Daniel Leventhal


dlev at cs washington edu
Brown : Live Labs : UW
I started in the PhD program at the University of Washington in 2009 where I'm advised by Brian Curless. I received my ScB in computer science and math from Brown University. My research interests are in computer graphics, vision and HCI. I am a member of the GRAIL and dub groups. When I'm not working on research I'm usually playing ultimate or cooking.

Publications

Morgan Dixon, Daniel Leventhal, and James Fogarty.
"Content and Hierarchy in Pixel-Based Methods for Reverse Engineering Interface Structure," ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. 2011. [ project ]

Daniel Leventhal and Meinolf Sellmann.
"The Accuracy of Search Heuristics," Proceedings the Fifth International Conference on the Integration of AI and OR Techniques in Constraint Programming for Combinatorial Optimization Problems (CPAIOR), Springer LNCS 5015, pp. 142-157, 2008. [ pdf ]

Meinolf Sellmann, Luc Mercier, and Daniel Leventhal.
"The Linear Programming Polytope of Binary Constraint Problems with Bounded Tree-Width," Proceedings the Fourth International Conference on the Integration of AI and OR Techniques in Constraint Programming for Combinatorial Optimization Problems (CPAIOR), Springer LNCS 4510, pp. 275-287, 2007. [ pdf ]

Ionut Aron, Daniel Leventhal, and Meinolf Sellmann.
"A Totally Unimodular Description of the Consistent Value Polytope for Binary CSPs," Proceedings the Third International Conference on the Integration of AI and OR Techniques in Constraint Programming for Combinatorial Optimization Problems (CPAIOR), Springer LNCS 3990, pp. 16-28, 2006. [ pdf ]

Daniel Leventhal, Bernie Gordon, and Peter G. Sibley.
"Poisson Image Editing Extended" ACM SIGGRAPH 2006 Posters. [ pdf | supplement ]

Work and Projects

While at Microsoft Live Labs I worked on Pivot [ted video | promo video] an experiment in data visualization and web browsing all rolled into one. It's still available for download from MSR. The latest incarnation is a Silverlight control called PivotViewer which is easy to host in a web site.
Some collections I've put together (may not play well with Linux or Mac Chrome)

Mocha - An alternative course planning site for Brown University. Mocha helps find courses to take, create a schedule and buy books for courses.

Teaching

UW Instructor

Fall 11: cse457 - Computer Graphics

Brown TA

Spring 07: cs157 - Algorithms
Fall 06: cs167/9 - Operating Systems
Spring 06: cs141 - AI
Fall 05: cs149 - Combinatorial Optimization
Fall 04 - Spring 05: cs17/18 - An integrated introduction to CS