About

I am an associate professor in the Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. I completed my Ph.D. in computer science at the University of California at Berkeley, where I worked in the Berkeley Computer Animation & Modeling group. I then spent two years as a postdoctoral fellow in the City of Bridges working in the Graphics Lab at Carnegie Mellon University. Before returning home to Maryland, I was an assistant professor in the School of Computing at the University of Utah.

Research interests

Computer Graphics, Computer Animation, Scientific Computing

Teaching interests

Computer Graphics, Computer Animation, Data Structures, Algorithms

Education

  • Ph D, Computer Science — University of California, Berkeley (2006)
    Tracking and Texturing Liquid Surfaces
  • BS, Computer Science — University of Maryland, College Park (2000)
  • BS, Mathematics — University of Maryland, College Park (2000)

Publications

  • Efficient Collision Detection for Example-Based Deformable Bodies 2017 ACM SIGGRAPH Motion in Games Ben Jones, Joshua A Levine, Tamar Shinar, Adam Bargteil
  • Reclustering for Large Plasticity in Clustered Shape Matching 2017 ACM SIGGRAPH Motion in Games Michael Falkenstein, Ben Jones, Joshua A Levine, Tamar Shinar, Adam Bargteil
  • Ductile Fracture for Clustered Shape Matching 2016 ACM SIGGRAPH Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics and Games Ben Jones, April Martin, Joshua A Levine, Tamar Shinar, Adam Bargteil
  • Clustering and Collision Detection for Clustered Shape Matching 2015 ACM SIGGRAPH Motion in Games Ben Jones, April Martin, Joshua A Levine, Tamar Shinar, Adam Bargteil
  • Dynamic Sprites: Artistic Authoring of Interactive Animations 2015 Computer Animation and Virtual Worlds · 26 (2) Ben Jones, Jovan Popovic, James McCann, Wilmot Li, Adam Bargteil
  • A Level-set Method for Skinning Animated Particle Data 2015 IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics · 21 (3) Haimasree Bhattacharya, Yue Gao, Adam Bargteil

Grants and Contracts

  • Digital Twin for Wildfire Worldwide 2025 NSF · Grant · Not Funded Karuna Joshi (Principal), Milton Halem (Co-Principal), Charles Ichoku (Co-Principal), Belay B Demoz (Co-Principal), Anupam Joshi (Supporting), Timothy W Finin (Supporting), Adam Bargteil (Supporting)
  • RTK-FisVis: Real-Time Interactive Fluid Simulation and Visualization Toolkit 2017 NSF · Grant · Not Funded Meilin Yu (Principal), Matthias Gobbert (Co-Principal), Adam Bargteil (Co-Principal)
  • CHS: Small: Learning to Model Cloth Dynamics National Science Foundation · Grant · Not Funded Hamed Pirsiavash (Co-Principal), Adam Bargteil (Principal)

Courses Taught

  • Computer Animation CMSC 491 · Spring 2016
  • Computer Graphics CMSC 435 · Fall 2015