Michael Gleicher
Professor
Department of Computer Sciences
University of Wisconsin, Madison
1210 West Dayton St.
Madison, WI 53706
gleicher@cs.wisc.edu
Office Hours: (Spring 2021) Wednesday 1-2pm, or by appointment. Office Hours held virtually in my Zoom “personal meeting ID” (send email for a link).
I am a professor working in areas related to Computer Graphics. These days, my main things are Data Visualization and Robotics, but 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, or videos.
My research these days is mainly about robotics and data science. With both, I am interested in how we can make them useful for people.
Last semester (Spring 2020), I am teaching CS559 Computer Graphics. Last semester (Fall 2020) I taught CS765 Data Visualization.
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
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 am teaching it Fall 2020. I taught it in Fall 2019, Fall 2018, Fall 2017, and several times before that as “special topics” experiments. The class is an experiment in teaching a broad class that serves a very wide range of students.
- CS559 Computer Graphics: I taught this most recently in Spring 2020. I redesigned the class in Spring 2019. My offerings include 2015, 2014, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, and others going back to 1999. If you’re really curious, even older versions of the course page are still on the Graphics Group Courses Page.
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
The complete list is available here. Here are some selected recent ones:
- 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
- HRI ‘20: Effects of Onset Latency and Robot Speed Delays on Mimicry-Control Teleoperation w/Rakita and Mutlu
- HRI ‘20: Supporting Perception of Weight through Motion-induced Sensory Conflicts in Robot Teleoperation w/Praveena, Rakita and Mutlu
- EuroVis ‘20: Boxer: Interactive Comparison of Classifier Results w/Barve, Yu, and Heimerl
- Science Robotics ‘19: Shared-Control-Based Bimanual Robot Manipulation w/Rakita, Mutlu and Hiatt