Andrei Sharf
Curriculum Vitae
Address: Sa'ar Ha'araiot str. 6/6,
Holon 58499, Israel
Phone: +1 (972) 54-8194494
+1 (972) 3-5595685
Web page: http://www.idav.ucdavis.edu/~asharf
E-mail: asharf@gmail. com
Citizenship: Israeli
Born: 29.09.1973
Research Interests
Computer graphics and geometric modeling, in particular: surface reconstruction,
interactive techniques, geometry processing, shape matching and registration,
computational topology, parallel data structures, GPGPU.
Academic Positions
2009-present Visiting Associate Professor
Center of Visual Computing, Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology(SIAT)
Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenzhen, China
2007-2009 Postdoctoral Researcher
Institute of Data Analysis and Visualization (IDAV)
Department of Computer Science, University of California Davis, USA
Education
2002-2007 Tel-Aviv University, Israel
Ph.D. in Computer Science
Thesis title: "Surface Reconstruction Techniques for Imperfect Raw-Data"
Supervised by Prof. Daniel Cohen-Or and Dr Ariel Shamir
1999-2002 Tel-Aviv University, Israel
M.Sc. in Computer Science
Thesis title: "Topology Based Progressive Shape Transformations"
Supervised by Prof. Daniel Cohen-Or and Dr Ariel Shamir
Cum Laude
1996-1999 Technion, Israel
B.Sc. in Computer Science
Work Experience
Teaching (School of Computer Science, Tel Aviv University, Israel)
Spring 2006-2007 Operating systems (recitations)
Advanced topics in Computer Graphics (guest lecturer)
Fall 2006-2007 Operating systems (recitations)
Spring 2005-2006 Operating systems (recitations)
Workshop in Computer Graphics (instructor)
Fall 2005-2006 Software programming project (instructor)
Spring 2004-2005 Advanced topics in Computer Graphics (guest lecturer)
Fall 2004-2005 Software programming project (instructor)
Computer Graphics (recitations)
Spring 2003-2004 Workshop in Computer Graphics (instructor)
Fall 2003-2004 Introduction to C language (recitations)
Software programming project (instructor)
Spring 2002-2003
Introduction to C language (recitations)
Fall 2002-2003 Introduction to C language (recitations)
Industry
2001-2002
Project Leader (Comverse VoiCD unit)
SMS Gateway Development for the Wireless Network: design and development
of SMS gateway supporting various protocols: narrow band sockets (SMPP,
UCP), wireless (GSM, TDMA, CDMA), transport (TCP, X.25).
Telephony Testing Tool Development: Development leader of testing suite over
NMS telephony cards for telephony application servers.
1999-2001
Research Engineer (Gaya Software Industries)
Noise reduction for Speech Recognition Systems: research and development
leader of noise reduction algorithms for speech recognition systems.
Media Server Development: design and implementation of MGCP advanced
audio protocol for Media Servers.
Call Generator Development: development leader of Smart Call Generator over
NMS telephony cards, MGCP, SS#7 protocols.
1997-1999
Software Engineer (Intel Development Center)
CAD Tools Development: development of software environmental tools and
scripts over UNIX and NT.
Publications
Journal publications
[1] An L1-sparse filter for Sharp Point Set Surfaces. Haim Evron, Andrei Sharf, Chen Greif
and Daniel Cohen-Or. ACM Transaction on Graphics 2009.
[2]
Real-Time Parallel Hashing on the GPU. Dan A. Alcantara, Andrei Sharf, Fatemeh
Abbasinejad, Shubhabrata Sengupta, Michael Mitzenmacher, John D. Owens and Nina
Amenta. ACM Transaction on Graphics ( Proceedings of SIGGRAPH ASIA 2009).
[3] Rotating Scans for Systematic Error Removal. Fatemeh Abbasinejad, Yong J. Kil, Andrei
Sharf, Nina Amenta. Computer Graphics Forum, Vol. 28(5), pp. 1319-1326, 2009
( Proceedings of Eurographics/ACM SIGGRAPH Symposium on Geometry Processing
2009, 2nd Best Paper Award).
[4] Space-time Surface Reconstruction Using Incompressible Flow. Andrei Sharf, Dan A.
Alcantara, Thomas Lewiner, Chen Greif, Alla Sheffer, Nina Amenta, and Daniel Cohen-
Or. ACM Transaction on Graphics, Vol. 27(5), pp. 1-10, 2008 ( Proceedings of
SIGGRAPH ASIA 2008).
[5] On-the-fly Curve-skeleton Computation for 3D Shapes. Andrei Sharf, Thomas Lewiner,
Ariel Shamir and Leif Kobbelt . Computer Graphics Forum, Vol. 26(3), pp. 323-328,
2007 ( Proceedings of Eurographics 2007).
[6] Interactive Topology-aware Surface Reconstruction. Andrei Sharf, Thomas Lewiner, Gil
Shklarski, Sivan Toledo, Daniel Cohen-Or. ACM Transaction on Graphics, Vol. 26(3),
2007 ( Proceedings of SIGGRAPH 2007).
[7] SnapPaste: An Interactive Technique for Easy Mesh Composition. Andrei Sharf, Marina
Blumenkrants, Ariel Shamir, and Daniel Cohen-Or. The Visual Computer, Vol. 22, pp.
835-844, 2006 (Proceedings of Pacific Graphics 2006).
[8] Competing Fronts for Coarse-to-Fine Surface Reconstruction. Andrei Sharf, Thomas
Lewiner, Ariel Shamir, Leif Kobbelt and Daniel Cohen-Or. Computer Graphics Forum,
Vol. 25(3), pp. 389-398, 2006 (Proceedings of Eurographics 2006).
[9] Context-based Surface Completion. Andrei Sharf, Marc Alexa and Daniel Cohen-Or.
ACM Transactions on Graphics, Vol. 23(3), pp. 878-887, 2004 ( Proceedings of
SIGGRAPH 2004).
[10] Enhanced Hierarchical Shape Matching for Shape Transformation. Ariel Shamir, Andrei
Sharf and Daniel Cohen-Or. International Journal for Shape Modeling (IJSM), Vol. 9(2),
pp. 203-222, 2003.
Peer-reviewed international conference publications
[11] Feature-driven Deformation for Dense Correspondence. Deboshmita Ghosh, Andrei
Sharf, Nina Amenta. Proceeding of SPIE Medical Imaging 2009.
[12] Feature-sensitive 3D Shape Matching. Andrei Sharf and Ariel Shamir. CGI '04:
Proceedings of the Computer Graphics International: pp. 596—599 (2004).
Theses
[13] Andrei Sharf. Surface Reconstruction Techniques for Imperfect Raw-Data. Ph.D. Thesis.
Tel-Aviv University, 2007.
Funding
2009
Algorithms for Dynamic Scene Reconstruction and Modeling, National Natural
Science Foundation of China (NSFC 60910196), PI
Professional Activities
Program Committee member
2009
ACM SIGGRAPH ASIA Papers
Eurographics/ACM SIGGRAPH Symposium on Geometry Processing Papers
Pacific Graphics (PG) Papers
2008
Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics and Games Papers
Reviewer
Journals:
ACM Transactions on Graphics, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and
Computer Graphics, IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, Computer
Graphics Forum, Computers and Graphics, The Visual Computer.
Conferences: ACM SIGGRAPH, Eurographics, IEEE Visualization, Eurographics/ACM
SIGGRAPH Symposium on Geometry Processing, Pacific Graphics, Shape
Modeling International, Computer Graphics International, Point-based Graphics.
Research visits and collaborations
12.2008
Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology (SIAT), China
Prof. Baoquan Chen
Problems and results in surface reconstruction from imperfect data
12.2007
Imager Laboratory for Graphics - University of British Columbia, Canada
Prof. Alla Sheffer and Prof. Chen Greif
Space-time surface reconstruction
9.2007-9.2009 Galleries: Tova Osman, Shai-Arie, "Beit Haomanim" Tel-Aviv, Israel
Gad Apotecker
"Dim.men.sions" exhibition exploring sculptures and digital scans
10.2006
Microsoft Research Asia, Beijing, China
Dr. Baining Guo
Interactive Surface Reconstruction
12.2005 Mathematics department at PUC - Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
Dr. Thomas Lewiner
Topology aware surface reconstruction
04.2004
Computer Graphics and Multimedia, RWTH - Aachen, Germany
Prof. Leif Kobbelt
Watertight surface deformation
03.2003-06.2004 Discrete Geometric Modeling Group, Darmstadt, Germany
Prof. Marc Alexa
3D sift features and context-based surface analysis
Invited talks, conference presentations and seminars
12.2009 1st Israel China Conference on Graphics and Geometric Computing
12.2008
ACM SIGGRAPH ASIA Conference, Singapore
12.2008
"CITY" Workshop, Shenzen, China
08.2007
ACM SIGGRAPH Conference, San-Diego, USA
05.2007
6th Workshop on Geometric Computing, Israel
10.2006
Microsoft Research Asia Beijing, China (invited talk)
10.2006
Pacific Graphics Conference, Taipei, Taiwan
09.2006
Eurographics Conference, Vienna, Austria
05.2006
5th Workshop on Geometric Computing, Israel
07.2004
ACM SIGGRAPH Conference, Los-Angeles, USA
05.2004
3rd Workshop on Geometric Computing, Israel
02.2003
4th Israel-Korea Conference on Geometric Modeling and Graphics, Israel
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