Louis (USA). He obtained his PhD from the Department of Computer Science at Rice University in 2005, received his post-doctoral training from Baylor College of Medicine in Summer 2005. Dr. Ju conducts research in the areas of computer graphics and bio-medical applications, and in particular focuses on algorithms for geometric modeling, processing and their uses in medical imaging and modeling. He has published over 30 articles in top computer graphics and bio-medical forums such as SIGGRAPH and PLoS Computational Biology. Dr. Ju is a program co-chair of Pacific Graphics 2007 and area co-chair of International Symposium on Visual Computing 2007, and has served on the program committees of major conferences such as Eurographics, ACM Solid and Physical Modeling and Geometric Modeling and Processing.