Educational Background: - Ph.D. Computer Science University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, August 2000 - B.S. Computer Science, Abilene Christian University, May 1994 - B.S. Applied Mathematics, Abilene Christian University, May 1994 - B.S. Engineering Physics, Abilene Christian University, May 1994 Research Interests: - Robust geometric and solid modeling - Physically-based simulation - Brain networks - Geometric computing - Graphics and visualization - Simulation and modeling - Computer algebra Awards & Honors: - William Keeler Faculty Fellow, 2009-2010 - Association of Former Students Distinguished Achievement Award in Teaching - College Level, 2007 - Tenneco Meritorious Teaching Award, 2007 - Montague Scholar, Center for Teaching Excellence, 2003-2004 Selected Publications: - Shu-Wei Hsu, John Keyser, "Piles of Objects," ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proceedings of ACM SIGGRAPH Asia), vol. 29, no. 6, article 155, 2010. - Cem Yuksel, John Keyser, Donald House, "Mesh Colors," ACM Transactions on Graphics, vol. 29, no. 2, article 15, 2010. - Cem Yuksel, Scott Schaefer, John Keyser, "Hair Meshes," ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proceedings of ACM SIGGRAPH Asia), vol. 28, no. 5, article 166, 2009. - Shu-Wei Hsu, John Keyser, "Statistical Simulation of Rigid Bodies," Proceedings of ACM SIGGRAPH/Eurographics Symposium on Computer Animation, pp. 139-148, 2009. - David Mayerich, John Keyser, "Hardware Accelerated Segmentation of Complex Volumetric Filament Networks," IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, vol. 15, no. 4, pp. 670-681, 2009. - David Mayerich, Louise Abbott, John Keyser, "Visualization of Cellular and Microvessel Relationships," IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (Proceedings of IEEE Visualization), vol. 14, no.6, pp. 1611-1618, 2008. - David Mayerich, Louise Abbott, John Keyser, "Visualization of Cellular and Microvessel Relationships," IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (Proceedings of IEEE Visualization), vol. 14, no.6, pp. 1611-1618, 2008. - Arno Zinke, Cem Yuksel, Andreas Weber, John Keyser, "Dual Scattering Approximation for Fast Multiple Scattering in Hair," ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proceedings of ACM SIGGRAPH), vol. 27, no. 3, article 32, 2008. - Koji Ouchi, John Keyser, "Rational Univariate Reduction via Toric Resultants," Journal of Symbolic Computation, vol. 43, no. 11, pp. 811-844, 2008. Cem Yuksel, Donald House, John Keyser, "Wave Particles," ACM Transactions on Graphics (proceedings of ACM SIGGRAPH), 99, 2007.