Josiah Manson
josiahmanson@gmail.com
http://josiahmanson.com

Research Interests

Computer graphics, image filtering, geometric modeling, mesh deformation, surface parameterization, and surface reconstruction.

Education

• Ph.D. in Computer Science at Texas A&M. Awarded 2014.
• B.S. Computer Science and Math, Summa Cum Laude, Texas A&M. Awarded 2008.

Awards

• NSF Graduate Research Fellowship, 2009-2014.
• Best Paper Award (1st place), for Wavelet Rasterization, Eurographics 2011.
• Association of Former Students Fellowship, 2008-2010.
• Second place in Industrial Affiliates Program poster competition, Spring 2009.

Publications

1. Josiah Manson and Peter-Pike Sloan. "Fast Filtering of Reflection Probes." Computer Graphics Forum (Proceedings of EGSR) (2016), 35(4), 119–127
2. Josiah Manson and Scott Schaefer. "Bilinear Accelerated Filter Approximation." Computer Graphics Forum (Proceedings of EGSR) (2014), 33(4), 33-40
3. Josiah Manson and Scott Schaefer. "Cardinality-Constrained Texture Filtering." ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proceedings of ACM SIGGRAPH) (2013), 32(4), 140:1-140:8.
4. Josiah Manson and Scott Schaefer. "Analytic Rasterization of Curves with Polynomial Filters." Computer Graphics Forum (Proceedings of Eurographics) (2013), 32(2), 499-507.
5. Josiah Manson and Scott Schaefer. "Parameterization-Aware MIP-Mapping." Computer Graphics Forum (Proceedings of the Eurographics Symposium on Rendering) (2012), 31(4), 1455-1463.
6. Josiah Manson and Scott Schaefer. "Hierarchical Deformation of Locally Rigid Meshes." Computer Graphics Forum (2011), 30(8), 2387-2396.
7. Josiah Manson and Kuiyu Li and Scott Schaefer. "Positive Gordon-Wixom Coordinates." Computer Aided Design (Proceedings of Geometric and Physical Modeling) (2011), 43(11), 1422-1426.
8. (Best Paper Award) Josiah Manson and Scott Schaefer. "Wavelet Rasterization." Computer Graphics Forum (Proceedings of Eurographics) (2011), 30(2), 395-404.
9. Josiah Manson and Jason Smith and Scott Schaefer. "Contouring Discrete Indicator Functions." Computer Graphics Forum (Proceedings of Eurographics) (2011), 30(2), 385-393.
10. Josiah Manson and Scott Schaefer. "Moving Least Squares Coordinates." Computer Graphics Forum (Proceedings of the Symposium on Geometry Processing) (2010), 29(5), 1517-1524.
11. Josiah Manson and Scott Schaefer. "Isosurfaces Over Simplicial Partitions of Multiresolution Grids." Computer Graphics Forum (Proceedings of Eurographics) (2010), 29(2), 377-385.
12. Josiah Manson and Guergana Petrova and Scott Schaefer. "Streaming Surface Reconstruction Using Wavelets." Computer Graphics Forum (Proceedings of SGP) (2008), 27(5), 1411-1420.
13. Veronica Martinez and Josiah Manson and Mark Zoran. "Effects of Nerve Injury and Segmental Regeneration on the Cellular Correlates of Neural Morphallaxis." Journal of Experimental Zoology (2008), 310(6), 520-533.
14. Run-Zhi Lai and Josiah Manson and Arjan Bormans and Roger Draheim and N. Nguyen and Michael Manson. "Cooperative signaling among bacterial chemoreceptors." Biochemistry (2005), 44(43), 14298-14307.
15. Richard Adams and Burjor Captain and Wei Fu and Michael Hall and Josiah Manson and Mark Smith and Charles Webster. "Bimetallic Cluster Complexes: The Synthesis, Structures, and Bonding of Ruthenium Carbonyl Cluster Complexes Containing Palladium and Platinum with the Bulky Tri-tert-butyl-phosphine Ligand." Journal of the American Chemical Society (2004), 126(16), 5253-5267.
16. Richard Adams and Shaobin Miao and Mark Smith and Horatio Farach and Charles Webster and Josiah Manson and Michael Hall. "Nickel-Manganese Sulfido Carbonyl Cluster Complexes. Synthesis, Structure, and Properties of the Unusual Paramagnetic Complexes Cp₂Ni₂Mn(CO)₃(μ₃-E)₂, E = S, Se." Inorganic Chemistry (2004), 43(8), 2515-2525.

Presentations

• Eurographics Symposium on Rendering, June 2014, Bilinear Accelerated Filter Approximation.
• Curves and Surfaces, June 2014, Moving Least Squares Coordinates.
• Solid and Physical Modeling, November 2013, Parameterization-Aware MIP-Mapping.
• Solid and Physical Modeling, November 2013, Hierarchical Deformation of Locally Rigid Meshes.
• ACM SIGGRAPH, July 2013, Cardinality-Constrained Texture Filtering.
• Eurographics, May 2013, Analytic Rasterization of Curves with Polynomial Filters.
• Eurographics Symposium on Rendering, June 2012, Parameterization-Aware MIP-Mapping.
• Eurographics, May 2012, Hierarchical Deformation of Locally Rigid Meshes.
• Solid and Physical Modeling, October 2011, Positive Gordon-Wixom Coordinates.
• Eurographics, April 2011, Wavelet Rasterization.
• Symposium on Geometry Processing, July 2010, Moving Least Squares Coordinates.
• Eurographics, May 2010, Isosurfaces Over Simplicial Partitions of Multiresolution Grids.
• Solid and Physical Modeling, October 2009, Surface Reconstruction Using Wavelets.
• Symposium on Geometry Processing, July 2008, Surface Reconstruction Using Wavelets.
• TexGraph, May 2008, Surface Reconstruction Using Wavelets.

Service

Program Committees

• Symposium on Solid and Physical Modeling, 2014

Reviews

• SIGGRAPH
• Computer Graphics Forum
• Computer Aided Geometric Design
• Eurographics STAR
• Eurographics Short

Internships

• Microsoft Research, Multimedia, Interaction, and Communication, Summer 2013.
• Texas A&M Undergraduate Research, Computer Science, Summer 2007.
• University of Minnesota Undergraduate Research, Supercomputer Institute, Summer 2006.