The Dept. of CS is one of the oldest, and is consistently ranked in the top-5 in the nation. Its graphics research program is rather young, starting in 1999, and is well funded from the NSF, DARPA and various graphics and computing industries. Our faculty researching topics in graphics include David Forsyth, John C. Hart, Anil Hirani, Derek Hoiem, Sanjay Patel and Yizhou Yu, with well recognized expertise in a variety of topics including GPU programming, high performance graphics, computational topology, meshing processing, motion capture, controlled physical simulation, texture processing and graphics hardware design. See graphics.cs.uiuc.edu for more information.
Several NAVTEQ employees are alumni of Illinois, including CEO Larry Kaplan and research scientist Matei Stroila. Through Matei Stroila, we have established a collaboration that has included internships, sponsored research and a recent NAVTEQ scanning of the Urbana-Champaign Campus. We have taught several courses on topics of interest to NAVTEQ including point-based modeling, and most recently Matei Stroila has become an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Dept. of CS at Illinois and in Spring 2011 will teach CS498 Augmented Reality for Personal Navigation.
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