Justin Solomon

PhD candidate in Computer Science, Stanford University (2010-present)
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Co-advised by Adrian Butscher, Max Planck Center for Visual Computing and Communication

Previously:

BS '10, Computer Science (advisor: Leonidas Guibas) and Mathematics (advisor: Richard Schoen), Stanford University (2006-2010)
TJHSST (2002-2006)

Research

	Solomon, Justin. "PDE Approaches to Graph Analysis." Theory qualifying exam, Stanford CS PhD program. (slides, lecture video)
	Solomon, Justin, Andy Nguyen, Adrian Butscher, Mirela Ben-Chen, and Leonidas Guibas. "Soft Maps Between Surfaces." SGP 2012, Tallinn. (slides)
	Solomon, Justin, Etienne Vouga, Max Wardetzky, and Eitan Grinspun. "Flexible Developable Surfaces." SGP 2012, Tallinn. (slides)
	Ovsjanikov, Maks, Mirela Ben-Chen, Justin Solomon, Adrian Butscher and Leonidas Guibas. "Functional Maps: A Flexible Representation of Maps Between Shapes." SIGGRAPH 2012, Los Angeles.
	Vacavant, Antoine, Adélaïde Albouy-Kissi, Pierre-Yves Menguy, and Justin Solomon. "Fast Smoothed Shock Filtering." ICPR 2012, Tsukuba.
	Solomon, Justin, Mirela Ben-Chen, Adrian Butscher, and Leonidas Guibas. "As-Killing-As-Possible Vector Fields for Planar Deformation." SGP 2011, Lausanne. (accompanying video)
	Solomon, Justin, Mirela Ben-Chen, Adrian Butscher, and Leonidas Guibas. "Discovery of Intrinsic Primitives on Triangle Meshes." Eurographics 2011, Llandudno. (supplemental material, presentation slides)
	Kass, Michael and Justin Solomon. "Smoothed Local Histogram Filters." SIGGRAPH 2010, Los Angeles: article no. 100. (reference implementation)
	Ben-Chen, Mirela, Adrian Butscher, Justin Solomon, and Leonidas Guibas. "On Discrete Killing Vector Fields and Patterns on Surfaces." Symposium on Geometry Processing (SGP) 2010, Lyon. (2nd place, SGP best paper awards; paper presented by Mirela Ben-Chen) Solomon, Justin. "Discrete Killing Fields for Pattern Synthesis and Symmetry Detection." Undergraduate thesis, Stanford University Departments of Computer Science and Mathematics (contains alternative proofs and constructions; awarded Ben Wegbreit Prize for Best Undergraduate Honors Thesis and Firestone Medal for Excellence in Undergraduate Research).
	Solomon, Justin. "Programmers, Professors, and Parasites: Credit and Co-Authorship in Computer Science." Science and Engineering Ethics 15.4 (2009): 467-489. (winner, Boothe Prize for Excellence in Writing, Stanford University)
	Solomon, Justin. "Deconstructing the Definitive Recording: Elgar's Cello Concerto and the Influence of Jacqueline du Pré." The 2009 Hoefer Prizes for Excellence in Undergraduate Writing.
	Solomon, Justin. "Fast and Accurate Estimation of Principal Curvatures and Directions for Morphable Models." SIGGRAPH 2007 posters, San Diego.
	Solomon, Justin. "Putting the Science in Computer Science." ACM Inroads Magazine 39.2 (2007): 46-49.
	Solomon, Justin. "Programming as a Second Language." Learning & Leading with Technology 32.4 (2004-05), 34-39. Solomon, Justin. "Ready, Set, Code: Computer Team Competitions." Learning & Leading with Technology 34.8 (2007), 32-3. Solomon, Justin. "Ready, Set, Code: Starting a Computer Team in Your School." Learning & Leading with Technology 34.7 (2007), 35-6.
	Various articles in ACM Crossroads: Introduction: issues 16.1 (September 2009; titled "Maxed Out?"), 15.4 (June 2009), 15.3 (March 2009), 15.2 (December 2008), 15.1 (September 2008), 14.4 (June 2008), 14.3 (March 2008), 14.2 (December 2007) "The Science of Shape," issue 13.4 (June 2007) "SIGGRAPH 2006: Exploring the Art and Science of Computer Graphics," issue 13.3 (March 2007)

Teaching

CS 205A: Mathematical Methods for Computer Vision, Robotics, and Graphics (instructor), Fall 2013
CS 468: Differential Geometry for Computer Science (co-teaching with Adrian Butscher), Spring 2013
CS 348a: Computer Graphics: Geometric Modeling (course assistant, guest lecture on polar forms, derivatives, and continuity), Winter 2013
CS 148: Introduction to Computer Graphics and Imaging (instructor), Summer 2012
Symposium on Geometry Processing 2012 graduate school (lecturer on shape descriptors and matching), Summer 2012
CS 468: Geometry Processing Algorithms (guest lecture on discrete exterior calculus), Spring 2012
CS 348a: Computer Graphics: Geometric Modeling (course assistant, guest lecture on mesh parameterization), Winter 2012
CS 106a: Programming Methodology (section leader), Winter 2009

Other

I am an avid cellist and pianist and continue to study both at Stanford. I also am interested in the study of older recordings to understand changing musical styles and performance practice; I spent Summer 2010 doing research into early recordings of Edward Elgar's music through their Edison Fellowship program and am preparing a manuscript discussing the performance history of his cello concerto.
My Erdös number is 3:
- Ben-Chen, Mirela, Leonidas Guibas, Adrian Butscher, and Justin Solomon. "On Discrete Killing Vector Fields and Patterns on Surfaces." (see above)
- Leonidas J. Guibas, F. Frances Yao. "On Translating a Set of Rectangles." STOC 1980: 154-160.
- F.R.K. Chung, P. Erdös, R.L. Graham, S.M. Ulam, F.F. Yao. "Minimal Decompositions of Two Graphs into Pairwise Isomorphic Subgraphs." Proceedings of the Tenth Southeastern Conference on Combinatorics 1979: 3-18.
As an undergrad at Stanford, I was a member of the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity California Beta chapter and was both a resident and later an HPAC (a dorm staff job that no longer exists!) in Otero. I also coordinated the first-ever Taste of Palo Alto event on campus to benefit East Palo Alto's Ecumenical Hunger Program. Long ago, I was a member of Boy Scout Troop 152 in Vienna, Virginia.