Mike Bailey is a Professor in Computer Science at Oregon State University. He specializes in scientific visualization, 3D interactive computer graphics, GPU programming, stereographics, and computer aided geometric design.

Mike also has a keen interest in teaching, having just passed the 3,200 students-taught mark, and having won 8 university teaching awards and 2 education/outreach awards.

 Address

Oregon State University Computer Science 2117 Kelley Engineering Center Corvallis, OR 97331-5501 541-737-2542 F: 541-737-1300 mjb@cs.oregonstate.edu http://eecs.oregonstate.edu/~mjb

Here are directions to the Kelley Engineering Center.
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If you want further directions, the "unofficial" address of the Kelley Engineering Center is "2500 Monroe, Corvallis, OR". GPS units and Google Maps know what to do with this.

 Education

Ph.D. in Computer Graphics and Computer Aided Design	Purdue University.
Master of Science in Computer Graphics and Computer Aided Design	Purdue University.
Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering (with Highest Honors)	Purdue University

 Professional

2004-present	Professor, Computer Science	Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR.
1989-2004	Professor, Computer Science and Mechanical Engineering	University of California at San Diego, San Diego, CA.
1989-2004	Director of Visualization	San Diego Supercomputer Center; San Diego, CA.
1985-1989	Director of Advanced Development	Megatek Corporation; San Diego, CA.
1981-1985	Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering	Purdue University; West Lafayette, IN.
1979-1981	Computer Aided Design Technical Staff	Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM.

 Professional Activities and Awards

• OSU Austin Paul teaching award, 2008.
• OSU CS Most Enthusiastic Professor Award, 2005.
• UCSD Distinguished Teaching Award, 2002.
• UCSD Computer Science Teacher of the Year award: 1997-98, 1998-99, 1999-2000, 2000-2001, and 2001-02.
• UCSD Connect Athena Pinnacle award for K-12 outreach activities, 1999.
• Chair, national Graphics Performance Characterization (GPC) group, 1993-1997.
• United States Patent 5,185,858: Image Priority Video Switch, 1991.
• Member, Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) and ACM's Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics (ACM-SIGGRAPH).
  • Elected: SIGGRAPH Executive Committee, 1986-1988. Re-elected: 1988-1990.
  • ACM SIGGRAPH Conference Co-Chair, 1991.
  • ACM SIGGRAPH Conference Courses Chair, 1984, 1985, 1987, 1988, 1994.
  • Member, SIGGRAPH Book Series Editorial Board 1994-1998.
  • Editor, SIGGRAPH Technical Slide Set, 1998-2000.
• Member, IEEE Computer Society and Technical Interest Group on Computer Graphics.
  • IEEE Visualization Conference Chair, 2001.
  • Guest Editor, Computer Graphics and Applications special issue on Graphics in Education, September 2005.
• Technical Chair, VRML '95 Symposium, December 1995.
• SAE Ralph Teetor Award, 1983, for excellence in teaching and student service.

 Consulting

Have consulted for: Union Special Corporation, Sandia National Laboratories, Control Data Corporation (Minneapolis), Control Data Corporation (Paris, France), Integrated Computing Systems, Silicon Connections, California State University Long Beach, US Department of Justice, Dell Computer Corporation, Disney Feature Animation, and Qualcomm.

 Lab

Share responsibility for the OSU Graphics and Image Technology Lab (GAIT Lab) with fellow professors Ron Metoyer, Sinisa Todorovic and Eugene Zhang.

 Research Activities

Research areas of interest include a variety of topics in the general field of scientific computer graphics, with a specific interest in techniques for visualizing and searching large volume datasets, solid freeform fabrication for visualization hardcopy, stereographics, augmented reality, geometric modeling, and user interaction.

 Research Projects

• Stereographics, and Beyond
• Center for 3D Hardcopy (C3H)
• Using ChromaDepth for 3D Visualization
• OSU Volume Explorer program (vx)
• GPU Programming for Dome Projection
• GPU Programming for Image Compression and Interaction
• GPU Programming for Realtime 3D Line Integral Convolution
• Volume-volume Matching
• Augmented Reality in the Field
• A Volume Filtering Workbench
• 3D Hydrologic Visualization
• Tsunami Visualization
• "Flocking" for Modeling Driving Behaviors

 Education Projects

• Computer Graphics Education Lab (CGEL)
• CS 553: Scientific Visualization class
• CS 419G: CS Skills for Simulation and Game Development
• CS 419H: Honors Class in Visualizing Scientific Data for Science Majors
• CS 461,462,463: Senior Capstone class
• CS 519: RenderMan and OpenGL Shaders class
• Girl Scout Computer Badge Day
• Boy Scout Computer Merit Badge Counselor

 Selected Papers

 Current Students

Matt Clothier Will Dillon Patrick King Randy Rauwendaal Matthew Reed Shetty Sudarshanram Ben Tribelhorn Ben Weiss

 Past Graduate Students and Where They Went

• Candace Rush (GE)
• Bill Charlesworth (International TechneGroup)
• Steve Van Frank (LynxSys)
• Dave Plunkett (AutoDesk)
• Jim Freeman (Hughes Aircraft)
• Dave Nadeau (San Diego Supercomputer Center)
• Jack Middleton (Sun Microsystems)
• David Isacoff (NSA)
• Roger Spreen (Adobe)
• Rich Crawford (University of Texas)
• Dan Fagan (Ford)
• Cherilynn Michaels (Orincon)
• Timothy Wang (?)
• Steve Lukas (Sony Online Entertainment)
• Wolfgang Bloem (IBM)
• Daniel New (SPAWAR)
• Kyle Bulloch (Hewlett-Packard)
• Dru Clark (Scripps Institution of Oceanography)
• Matt Clothier (OSU PhD program)
• Nick Gebbie (Bunkspeed)
• John Datuin (Hewlett-Packard)
• Daniel Moffitt (Microsoft)
• Ankit Khare (Midway Games)
• Avneet Sandhu (Mentor Graphics)
• Vasu Lakshmanan (Expedia)
• Dwayne Robinson (Microsoft)
• Kyle hatcher (PTV America)
• Chris Janik (Intel)
• Adam Leibel (Intel)
• Chuck Evans (Intel)

 Vita

Two-page NSF vita (PDF)

 Parting Thought

"It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities."
          -- Albus Dumbledore, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets