| Dan R. Lipsa |
Information Technology
Armstrong Atlantic State Univ.
11935 Abercorn St.
Savannah, GA 31419-1997http://galati.armstrong.edu |
| Dan.Lipsa@armstrong.edu
Work: (912) 344-2749 |
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| General Research Interests |
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My main area of research focuses on general techniques for
improving performance of out-of-core visualization of
multidimensional scientific data. I follow two directions in
improving processing speed. First, I use knowledge of the storage
order of data on disk and knowledge of data access patterns
required by the visualization algorithm to optimize disk access.
Second, I create multiresolution or adaptive resolution
representations of data and I use the low resolution version of
data for building a representation of the entire data-set, and I
use the high resolution version of data only for visualizations of
small regions of interests. I am especially interested in using
my work and general visualization algorithms in medicine. This
resulted in the development of a planing tool used for early
detection of collisions in radiation treatment of cancer patients.
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| Publications |
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Hamza-Lup F.G, Sopin I, Lipsa D, and Zeidan O,
(2007) "X3D in Radiation Therapy Procedure Planning",
International Conference on Web Information Systems and
Technologies(WEBIST 2007), March 3-6, Barcelona,
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Dan R. Lipsa, Philip J. Rhodes, R. Daniel
Bergeron, and Ted M. Sparr. Spatial prefetching for out-of-core
visualization of multidimensional data. In Conference on
Visualization and Data Analysis, San Jose, CA, January
2007. |
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Felix Hamza-Lup and Dan R. Lipsa. 3d polygonal
models from cat scans for medical planning. In Proceedings of
Virtual Concept, Cancun, Mexico, December 2006. |
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Dan R. Lipsa, R. Daniel Bergeron, Philip J. Rhodes
and Ted M. Sparr. Iteration Aware Prefetching for Scientific
Data. In Proceedings of the 43rd ACM Southeast Conference,
Kennesaw, GA, March 2005 |
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| Talks |
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Spatial prefetching for out-of-core visualization
of multidimensional data. Visualization and Data Analysis, San
Jose, CA, January 2007. |
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Gnu octave - a tool for science and
mathematics. Teaching and Learning Symposium, Armstrong Atlantic
State University, March 2006. |
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Gnu octave - a tool for science and
mathematics. Mathematics Technology Conference, Valdosta State
University, February 2006.
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Open source software, the engine behind an
internet start-up company. Armstrong Atlantic State University
Colloquium, October 2002.
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| Grants and Awards |
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Armstrong Atlantic State University Research and
Scholarship Grant, January 1, 2005 to June 30, 2005.
Iteration Aware Prefetching for Scientific Data, Principal
Investigator |
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Richard A. Lyczak Computer Science Graduate
Teaching Assistant Award, 1998 |
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Teaching Assistantship from University of New Hampshire, 1996-1998 |
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| Professional and Academic Experience |
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Armstrong Atlantic State Univ., Savannah, GA
Assistant Professor, Information Technology |
January 2003 |
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| Taught Data Structures and Algorithms, Rapid Java
Application Development, Analysis of Algorithms, Discrete
Mathematics, Theory of Computation, Object Oriented Programming
in C++ to undergraduate Computer Science students. Taught
Fundamentals of the Internet and the World Wide Web,
Fundamentals of Information Technology to Information Technology
students. |
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Ecora Software, Portsmouth, NH
Senior Software Engineer, Core Technology |
December 1999-May 2002 |
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| Developed Ecora's enterprise auditors since its
inception, having a key role in sustaining Ecora's rapid growth.
Our product acquired configuration data from Windows, Linux,
Exchange and various other enterprise operating systems and
applications and created a configuration repository, which was
used to create reports, and track configuration changes. |
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Mercury Computer Systems, Chelsmford, MA
Software Engineer, Tools and Languages |
July 1998-November 1999 |
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| Assumed technical lead role for the C++ compiler
for PowerPC architecture, and in this quality I managed the
release of the C++ compiler. Acted as one of the developers
working on the in-house port of the GNU Compiler Collection
(gcc), supporting both C and C++ on the Mercury PowerPC target
architecture.
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University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH
Teaching Assistant, Computer Science |
September 1996-June 1998 |
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Network Exploration. |
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DataBalk International, Bucharest Romania
Software Engineer |
August 1994-August 1996 |
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| Developed a document information system. Our
application allowed customers to scan their paper documents into
a database, and create reports of documents matching various
criteria. The application also allowed the electronic
transmission of documents between different departments in a
company.
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Meetinghouse Data Communication, Portsmouth, NH,
10/2002-12/2002: Added internationalization support to Aegis
product on Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows
98/Me. |
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Greystone Software Technology, Woburn, MA,
06/1997-09/1997: Developed a library and a prototype application
for accessing Greystone's custom database technology from a
client computer. |
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Energy Research Institute, Bucharest, Romania,
08/1993-06/1994: Worked on a power plant monitoring and control
system. |
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| Education |
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University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH
PhD candidate - Computer Science, June 2010 (expected) |
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University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH
Master of Science - Computer Science, June 1998
GPA: 3.9 |
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University Politehnica, Bucharest Romania
Bachelor of Science - Computer Science, June 1994
GPA: 3.5 |
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