Greg Pintilie

Greg Pintilie

B.Sc. (York U.), M.Sc. (U. Toronto), Ph.D. (MIT)
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June 4, 2010 - Webcast of commencement

Research Interests:

My interests lie in the use of computer graphics, vision, and simulation to analyze, model, understand, (re-)design, and optimize various types of physical systems. This also includes research in interfaces that allow such tasks to be driven and assisted by human users.

Projects:

Segger - segmentation of density maps from cryo-EM; gallery
J-Net - interface for design of net sculptures - featured in Discovery News (slide 6), Video
Animation of biological mechanisms - e.g. assisted folding
Darwin Bicentennial Project
Proteoglyphs - featured in MedicalNews
Interactive cutting of meshes using a haptic feedback device. Video 1, 2, 3.

Papers - click here for a more fun Flash version

		G. Pintilie GLUBs: Games for Learning and Understanding Biology Future Play 2010
		G. Pintilie, P. Heppel, J. Echelman Interactive design and simulation of net sculptures R. Taylor et al. (Eds.): Smart Graphics, Springer, Heidelberg, 2010, pp. 68-79.
		G. Pintilie, J. Zhang, T. Goddard, W. Chiu, D. Gossard Quantitative analysis of cryo-EM density map segmentation by watershed and scale-space filtering, and fitting of structures by alignment to regions Journal of Structural Biology, vol. 170, Jun. 2010, pp. 427-438. Pubmed, ScienceDirect
		G. Pintilie, J. Zhang, W. Chiu, D. Gossard Identifying Components in 3D Density Maps of Protein Nanomachines by Multi-scale Segmentation In Life Science Systems and Applications Workshop, IEEE/NIH, pp. 44-47, 2009 IEEExplore, DSpace
		Pintilie, G., Tuekam, B., and Hogue, C.W.V. Generation of Glyphs for Conveying Complex Information, with Application to Protein Representations A. Butz et al. (Eds.): Smart Graphics, LNCS 3638, pp. 90-102, 2005 Springerlink
		Pintilie, G. and McInerney, T. Interactive Cutting of the Skull for Craniofacial Surgical Planning Proceedings of IASTED, Biomedical Engineering. Acta Press, 2003 Actapress, Video 1, Video 2, Video 3
		Allison, R. S., Harris, L. R., Hogue, A., Jasiobedzka, U., Jenkin, H., Jenkin, M., Jaekl, P., Laurence, J., Pintilie, G., Redlick, F., Zacher, J., Zikovitz, D. Simulating self motion II: A virtual reality tricycle Virtual Reality, 6: 86-95, 2002 Springerlink
		Allison, R., Harris, L, Jenkin, M., Pintilie, G., Redlick, F. and Zikovitz, D. C. First steps with a rideable computer Proceedings of the 2nd IEEE International Conference on Virtual Reality, 2000 IEEExplore
		Elder, J. H., Trithart, S., Pintilie, G., MacLean, D. Rapid processing of cast and attached shadows Perception 33(11) 1319-1338, 2004 Perception link
		Jenkin, M., Elder, J. and Pintilie, G. Loosely-coupled telepresence through the panoramic image server Proceedings of Vision Interface 98, 249-254, 1998 Citeseer

Theses:

G. Pintilie
Segmentation and Registration of Molecular Components in 3-Dimensional Density Maps from Cryo-Electron Microscopy
Ph.D. Thesis., MIT, December 17, 2009

Technical Reports:

		G. Pintilie, J. Zhang, J. King, D. Gossard Simulating the conformational transitions in Mm-cpn with Steered Molecular Dynamics Technical Report, March 2008
		G. Pintilie, J. King A structural and statistical study of fluorescence-quenching tryptophan residues in γ-Crystallin Technical Report, August 2007
		G. Pintilie Parallellizing molecular dynamics simulations on the Playstation multicore processor Technical Report, January 2007