Fuhua (Frank) Cheng - Research

Areas of Interest

• Computer graphics (use GLSL)
• Geometric Modeling (esp. local tension control in morphing)
• 3D Imaging (single/double lenses)
• 3D Pointing (3D mice)

Recent Research Projects

• New Computation Techniques for Shape Modeling and Design, NSF (DMI-9400823), 8/15/94-7/31/97, $270,000.00.

• Building a Non-Manifold Modeling System with a Virtual Environment Interface, Center for Robotics and Manufacturing Systems, University of Kentucky, 7/1/95-6/30/96, $8,000.00.

• The GEO-WEB-CAD Project, NSF (INT-9722728), 6/1/1997-5/31/2000, $102,522.

• Constrained Surface scaling I: Constrained Shape Scaling of NURB Surface Patches, Honda Initiation Grant (461086), 8/1/1997 - 7/31/1998, $25,000 (no overhead)

• Creating High Performance Manufacturable Free-Form NURB Surfaces Using Constrained Optimization, Ford Motor Co. (537075), 6/1/1997 - 5/31/2000, $150,000 (no overhead)

• Constrained Surface Scaling II: Constrained Shape Scaling of Multi-Patch NURB Surfaces, Honda Initiation Grant, 12/1/1998 - 11/30/1999, $25,000 (no overhead)

• Constrained Design, Streamline Modeling, Automatic Fairing and Automatic Joining Techniques for NURB Surfaces, NSF (DMI-9912069), 5/1/2000-4/30/2004, $343,067.

• Web Based Collaborative CAD, NSF (DMI-0118124), 4/1/2001-3/31/2002, $50,000.

• Subdivision Surface based One-Piece Representation , NSF (DMS-0310645), 7/1/03-6/30/06, $99,941.

• Tessellation, Fairing, Shape Design and Trimming Techniques for Subdivision Surface based Modeling , NSF (DMI-0422126), 9/1/04-8/31/08, $300,000.

• On New Algorithms of Curve and Surface Modeling Based on Probabilistic Type Operators and Probability Distribution (Co-PI), NSF of China (NSFC-10571145), 01/01/2006-12/31/2008, RMB$280,000 (US$35,000).

• Portable Digital Mouth and Occlusion Reproducer, Kentucky Commercialization Fund, Kentucky Science & Technology Corporation (KSTC-144-401-07-015), 4/1/07-9/30/09, $150,000. (KSTC report site) (Commfund online submission site) (7th KIEC)

• Research on Key Technologies in Medical Image Segmentation (Co-PI), NSF of China (NSFC-61020106001), 1/1/2011-12/31/2014, RMB$1,700,000.

• A Study of Multi-Scale Representation and Computation Models for 3D Maxillofacial Surgery Simulation, National Science Council of ROC (NSC-100-2811-E-007-021), 8/1/2011-7/31/2014, TWD$2,583,000.

• Multi-Scale Modeling for 3D Maxillofacial Surgery Simulation, Chang-Tsing Grant, National Tsinghua University (101N2756E1), 1/1/2012-12/31/2012, TWD$500,000.

• A Study of Some Approximation and Convergence Problems in Curve and Surface Modeling (Co-PI), NSF of China (NSFC-61170324), 1/1/2012-12/31/2015, RMB$500,000.

• Approximation Theory based Methods for Curve and Surface Modeling (Co-PI), NSF of China (NSFC-61572020), 1/1/2016-12/31/2019, RMB$470,000.

ResearchGate

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UK Policy for supporting conferences held on campus

• UK New Policy for conference support

ACIS

• Access SPATIAL's web site

Problems with US Public Universities

• Fixing College
• Fixing College

CS Dept Keeping Current Seminars

• Schedule

UK COE proposal related sites

• Internal Approval Form & Disclosure of Financial Interest form
• Internal Routing Form electronic submission (College's web based proposal approval system)

View UK IP Disclosure

• UK IP Disclosure Site

Rankings of University of Kentucky's Scholarship(Source: 1/12/07 The Chronicle of Higher Education)

• 30th out of 157 CS Doctoral programs in US

• 16th among public universities

NRC Rankings of University of Kentucky's Doctoral programs

Grand challenges for Engineering

Related GPU sites

• Site with useful GPU links
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• nVIDIA's site for CUDA SDK code samples
• ECE 498 at UIUC
• Cg Linux examples
• How GPU works: a primer for hardware graphic programming
• How the GPU works, Part 1
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• Things you need to know about shaders
• Vertex shaders
• Pixel shaders
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• A simple sample program (GL_VERTEX_PROGRAM_NV)
• A simple sample program (GL_VERTEX_STATE_PROGRAM_NV)
• Display List
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• Texture Coordinate Generation
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• Efficient clipping technique
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• MSDN Home page
• shader programming
• Programming Vertex and Pixel Shaders, by Wolfgang Engel
• Writing shaders and general purpose GPU programs using the RapidMind developing platform
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• Larrabbe: Intel's upcoming GPU

Cloud Computing and Client Machine

• Grid Computing
• Cloud Computing
• The Enterprise Cloud
• Computing Heads for the Clouds
• Google and the Wisedom of Clouds
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• Client machine
• En Garde Systems
• Configuring the Client Machine

Virtual Reality in Medicine:

• Digital Health Today
• VirtualMed19 (Virtual Medicine Annual Meeting)
• Virtual Reality for Management of Pain in Hospitalized Patients: Results of a Controlled Trial
• Uses VR to grant dying patients a last wish
• VR takes cancer patient back home
• VR for pain management

Virtualization:

• x86 Virtualization
• VMWare Virtual Platform

Facial Expression Simulation:

• First Workshop on Facial and Bodily Expressions for Control and Adaptation of Games

Mesh Simplification, Decimation, Multi-resolution Data Structure:

• Survey about results before 1999

Some of our recent results

• Hair Generation

• (Subdivision surface based) Shape Modeling *

• Adaptive Subdivision of Catmull-Clark Subdivision Surfaces *

• Image restoration

• Patch Reduction

• Deformation-based Shape Fine Tuning *

• Constrained Surface Scaling

• Streamline Modeling I *

• Streamline Modeling II *

• Trimmed NURBS Surface Connection I *

• Trimmed NURBS Surface Connection II *

• TriangularPatches *

• 3D Pointing

• 3D Imaging

• Image manipulation

• Alice Lin's work on "eating"

  *(This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. 9912069. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.)

Funding Agencies

****Federal Business Opportunities****
• FedBizOpps

  ****ATP****

• TIP, NIST

• Career, DHS (COS version)

• Career, DHS

• ATP forms

  ****SBIR****

• Small Business Administration

• Grants.gov
  • Ferdeal Funding Opportunities
  • Electronic Submission Site
  
  ************2014

• DOE 2014 SBIR/STTR

  ************2014

• DOD SBIR Solicitations
  • Pre-Release: 11/12/2013; Open: 8/26/2013; Closed: 9/25/13
  • DOD SBIR Electronic Submission Web Site

• DARPA SBIR(Due date: 6/18/13)

• Navy SBIR/STTR(Due date: 12/5/13)(

• NASA SBIR/STTR(Due date: 9/4/13)

• DOE SBIR/STTR
  • FY 09 Phase 1 Funding Notice: closes 11/20/13
  • FY 09 Phase 1 Announcement
  • DOE 2009 Technical Topics

• NSF SBIR NSF STTR
  • Phase I info(SBIR Due: 12/2/2013, 5pm)
  • Phase II info(Due date: 1-7 months after Phase I)
  • Proposal Topics
  • NSF SBIR Solicitation in human-system interaction (IC Topic)

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• 2014 Omnibus NIH/CSC SBIR Contract Solicitation (Application deadline: 11/13/2013, 4:30pm EST)
• The above solicitation is also posted in Fedbizopps(Application deadline: 11/13/2013, 4:30pm EST)
• NIH SBIR website
• NIH NIH Guide Notice (NOT-OD-13-108)
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• NIH Omnibus SBIR(Application Due Date: 4/5, 8/5, 12/5)
• NIH Omnibus STTR(Application Due Date: 4/5, 8/5, 12/5)
• List of Topics
• NIH Interim Guidance on recent re-authorization P.L. 112-81
• 2012 NIH SBIR/STTR Conference: 5/30-6/1
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• NIH SBIR website
  • Registration sites:
    • CCR Homepage
    • CCR Registration Status
    • NIH eRA Commons
    • NIH eRA commons helpdesk
  • download application package;
  • Application Instructions;
  • Commons Registration Status;
  • eRA Commons User Guide
  • Assurances/certifications section 18 of SF424

  • National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering

  • National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research

  • SBIR/STTR programs at NIDCR

  • National Institute of General Medical Sciences

  • National Center for Research Resources

  • USDA-DOE SBIR/STTR Energy Summit registration form
    (Questions? send email to: paynetl@ornl.gov)

  ****IBM****
• IBM 2007 Funding Opportunities

• IBM 2007 A. Richard Newton BRA

  ****Google****

• Google's university grant program

  ****Honda****

• Honda Initiation Grant (HIG2009)

• Honda Initiation Grant

  ****Sony****

• Sony Research Award Program (2021)

  ****NSF****

• NSF
  • Fastlane

  • Special Topics in Dynamical Systems

  • Cyber-Physical System (CPS) solicition
    • Public Information Meeting, 12/15/2008 (Registration: 11/7/2008-12/12/2008)
  • Cyber-enabled Discovery and Innovation (CDI) solicition
    • Preliminary Proposal deadlines: Type I: 12/8/2008; Type II: 12/09/2008
    • Full Proposal Deadline (by invitation only): May 20, 2009
  • NSF, ACCELERATING DISCOVERY IN SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING THROUGH PETASCALE SIMULATIONS AND ANALYSIS (PetaApps)

  • NSF International Programs

  • NSF New Funding Opportunity

  • NSF IMAG program (Program Solicitation NSF 04-607)

  • NSF Bioengineering Program

  • NSF Information and Intelligent Systems

  • Advancing Human-Centered Computing, Information Integration, and Infotmatics, and Robust Intelligence, NSF Division Information and Intelligent Systems

  • DMII, NSF

  • Engineering Design, NSF
    • Submission window: 1/15-2/15; 9/1-10/1

  • DMII Sensors solicitation (NSF 05-526), NSF

  • CISE, NSF

  • IIS, NSF

  • DMS, NSF

  • NSF: Virtual Organizations in Engineering (EVOs)

  • NSF:International Research and Education in Engineering (IREE)

  • NSF new announcement

  • NSF Supplement for Summer Interns I

  • NSF Supplement for Summer Interns II

  • TFC, CCF, CISE, NSF: algorithmic geometry; computational
    algorithms for high-end scientific and engineering applications

  • FCPAC, CCF, CISE, NSF: Graphics and Visualization

  • i-corps, NSF

  ****KSTC/KSEF****
• Kentucky Science and Engineering Foundation(KSEF)

• Kentucky Science and Technology Corporation (KSTC)

  ****UK VPR****

• University Research Professors

• Summer Faculty Research Fellowships

  ****LEX ICC****

• Lexington Innovation and Commercialization Center (LEXICC)

  ****NASA****

• NASA Acquisition Internet Service

• NASA RFP (March 10, 2005)

  ****NAVY****

• NRO

• Naval Research laboratory

• Office of Navy Research

  ****ARMY****

• Army Research Office

• Army Space & Missile Defense Command

  ****AIR FORCE****

• Air Force Research laboratory

• Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR)

  ****NIH****

• NIH
  • NIH 2019 End-of-Life and Palliative Needs of Adolescents and Young Adults (AYA) with Serious Illnesses (R01 Clinical Trial Optional)

  • NIH 2019 Advancing the Science of Geriatric Palliative Care (R01 - Clinical Trial Optional)

  • NIH 2019 Building Evidence: Effective Palliative/End of Life Care Interventions (R01 Clinical Trial Optional)

  • NIH Review criteria ...

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  • NIH: Submitting amended application

  • NIH: Submitting revised application (part 1, page 16)

  • NIH: submission dates for revised applications

  • NIBIB

  • NIDCR

  • NIH eRA Commons

  ****DARPA****
• Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)

  ****DOE****

• Department of Energy Office of Science

  ****DOD****

• Department of Defense, Central Contractor Registration

  ****EDA****

• EDA

  ****NSF of Taiwan****

• MOST: NSF of Taiwan

  ****NSF of China****

• NSFC: NSF of China