Research is only improved when more people help out. It is with that in mind that I create this page where I take a moment to thank those I’ve worked with most closely while here at UNC. Given the time, I will expand this to include all collaborators, but time is finite! If you would like to visit the webpage of one of these collaborators, I’ve linked their webpages into the images shown.

Dr. Frederick Brooks, Jr. is my advisor right now. He has been fundamental to Computer Science for decades, publishing some of the most widely read books and articles (Mythical Man Month or “No Silver Bullet” to name a couple). He’s also an incredibly friendly and approachable individual. Those two attributes play out wonderfully in my favor as we work together.
Mary Whitton has a wealth of experience and knowledge in Virtual Reality. She is co-lead of the EVE (VR) Group here at UNC, and I frequently stop by to discuss my ideas and plans. She also races her own race car!
Dr. Ming C. Lin was my advisor during my first two years of graduate study. She is well respected and highly successfull in the competetive field of Physically Based Modeling and Simulation. We worked together on a number of projects, and I’m grateful for the start she gave me in graduate school.
Dr. Dinesh Manocha was co-lead of the GAMMA (Physically-based modeling) group during my 2 years there. I also worked directly with him during my time working on shadow rendering.
Bill Baxter was the graduate student I worked the most with in my first two years at UNC. He seems to know tons of details about just about every topic in Numerical Simulation. As I don’t have any images of him, I thought he would appreciate the “Not Pictured” image for his own!
Brandon Lloyd has been an immense help to me from our collaboration early in my second semester on. Not only did he invite me to help on his Shadow Volumes work, we frequently visit each other’s office to pick our brains. Nothing better than a spare brain lying around!
Ipek Oguz volunteered to help me with what we had hoped would be a SIGGRAPH submission on fluid flow back in December 2004. I worked her very hard, and she rose to the task. The would-be paper has been published as a poster and a tech. report.