Yusu Wang
Assistant Professor

Computer Science and Engineering

The Ohio State University

487 Dreese Lab
2015 Neil Ave. Ãá
Columbus, Ohio 43210

Phone: (614) 292-1309
Fax : (614) 292-2911
yusu
at cse dot ohio-state dot edu

Brief Bio.


I obtained my M.S and Ph.D degree from Duke Univ., and B.S. degree from Tsinghua Univ. Before joining OSU, I was a post-doctoral researcher at Geometric Computing lab in Stanford Univ. from 2004-2005. I received DOE (Dept. of Energy) Career award in 2006, and NSF (National Science Foundation) Career award in 2008.

Research Interest

I am looking for students interested in shape analysis, geometric computing, visualization, algorithms, and computational biology. I recruit both students who want to work in application fields (bioinformatics, visualization, and graphics) and those interested in theory (geometric computing and computational topology). Finacial supports are available.

Software:


Our group has developed several software packages.

Publications


Visual Analysis of Biomolecular surfaces
with V. Natarajan, P. Koehl, and B. Hamann. In L. Linsen, H. Hagen, and B. Hamann (editors), Mathematical Methods for Visualization in Medicine and Life Sciences..
Springer Verlag, Mathematics and Visualization, 237--256, 2008. [ pdf ]


Towards Unsupervised Segmentation of Semi-rigid Low-resolution Molecular Surfaces
with L. J. Guibas. Algorithmica. 48 (4): 433--448 (Aug. 2007). [ pdf ]

Placement-Proximity-Based Voltage Island Grouping under Performance Requirement
with H. Wu, M. Wong, and I. Liu. IEEE Trans. Computer-Aided Design. 26 (7): 1256--1269 (July 2007). [ pdf ]

LFM-Pro: A Tool for Detecting Significant Local Structural Sites in Proteins
with A. Sacan, O. Ozturk and H. Ferhatosmanoglu. BioInformatics. 23 (6): 709--716 (Mar. 2007). [ pdf ]

Efficient Algorithms for Contact-map Overlap Problem
with P. K. Agarwal and N. Mustafa. J. Comput. Biology (JCB) . 14 (2): 131--143 (Mar. 2007). [ pdf ]

A Two-Dimensional Kinetic Triangulation with Near-Quadratic Topological Changes
with P. K. Agarwal and H. Yu. Discrete and Computational Geometry (DCG) 36 (4): 573--592 (Dec. 2006). [ pdf ]

Extreme Elevation on a 2-Manifold
with P. K. Agarwal, H. Edelsbrunner, and J. Harer. Discrete and Computational Geometry (DCG). 36 (4): 553--572 (Dec. 2006). [ pdf ]

Segmenting molecular surfaces
with V. Natarajan, P. Bremer, V. Pascucci and B. Hamann. Computer Aided Geometric Design (CAGD). 23: 495--509 (June 2006). [ pdf ]

Near-linear time approximation algorithms for curve simplification in two and three-dimensions
with P. K. Agarwal, S. Har-Peled, and N. Mustafa. Algorithmica. 42(3/4): 203--221 (2005). [ pdf ]

Shape fitting with outliers
with S. Har-Peled. SIAM J. Comput. 33(2): 269--285 (2004). [ pdf ]

Computing the writhing number of a polygonal knot
with P. K. Agarwal and H. Edelsbrunner. Discrete and Computational Geometry (DCG) 32(1): 37--53 (2004). [ pdf ]


Discrete Laplace Operator for Meshed Surfaces
with M. Belkin and J. Sun. SOCG 2008, To appear. [pdf ]

An Enhanced Partial Order Curve Comparison over Multiple Protein Folding Trajectories
with H. Sun, H. Ferhatosmanoglu, and M. Ota, Proc. Intl. Conf. Computational Systems Bioinformatics, 2007, 299--310.

Relations Between Two Common Types of Rectangular Tiling
Proc. Intl. Symp. Algorithms and Computation, LNCS 4288, Springer-Verlag, 2006, 193--202.

Frechet Distances for Curves, Revisited
with B. Aronov, S. Har-Peled, C. Kauner and C. Wenk, ESA 2006, 52--63.

Towards Unsupervised Segmentation of Semi-rigid Low-resolution Molecular Surfaces
with L. J. Guibas. GMP 2006, 129--142.

Distance-sensitive routing and information brokerage in sensor networks
with S. Funke, L. J. Guibas and A. Nguyen. DOCSS 2006, 234--251.

Post-placement voltage island generation under performance requirement
with H. Wu, I. Liu, and M. D. F. Wong, ICCAD 2005, 309--316

Low bounds for sparse geometric spanners
with P. K. Agarwal and P. Yin, SODA 2005, 670--671

Coarse and reliable geometric alignment for protein docking
with P. K. Agarwal, P. Brown, H. Edelsbrunner and J. Rudolph, PSB 2005, 66--77

A 2D kinetic triangulation with near-quadratic topological changes
with P. K. Agarwal and H. Yu, SOCG 2004, 180--189

Extreme elevation on a 2-manifold
with P. K. Agarwal, H. Edelsbrunner and J. Harer, SOCG 2004, 357--365

Hausdorff distance under translation for points and balls
with P. K. Agarwal, S. Har-Peled and M. Sharir, SOCG 2003, 282--291

Shape fitting with outliers
with S. Har-Peled, SOCG 2003, 29--38

Near-linear time approximation algorithms for curve simplification
with P. K. Agarwal, S. Har-Peled, and N. Mustafa, ESA 2002, 29--41

Computing the writhing number of a polygonal knot
with P. K. Agarwal and H. Edelsbrunner, SODA 2002, 791--799

Occlusion culling for fast walkthrough in urban areas
with P. K. Agarwal and S. Har-Peled, EuroGraphics 2001.


Exact Partial Curve Matching under the Frechet Distance
Submitted. [pdf]

Approximating Nearest Neighbor Among Triangles in Convex Position
Tech Report OSU-CISRC-5/07-TR41, 2007

Partial Curve Matching under the Frechet Distance
with S. Har-Peled. Manuscript [ pdf ]

Awards

Teaching


Autumn 2007: CS780/780M: Anly. Of Algorithms 03

Winter 2007: CS788.X14: Computational Geometry: Algorithms and Applications

Spring 2008: CS625/625M: Intro. to Formal Languages

Links


CV: [PDF]

Personal: Little Sasha [dir]