Jiang Tian

Ph.D. Candidate (passed Ph.D. preliminary exam in January 2009)

Email: jiangt@iastate.edu
Department of Computer Science
Iowa State University
Ames, IA 50011

 

Advisor
Dr. Yan-Bin Jia

Research Interests

-        robotics

-        deformable modeling

-        physics based computer graphics

-        computer vision

Publications

Journal Publication

-        Yan-Bin Jia, Jiang Tian. "Surface patch reconstruction from "one-dimensional" tactile data".

To appear in IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering.

Conference Publications

-        Jiang Tian, Yan-Bin Jia. " Modeling deformable shell-like objects grasped by a robot hand".

Accepted to IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Kobe, Japan, May 12-17, 2009.

-        Yan-Bin Jia, Jiang Tian. "Deformations of general parametric shells: computation and robot experiment".

The IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Nice, France, Sep 22-26, 2008.

-        Yan-Bin Jia, Liangchuan Mi, and Jiang Tian. "Surface patch reconstruction via curve sampling".

The IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Orlando, FL, May 15-19, 2006.

Industry Experience

-         June 2007 to August 2007  

Internship at Bosch Research and Technology Center, Palo Alto, CA, U.S.

Project: 3D reconstruction and modeling of large environments, 3D objects retrieval.

Activities

Reviewing:

-        IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering.

-        IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation 2007, 2008, and 2009.

-        IEEE Conference on Automation Science and Engineering 2007.

Regular Session Co-Chair: Session Grasping I

-        IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems 2008.

Teach Assistant Experience

-        Com S 362: Object-Oriented Analysis and Design (2006 Fall, 2007 Spring)

-        Com S 227: Introduction to Object-oriented Programming (2007 Fall)

Courses Taken

-         Design and Analysis of Algorithms

-         Introduction to Computational Geometry

-         Theory of Computation

-         Machine Learning

-         Problem Solving Techniques for Applied Computer Science

-         Theory of Games, Knowledge and Uncertainty

-         Advanced Topics in Database Systems

-         Interaction Methods for Emerging Technologies

-         Computer Graphics and Geometric Modeling

-         Cognitive Psychology of Human Computer Interaction

-         The Scientific Method of Human Computer Interaction