Suraj R. Musuvathy

Riesenfeld/Cohen Lab, Warnock Eng. Bldg.
School of Computing
University of Utah
Salt Lake City, Utah 84112
email: srm 'at' cs 'dot' utah 'dot' edu

I am currently a PhD student working with Elaine Cohen in the Geometric Design and Computation (GDC) research group. My research interests include geometric feature extraction and shape analysis using B-Spline techniques. I have also worked on virtual environments for reverse CAD engineering.

Updates!

I have cleared my PhD qualifying exam with distinction (high pass).
Our SPM '09 paper on extracting ridges won Best paper runner up award.

Research

Ridges are feature curves on a surface that indicate salient curvature properties and have applications in biomedical imaging, CAD quality control, visualization and terrain analysis.

Publications:

"Tracing Ridges on B-Spline Surfaces", SIAM/ACM GDSPM 2009 ( Best Paper Award Runner Up ).

"Extracting Principal Curvature Ridges from B-Spline Surfaces with Deficient Smoothness", Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes in Computer Science (ISVC 2009).

MERGE is an interactive immersive environment for legacy engineering mechanical parts and assemblies.

Publications:

"Integrating Multiple Engineering Resources in a Virtual Environment for Reverse Engineering Legacy Mechanical Parts". ASME IDETC/CIE, 2005. (pdf)

"A Virtual Environment for Legacy Mechanical Systems Engineering". MS Thesis, University of Utah, 2006. (pdf)