Task Delegation Framework for
walkthrough Computations", International Conference on Virtual Systems and Multimedia '97
(VSMM97), held at Geneva, Switzerland in September '97, published by IEEE, p 71-74.
58. Mudur SP, D.S.Dixit and S.H.Shanbhag, "On Parallelisation and Distribution of Computations
for Visually Realistic Walkthroughs", Special Session on "HPCN in Developing Countries" at
Euro-Par '97, held at Passau, Germany in August '97
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59. S. Gopalsamy, T. S. Reddy, Dinesh Shikhare and Mudur SP, "A Comprehensive Approach to
Grid Generation Over Complex Piecewise Parametric Surfaces”, in Advances in Mechanical
Engineering, Ed. T. S. Mruthyunjaya, Proc. of Int. Conf. on Graphics in Mechanical Engineering
held in Bangalore, India, December 1996, p 17-29.
60. Mudur SP, "The Technology of Virtual Reality and its Applications in Medicine'', Computers in
Medicine and Health Care, 11th National Convention of Computer Engineers, organised by
Institution of Engineers (India), Mumbai, 23-24 November, 1996, p 182-189.
61. Mudur SP, "The Emergence of Physically Based Modelling in Computer Graphics'', ICCST 96,
Workshop on Impact of Computers on Contemporary Science and Technology, organised by
Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai, 6 November 1996, p 60-69.
62. J. Mandalia and Mudur SP, "Automation of Bilingual University Graduation Certificates'',
SMATAC'96, Symposium on Machine Aids for Translation and Communication organised by
Society for Machine Aids for Translation and Communication, New Delhi, April 11-12,1996, p
195-201.
63. K. Suresh, A. Irani, N. Nayak and Mudur SP, "An Integrated Software for English to Hindi
Telephone Directory '', SMATAC'96, Symposium on Machine Aids for Translation and
Communication organised by Society for Machine Aids for Translation and Communication,
New Delhi, April 11-12,1996, 188-184.
64. T. S. Reddy and Mudur SP, "Compression Techniques for Managing Gigabytes on the
Internet'', INFOBAHN'96, International Seminar on Information Super Highways,
Tiruvananthpuram, India, August 1996.
65. Mudur SP, "Cyberspace and Virtual Worlds'', INFOBAHN'96, International Seminar on
Information Super Highways, Tiruvananthpuram, India, August 1996.
66. Mudur SP, "Physically Based Modelling for Multimedia Virtual Environments'', Multimedia-96,
International Conference organised by IETE, New Delhi, February 1996, pp 303-315.
67. D.R.Khandekar, S. Gopalsamy and Mudur SP, "Mathematical Techniques for the Interactive
Design of B-Spline Curves Using Form Constraints'', Proc. of the 1st Eurographics Workshop
on Computer Graphics and Mathematics, Genoa, Italy, 1991, p126-135.
68. S.N.Pattanaik and Mudur SP, "Computation of Global Illumination by Monte Carlo Simulation
of the Particle Model of Light'', Proc. of the 3rd Eurographics Workshop on Rendering, Bristol
UK, 1992. p 71-83.
69. Mudur SP, "A Generic Architecture for Rendering of Indian languages”', Proc. Symposium on
Technology Development for Indian Languages, New Delhi, May 1990.
70. Mudur SP and D.R.Khandekar, "An Interactive System for Quick Modelling of Aircraft
Surfaces'', Proc. of the Conference on Curves & Surfaces in Computer Vision and Graphics in
SPIE/SPSE Symposium on Electronic Imaging Science and Technology, Santa Clara,
California, February, 1990.
71. G.R.Shevare and Mudur SP, "Constrained-interior Interpolating Surfaces'', Proc. of the
Conference on Curves & Surfaces in Computer Vision and Graphics in SPIE/SPSE
Symposium on Electronic Imaging Science and Technology, Santa Clara, California, February,
1990.
72. Mudur SP, S.N.Pattanaik and S.J.Nath, "Computer Processing of Indian Scripts - A Pure
Consonant Approach'', Proc. of the National Seminar on Computer Aided Language
Processing. Delhi 1987.
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73. Mudur SP and H.S.Ravishankar, "A Unix Based Image Processing Environment'', Proc. of the
Workshop on Image Processing in Astronomy, Ooty, March, 1987.
74. Mudur SP and H.S.Ravishankar, "An Image Processing Workbench in a UNIX Environment'',
Proc. of International Seminar on Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing for the developing
countries, New Delhi 1986.
75. Mudur SP, "A General Schema for Handling Curves and Surfaces in Geometric Modelling
Systems'', Proc. Nicograph 83, Tokyo, Japan, Dec 1983, p 213-247.
76. Mudur SP and P.A.Koparkar, "Product and Modulated Surfaces for Computer Vision
Systems'', Proc. IEEE SMC International Conf. Cybernetics and Society Bombay, Jan 1983,
p72-79.
77. Mudur SP and P.K.Ghosh, "Computer Aided Text Composition in Indian Scripts'', Proc of the
International Conference INFORMATICS 81, New Delhi, 1981, p 116-125.
78. Mudur SP, "Computer Graphics and Computer Aided Design'', (Invited) Proc. Annual
Conference of the Computer Society of India, Bangalore, 1979,.7-14.
79. Mudur SP, S.C.Gupta, S.Ramesh and C.U.Sharma, "Environmental Independence in a
Graphics Programming System'', Proc Conf. on Interactive Techniques CAD,Bologna, Italy,
1978. (First Eurographics Conference). p 241-248
80. Mudur SP and L.S.Wakankar, "Computer Input Output in Devanagari'', (Invited) Proc.
Symposium on Use of Indian Languages in Computer Based Information Systems, New Delhi,
May 1978.
81. Mudur SP, "CAD Software Development at the NCSDCT'', (Invited) Proc. 20th Technical
Convention of the Institution of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers (IETE),
December 1976.
82. Mudur SP, "General Purpose Graphics System'', (Invited) Proc. Annual Conference of the
Computer Society of India, Hyderabad, 1975.
83. Mudur SP, "An integrated circuit mask generating system'', Proc. of the Annual Computer
Society of India Conference, New Delhi, 1973.
84. Mudur SP, K.V. Ramanathan, N. P. Sastry, P. S. Subramaniam and R. Nagarajan, "System
design of a desk calculator'', Proc. of the International Symposium on Electronics , Madras,
1971.
85. Mudur SP, N.P. Sastry and P.S. Subramaniam, "An effort towards logic design automation of
the control functions of a digital system'', Proc. Annual Computer Society of India Conference,
Bangalore 1971.
Tutorial Notes published during International Conferences
1. Mudur SP, M. Sasikumar and S. V. Raghavan "Web based Testing” Tutorial given at Edunet 99,
organized by International Council for Computer Communication at Chennai, December 1999.
2. Mudur SP "Virtual Reality -- Technology, Applications and Trends'', Tutorial given at VR Expo '96,
Virtual Reality, The Ultimate Computing Experience, Hosted by Special Interest Group on Virtual
Reality of India (SIGVR), New Delhi, 11-13 December, 1996.
3. Mudur SP and T. S. Reddy, "Visual Information Systems'', Tutorial given at Computer Society of
India Annual Convention 1995, Hyderabad, Nov 1995.
4. Mudur SP and K. Suresh, "Emerging Trends in Graphical User Interfaces'', Tutorial given at
Computer Society of India Annual Convention 1993, Bombay, Nov 1993.
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5. Mudur SP, "Desk Top Publishing in Indian Languages'', Tutorial given at International Conference
on Computer Processing of Asian Languages CPAL-2 (sponsored by UNESCO), Kanpur, India,
April 1992.
6. Mudur SP, T.M.Vijayaraman, K. Suresh and A.K. Gupta "Object Oriented User Interface
Development in X/Motif'', Tutorial given at the International Conference ICCG93 (sponsored by
IFIP and CSI), Bombay, India, Feb 1993.
7. Mudur SP and K. Suresh "X Window System : Architecture and Programming'', Tutorial given at the
Computer Society of India Annual Convention 1991, New Delhi, India, 1991.
8. J.L. Encarnacao, P.A. Koparkar and Mudur SP, "Advances in Computer Graphics and CAD”,
Tutorial given at International Conference on CAD/CAM/CAE for Industrial Progress (Sponsored
by IFIP and CSI), Bangalore, India, May 1985.
9. Mudur SP, "Mathematical Elements for Computer Graphics'', Tutorial given at Eurographics 85,
Nice, France, Sep 1985.
Guest Edited Issues of International Journals
1. Mudur SP (Guest Editor), "Computer Graphics in India'', Computers and Graphics, Vol 23, No. 1,
1999, Pergamon Press.
2. Mudur SP (Guest Editor), "Computer Graphics in India'', Computers and Graphics, Vol 17, No. 4,
1993, Pergamon Press.
3. Mudur SP (Guest Editor), "Computer Graphics in India'', Computers and Graphics, Vol 11, No. 2,
1987, Pergamon Press.
Solicited Papers (Accepted after Review of Extended Abstracts Only)/Exhibits (List below
only consists of presentations made after joining Concordia)
1. Kush Kapila, Laxmi Parida, Ruhong Zhou, and Sudhir Mudur, Animated Terrain Evolution for
Visual Analysis of Protein Folding Trajectory, DIMACS Workshop on Detecting and Processing
Regularities in High Throughput Biological Data, Rutgers University, New Jersey, USA, June
20-22, 2005.
2. J. Rilling, H.F. Li, Mudur SP, M. Lizotte, “Applying Predicate Slicing to Enhance the Visualization
of Program Dynamics”, Dagstuhl seminar: Understanding Program Dynamics, December 2003.
3. Mudur SP, P. Gharpure and P. Rajan, 2003, Experiences in Developing Individualised
Courseware Using an Integrative Model, FITIC 2003 – First Quebec Symposium on ICT in
Engineering Teaching, May 2003, Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal, Canada.
4. T. Radhakrishnan, Mudur SP and Mashrur Mia, A Trust-based Multi-Issue Negotiation Protocol
Between an Electronic Sales Agent and a Human Customer, Exhibit at CASCON 2002.
5. Mudur SP, 2002, Compression Techniques for Very Large of Engineering Models, 2nd Annual
Faculty Research Colloquium, Concordia University, March 2003. Montreal, Canada
Keynotes Presented in Major International Conferences/Workshops
1. Mudur SP, “Distributed Rendering of Large Engineering Models Using a Graphics
Cluster”,PLMSS 2006 – International conference on Trends in Product Life CycleModelling, Simulation and Synthesis, India, December 2006.
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2. Mudur SP, 2005, E-Learning Prospects and Challenges, Keynote address given at
ELELTECH 2005, National Conference on E-Learning and E-Learning Technologies,
Hyderabad, India. In Proc. Of ELELTECH 2005, pp 1-6.
3. Mudur SP, 2002, E-Learning Developments in Practice – Lessons Learned, Keynote
address given at the International Conference on Online Learning – Vidyakash 2002,
Mumbai, India. http://www.ncst.ernet.in/vidyakash2002/speakers.shtml#Mudur
4. Mudur SP, 2000, “Interactive Visualisation of Very Large Models”, Plenary paper presented
at the ACM sponsored Indian Conference on Computer Vision, Graphics and Image
Processing (ICVGIP’2000) held in Bangalore, December 2000.
5. Mudur SP, 1999, A Software Architecture for Virtual Walkthroughs of Complex Heritage
Sites, Keynote address given at the IFIP TC5/WG5.10 Int'l Conference on Visual
Computing (ICVC 99), Goa, India, Feb. 1999, in Proc. of ICVC 99, p. 134.
Prize Winning Exhibits
S. Bhakar*, Mudur SP (Supervisor), “Pensez en 3D : les télécopieurs, les scanneurs et bien plus”,
Presented at Quebec University Research Forum 2006 Awarded Silver (2nd best) prize, 2006.
9. Major R & D Grants and Projects
Current Research Grants
(Since 2002, after joining Concordia University, Canada)
Prior to joining Concordia, I was responsible for securing large research, development and
education grants for NCST from various agencies including national government, local industry,
international bodies like UNDP, UNIDO and European Commission, international industries
including Microsoft and Intel. A brief description can be found in Annexure B1.
After joining Concordia, I have been part of external research grants from a number of national and
provincial agencies as listed in the table below.
Agency
NSERC
(Total:
$784K)
Programme
Total
Funds
My Role
Discovery Grant
Individual
(4 years @ $31K per
year and 5 years @
$26K per year)
$124K
Principal
Investigator
20032007
Other Investigators
$130K
20072011
Research Tools and
Instruments
(2 years)
CFI +
Provincial
Funds
($400K)
$105K
20032004
New Media Initiative
(3 year breakup:
$146K, $162K, $117K
$425K
New Opportunities
(4 year breakup:
$268K, 0, 0, $6K)
CFI-IOF
($33K)
$274K
20042007
20032007
Principal
Investigator
Principal
Investigator
Concordia Univ.
Dr. R. Ganesan, MIE
Dr. A. Seffah, CSE
Univ. of Montreal
Prof. P. Lalande
Principal
Investigator
Concordia Univ.
Dr. T. Fevens, CSE
Dr. D. Goswami, CSE
$33K
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20072009
CFI 630
(1 year $96K)
$96K
Co-Investigtor
Dr. Nabil Esmail (PI)
2007
FQRSC
($208K)
Appui à la recherchecréation
(3 year breakup: $88K,
$61K, $59K)
$208K
SSHRC
($150K)
Research/Creation
Grants in Fine Arts
(3 year breakup:
$45K, 59$K, $46K)
$150K
Hexagram
($40K)
Research Axis –
Advanced
Digital Imaging and
Rapid ProtoTyping
(1 year)
$40K
Co-Investigator
20032006
Collaborator*
20042007
2004
External
Researcher+
Concordia Univ.
Dr. C. Dudek, (PI)
Studio Arts
Dr. L. Sharman,
Design and
Computation Arts
Dr. M. Szabo,
Mathematics and
Statistics
* As collaborator, I have the same involvement, responsibility and role as of a co-investigator.
+
Hexagram has a list of researchers from arts who are funded for their research projects as principal investigators.
External researcher in a Hexagram project is the same as co-investigator.
I have also received substantial internal awards from Concordia University. These include:
1. Start-up grant of $112.5K,
2. Faculty Research funds (for graduate students) of a total of around $300K during 20022008,
In addition I have managed to receive support for the following expenses:
1. Chinese government post doctoral research fellowship awarded to Dr. Quinxin Zhu
completely supporting his travel and living expenses for a period of 6 months. (Dr. A.
Krzyzak was co-supervisor)
Major R&D Grants and Projects until 2001 (during my tenure at NCST, India)
I was responsible for a large number of R & D and Technology development projects. Many of these
have been funded by the government, the industry or other user organisations. The total grant amount
will exceed many millions of US Dollars. Some research results have been successfully
commercialised. The more significant ones are listed below :
1. GKS and GKS 3D Software Design and Development : Commercially marketed internationally as
Indo-GKS by CMC Ltd of India.
2. Aalekh and Vividha - Multilingual Text Processing Tools : Commercially marketed in India by
Hinditron Ltd, ET&T Ltd and CMC Ltd.
3. Vinyas and Vidura - Desk Top Publishing Tools : Interactive Font design and Typesetting Software
specially for Indian languages and scripts. Sponsored by Indira Gandhi National Centre for the
Arts, New Delhi, Department of Culture of the Government of India.
4. Zeus - Interactive System for Rapid Design of Aircraft Surfaces. Sponsored by the Aeronautical
Development Agency, Bangalore, India.
5. Artemis - Interactive CAD/CAM System for the layout of composite laminate components used in
the aircraft industry. Sponsored by the Aeronautical Development Agency, Bangalore, India.
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6. Volvis : Non destructive Evaluation of Composite Laminate Components - Uses volume
visualisation techniques for "looking" into the inside structure derived from Ultra sonic
measurements. Sponsored by the Aeronautical Development Agency, Bangalore, India.
7. Automatic Translation, Typesetting and Printing of Bi-lingual Degree Certificates of the University
of Bombay. Sponsored by the University of Bombay, India.
8. Arcturus : An interactive system for laminate architecturing for use in composite laminate
component design. Sponsored by the Aeronautical Development Agency, Bangalore, India.
9. Surface and Volume Grid Generation for use in CFD Analysis and Other Scientific Visualisation
Applications in the aircraft industry. Sponsored by the Aeronautical Development Agency,
Bangalore, India.
10. Automatic Translation, Typesetting and Production of Film Masters of Hindi Telephone Directory of
Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Ltd., Mumbai ; the software converted subscriber data in Oracle
format of over 1.3 million persons and organisations into Hindi and then reordered and paginated
them suitably directly driving a digital image setter. The total volume was over 6000 pages.
11. VISPAR : Parallelisation of 3D rendering and visualisation techniques. A research project funded
by the Commission of European Communities (CEC).
12. 3DR : Direct Volume Rendering for medical Imaging, R & D project being carried out for a
Japanese establishment in collaboration with an Indian software house.
13. VR and Multimedia Software Component Development with applications like Walkthrough of
Complex heritage sites and 3D games.
14. Vidyakaash: Setting up of a National Resource Centre for Online Learning; a project sponsored by
the Ministry of Information Technology, India which includes a strong R & D component in
education technology development for online learning.
15. Localisation of Multimedia educational content: As part of Intel Corporation’s world-wide initiative to
train school teachers in the use of computers for teaching, NCST was chosen as Intel’s education
partner in India for the programme known as Intel Teach to the Future®. I was responsible for
localising the multimedia content and evaluation of the programme which has been offered to over
fifty thousand school teachers in India.
16. Localisation of Microsoft Windows 2000™: This was more of a technology transfer project. My
research of over two decades in Indian language shaping technology had matured and was
transferred to Microsoft Corporation, USA for use in the enabling of the localised version of their
operating system for use with Indian languages. I was responsible for the successful execution of
the entire project involving close coordination with Microsoft Windows OS team at Redmond USA.
This was highly successful.
10. Doctoral Degree Level Research Supervised
Have supervised a large number of students for their Bachelors and Masters Level Research Projects.
Most of these are in the areas of Graphics, Animation, Geometric Modelling, Image Synthesis and
Visualisation.
During the last three years, I have graduated 10 Master’s graduates under my supervision. Presently, I
have 6 Doctoral research students and 10 Masters students carrying out their degree level research
under my supervision.
The list of PhDs successfully supervised by me are given below:
1. Computational Techniques for Processing Parametric Curves and Surfaces by P.A. Koparkar,
submitted to the University of Bombay, Department of Computer Science in February 1984.
2. A Computational Theoretic Framework for Shape Representation and Analysis Using the
Minkowski Addition and Decomposition Operators by P.K. Ghosh, submitted to the University of
Bombay, Department of Computer Science in August 1986.
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3. Computational Methods for Global Illumination and Visualisation of Complex 3D Environments by
S. N. Pattanaik, submitted to the Birla Institute of Technology, Pilani, Department of Computer
Science and Engineering in February 1993.
4. Automatic Motion Synthesis of Articulated Figures for Computer Animation by V.V. Kamat,
University of Goa, Department of Computer Science, January 1996.
5. Automatic Multi-block Surface Grid Generation by M. A. Dharap, Indian Institute of Technology,
Bombay, June 1996.
6. Compression of Large Engineering 3D Models using Discovery of Repeated Geometric Features
by D. S. Shikhare, submitted to the Birla Institute of Technology, Pilani, Department of Computer
Science and Engineering in March 2003.
7. An Integrative Instructional Design Model for E-Learning Environments by Prachi Gharpure, SNDT
University, Department of Information Technology, Mumbai, India, August 2006.
8. A Framework for Software Localization by Rekha Sharma, SNDT University, Department of
Information Technology, Mumbai, India, June 2007.
11. Courses Developed and Taught
Since joining Concordia in 2002, I have taught/developed 9 different courses, five of which are new
courses offered for the first time in the department. Course planning and development had to be done
for all these courses. The courses are:
1. Introduction to Game Development (undergraduate) – COMP 376
2. Computer Graphics (undergraduate) – COMP 471
3. 3 Advanced Computer Graphics (graduate) – COMP 6761
4. System Software (Computer Science undergraduate) – COMP 229
5. Advanced Rendering and Animation in 3D games (graduate) – COMP 7661
6. System Software (Software Engineering undergraduate) –SOEN 229
7. Software Project Management (undergraduate) – SOEN 383
8. Quality Assurance and Management in Software Development(undergraduate) – SOEN 384
9. Multimedia Computing (graduate) – COMP 691T
While in India, over 25 years, I was extensively involved in course planning and curriculum
development on a continuing basis. The following is a list of courses developed and taught, sometimes
with my colleagues. While some of these courses are for professionals, many are at the under
graduate and post graduate level.
1. Programming Techniques
2. Geometric and Solid Modelling
3. Data Structures and Algorithms
4. Design and Analysis of Algorithms
5. Introduction to Computer Architecture and 6. Introduction to Software Engineering
Operating Systems
7. The Science of Programming
8. Multimedia Technology
9. Principles of Computer Graphics
10. Object Oriented Analysis and Design
11. Fundamentals of Computer Aided Design
12. Software Quality and Project Management
12. Editorial Activities
1. Chairman of the Publications Committee of the Computer Society of India (CSI), for four years
from 1992-1996. The Computer Society of India is a very large professional society in India with
over twelve thousand computer professionals and students as members. As publications chairman
my responsibilities included overseeing the publication of all the four publications of the Computer
Society of India including aspects such as budgeting, appointment of editors etc.
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2. Membership of the Editorial /Advisory Boards of the following journals :
a) Computer Science and Informatics Journal, The research publication of the Computer Society
of India (until 2002).
b) Computer Graphics Forum, The research journal of the Eurographics Association. Published
earlier by North Holland and now by Blackwell Press (1985 – 2001).
c) Computers and Graphics, Published by Elsevier.
d) Computer Animation & Virtual Worlds (formerly known as Journal of Visualisation and
Computer Animation), Published by John Wiley.
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13. Advisory and Consulting Activities
1. Worked as a Consultant in the areas of Computer Graphics, CAD/CAM and Solid Modelling at
Shape Data Ltd., Cambridge, U.K., in 1980-81.
2. Have served as a member of many high level national committees in India concerned with the
acquisition and application of computer-based technologies in various disciplines. The more
significant of these are listed below :
a) Member of the Technical Advisory Committee for the computerisation of the mapping activities of
the Survey of India, set up by the Secretary, Department of Science and Technology, Government
of India, (1982-1989). Helped prepare a detailed project proposal for the setting up of a Modern
Cartographic Centre with assistance from UNDP. Also to prepare the detailed requirements
specification for the cartographic systems for installation in the Digital Mapping Centre at
Dehradun. (1985)
b) Was the Team Leader for systems evaluation and factory acceptance testing of Survey of India's
Digital Mapping System (worth over 2.5 M US $) acquired from Intergraph Corp. USA. (1989)
c) Was a Government of India Representative for the Mid-term Evaluation and also two subsequent
evaluations of the UNDP sponsored Project, Modern Cartographic Centre. (1990, 1991 and 1993)
d) Was a Member of the National Team which toured Japan for investigating the needs of Multimedia centre for documentation of Arts and Culture related information. (1989)
e) Member of the Advisory Committee set up by the Computer Society of India to draft a National
Information Technology Policy for India, for review by the Government of India.
f)
Chairman of the Standards Committee set up by the Department of Electronics, Government of
India for the Indian language coding addressing compatibility issues with respect to Unicode and
ISO standardisation efforts.
g) National Project Consultant for the UNDP project on "Setting up of a Multimedia Documentation
Centre for Art and Culture Documentation" at the Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts in
Delhi.
h) Chairman of the (SRIG MLC) SEARCC’s (South East Asian Regional Computer Confederation)
Regional Interest Group on Multilingual Computing
i)
Have provided expert advice to a large number of industries in India in the areas of Graphics,
CAD/CAM and Electronic Publishing.
j)
Member of the Standing Technical Group set up by the Government of India for advising and
evaluating the information technology related projects carried out by the Indira Gandhi National
Centre for the Arts. (1991 onwards)
k) Member of the National Advisory Committee on Computer Graphics set up by the Secretary,
Department of Electronics, Government of India.
l)
Have undertaken expert consultancy missions for United Nations Development Programme
(UNDP) and also for United Nations Industrial Development Organisation (UNIDO). Such missions
usually require one to visit the site of a UN aided project and provide professional consultancy on
specialised topics to the executing agency.
i) UNIDO Expert in the area of Computer Graphics and Standards (1987), for providing
consultancy to the State Centre for CAD in Sofia, Bulgaria.
ii) UNIDO Expert in the area of Computer Aided Design and Manufacture (1988), for providing
consultancy to the State Centre for CAD in Sofia, Bulgaria.
iii) UNDP Expert for providing consultancy to the Modern Cartographic Centre in Dehradun, India.
(1992)
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iv) UNDP Expert for carrying out the feasibility study and also to prepare the project proposal for
setting a Multi media Documentation Centre at the Indira Gandhi Centre for the Arts, in the
Departments of Arts and Culture, Government of India, New Delhi.
m) Also provided advice to venture capital funding agencies like the Industrial Development Bank of
India (IDBI), Small Industries Development Bank of India (SIDBI) and the Industrial Credit and
Investment Corporation of India (ICICI). This advice is usually in the form of review of project
proposals received by these organisations. ICICI projects are usually joint proposals between a
group in the USA and a group in India.
n) Member of the Research Advisory Board of Tata Research Design and Development Centre, the
R&D unit of TCS, India’s largest IT company.
14. Professional/Industry Associations
• Senior Life member and Fellow of Computer Society of India
• Senior Member of IEEE
• Member AACE
• Member ACM
• Governor, Vice President and Executive Secretary of ICCC until 2004
• Member of Eurographics Association
• Invited Expert Member of IFIP Working Group 5.2 on Computer Aided Design until 2002
• Invited Expert Member of IFIP Working Group 5.10 on Computer Graphics
• Honorary Member of TiE (The Indus Entrepreneurs), Mumbai
• One of the directors of VHN (Virtual Heritage Network) of the VSMM (International
Society on Virtual Systems and Multimedia)
15. International Conference Programme Related Activities
Have been regularly invited to be a member of a large number of international conferences on
computer graphics and related activities. In India my primary contributions were in the form of
reviewing of some of the submitted papers and also to help publicise the event in India. The list of
conferences include the following :
1) Many Computer Society of India sponsored conferences,
2) Many of the Eurographics Annual Conferences,
3) Many IFIP Working Group sponsored conferences and workshops in the fields of Computer
Graphics and CAD/CAM.
4) A number of Eurographics Working Group Workshops in areas like Scientific Visualisation,
Computer Animation, Computer Graphics and Mathematics, etc.
5) IEEE Software Engineering Conference
6) Many computer Graphics conferences held in South Asia and Europe in the 80s and 90s. .
Have been the international programme committee chairman for international conferences on
topics like Computer Graphics, Multimedia, Visual Computing held in India.
16. Academic Governance
1. Have been on the Board of Studies and Academic Councils of the following Universities :
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Board of Studies, Department of Computer Science, University of Goa. (1997 - 2002)
Board of Studies, Department of Computer Science, Mahatma Gandhi University,
Cochin (1996 – 1999).
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Member of Academic Council, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi (1994 - 1997).
Member of the Academic Council, Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and
Communication Technology, Ahmedabad.(2000 – 2002).
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