Miguel A. Otaduy Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science URJC Madrid

Address ETS Ingeniería Informática Universidad Rey Juan Carlos Edf. Ampliación Rectorado, D-0052 c/ Tulipán, s/n E-28933 Móstoles, Spain

Phone +34-91-488-8115 Fax +34-91-488-7049 Email miguel.otaduy[at]urjc.es

News!

Star-Contours for Efficient Hierarchical Self-Collision Detection, lead by Sara C. Schvartzman, accepted to ACM SIGGRAPH 2010 (project page).

Design and Fabrication of Materials with Desired Deformation Behavior, lead by Bernd Bickel (Disney Research Zurich), accepted to ACM SIGGRAPH 2010 (project page).

Constraint-Based Simulation of Adhesive Contact, lead by Jorge Gascón, accepted to SCA 2010 (project page).

FASTCD: Fracturing-Aware Stable Collision Detection, lead by Jae-Pil Heo (KAIST, Korea), accepted to SCA 2010 (project page).

Teaching and Students

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Short Bio

He received his BS (2000) in Electrical Engineering from Mondragon Unibertsitatea (Spain), and his MS (2003) and PhD (2004) in Computer Science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He completed his PhD thesis in the field of haptic rendering under the advisory of Prof. Ming Lin, and supported by fellowships from the Government of the Basque Country and the UNC Computer Science Alumni.

Between 1995 and 2000, he was a research assistant at Ikerlan research lab, and between Aug 2000 and Dec 2004 he was a research assistant with the Gamma group at UNC. In the Summer of 2003 he worked at Immersion Medical. From Feb 2005 to Feb 2008, he worked as a research associate (oberassistent) at the Computer Graphics Laboratory of ETH Zurich, with Prof. Markus Gross. At ETH, he lead the involvement of the CGL in the Swiss NCCR CoMe (Computational Medicine). Miguel is at URJC Madrid since Feb 2008.

His main research areas are physically-based simulation, haptic rendering, collision detection, virtual reality, and geometric algorithms, and he is particularly interested in the simulation and interaction with virtual objects in contact, with application to virtual prototyping, computational medicine, animation, or videogames.