Department of Computer Science Ph: refereed publications, 4 other publications (see bang for details)

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1 Michael B. Nielsen Contact Information Research Areas Professional Department of Computer Science Ph: Aabogade 34 DK-8200 Aarhus N Web: bang Denmark My main interests involve researching, developing, implementing, verifying and validating mathematical models, data structures and algorithms for physics based numerical simulation of fluids and deformable solids in computer graphics and scientific computing. 17 refereed publications, 4 other publications (see bang for details) Assistant Professor March, Present (ends February, 2013) Research in physics based simulation of fluid and deformable solid phenomena. Weta Digital, Miramar (Wellington), New Zealand Researcher January, November, 2011 Weta Digital is the academy award winning visual effects company behind Avatar, Lord of the Rings and King Kong. I conducted research in and implemented (a) algorithms and numerical methods for animation control of high resolution liquid simulations (b) volumetric and spatially sparse algorithms and data structures for physics based simulation and rendering of fluids and hair. Postdoc August, January, 2010 Research in finite element, out-of-core, parallel data structures and algorithms for level set computations as well as research in mathematical models and numerical methods for fluid animation control. Digital Domain, Venice (Los Angeles), United States Research Intern April, May, 2005 Digital Domain is an academy award winning visual effects company that has contributed effects to movies such as Titanic, Pirates of the Caribbean and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. I visited the software department as a research intern and worked on data structures and algorithms for high resolution level set computations. PhD student August, July, 2006 Research in efficient, flexible and out-of-core data structures and algorithms for high resolution level set computations for computer graphics and scientific computing. Research assistant in the Workspace project February, July, 2003 The objective of the Workspace project was to develop software components and hardware artifacts that could be combined and integrated into augmented reality work places. I developed a real-time augmented reality tracking system based on homographies to assist landscape architects on site. Student programmer in the Workspace project July, January, 2003

2 My work focused on video tracking and augmented reality. Student programmer in the DESARTE project August, June, 2001 The goal was to create a collaborative and distributed 3D virtual environment. My primary focus was on designing and implementing a 3D spatial parser capable of detecting implicit structures in the spatial layout of 3D objects. Student programmer in the COCONUT project December, July, 2000 The aim was to develop a generic infrastructure and tools for collaborative hypermedia over the internet. I designed and implemented the distributed cache in the infrastructure and the dynamic runtime system for the hypermedia client. Education Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark Courses in Basic Fluid Dynamics and Continuum Mechanics (Open University) PhD in Computer Science December 2006 Thesis title: Efficient and High Resolution Level Set Simulations - Data Structures, Algorithms and Applications Advisors: Professor Ken Museth and Professor Kaj Groenbaek MSc in Computer Science, Minor in Mathematics January 2003 Thesis title: Inverse Rendering under Uncontrolled Illumination Award: Danish Society of Computer Science s Best Computer Science Master s Thesis 2002 Advisor: Professor Kaj Groenbaek Leaves of Absence Scientific Visits December February 2012: Traveling. April 2007, November 2007, February 2008: Visiting Institute for Numerical Simulation, Bonn University, Germany. September March 2005: Visiting Department of Science and Technology, Linkoping University, Sweden. Awards Danish Society of Computer Science s Best Computer Science Master s Thesis 2002 award for the thesis Inverse Rendering under Uncontrolled Illumination co-written with Anders Brodersen. Grants and Management 2M DKR. ($0.4M) for the project Controlling High Resolution Fluid Simulations from the Danish Agency for Science, Technology and Innovation, Movie Credits The Adventures of Tintin - Secret of the Unicorn (2011). Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011) Software Programming Languages and Libraries Maya, Nuke, Naiad, Visual Studio, Eclipse, VTune. C/C++ (Linux/Windows), Qt, Boost, TBB, OpenMP, MKL, OpenGL, Perl, Bash, Java, Matlab, Python

3 Teaching Simulating Fluids in Computer Graphics (Lecturer), co-taught with Brian B. Christensen, Simulating Smoke and Water in Computer Graphics (Lecturer), 2006 Modeling and Animation with Level Sets (Lecturer and TA), co-taught with Professor Ken Museth, 2005 Web Technology (TA), 2004 Usability (TA), 2003 Computer Science - In Perspective (TA), 2003 Supervision Haimasree Bhatacharya, intern at Weta Digital, summer Invited Talks Fluid Simulation and Control for Computer Graphics, Friday Lecture Series, Department of Computer Science, Aarhus University, October High Resolution Level Set Simulations, Institute for Numerical Simulation, Bonn University, Germany, April (Host: Martin Rumpf). Efficient and High Resolution Level Set Simulations, UCLA Math Department, USA, August (Hosts: Stanley Osher, Luminita Vese and Tony Chan) Inverse Rendering under Uncontrolled Illumination, CMVT, Aalborg University, Denmark, April Inverse Rendering under Uncontrolled Illumination, DIKU, Copenhagen University, Denmark, October Reviewing Activities Refereed Journal ACM SIGGRAPH ACM SIGGRAPH ASIA ACM Transactions on Graphics IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics Eurographics Pacific Graphics Journal of Graphics Tools IEEE EuroVis Nielsen, M.B., Soderstrom, A., Bridson, R.: Synthesizing Waves from Animated Height Fields, Accepted to ACM Transactions on Graphics May 2012, 9 pages. Christensen, B.B., Nielsen, M.B., Museth, Ken: Out-of-Core Computations of High-Resolution Level Sets by Means of Code Transformation. Journal of Scientific Computing, Volume 50, Issue 2 (2012), pp Nielsen, M.B., Bridson, R.: Guide Shapes for High Resolution Naturalistic Liquid Simulation, ACM Transactions on Graphics, Vol. 30, No. 4, pp. 83:1-83:8, 2011 (Proceedings of ACM SIG- GRAPH 2011). Nielsen, M.B., Christensen, B.B.: Improved Variational Guiding of Smoke Animations, Computer Graphics Forum, Vol. 29, No. 2, pp , 2010 (Proceedings of Eurographics 2010). Nemitz, O., Nielsen, M. B., Rumpf, M., Whitaker, R.: Finite Element Methods on Very Large,

4 Dynamic Tubular Grid Encoded Implicit Surfaces, SIAM Journal of Scientific Computing, Vol. 31, No. 3, pp , Nielsen, M.B., Nilsson, O., Soderstrom, A., Museth, K.: Out-Of-Core and Compressed Level Set Simulations, ACM Transactions on Graphics 26(4), October 2007 (Presented at SIGGRAPH 2008). Nielsen, M.B., Museth, K.: Dynamic Tubular Grid: An Efficient Data Structure and Algorithms for High Resolution Level Sets. Journal of Scientific Computing, Volume 26, Number 3, March Pages Houston, B., Nielsen, M.B., Batty, C., Nilsson, O., Museth, K.: Hierarchical RLE Level Set: A Compact and Versatile Deformable Surface Representation. ACM Transactions on Graphics, Volume 25, Number 1, January Pages Nielsen, M.B, Oerbaek, P.: Finding Hyper-Structure in Space: Spatial Parsing in 3D. The New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia, Volume 7, Number 1, July Pages Peer-Reviewed Conference Bhattacharya, H., Nielsen, M.B., Bridson, R.: Steady State Stokes Flow Interpolation for Fluid Control, Eurographics Short Papers 2012, 4 pages. Nielsen, M.B., Christensen, B.B., Zafar, N.B., Roble, D., Museth, K.: Guiding of Smoke Animations Through Variational Coupling of Simulations at Different Resolutions. Proceedings of ACM SIGGRAPH/Eurographics Symposium on Computer Animation (SCA) 2009, pages Nemitz, O., Nielsen, M.B., Rumpf, M., Whitaker, R.: Narrow Band Methods for PDEs on Very Large Implicit Surfaces. In Vision, Modeling and Visualization Proceedings, pages , November Nielsen, M.B., Nilsson, O., Soderstrom, A., Museth, K.: Virtually Infinite Resolution Deformable Surfaces. In Proc. SIGGRAPH 2006 Sketches and Applications, August Houston, B., Nielsen, M.B., Batty, C., Nilsson, O., Museth, K.: Gigantic Deformable Surfaces. In Proc. SIGGRAPH 2005 Sketches and Applications, August Nielsen, M.B., Museth, K.: An Optimized, Grid Independent, Narrow Band Data Structure. In Proc. SIGRAD 2004 Sketches and Applications, November Nielsen, M.B., Brodersen, A.: Inverse Rendering of Polished Materials under Constant Complex Uncontrolled Illumination. Proceedings of WSCG, Volume 12, February Pages Nielsen, M.B., Kramp, G., Gronbak, K.: Mobile Augmented Reality Support for Architects based on Feature Tracking Techniques. In Proc. ICCS, LNCS June Pages Dissertations Nielsen, M.B.: Efficient and High Resolution Level Set Simulations V Data Structures, Algorithms and Applications, PhD Dissertation, Aarhus University, December Nielsen, M.B., Brodersen, A.: Inverse Rendering under Uncontrolled Illumination, Master s Thesis, Aarhus University, December Technical Reports Workshop Nielsen, M.B., Museth, K.: Dynamic Tubular Grid: An Efficient Data Structure and Algorithms for High Resolution Level Sets, Michael B. Nielsen and Ken Museth, Electronic Press, Nielsen, M.B., Oerbaek, P.: Spatial Parsing within the Topos 3D Environment. First Workshop

5 on Spatial Hypertext, August 2001.