Ron Fedkiw Associate Professor Stanford Computer Science Ph.D. Applied Mathematics, UCLA

• Two way coupled SPH and particle level set fluid simulation (with Frank Losasso, Jerry Talton and Nipun Kwatra).
  
• Hybrid simulation of embedded deformable solids and rigid bodies (with Eftychios Sifakis, Tamar Shinar and Geoffrey Irving).
  
• Arbitrary cutting of tetrahedral meshes (with Eftychios Sifakis and Kevin Der).
  
• Fire with cellular patterns (with Jeong-Mo Hong and Tamar Shinar).
  
• Incompressible solids (with Geoffrey Irving and Craig Schroeder).
  
• Fracturing rigid bodies (with Josh Bao, Jeong-Mo Hong and Joey Teran).
  
  
  
• Thin shell rigid bodies (with Josh Bao, Jeong-Mo Hong and Joey Teran).
  
  
  
• Multiple Interacting Liquids (with Frank Losasso, Tamar Shinar and Andrew Selle).
  
  
  
• Mixing fully 3D water with 2D height field techniques (with Geoffrey Irving, Eran Guendelman and Frank Losasso).
  
  
  
• Articulated rigid body simulations (with Rachel Weinstein and Joey Teran).
  
  
  
• Melting and burning Lagrangian based solids into Eulerian based fluids (with Frank Losasso, Geoffrey Irving and Eran Guendelman).
  
  
  
• Robust invertible quasistatic simulations for skinning (with Joey Teran, Eftychios Sifakis and Geoffrey Irving).
  
  
  
• Automatic estimation of facial muscle activations from sparse motion capture marker data (with Eftychios Sifakis and Igor Neverov).
  
  
  
• We're currently building a higher resolution facial model (with Eftychios Sifakis and xyzrgb).
  
  
  
• Two-way solid fluid coupling with thin rigid and deformable solids (with Eran Guendelman, Andrew Selle and Frank Losasso).
  
  
  
• Fluid simulations using a Lagrangian vortex particle method hybridized with an Eulerian grid based solver (with Andrew Selle and Nick Rasmussen).
  
  
  
• Animations of muscles constructed from the NIH visible human data set (with Joseph Teran, Eftychios Sifakis and Cynthia Lau).
  
  
  
• Robust finite element simulation, even for degenerate and inverted elements (with Geoffrey Irving and Joey Teran).
  
  
  
• Simulations of changing mesh topology during simulation (with Neil Molino and Zhaosheng Bao).
  
  
  
• Simulations on an octree data structure (with Frank Losasso and Frederic Gibou).
  
  
  
• Animations of rigid bodies (with Eran Guendelman and Robert Bridson).
  
  
  
• Tetrahedral mesh generation (with Neil Molino, Robert Bridson and Joseph Teran).
  
  
• Animations of thin shells with non-flat rest angles (with Robert Bridson). The hollow buddha on the left uses a weak bending model
  and collapses similar to a deflated balloon. In the animation on the right, this is compared to a buddha with stronger bending forces
  that retains its shape similar to a water bottle.
  
  
  
• Animations of cloth (with Robert Bridson and John Anderson).
  
  
  
• Animations of fire (with Duc Nguyen and Henrik Jensen).
  
  
  
• Animations of water (with Doug Enright and Steve Marschner).
  
  
  
• Animations of water (with Doug Enright, Willi Geiger and Industrial Light + Magic).
  
  
  
• Animations of water (with Nick Foster).
  
  
  
• Animations of smoke (with Jos Stam and Henrik Jensen).
  
  
  
• Animation of fire (with David Wasson and Ari Sachter-Zeltzer).
  
  
  
• Interpolation of unorganized data points, including hole filling for missing or damaged data,
  with a level set shrink wrapping algorithm (with Hongkai Zhao and Stanley Osher).
  
  
  
• The new Particle Level Set Method cures area/accuracy loss for Level Set Methods
  (with Doug Enright, Joel Ferziger and Ian Mitchell).
  
  Animation of a rotating slotted sphere with the Level Set Method (left) and Particle Level Set Method (right).
  
  
  Animation of a volume preserving flow with the Level Set Method (left) and Particle Level Set Method (right).
  
  
  
• This animation uses the Ghost Fluid Method (co-invented with Tariq Aslam)
  and the Level Set Method (coinvented by Stanley Osher and James Sethian)
  to simulate an air shock deforming a helium bubble.
  
  
  

National Academy of Sciences
NAS Award for Initiatives in Research - awarded to recognize innovative young scientists and to encourage research likely to lead toward new capabilities for human benefit. The award is to be given to a citizen of the United States, preferably no older than 35 years of age. The field of presentation rotates among the physical sciences, engineering, and mathematics.

The David and Lucille Packard Foundation
Fellowships for Science and Engineering - The Foundation has a long-standing interest in strengthening both university-based research and graduate education. Each year, they generously(!) select 20 Fellows to receive individual grants of $625,000 over five years. The Fellowship Program was established in 1988.

Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers
PECASE - I went to the White House for the PECASE awards ceremony (thank you Wen & ONR!) which included a wonderful speech by President George W. Bush.

The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
Sloan Research Fellowships - Currently a total of 116 fellowships are awarded annually in seven fields: chemistry, computational and evolutionary molecular biology, computer science, economics, mathematics, neuroscience, and physics.

ACM SIGGRAPH
ACM SIGGRAPH Awards Program - The ACM SIGGRAPH Awards program recognizes individuals who have made a significant contribution to the computer graphics community through their research, teaching, service, or writing.

The Okawa Foundation
The Okawa Foundation Research Grant - The Foundation was established in 1986 as an authorized non-profit organization to promote the growth and development of the information and telecommunications fields, through donations from the late Mr. Isao Okawa.

Computational Physics...

• Selle, A., Fedkiw, R., Kim, B.-M., Liu, Y. and Rossignac, J., "An Unconditionally Stable MacCormack Method", J. Sci. Comput., (in press).
• Hong, J.-M., Shinar, T., Kang, M. and Fedkiw, R., "On Boundary Condition Capturing for Multiphase Interfaces", J. Sci. Comput. 31, 99-125 (2007).
• Losasso, F., Fedkiw, R. and Osher, "Spatially Adaptive Techniques for Level Set Methods and Incompressible Flow", Computers and Fluids 35, 995-1010 (2006).
• Bridson, R., Teran, J., Molino, N. and Fedkiw, R., "Adaptive Physics Based Tetrahedral Mesh Generation Using Level Sets", Engineering with Computers 21, 2-18 (2005).
• Enright, D., Losasso, F. and Fedkiw, R., "A Fast and Accurate Semi-Lagrangian Particle Level Set Method", Computers and Structures 83, 479-490 (2005).
• Gibou, F. and Fedkiw, R., "A Fourth Order Accurate Discretization for the Laplace and Heat Equations on Arbitrary Domains, with Applications to the Stefan Problem", J. Comput. Phys. 202, 577-601 (2005).
• Molino, N., Bridson, R., Teran, J. and Fedkiw, R., "A Crystalline, Red Green Strategy for Meshing Highly Deformable Objects with Tetrahedra", 12th Int. Meshing Roundtable, 103-114, 2003.
• Enright, D., Nguyen, D., Gibou, F. and Fedkiw, R., "Using the Particle Level Set Method and a Second Order Accurate Pressure Boundary Condition for Free Surface Flows", Proc. of the 4th ASME-JSME Joint Fluids Eng. Conf., FEDSM2003-45144, edited by M. Kawahashi and A. Ogut and Y. Tsuji, pp. 1-6, Honolulu, HI 2003.
• Enright, D. and Fedkiw, R., "Robust Treatment of Interfaces for Fluid Flow and Computer Graphics", Hyperbolic Problems: Theory, Numerics, Applications, edited by T. Hou and E. Tadmor, pp. 153-164, Springer-Verlag, New York, 2003.
• Nguyen, D., Gibou, F. and Fedkiw, R., "A Fully Conservative Ghost Fluid Method & Stiff Detonation Waves", 12th Int. Detonation Symposium, San Diego, CA, 2002.
• Gibou, F., Fedkiw, R. Caflisch, R. and Osher S., "A Level Set Approach for the Numerical Simulation of Dendritic Growth", J. Sci. Comput. 19, 183-199 (2003).
• Fedkiw, R., Sapiro, G. and Shu, C.-W., "Shock Capturing, Level Sets and PDE Based Methods in Computer Vision and Image Processing: A Review on Osher's Contribution", J. Comput. Phys. 185, 309-341 (2003).
• Enright, D., Fedkiw, R., Ferziger, J. and Mitchell, I., "A Hybrid Particle Level Set Method for Improved Interface Capturing", J. Comput. Phys. 183, 83-116 (2002).
• Gibou, F., Fedkiw, R., Cheng, L.-T. and Kang, M., "A Second Order Accurate Symmetric Discretization of the Poisson Equation on Irregular Domains", J. Comput. Phys. 176, 205-227 (2002).
• Nguyen, D., Fedkiw, R. and Kang, M., "A Boundary Condition Capturing Method for Incompressible Flame Discontinuities", J. Comput. Phys. 172, 71-98 (2001).
• Fedkiw, R., "Coupling an Eulerian Fluid Calculation to a Lagrangian Solid Calculation with the Ghost Fluid Method", J. Comput. Phys. 175, 200-224 (2002).
• Osher, S. and Fedkiw, R., "Level Set Methods: An Overview and Some Recent Results", J. Comput. Phys. 169, 463-502 (2001).
• Chen, S., Merriman, B., Kang, M., Caflisch, R., Ratsch, C., Cheng, L.-T., Gyure, M., Fedkiw R., Anderson,C. and Osher, S., "Level Set Method for Thin Film Epitaxial Growth", J. Comput. Phys. 167, 475-500 (2001).
• Caiden, R., Fedkiw, R. and Anderson, C., "A Numerical Method for Two Phase Flow Consisting of Separate Compressible and Incompressible Regions", J. Comput. Phys. 166, 1-27 (2001).
• Fedkiw, R., "The Ghost Fluid Method for Discontinuities and Interfaces", Godunov Methods, edited by E.F. Toro, pp. 309-317, Kluwer, New York 2001.
• Kang, M., Fedkiw, R. and Liu, X.-D., "A Boundary Condition Capturing Method for Multiphase Incompressible Flow", J. Sci. Comput. 15, 323-360 (2000).
• Liu, X.-D., Fedkiw, R. and Kang, M., "A Boundary Condition Capturing Method for Poisson's Equation on Irregular Domains", J. Comput. Phys. 160, 151-178 (2000).
• Hwang, P., Fedkiw, R., Merriman, B., Aslam, T., Karagozian, A. and Osher, S., "Numerical Resolution of Pulsating Detonation Waves", Combustion Theory and Modeling 4, 217-240 (2000).
• Fedkiw, R. and Liu, X.-D., "The Ghost Fluid Method for Viscous Flows", Innovative Methods for Numerical Solutions of Partial Differential Equations, edited by M. Hafez and J.-J. Chattot, pp. 111-143, World Scientific Publishing, New Jersey, 2002.
• Fedkiw, R., Aslam, T. and Xu, S., "The Ghost Fluid Method for Deflagration and Detonation Discontinuities", J. Comput. Phys. 154, 393-427 (1999).
• Fedkiw, R., Aslam, T., Merriman, B. and Osher, S., "A Non-Oscillatory Eulerian Approach to Interfaces in Multimaterial Flows (The Ghost Fluid Method)", J. Comput. Phys. 152, 457-492 (1999).
• Fedkiw, R., Merriman, B. and Osher, S., "Simplified Upwind Discretization of Systems of Hyperbolic Conservation Laws Containing Advection Equations", J. Comput. Phys. 157, 302-326 (2000).
• Liu, X.-D., Fedkiw, R., and Osher, S., "A Quasi-Conservative Approach to the Multiphase Euler Equations without Spurious Pressure Oscillations", Advances in Scientific Computing, 106-115, edited by Z.-C. Shi, M. Mu, W. Xue and J. Zou, Science Press Beijing/New York 2001.
• Fedkiw, R., Marquina, A. and Merriman, B., "An Isobaric Fix for the Overheating Problem in Multimaterial Compressible Flows", J. Comput. Phys. 148, 545-578 (1999).
• Fedkiw, R., Liu, X.-D. and Osher, S., "A General Technique for Eliminating Spurious Oscillations in Conservative Schemes for Multiphase and Multispecies Euler Equations", Int. J. Nonlinear Sci. and Numer. Sim. 3, 99-106 (2002).
• Fedkiw, R., Merriman, B. and Osher, S., "Efficient Characteristic Projection in Upwind Difference Schemes for Hyperbolic Systems (The Complementary Projection Method)", J. Comput. Phys. 141, 22-36 (1998).
• Fedkiw, R., Merriman, B. and Osher, S., "Numerical Methods for a One-Dimensional Interface Separating Compressible and Incompressible Flows", Barriers and Challenges in Computational Fluid Dynamics, edited by V. Venkatakrishnan, M. Salas, and S. Chakravarthy, pp. 155-194, Kluwer Academic Publishers, The Netherlands, 1998.
• Fedkiw, R., Merriman, B., Donat, R. and Osher, S., "The Penultimate Scheme for Systems of Conservation Laws: Finite Difference ENO with Marquina's Flux Splitting", Innovative Methods for Numerical Solutions of Partial Differential Equations, edited by M. Hafez and J.-J. Chattot, pp. 49-85, World Scientific Publishing, New Jersey, 2002.
• Fedkiw, R., Merriman, B. and Osher, S., "Numerical Methods for a Mixture of Thermally Perfect and/or Calorically Perfect Gaseous Species with Chemical Reactions", J. Comput. Phys. 132, 175-190 (1997).

Ph.D. thesis...

• Fedkiw, R., "A Survey of Chemically Reacting, Compressible Flow", Ph.D. Thesis, UCLA Mathematics Department, June 1996.

Computer Graphics, Vision & Biomechanics...

• Losasso, F., Talton, J., Kwatra, N. and Fedkiw, R., "Two-way Coupled SPH and Particle Level Set Fluid Simulation", IEEE TVCG (in press).
• Sifakis, E., Der, K. and Fedkiw, R., "Arbitrary Cutting of Deformable Tetrahedralized Objects", ACM SIGGRAPH/Eurographics Symposium on Computer Animation (SCA), edited by D. Metaxas and J. Popovic, pp. 73-80 (2007).
• Sifakis, E., Shinar, T., Irving, G. and Fedkiw, R., "Hybrid Simulation of Deformable Solids", ACM SIGGRAPH/Eurographics Symposium on Computer Animation (SCA), edited by D. Metaxas and J. Popovic pp. 81-90 (2007).
• Hong, J.-M., Shinar, T. and Fedkiw, R., "Wrinkled Flames and Cellular Patterns", SIGGRAPH 2007, ACM TOG 26, 47.1-47.6 (2007).
• Irving, G., Schroeder, C. and Fedkiw, R., "Volume Conserving Finite Element Simulation of Deformable Models", SIGGRAPH 2007, ACM TOG 26, 13.1-13.6 (2007).
• Weinstein, R., Guendelman, E. and Fedkiw, R., "Impulse-Based Control of Joints and Muscles", IEEE TVCG 14, 37-46 (2008).
• Bao, Z., Hong, J.-M., Teran, J. and Fedkiw, R., "Fracturing Rigid Materials", IEEE TVCG 13, 370-378 (2007).
• Geiger, W., Leo, M., Rasmussen, N., Losasso, F. and Fedkiw, R., "So Real It'll Make You Wet", SIGGRAPH 2006 Sketches and Applications, 2006.
• Weinstein, R., Guendelman, E. and Fedkiw, R., "Impulse-Based PD Control for Joints and Muscles", SIGGRAPH 2006 Sketches and Applications, 2006.
• Sifakis, E., Selle, A., Robinson-Mosher, A. and Fedkiw, R., "Simulating Speech with a Physics-Based Facial Muscle Model", ACM SIGGRAPH/Eurographics Symposium on Computer Animation (SCA), edited by M.-P. Cani and J. O.Brien, pp. 261-270, 2006.
• Losasso, F., Shinar, T. Selle, A. and Fedkiw, R., "Multiple Interacting Liquids", SIGGRAPH 2006, ACM TOG 25, 812-819 (2006).
• Irving, G., Guendelman, E., Losasso, F. and Fedkiw, R., "Efficient Simulation of Large Bodies of Water by Coupling Two and Three Dimensional Techniques", SIGGRAPH 2006, ACM TOG 25, 805-811 (2006).
• Blemker, S., Teran, J., Sifakis, E., Fedkiw, R. and Delp, S., "Fast 3D Muscle Simulations using a New Quasistatic Invertible Finite-Element Algorithm", 10th International Symposium on Computer Simulation in Biomechanics, Cleveland, OH, July 2005.
• Weinstein, R., Teran, J. and Fedkiw, R., "Dynamic Simulation of Articulated Rigid Bodies with Contact and Collision", IEEE TVCG 12, 365-374 (2006).
• Losasso, F., Irving, G., Guendelman, E. and Fedkiw, R., "Melting and Burning Solids into Liquids and Gases", IEEE TVCG 12, 343-352 (2006).
• Teran, J., Sifakis, E., Irving, G. and Fedkiw, R., "Robust Quasistatic Finite Elements and Flesh Simulation", ACM SIGGRAPH/Eurographics Symposium on Computer Animation (SCA), edited by K. Anjyo and P. Faloutsos, pp. 181-190, 2005.
• Geiger, W., Rasmussen, N., Hoon, S. and Fedkiw, R., "Space Battle Pyromania", SIGGRAPH 2005 Sketches and Applications, 2005.
• Weinstein, R., Teran, J. and Fedkiw, R., "Pre-stabilization for Rigid Body Articulation with Contact and Collision", SIGGRAPH 2005 Sketches and Applications, 2005.
• Sifakis, E. and Fedkiw, R., "Facial Muscle Activations from Motion Capture", Video Proceedings of the 2005 Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference (CVPR), 2005.
• Sifakis, E., Neverov, I. and Fedkiw, R., "Automatic Determination of Facial Muscle Activations from Sparse Motion Capture Marker Data", SIGGRAPH 2005, ACM TOG 24, 417-425 (2005).
• Guendelman, E., Selle, A., Losasso, F. and Fedkiw, R., "Coupling Water and Smoke to Thin Deformable and Rigid Shells", SIGGRAPH 2005, ACM TOG 24, 973-981 (2005).
• Selle, A., Rasmussen, N. and Fedkiw, R., "A Vortex Particle Method for Smoke, Water and Explosions", SIGGRAPH 2005, ACM TOG 24, 910-914 (2005).
• Irving, G., Teran, J. and Fedkiw, R., "Tetrahedral and Hexahedral Invertible Finite Elements", Graphical Models 68, 66-89 (2006).
• Teran, J., Sifakis, E., Blemker, S., Ng Thow Hing, V., Lau, C. and Fedkiw, R., "Creating and Simulating Skeletal Muscle from the Visible Human Data Set", IEEE TVCG 11, 317-328 (2005).
• Fedkiw, R., "Making a Computational Splash", Computer Science, Reflections on the Field, Reflections from the Field, pp. 61-64, The National Academies Press, Washington, 2004.
• Irving, G., Teran, J. and Fedkiw, R., "Invertible Finite Elements for Robust Simulation of Large Deformation", ACM SIGGRAPH/Eurographics Symposium on Computer Animation (SCA), edited by R. Boulic and D. Pai, pp. 131-140, 2004.
• Rasmussen, N., Enright, D., Nguyen, D., Marino. S., Sumner, N., Geiger, W., Hoon, S. and Fedkiw, R., "Directible Photorealistic Liquids", ACM SIGGRAPH/Eurographics Symposium on Computer Animation (SCA), edited by R. Boulic and D. Pai, pp. 193-202, 2004.
• Losasso, F., Gibou, F. and Fedkiw, R., "Simulating Water and Smoke with an Octree Data Structure", SIGGRAPH 2004, ACM TOG 23, 457-462 (2004).
• Molino, N., Bao, Z. and Fedkiw, R., "A Virtual Node Algorithm for Changing Mesh Topology During Simulation", SIGGRAPH 2004, ACM TOG 23, 385-392 (2004).
• Nguyen, D., Enright, D., and Fedkiw, R., "Simulation and Animation of Fire and Other Natural Phenomena in the Visual Effects Industry", Western States Section, Combustion Institute, Fall Meeting, UCLA, 2003.
• Teran, J., Blemker, S., Ng Thow Hing, V. and Fedkiw, R., "Finite Volume Methods for the Simulation of Skeletal Muscle", ACM SIGGRAPH/Eurographics Symposium on Computer Animation (SCA), edited by D. Breen and M. Lin, pp. 68-74, 2003.
• Bridson, R., Marino, S. and Fedkiw, R., "Simulation of Clothing with Folds and Wrinkles", ACM SIGGRAPH/Eurographics Symposium on Computer Animation (SCA), edited by D. Breen and M. Lin, pp. 28-36, 2003.
• Geiger, W., Rasmussen, N., Hoon, S. and Fedkiw, R., "Big Bangs", SIGGRAPH 2003 Sketches and Applications, 2003.
• Sumner, N., Hoon, S., Geiger, W., Marino, S., Rasmussen, N. and Fedkiw, R., "Melting a Terminatrix", SIGGRAPH 2003 Sketches and Applications, 2003.
• Rasmussen, N., Nguyen, D., Geiger, W. and Fedkiw, R., "Smoke Simulation for Large Scale Phenomena", SIGGRAPH 2003, ACM TOG 22, 703-707 (2003).
• Guendelman, E., Bridson, R. and Fedkiw, R., "Nonconvex Rigid Bodies with Stacking", SIGGRAPH 2003, ACM TOG 22, 871-878 (2003).
• Gibou, F. and Fedkiw, R., "A Fast Hybrid k-Means Level Set Algorithm for Segmentation", 4th Annual Hawaii International Conference on Statistics and Mathematics, pp. 281-291, 2005. Stanford Technical Report, November 2002.
• Fedkiw, R., "Simulating Natural Phenomena for Computer Graphics", Geometric Level Set Methods in Imaging, Vision and Graphics, edited by S. Osher and N. Paragios, pp. 461-479, Springer Verlag, New York, 2003.
• Enright, D., Marschner, S. and Fedkiw, R., "Animation and Rendering of Complex Water Surfaces", SIGGRAPH 2002, ACM TOG 21, 736-744 (2002).
• Nguyen, D., Fedkiw, R. and Jensen, H., "Physically Based Modeling and Animation of Fire", SIGGRAPH 2002, ACM TOG 21, 721-728 (2002).
• Bridson, R., Fedkiw, R. and Anderson, J., "Robust Treatment of Collisions, Contact and Friction for Cloth Animation", SIGGRAPH 2002, ACM TOG 21, 594-603 (2002).
• Zhao, H.-K., Osher, S. and Fedkiw, R., "Fast Surface Reconstruction using the Level Set Method", 1st IEEE Workshop on Variational and Level Set Methods, in conjunction with the 8th International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), Vancouver, Canada, 194-202 (2001).
• Foster, N. and Fedkiw, R., "Practical Animation of Liquids", SIGGRAPH 2001, 15-22 (2001).
• Fedkiw, R., Stam, J. and Jensen, H.W., "Visual Simulation of Smoke", SIGGRAPH 2001, 23-30 (2001).

Ph.D. Students

• Andrew Selle
• Tamar Shinar
• Avi Robinson-Mosher
  Stanford Graduate Fellow
• Jonathan Su
  NSF Graduate Research Fellow
• Kevin Der
  NSF Graduate Research Fellow
• Nipun Kwatra
  
• Craig Schroeder
  
• Jón Grétarsson
  
• Michael Lentine
  

• Douglas Enright Ph.D. 2002 - Aerospace Corporation
• Ian Mitchell Ph.D. 2002 co-advisor (primary advisor - Claire Tomlin) - Assistant Professor at the University of British Columbia
• Robert Bridson Ph.D. 2003 - Assistant Professor at the University of British Columbia
• Neil Molino Ph.D. 2004 - Morgan Stanley
• Igor Neverov Ph.D. 2005 - Insomniac Games
• Joseph Teran Ph.D. 2005 - Assistant Professor at UCLA
• Eran Guendelman Ph.D. 2006 - Postdoctoral Scholar at Stanford in Bioengineering (also at UCLA)
• Zhaosheng Bao Ph.D. 2006 - Microsoft Research Asia
• Rachel Weinstein Ph.D. 2007 - Industrial Light + Magic
• Eftychios Sifakis Ph.D. 2007 - UCLA
• Frank Losasso Ph.D. 2007 - Industrial Light + Magic
• Geoffrey Irving Ph.D. 2007 - Pixar Animation Studios

• Duc Nguyen 2001-2004 - Lockheed Martin
• Frederic Gibou 2001-2004 - Assistant Professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara
• Ian Mitchell 2002-2003 - Assistant Professor at the University of British Columbia
• Jeong-Mo Hong 2005-2007 - Korea University
• Robert Strzodka 2005-2007 - Independent Junior Research Group Leader (i.e. Assistant Professor) at the Max Planck Institute