David Akers   Computer Graphics Laboratory Computer Science Department Stanford University Gates Computer Science Building, Room 396 Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305 Phone: (650) 725-3648   dakers -- at -- graphics -- dot -- stanford -- dot -- edu

I graduated from Brown University with an ScB. in Computer Science and Mathematics in 1999. Following this, I worked for two years at Silicon Graphics on the OpenGL Volumizer volume rendering API. I then worked for a year in the computer science department at the University of Washington on an NSF-funded educational technology initiative led by Professor Steve Tanimoto.

I also have a number of outside interests, including singing, running, swing dancing, ultimate frisbee, mentoring, international relations, and the wonderful but addictive game of Scrabble.

Publications

	David Akers, "CINCH: A Cooperatively Designed Marking Interface for 3D Pathway Selection" To Appear in UIST 2006 (Montreux, Switzerland, October 15-18, 2006).
	David Akers, "Wizard of Oz for Participatory Design: Inventing an Interface for 3D Selection of Neural Pathway Estimates" CHI 2006 Works in Progress (April 24-27, 2006).
	Anthony Sherbondy, David Akers, Rachel Mackenzie, Robert Dougherty, and Brian Wandell, "Exploring Connectivity of the Brain's White Matter with Dynamic Queries." IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, Volume 11, Issue 4 (July 2005) pp. 419-430.
	David Akers, Anthony Sherbondy, Rachel Mackenzie, Robert Dougherty, and Brian Wandell, "Exploration of the Brain's White Matter Pathways with Dynamic Queries." Proceedings of IEEE Visualization 2004, pp. 377-384.
	David Akers, Frank Losasso, Jeff Klingner, Maneesh Agrawala, John Rick, and Pat Hanrahan, "Conveying Shape and Features with Image-Based Relighting." Proceedings of IEEE Visualization 2003, pp. 349-354.
	Steven Tanimoto, William Winn, David Akers, "A System That Supports Using Student-Drawn Diagrams to Assess Comprehension of Mathematical Formulas." Diagrams 2002, pp. 100-102.
	David Akers and Robert Goldberg, "BioEqCalc: A Mathematica package for treating chemical equilibria in aqueous solutions." The Mathematica Journal, Vol. 8 No. 1, 2001, pp. 86-113.
	N. Kishore, Y. Tewari, D. Akers, R. Goldberg, and E. Miles, "A Thermodynamic Investigation of Reactions Catalyzed by Tryptophan Synthase." Biophysical Chemistry , Vol 73, 1998, pp. 265-280.

Software

	DTI-Query: Visualization software for exploration of white-matter tractography results in the brain.
	Geode: visualization software for ordinary differential equations. A class project for a course in numerical analysis at Stanford.
	g(z): Visualizing Complex Function Graphs. While an undergraduate senior at Brown University, I researched and implemented a visualization system for an undergraduate course in complex analysis.