Research

Elif Tosun

New York University

Interests

• Geometric Modeling
• Computer Graphics
• Computational Geometry
• Discrete Geometry
• Algorithms 

Selected Work

• Recent Work at NYU

• Undergraduate Honors Thesis  - received Highest Honors in Computer Science (Smith College '02) 

• Algorithms for Scene Analysis: Recovery of Camera Positions from Visibility Information.
• Thesis(.ps)
• Thesis defense presentation (.ppt) 

• Work at IBM T.J. Watson Research Center 
• Summer 02: Optimization and tuning of basic linear algebra algorithms on parallel hardware.
• Summer 01: Development and implementation of an irregular polygon intersection algorithm to be used in VLSI design. 

• Other Research Work at Smith College 
• Maxwell's Theorem on planar self-stressed graphs (Summer 2000)
• Visualization of an algorithm for convexifying a polygon with rigid motions (Summer 2000) -   see publications for abstract 
• Java Software Tool for Oriented Matroids:GUI+kernel (1999-2000) - see publications for abstract.

Papers/Abstracts/Publications

      Elif Tosun, Yotam Gingold, Jason Reisman, Denis Zorin: Shape Optimization using Reflection Lines. 

            In Proceedings, Symposium on Geometry Processing 2007:193-202. Barcelona, Spain.

Elif Tosun, Benjamin Wellington: DetectIt: A Peer-to-Peer Plagiarism Detection System.

      unpublished manuscript , 2003

Ileana Streinu, Elif Tosun: Camera Position Reconstruction and Tight Direction Networks

      Proc. Graph Drawing 2002: 372-373.

Elif Tosun: Visualization of an algorithm for convexifying a simple planar polygon with rigid motions.

            The Journal of Computing in Small Colleges, Proc. of the sixth annual CCSCNE.

            April 2001. Vol 16 Is 4. pg 318-320. (Received best student poster award)

B. Chaudry , I. Streinu , G. Tewari , E. Tosun: Developing a Java software tool for oriented matroids

      The Journal of Computing in Small Colleges, Proc. of the fifth annual CCSCNE.

      April 2000. Vol 15 Is 5. pg 330-331.       

Conferences/Workshops

• 2007 Grace Hopper Celebration for Women in Computing. -Scholarship Recipient.
• SIGGRAPH 2007. San Diego, CA.
• SGP 2007. Barcelona, Spain. - Presenter
• Fall Workshop on Computational Geometry. Smith College. Northampton,MA. - Organizing Committee
• 2006 Grace Hopper Celebration for Women in Computing. -Scholarship Recipient.
• SIGGRAPH 2006 - Boston BCEC (Jul29-Aug3, 06) - Student Volunteer
• Princeton - WISE Conference (Feb 10th,06) 
• Subdivision Summer School, Pontignano, Tuscany, Italy. Jun 25th-Jul2nd 2005.
• Barbados Workshops on Topics in Computational Geometry, Barbados. 2001, 2002, 2003.
• SoCG '01(Tufts University, MA)
• CCSCNE'01 conference at Middlebury College, April 27-28, 2001.  - received best poster award
• Fall Workshop on Computational Geometry  Polytechnic Univ. Brooklyn.Nov 2-3 2001
• CCSCNE 2000, Ramapo College of New Jersey, on April 28-29, 2000
• Fall Workshop on Computational Geometry  Stony Brook, November 2-3, 2000
• SoCG '99(Miami Beach, FL)