Shan Yang

 

Computer Science Department,

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill,

NC, United States

 

Email: alexyangshan@gmail.com

[Research Interests][Education][Honors and Awards][Projects][Publications][Courses]

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Computer Graphics

o   Physically-based Simulation

o   Deformable body simulation

Geometric Computing

o   Mesh generation

o   Mesh quality maintenance

Computer Vision

o   Medical image processing

Visualization

Robotics

EDUCATION

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC, United State

2012 - present

Research assistant of Prof. Ming Lin

Ph.D candidate

Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China

2007 - 2012

Department of Software

B.E., Software Engineering, June 2012

Overall GPA: 90.3 / 100 ( 3.82 / 4.0 )

Major GPA: 91.2 / 100 ( 3.83 / 4.0 )

Rank: Top 5 among the 137 students

HONORS AND AWARDS

Academic Excellence Scholarship (Second-class) of SJTU, 2007 - 2008 academic year

Academic Excellence Scholarship (Third-class) of SJTU, 2008 - 2009 academic year

China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation Scholarship for 2009 - 2010 academic year, top 5% students

Tung OOCL Scholarship for 2010 - 2011 academic year, top 5% students

Excellent Bachelor Thesis of Shanghai Jiao Tong University, top 1% students

 

PROJECTS

Simulation-Based Estimation of Multi Body Deformation and Elasticity Parameters, GAMMA, UNC Chapel Hill

2012.08 - present

o   Designed and implemented a novel multi body elasticity parameter estimation method based on computed tomography (CT) images and FEM simulation.

o   Based on the multi-dimensional optimization method, the elasticity parameters were recovered.

 

Tubule Recognition And Classification In Microscopic Testis Images, CS Bio Lab, UNC Chapel Hill

2012.08 - 2012.12

   

o   Designed and implemented a novel tubule recognition algorithm based on Random Forest algorithm

o   Designed and implemented a novel feature space for tubule like biological structure.

 

Virtual Suturing, IGST(Image Guided Surgery and Therapy Lab), Shanghai, China

2011.04 - 2012.06

o   Exist mechanisms of suturing simulation are not able to represent these under-surface procedures well.

o   To meet the new requirement, we present a more detailed way of the suturing simulation.

 

Mesh Quality Maintenance, IGST, Shanghai, China

2011.04 - 2012.06

 

  

  

o   The project is going to maintain the quality of the surface meshes in the dynamic scenes and support the typical query requirements of the real-time virtual surgery systems. The proposed solution is based on loose r sample theory and it can effectively protect the surface meshes quality during the object deformation, by maintain the loose r-sample properties of the surface sampling points Set S, the dynamic Delaunay triangulation of S and the labels of the Delaunay cells.

 

High Quality Mesh Generation, IGST, Shanghai, China

2010.03 - 2010.09

   

o   Reconstructing tetrahedral meshes from 3D medical images is a non-trivial task in Bio-medical engineering. Many applications, such as finite element analysis on the soft-tissues, work on the reconstructed tetrahedral meshes.

o   The proposed solution firstly samples on the solid object with a global optimized sampling data structure named centroidal Voronoi tessellations, and then reconstructs the tetrahedral mesh from the samplings.

 

MIPS CPU Designing and Simulation, SJTU, Shanghai, China

2010

o   Designed and simulated single-cycled, multi-cycled, pipelining CPU using Verilog

 

PUBLICATIONS

Paper

o   Shan Yang, Wenlong Lu, Lixu Gu, Real - time simulation for buried suture, Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery (CARS), 2012

o   Wenlong Lu, Sizhe Lv, Shan Yang, Lixu Gu, Mesh quality maintenance for virtual surgery, submitted to IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine (TITB), 2012

COURSES

2012-2013

o   COMP768 Physically Based Modeling and Simulation

o   COMP790 Machine Learning

o   COMP715 Computer Graphics

o   COMP770 Visualization in Sciences