Yiying Tong

Yiying Tong
Assistant Professor
Research Biography

Yiying Tong is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering. Prior to joining MSU, he worked as a postdoctoral scholar at Caltech. He received his Ph.D. degree from University of Southern California in 2004. His research focuses on discrete geometric modeling, physically-based simulation/animation, and discrete differential geometry. His research interests also include the applications of differential geometry in face recognition, molecular surface computation, medical imaging, and other related areas.

Research Interests
  • computer graphics
Selected Publications
  • Ari Stern, Yiying Tong, Mathieu Desbrun, and Jerrold E. Marsden. "Variational Integrators for Maxwell's Equations with Sources" In Progress in Electromagnetics Research Symposium (PIERS), Vol. 4, No. 7, 711-715, 2008.
  • Unsang Park, Yiying Tong, and Anil K. Jain, "Face Recognition with Temporal Invariance: A 3D Aging Model", 8th IEEE Int'l Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition, Amsterdam, Netherlands, September 2008. (To appear)
  • Xiaohan Shi, Kun Zhou, Yiying Tong, Mathieu Desbrun, Hujun Bao, and Baining Guo. "Example-Based Dynamic Skinning in Real Time". In ACM Trans. on Graphics (SIGGRAPH), Aug 2008
  • Patrick Mullen, Yiying Tong, Pierre Alliez, Mathieu Desbrun. "Spectral Conformal Parameterization" Computer Graphics Forum (Symposium of Geometry Processing), 2008.