Dr. Kenji Shimada is Professor at Carnegie Mellon University in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, the Department of Biomedical Engineering (courtesy appointment), and the Robotics Institute (courtesy appointment).  Dr. Shimada received his B.S. and M.S. from the University of Tokyo, and his Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His research interests are in the areas of geometric modeling, computational geometry, computer graphics, computer assisted surgery, and human body simulation. Prior to joining Carnegie Mellon in 1996, he was Manager of Graphics Applications at IBM Research, Tokyo Research Laboratory. At IBM Research Dr. Shimada initiated and led various research and consultation projects with IBM customers and the Japanese government, as well as with the company’s internal product development and manufacturing groups. At Carnegie Mellon, Dr. Shimada has explored a new physically-based approach to key geometric problems in engineering and medical applications, such as finite element mesh generation, interactive curve and surface design, and three-dimensional shape reconstruction for product design and surgical applications. Some of the technologies that he developed at IBM and Carnegie Mellon have been successfully used in industry. Dr. Shimada received the Best Author Award from Japan Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics in 2006, the ASME Design Automation Best Paper Award in 2004, the IPSJ Best Paper Award in 2002, NSF CAREER Award in 2000, George Tallman Ladd Award for Excellence in Research from the Carnegie Institute of Technology in 1998, IPSJ Yamashita Award in 1994, and Best Paper Award from Nicograph in 1994. He holds over 20 patents in the US, Japan, and Europe. He is a member of ACM, ASME, ASEE, IEEE Computer Society, SAE, and SIAM

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Education

1993 Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering (Minor: Business), Massachusetts Institute of Technology

1985 M.S., Precision Machinery Engineering, The University of Tokyo 

1983 B.S., Precision Machinery Engineering, The University of Tokyo

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Professional Experience

present - 2004 President and CEO, Ciespace Corporation, Pittsburgh, USA.

present - 2003 Professor, the Department of Mechanical Engineering, the Department of Biomedical Engineering, and the Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA.

present - 2002 Courtesy faculty appointment in the Department of Biomedical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA.

2003- 2001 Associate Professor, the Department of Mechanical Engineering
and the Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA.

present - 1998 Courtesy faculty appointment in the Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon
University, Pittsburgh, USA.

2001 – 1996 Assistant Professor, the Department of Mechanical Engineering
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA.

1996 – 1995 Manager, IBM Research, Tokyo Research Laboratory, Tokyo, Japan.

1995 – 1993 Project Leader, IBM Research, Tokyo Research Laboratory,
Tokyo, Japan.

1993 – 1989 IBM Japan Overseas Scholar

1989 – 1985 Researcher, IBM Research, Tokyo Research Laboratory, Tokyo, Japan.

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Honors and Awards

2006 Best Author Award, Japan Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
2005 Best Technical Poster Award, the 14th International Meshing Roundtable (with S. Yamakawa)

2004 ASME Design Automation Best Paper Award

2002 IPSJ Best Paper Award, Information Processing Society of Japan

2000 NSF CAREER Award

2000 Best Poster Award, the 9th International Meshing Roundtable (with S. Yamakawa).

1998 The George Tallman Ladd Award for Excellence in Research, the Carnegie Institute of Technology

1998 Honda Initiation Grant Award

1994 Nicograph Best Paper Award

1994 IPSJ Yamashita SIG Research Award, Information Processing Society of Japan

1989 IBM Oversea Doctoral Scholar

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Academic Activities

Conference/Symposium/Committee Chair

Program Co-Chair, GMP2006: Geometric Modeling and Processing 2005-2006.

Conference Chair, the ASME Design Automation Executive Committee, 2004-2005.

Conference Chair, the 30th ASME Design Automation Conference, 2004.

Program Chair, the 29th ASME Design Automation Conference, 2003.

International Paper Chair, the 28th ASME Design Automation Conference, 2002.

Symposium Co-Chair, the 3rd Symposium on Unstructured Mesh Generation, 2001.

Conference Chair, the 8th International Meshing Roundtable, 1999.

Editorial Board

Advisory editorial board member, International Journal of Automotive Technology, 2005-present.

Editorial board member, Computer-Aided Design and Applications, 2004-present.

Guest editor, Journal of Computing and Information in Science and Engineering, 2004-2005.

Editorial board member, International Journal of the Society of CAD/CAM Engineers, 2000-present.

Editorial board member of the Journal of Japan Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, 1994-1997.

Guest editor, Computer-Aided Design, 1999-2000.

Program/Organizing Committee

Member, Conference Advisory Board, CAD06, 2005-2006.

Program committee member of ACM Symposium on Solid and Physical Modeling, 2004-2005.

Program committee member of 2005 International CAD Conference and Exhibition, 2004-2005.

Program committee member of IEEE Computer Graphics International 2005, 2004-2005.

Program committee member of Geometric Modeling and Processing (GMP2004), 2003-2004.

Program committee member of 2004 International CAD Conference and Exhibition, 2003-2004.

Program committee member of Geometric Modeling and Processing (GMP2002), 2001-2002.

Program committee member of Pacific Graphics 2001, 2001.

Paper Review Coordinator of ASME Design Automation Conference, 1999-2001.

Organizing Committee, the 7th International Meshing Roundtable, 1998.

Program committee member, Graphics and CAD Symposium, ISJP of Japan, 1995-1996.

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