Guodong Rong Postdoctoral Researcher Computer Graphics & Animation Lab Department of Computer Science University of Texas at Dallas 800 West Campbell Road Richardson, TX 75083-3021 Email: guodongrong@utdallas.edu

Education

Research

My research interests include Computer Graphics, Computational Geometry, Geometry Modeling, Visualization, Image Processing and Virtual Reality. I am now working with Professor Xiaohu Guo on geometry modeling using the graphics processing unit (GPU).

Publications

• Guodong Rong, Yan Cao, Xiaohu Guo. Spectral Mesh Deformation. The Visual Computer (special issue for CGI 2008), 2008. (to appear)

• Guodong Rong, Tiow-Seng Tan. Computing Two-dimensional Delaunay Triangulation using Graphics Hardware. ACM SIGGRAPH Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics and Games (I3D 2008), Redwood city, CA, USA, February 2008, 89-97.

• Guodong Rong. Jump Flooding Algorithm on Graphics Hardware and its Applications. Ph.D. thesis. National University of Singapore. 2007.

• Guodong Rong, Tiow-Seng Tan. Variants of Jump Flooding Algorithm for Computing Discrete Voronoi Diagrams. The 4th International Symposium on Voronoi Diagrams in Science and Engineering (ISVD'07), Pontypridd, Wales, UK, July 2007, 176-181.

• Guodong Rong, Tiow-Seng Tan. Jump Flooding Algorihtm Revisited. ACM SIGGRAPH Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics and Games (I3D 2007), Seattle, WA, USA, April 2007. Poster.

• Guodong Rong, Tiow-Seng Tan. Jump Flooding - An Efficient and Effective Communication on GPU. ShaderX⁵ - Advanced Rendering Techniques, Wolfgang Engel, ed., Charles River Media. 2006, 185-192. (Demo codes: Voronoi Diagram, Soft Shadow)

• Guodong Rong, Tiow-Seng Tan. Utilizing Jump Flooding in Image-Based Soft Shadows. ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology (VRST 2006), Limassol, Cyprus, November 2006, 173-180.

• Guodong Rong, Tiow-Seng Tan. Jump Flooding in GPU with Applications to Voronoi Diagram and Distance Transform. ACM SIGGRAPH Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics and Games (I3D 2006), Redwood city, CA, USA, March 2006, 109-116.

• Guodong Rong. Fast Point-Based Rendering of Complex Models. Master thesis. Shandong University. 2003. (in Chinese)

• Guodong Rong, Rui Wang, Xiangxu Meng, Chenglei Yang. Point-Based Rendering with Discrete LOD. Proceedings of CAD/Graphics Conference, Macau, China, October 2003, 369-370. (short paper)

• Guodong Rong, Chenglei Yang, Bin Gong, Xiangxu Meng. Research on Fast Point-Based Rendering of Complex Models. Journal of System Simulation, Proceedings of Chinese Conference on Virtual Reality and Visualization (CCVRV 2003), Changsha, Hunan, China, September 2003, 133-137. (in Chinese)

• Guodong Rong, Xiangxu Meng, Hui Xiang. Point-Based Rendering. Proceedings of Chinese Conference on Virtual Reality and Visualization (CCVRV 2002), Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China, April 2002, 245-249. (in Chinese)

• Guodong Rong, Xiangxu Meng. The Application of Inspeck 3D-DF in Digital Museum Project. Computer Engineering and Applications, Vol 38(16). 2002, 237-239. (in Chinese)

• Guodong Rong, Xiangxu Meng. A Relief-Texture-Mapping Based Fast Display Method of Complex Models. Journal of System Simulation, Proceedings of Chinese Conference on Virtual Reality and Visualization (CCVRV 2001), Beijing, China, November 2001, 55-57. (in Chinese)

Academic Services

• Member of Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)

• Reviewer of ACM SIGGRAPH Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics and Games (I3D 2008)

• Reviewer of 17th Eurographics Symposium on Rendering (EGSR 2006)

• Reviewer of  4th International Conference on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques in Australasia and South-East Asia (GRAPHITE 2006)

• Reviewer of International Journal of Image and Graphics (IJIG)

Honors and Awards

• President Graduate Fellowship (2003 and 2006)

• Dean's Graduate Award (2006)

• Microsoft Research Asia Gaming & Graphics Theme Awards (2006, Main collaborator)

• Graduate Research Scholarship (2003~2007)

• Excellent Graduate Student of Shandong University (2003)

• Excellent Postgraduate Student Scholarship (2002)

• Zhongchuang Scholarship (2001 and 2002)

• Chinese Academy of Sciences scholarship (1999)

• Second prize in the Chinese College Student Mathematical Contest in Modeling (MCM) (1999)

• First class academic excellence scholarship (1996~1999, 8 times)