About Me...

I am currently pursuing a PhD at The University of Tennessee at Knoxville. I graduated from Jacksonville State University, AL, in the Spring of 2001 with a double-B.S. in Mathematics and Computer Science, and again with a Master's Degree in Systems and Software Design in Spring 2004. I currently enjoy several research projects in Dr. Huang's SeeLab. Please email me to talk about a possible project or if you'd like to collaborate on several of my own open projects (listed at the end).

My interests include: Human/Computer Interaction (HCI), immersive environments, scientific visualization, computer graphics, General Purpose computation on Graphical Processing Units (GPGPU), grid computing, computer vision, artificial intelligence, robotics, image fusion, and quantum computing

Curriculum Vitae [doc]

Résumé [sans publications]

Projects

UTK:

SeeShader - Small API for dynamic loading of shaders with GLUT framework [ppt] [tar.gz] [zip]

SeeBrain - Interactive, GPU-Accelerated Visual Querying of Diffusion-Tensor MRI [ppt]

SeeGraph - 3D Spring-Embedded Graph Visualization and Analytics [ppt]

JSU:

Med-LIFE - Diagnostic aid for the Learning, Image Fusion, and Exploration of Medical imagery

Medical Imagery Fusion and Exploration - Neurophysiologically-based, multi-modal image fusion and 3D reconstruction

Gesture Recognition - Spatial and temporal recognition of hand gestures for interactive 3D manipulation

Publications:

New, Joshua R. and Kendall, Wes and Huang, Jian and Chesler, Elissa (2008)." Dynamic Visualization of Co-expression in Systems Genetics Data." To appear soon in IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics

New, Joshua R. (2004). Master's Thesis: "An Advanced User Interface for Pattern Recognition in Medical Imagery: Interactive Learning, Contextual Zooming, and Gesture Recognition." In Archives of the JSU and MCIS Libraries, Jacksonville, AL. [PDF] [PPT]

New, Joshua R., Hasanbelliu, E., and Aguilar, M. (2004). "Med-LIFE: A Diagnostic Aid for Medical Imagery." In Proceedings of the International Conference on Mathematics and Engineering Techniques in Medicine and Biological Sciences, Las Vegas, Nevada. [PDF]

New, Joshua R. (2004). "Heterogeneous ARTMAPs for Image Segmentation." In Proceedings of the JSU Graduate Research Colloquium, Jacksonville, AL. [PDF] [PPT]

New, Joshua R. (2004). "A Method for Temporal Hand Gesture Recognition." In MCIS Technical Report, Jacksonville, AL. [PDF] [PPT]

Aguilar, M., New, Joshua R., and Hasanbelliu, E. (2003). "Advances in the use of neurophysiologically-based fusion for visualization and pattern recognition of medical imagery." In Proceedings of the 6th International Conf. on Information Fusion, Cairns, Australia. [PDF] [PPT]

New, Joshua R., Hasanbelliu, E., and Aguilar, M. (2003). "Facilitating User Interaction with Complex Systems via Hand Gesture Recognition." In Proceedings of the 2003 Southeastern ACM Conference, Savannah, GA. [PDF] [PPT]

New, Joshua R. (2002). "A Method for Hand Gesture Recognition."  In Proceedings of the ACM Mid-Southeast Chapter Fall Conference, Gatlinburg, TN. [PDF] [PPT]

Aguilar, M. and New, Joshua R. (2002). "Fusion of Multi-Modality Volumetric Medical Imagery."  In Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Information Fusion, Annapolis, MD. [PDF] [PPT]

New, J and Hasanbelliu, E. (2002). "Med-LIFE: A System for Medical Imagery Exploration."  In Proceedings of the JSU Graduate Research Colloquium, Jacksonville, AL. [PDF] [PPT]

Open Project Presentations:

New, Joshua R. (2004). "Med-LIFE: A Diagnostic Aid for Medical Imagery." This project needs final QT interface polishing. [PPT]

Aguilar, M., New, Joshua R., and Hasanbelliu, E. (2003). "Advances in the use of neurophysiologically-based fusion for visualization and pattern recognition of medical imagery." In Proceedings of the 6th International Conf. on Information Fusion, Cairns, Australia. This project needs refinement of 3D fusion interface for creation of learning data and possible integration with Med-LIFE's Fusion Tab. [PPT]

New, Joshua R. (2003). "Pliable Display Technology: Contextual Zoom as a Learning System Interface." In Proceedings of the JSU Graduate Research Colloquium, Jacksonville, AL. This project needs handling of multiple slices for integration with Med-LIFE's Learn Tab. [PPT]

New, Joshua R. (2004). "A Method for Temporal Hand Gesture Recognition." In MCIS Technical Report, Jacksonville, AL. This project needs completed integration with Med-LIFE's Explore Tab. [PPT]

New, Joshua R. (2003). "The Sword: A Role-Playing Game for Demonstrating Computer Graphics Techniques." In Proceedings of the JSU Graduate Research Colloquium, Jacksonville, AL. This project needs integration with a created game engine and interactive gameplay design. [PPT]

Schedule - Spring '08 (A man is only as good as his schedule)