Sara Su

Sara Su

Computer Graphics Group
MIT CSAIL, The Stata Center
32 Vassar St., 32-D416
Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
(617) 253-8835

I am a Ph.D. candidate in the Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a member of the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL). My advisor is Frédo Durand.

I received a B.S. in Computer Engineering from the University of Washington and an M.S. from MIT. As a student, I have enjoyed opportunities to intern at Adobe Systems (in San Jose and Newton), Microsoft Research (in Redmond and Beijing), and Cray.

These work experiences are summarized in my CV.

My research focuses on computer graphics and interactive techniques. Below are some recent publications. (A complete list is available here.)

Visualizing, Editing, and Inferring Structure in 2D Graphics
Sara Su
Doctoral Symposium,
ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST), October 2007
Dead-End Elimination as a Heuristic for Min-Cut Image Segmentation
Mala Radhakrishnan and Sara Su
IEEE Int'l Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), October 2006
De-Emphasis of Distracting Image Regions Using Texture Power Maps
Sara Su, Frédo Durand, Maneesh Agrawala
ICCV Workshop on Texture Analysis and Synthesis, October 2005
A Hybrid Approach to Rendering Handwritten Characters
Sara Su, Chenyu Wu, Ying-Qing Xu, Heung-Yeung Shum
Int'l Conference on Computer Graphics, Visualization, Computer Vision, February 2004
Simulating Artistic Brushstrokes Using Interval Splines
Sara Su, Ying-Qing Xu, Heung-Yeung Shum, Falai Chen
Int'l Conference on Computer Graphics and Imaging (CGIM), August 2002

In Summer 2006, I had the pleasure of serving as the Computer Science Instructor for MIT's Women's Technology Program.