Fuhua (Frank) Cheng - Research

Areas of Interest

• Computer aided geometric modeling
• Computer graphics
• Collaborative CAD
• Parallel computing in geometric modeling and computer graphics
• Approximation Theory

ACIS

• Access SPATIAL's web site

UK COE proposal related sites

• Internal Approval Form & Disclosure of Financial Interest form
• Internal Routing Form electronic submission (College's web based proposal approval system)

Current Research Projects

• New Computation Techniques for Shape Modeling and Design, NSF (DMI-9400823), 8/15/94-7/31/97, $270,000.00.

• Building a Non-Manifold Modeling System with a Virtual Environment Interface, Center for Robotics and Manufacturing Systems, University of Kentucky, 7/1/95-6/30/96, $8,000.00.

• The GEO-WEB-CAD Project, NSF (INT-9722728), 6/1/1997-5/31/2000, $102,522.

• Constrained Surface scaling I: Constrained Shape Scaling of NURB Surface Patches, Honda Initiation Grant (461086), 8/1/1997 - 7/31/1998, $25,000 (no overhead)

• Creating High Performance Manufacturable Free-Form NURB Surfaces Using Constrained Optimization, Ford Motor Co. (537075), 6/1/1997 - 5/31/2000, $150,000 (no overhead)

• Constrained Surface Scaling II: Constrained Shape Scaling of Multi-Patch NURB Surfaces, Honda Initiation Grant, 12/1/1998 - 11/30/1999, $25,000 (no overhead)

• Constrained Design, Streamline Modeling, Automatic Fairing and Automatic Joining Techniques for NURB Surfaces, NSF (DMI-9912069), 5/1/2000-4/30/2004, $343,067.

• Web Based Collaborative CAD, NSF (DMI-0118124), 4/1/2001-3/31/2002, $50,000.

• Subdivision Surface based One-Piece Representation , NSF (DMS-0310645), 7/1/03-6/30/06, $99,941.

• Tessellation, Fairing, Shape Design and Trimming Techniques for Subdivision Surface based Modeling , NSF (DMI-0422126), 9/1/04-8/31/08, $300,000.

• On New Algorithms of Curve and Surface Modeling Based on Probabilistic Type Operators and Probability Distribution (Co-PI), NSF of China (NSFC-10571145), 01/01/2006-12/31/2008, RMB$280,000 (US$35,000).

• Portable Digital Mouth and Occlusion Reproducer, Kentucky Commercialization Fund, Kentucky Science & Technology Corporation (KSTC-144-401-07-015), 4/1/07-9/30/09, $150,000. (KSTC report site) (Commfund online submission site) (SBIR/STTR workshop registration)

Rankings of University of Kentucky's Scholarship(Source: 1/12/07 The Chronicle of Higher Education)

• 30th out of 157 CS Doctoral programs in US

• 16th among public universities

Related GPU sites

• Site with useful GPU links
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• nVIDIA's site for CUDA SDK code samples
• ECE 498 at UIUC
• Cg Linux examples
• How GPU works: a primer for hardware graphic programming
• How the GPU works, Part 1
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• Things you need to know about shaders
• Vertex shaders
• Pixel shaders
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• A simple sample program (GL_VERTEX_PROGRAM_NV)
• A simple sample program (GL_VERTEX_STATE_PROGRAM_NV)
• Display List
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• Texture Coordinate Generation
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• Efficient clipping technique
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• MSDN Home page
• shader programming
• Programming Vertex and Pixel Shaders, by Wolfgang Engel
• Writing shaders and general purpose GPU programs using the RapidMind developing platform
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• Larrabbe: Intel's upcoming GPU

Cloud Computing and Client Machine

• Grid Computing
• Cloud Computing
• The Enterprise Cloud
• Computing Heads for the Clouds
• Google and the Wisedom of Clouds
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• Client machine
• En Garde Systems
• Configuring the Client Machine

Virtualization:

• x86 Virtualization
• VMWare Virtual Platform

Mesh Simplification, Decimation, Multi-resolution Data Structure:

• Survey about results before 1999

Some of our recent results

• Hair Generation

• (Subdivision surface based) Shape Modeling *

• Adaptive Subdivision of Catmull-Clark Subdivision Surfaces *

• Image restoration

• Patch Reduction

• Deformation-based Shape Fine Tuning *

• Constrained Surface Scaling

• Streamline Modeling I *

• Streamline Modeling II *

• Trimmed NURBS Surface Connection I *

• Trimmed NURBS Surface Connection II *

• TriangularPatches *

• Image manipulation

  *(This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. 9912069. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.)

Funding Agencies

****Federal Business Opportunities****
• FedBizOpps

  ****ATP****

• TIP, NIST

• Career, DHS (COS version)

• Career, DHS

• ATP forms

  ****SBIR****

• Small Business Administration

• Grants.gov
  • Ferdeal Funding Opportunities
  • Electronic Submission Site
  
  ************2010

• DOE 2010 SBIR/STTR

  ************2010

• DOD SBIR
  • Pre-Release: 11/12/2008; Open: 12/8/2008; Closed: 1/14/09
  • DOD SBIR Electronic Submission Web Site

• DARPA SBIR(Due date: 6/18/08)

• Navy SBIR/STTR(Due date: 12/5/08)(

• NASA SBIR/STTR(Due date: 9/4/08)

• DOE SBIR/STTR
  • FY 09 Phase 1 Funding Notice: closes 11/20/08
  • FY 09 Phase 1 Announcement
  • DOE 2009 Technical Topics

• NSF SBIR/STTR
  • Phase I due date: 12/4/2008
  • NSF SBIR Solicition in Electronics, Components, and Engineering Systems (EL Topic)

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• NIH new SBIR opportunitiy (Application Due Date: 9/1/09)
• NIH new SBIR opportunitiy (Application Due Date: 9/1/09)
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• NIH SBIR/STTR(Due date: 12/5/08)
  • Registration sites:
    • CCR Homepage
    • NIH eRA Commons
    • NIH eRA commons helpdesk
  • download application package;
  • Application Instructions;
  • Commons Registration Status;
  • eRA Commons User Guide
  • Assurances/certifications section 18 of SF424

  • National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering

  • National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research

  • SBIR/STTR programs at NIDCR

  • National Institute of General Medical Sciences

  • National Center for Research Resources

  • USDA-DOE SBIR/STTR Energy Summit registration form
    (Questions? send email to: paynetl@ornl.gov)

  ****IBM****
• IBM 2007 Funding Opportunities

• IBM 2007 A. Richard Newton BRA

  ****Honda****

• Honda Initiation Grant (HIG2009)

• Honda Initiation Grant

  ****NSF****

• NSF
  • Fastlane

  • Special Topics in Dynamical Systems

  • Cyber-Physical System (CPS) solicition
    • Public Information Meeting, 12/15/2008 (Registration: 11/7/2008-12/12/2008)
  • Cyber-enabled Discovery and Innovation (CDI) solicition
    • Preliminary Proposal deadlines: Type I: 12/8/2008; Type II: 12/09/2008
    • Full Proposal Deadline (by invitation only): May 20, 2009
  • NSF, ACCELERATING DISCOVERY IN SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING THROUGH PETASCALE SIMULATIONS AND ANALYSIS (PetaApps)

  • NSF International Programs

  • NSF New Funding Opportunity

  • NSF IMAG program (Program Solicitation NSF 04-607)

  • NSF Bioengineering Program

  • NSF Information and Intelligent Systems

  • Advancing Human-Centered Computing, Information Integration, and Infotmatics, and Robust Intelligence, NSF Division Information and Intelligent Systems

  • DMII, NSF

  • Engineering Design, NSF
    • Submission window: 1/15-2/15; 9/1-10/1

  • DMII Sensors solicitation (NSF 05-526), NSF

  • CISE, NSF

  • DMS, NSF

  • NSF: Virtual Organizations in Engineering (EVOs)

  • NSF:International Research and Education in Engineering (IREE)

  • NSF new announcement

  • NSF Supplement for Summer Interns I

  • NSF Supplement for Summer Interns II

  • TFC, CCF, CISE, NSF: algorithmic geometry; computational
    algorithms for high-end scientific and engineering applications

  • FCPAC, CCF, CISE, NSF: Graphics and Visualization

  ****KSTC/KSEF****
• Kentucky Science and Engineering Foundation(KSEF)

• Kentucky Science and Technology Corporation (KSTC)

  ****LEX ICC****

• Lexington Innovation and Commercialization Center (LEXICC)

  ****NASA****

• NASA Acquisition Internet Service

• NASA RFP (March 10, 2005)

  ****NAVY****

• NRO

• Naval Research laboratory

• Office of Navy Research

  ****ARMY****

• Army Research Office

  ****AIR FORCE****

• Air Force Research laboratory

• Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR)

  ****NIH****

• NIH
  • NIH 2009 Recovery Act Limited Competition (Section IV: how to register)

  • NIH REview criteria ...

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  • NIH: Submitting amended application

  • NIH: Submitting revised application (part 1, page 16)

  • NIH: submission dates for revised applications

  • NIBIB

  • NIDCR

  • NIH eRA Commons

  ****DARPA****
• Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)

  ****DOE****

• Department of Energy Office of Science

  ****DOD****

• Department of Defense, Central Contractor Registration

  ****EDA****

• EDA

  ****NSF of Taiwan****

• NSC: NSF of Taiwan

  ****NSF of China****

• NSFC: NSF of China