Dr. Anshuman Razdan is a member of PRISM:Partnership for Research In Spatial Modeling and Affiliate Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science & Engineering at Arizona State University. He has a BS in Mechanical Engineering from REC Kurukshetra, India; and MS and PhD from Arizona State University.
While his vocational training has been in the area of CAD, CAGD and Computer Graphics, Anshuman has spent past eight years building very important horizontal connections with other disciplines. These horizontal connections have in turn provided new and intellectually challenging problems thereby pushing the research in the Computer Sciences.
Anshuman is a PI/Co-PI of several funded projects from federal agencies as well as private institutions. Research has led Anshuman to collaborate with anthropologists and archaeologists in the 3D Knowledge (3dk.asu.edu) Project to create a 3D search engine based on shape, a forensic anthropologist on the George Washington project, a Geo-physicist to image in stereo 3D cloud formation over the Catalina mountains, image and rapid prototype Atomic Force Microscope images in 3D for blind students to name a few.
Anshuman Razdan co-established PRISM in spring 1996 at ASU to promote interdisciplinary research in the areas of 3D Data Acquisition, Visualization & Modeling, and Form Realization. PRISM researchers come from diverse backgrounds such as Biology, Fine Arts, Archaeology, Anthropology, Computer Science, Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, to name a few. The common interest among various disciplines of geometric modeling and visualizing 3D and higher dimensional data is the key motivation for PRISM.
Dr. Razdan also led a group of faculty in 2003-04 to create the 3D immersive visualization prototype of what will become the Decision Center for the New Arizona (dt.asu.edu). The center will hold a "Decision Theater" (DT), a place for an audience of up to twenty people to visualize complex problems in stereo 3D from diverse fields such as the Environmental Sciences, Biology, CAD/CAM, etc. It will be housed in the Orchid House, a building adjacent to the Brickyard (where PRISM's main lab is located) and will open in late May 2005.
Dr. Razdan is also the CEO of a software company called 3D Compression Technologies Inc. (www.3DCompress.com ) with products in 3D data compression and viewing 3D data on the web.
Research interests:
Dr. Razdan's research interests include Computer-aided geometric design (CAGD) and Computer Graphics; NURB curves and surfaces Approximation, Compression of 3D data and use of high bandwidth networking for scientific visualization and feature segmentation.
Research Projects:
3D Face Authentication, PI
Supported by NSF,
the project focuses on the development of intelligent and fast algorithms for representation, extraction, segmentation, query and matching of 3D facial shapes for authentication.
Decision Theater for the New Arizona
A learning and decision space in which the latest understanding of complex social, economic and natural processes in urban settings and their interactions are visualized in stereo 3D
3D Handwriting Analysis
An innovative unique application applies 3D modeling tools developed by PRISM to an unusual subject – analysis and recognition of handwriting.
Forensic Reconstruction of George Washington, PI
Reconstruction of life-size models of George Washington at various times in his life (age 19, 45 and 57) from a forensic perspective, for a new
education center at Mount Vernon.
Santa Catalina Mountain Cloud project, co-PI
Observations and modeling of orographic cumulus development using digital imaging and data cataloguing
Quantitative Studies of Rock Abrasion on Earth & Mars, PI
An exploratory grant from NASA to study morphological features resulting from abrasion of rocks due to wind, water and other natural elements.
DCDC-
the Decision Center for a Desert City
NSF funds new center linking science, policy makers to study the decision processes used to plan and manage water resources and desert city growth.
Courses:
3D Visualization and Rapid Prototyping (Vizproto)
This studio / seminar introduces the concepts of 3D data capture, computer visualization, modeling, and rapid prototyping in an interdisciplinary manner. Students are challenged to model and prototype objects of their own design using 3D computer modeling techniques and rapid prototyping. Theoretical and historical lectures and discussions are supplemented with visiting artists/engineers/scholars and field trips. This course is co-taught by Dan Collins and Anshuman Razdan.
Link: vizproto.prism.asu.edu
Affiliations:
Assistant Professor- Department of Computer Science and Engineering,
Ira A. Fulton School of Engineering.
InCISE-
The Institute for Computer and Information Science and Engineering
Previous Projects:
dk Knowledge Project
A knowledge network funded by the National Science Foundation for the acquisition, representation, query and analysis of 3D knowledge (3DK) in a distributed environment. project web site
Invsee
A consortium of university and industry scientists and engineers, community college and high school science faculty and museum educators with a common vision of creating an interactive site to develop a new educational thrust based on remote operation of advanced microscopes and nano-fabrication tools coupled to powerful surface characterization methods.
Link: project web site
