Joined department: Fall 2003

Dr. Daniel G. Aliaga is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at Purdue University. He obtained is Ph.D. degree and M.S. degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and his Bachelor of Science from Brown University. Dr. Aliaga performs research primarily in the area of 3D computer graphics but overlaps with computer vision and with visualization. His research area is of central importance to many critically important industries, including computer-aided design and manufacturing, telepresence, scientific simulations, and education. He focuses on i) 3D urban modeling (developing novel 3D urban model acquisition methods, forward and inverse procedural modeling, and integration with urban design and planning), ii) projector-camera systems (focusing on spatially-augmented reality and on appearance editing of arbitrarily shaped and colored objects), and iii) 3D digital fabrication (in particular, on novel methods for digital manufacturing that embed into a physical object information for a variety of purposes, including genuinity detection, tamper detection, and multiple appearance generation). Dr. Aliaga has also performed research in related areas such as 3D reconstruction, image-based rendering, rendering acceleration, and camera design and calibration. In addition, he holds several patents related to 3D acquisition and modeling, has designed several complete experimental research systems, and has worked in collaboration with Bell Labs, Princeton University, Johns Hopkins University, University of Washington, University of California Berkeley, University of California Irvine, and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. To date Prof. Aliaga has published over 70 peer reviewed publications and chaired and served on numerous ACM and IEEE conference and workshop committees, including being a member of more than 35 program committees, conference chair, papers chair, invited panelist, and a frequent reviewer of papers, journal articles, and technical courses. In addition, Dr. Aliaga has served on several NSF panels, is on the editorial board of Graphical Models, and is a member of ACM SIGGRAPH. His research has been whole or partially funded by NSF, MTC, Microsoft Research, Google, and Adobe Inc.