Michael Gleicher
Professor
Department of Computer Sciences
University of Wisconsin, Madison
1210 West Dayton St.
Madison, WI 53706
gleicher@cs.wisc.edu
Office Hour: (Summer 2022) By appointment.
I am a professor working in areas related to Visual Computing. My research these days is mainly about robotics and data visualization. With both, I am interested in how we can make them useful for people. I remain interested in animation, virtual reality, multimedia, …
A brief biography will tell you how I got here. You can see a reasonably current CV, but you probably are looking for papers, talks, videos or advice.
Teaching: This semester (Fall 2022), I will teach CS765 Data Visualization. Last semester (Spring 2022), I taught CS559 Computer Graphics.
I have some pages with various Advice I generally give to students. This includes the format for status reports, what I’d like to see in Prelims and Theses, my grad school FAQ, or my advice on how to give a talk.
You might be interested in my grad school FAQ. Come and talk to me if you’re interested in data visualization, robotics, computer graphics or related topics. If you are an undergrad and looking to work on a project, please see Undergrad Research, Projects and Directed Studies. If you are asking about a reference letter, please see Reference Letters for Students in Classes.
If you’re interested in joining our group, come talk to me! If you aren’t a student at Wisconsin yet, please look at my grad school FAQ, particularly the last few questions.
Current Research Themes
The projects list was more than slightly out of date. I need to revitalize it. But, there are several things going on with robotics (tele-operation, providing awareness to remote users, using novel sensors, …) and visualization (summarization, text collection exploration, uncertainty, …).
Selected Past (but recent) Themes
Teaching
These are the main classes I teach. You can see more on the Graphics Group Courses Page.
CS765 Visualization: This class is taught regularly/ I taught it in Fall 2022, Fall 2021, Fall 2020, Fall 2019, Fall 2018, Fall 2017, and several times before that as “special topics” experiments.
CS559 Computer Graphics: I am teaching this in the Spring 2022 I taught this most recently in Spring 2021. I taught the class using the current design in Spring 2020. and Spring 2019. Previous offerings include 2015, 2014, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, and others going back to 1999.
Older classes that might not get taught again for a while:
- CS777: Computer Animation is a graduate level CS class for people with some graphics background. This taught was taught regularly in the past (2013, 2011, 2006, 2004, 2003). It kindof died off from lack of interest (student interest and my interest)
- CS679 Computer Games Technologies: this class was popular, so I tried to teach it regularly for several years 2012, 2011, 2010).
- Advanced Graphics: In the Spring of 2009, I taught an Advanced Graphics class.
You can find other information on graphics group classes on the Graphics Group Courses Page.
Selected Recent Publications
A (pretty) complete list is available here. Here are some selected recent ones:
- RAL ‘21 (ICRA ‘21): Single-query Path Planning Using Sample-efficient Probability Informed Trees w/Rakita and Mutlu
- RAL ‘21 (ICRA ‘21): Corrective Shared Autonomy for Addressing Task Variability w/Hagenow et al.
- ICRA ‘21: CollisionIK: A Per-Instant Pose Optimization Method for Generating Robot Motions with Environment Collision Avoidance w/Rakita, Shi and Mutlu
- ICRA ‘21: Recognizing Orientation Slip in Human Demonstrations w/Hagenow et al.
- TVCG ‘21: embComp: Visual Interactive Comparison of Vector Embeddings w/Heimerl et al.
- TVCG ‘21 (VAST ‘20): CAVA: A Visual Analytics System for Exploratory Columnar Data Augmentation Using Knowledge Graphs w/Cashman et al.
- iScience ‘21: CellO: Comprehensive and hierarchical cell type classification of human cells with the Cell Ontology w/Bernstein, Ma and Dewey