Jiang Tian

Ph.D.

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

Advisor
Dr. Yan-Bin Jia

Research Interests

- Robotics

- Grasping and Manipulation

- Computer Graphics

- 3D Computer Vision

- Artificial Intelligence

Projects

- Grasping of deformable objects

- Deformable modeling

- Surface patch reconstruction

Publications

Journal Publications

- Jiang Tian, Yan-Bin Jia. " Modeling Deformations of General Parametric Shells Grasped by a Robot Hand".

To appear in IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 2010. (accepted as a regular paper)

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

IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, vol. 7, no. 2, pp. 400-407, 2010.

Conference Publications

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

In Proc. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Kobe, Japan, May 12-17, 2009, pp. 1297-1302.

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

In Proc. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Nice, France, Sep 22-26, 2008, pp. 1796-1803.

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

In Proc. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Orlando, FL, May 15-19, 2006, pp. 1371-1377.

Conference Poster

- Jiang Tian, Derrick Parkhurst. "VSARD: A Low-Cost Augmented Reality System for Desktop Applications," SIGGRAPH 2005 Poster.

Industry Experience

- June 2007 to August 2007

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

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, 2009 and 2010.

- IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems 2010.

- 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)