Leandra Vicci

Lecturer and Director of the Applied Engineering Laboratory

(previously the Microelectronic Systems Laboratory – some links will refer to the MSL)

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Contact Information

Department of Computer Science
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3175

(919) 962-1742 (Voice)
(919) 962-1798 (Fax)
vicci@cs.unc.edu (email)

Link to CV with recent publications

Research Interests

Scientific instrument and experiment design
Hardware system engineering and integration
Peripherals of information processing: beyond the I/O port
Mathematical models of physical phenomena

The Applied Engineering Laboratory (AEL)

Useful system design methodologies and technologies must be guided by their application to building actual systems. The AEL is a testbed to explore ideas in these realms, while also providing hardware system prototyping resources for departmental researchers and collaborators.

Current MSL projects:

3D Force Microscope (3DFM)--3D nano-scale telepresence project
Multiforce High Throughput System (MHTS) – Massively parallel version of 3DFM
Rotational Mixing Experiment (RMX) – in collaboration with The Applied Mathematics Fluids Laboratory
Research in Graphics Hardware – Harnessing the awesome power of modern GPUs to do really amazing things
Assistive technologies – disadvantaged-friendly computing interfaces and spin offs such as Clique

Some previous interesting MSL projects:

Tracker --real-time tracking technologies for VR displays
Nanomanipulator --atomic-scale teleoperation project
GRIDS --Geospatial Registration of Information for Dismounted Soldiers
FastLinks --Pushing many gigabits/second across wires between ICs
Pixel Planes – Massively parallel graphics supercomputers
Vistanet– Distributed computation over a 0.622 Gbit/sec network
BioSCAN – A genome and protein string matching supercomputer
Office of the Future – Long-distance collaboration using a virtual shared office space
3D laparoscopic visualization – Surgeon’s-eye-view of laparoscopic close-up data
DeltaSphere – A full color panoramic 3D camera, now commercial, hot CSI technology

Collaborating Researchers

Honors

Best Paper Award, Architectures and Algorithms track, International Conference on Computer Design, Oct. 1991.
UNC Chapel Hill Chancellor's Award for innovation in research, Chapel Hill, 1996.
North Carolina Governor's Award for innovation, Chapel Hill, 1996.
Best Paper Award, Symposium on virtual Reality, Software and Technology, Dec. 1999.

Service

Member, Curriculum in Applied Sciences Advisory Committee, UNC-Chapel Hill, 1992-98
Member, University Patent Committee, UNC-Chapel Hill, 1989- present
Member, College of Arts and Sciences Conflict of Interest Oversight Committee, UNC-Chapel Hill, 1999-present
Chair, MCNC Project Review Committee, 1987-92
Member, MCNC Chairmen Technical Council 1987-92, Chair, 1988-89
Member, MCNC Technical Working Group on Design, 1984-92
Member, MCNC Center Semiconductor Technical Council (CSTC), 1984-92
Chair, MCNC CSTC Electronic Packaging Subcommittee, 1985
Member, MCNC Technical Users' Group on Testing, 1982-85
Member, MCNC Technical Working Group on Communications (TWGC), 1981-85
Chair, MCNC TWGC, Transmission Subcommittee, 1981-83
Member, MCNC Technical Working Group on Research and Fabrication, 1981-83
Panelist, National Science Foundation Young Investigator Award, 1993
Panelist, NSF Experiments in Distributed Design and Rapid Prototyping using Agile Networking, 1996

Last updated 25 April 2005

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