David E. Breen

Teaching Research Publications Bio CV

Professor
Associate Department Head for Graduate Affairs
Department of Computer Science
College of Computing and Informatics
Drexel University
3141 Chestnut Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104

Office : 3675 Market Street, Room 1177
Office # : (215) 895-1626
Dept. # : (215) 895-2669
FAX # : (215) 895-0545
david AT cs.drexel.edu

News

My PhD student Levi Kapplani Maharaj and others have published a paper on generating yarn topology graphs for knitted fabrics.

My PhD student Joel Pepper has been awarded an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship and
received the best student paper award at the 2021 ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries!

I am guest co-editing (along with Jim McCann of CMU and Mariana Popescu of ETH) a special issue of the journal Computer Aided Design
on Computational Modeling, Design and Fabrication for Textiles.

My former MS student Rafael Campos has been profiled on the CCI web site.

I was part of the Drexel team that was awarded one of the National Institutes for Manufacturing Innovation!
Called AFFOA, the institute focuses on advanced fibers and textiles and is led by MIT.
Go here for more information.
AFFOA and the State of Pennsylvania have established a Fabric Discovery Center at Drexel.
Here is a story that describes the research being conducted at the Center for Functional Fabrics.

Check out "Level Set Morphing Goes to Hollywood!"

Enjoy some "math humor"!

I am affiliated with the Metadata Research Center and the Center for Biological Discovery from Big Data.

I collaborate with four research teams:

Dr. Jane Greenberg's Metadata Research Center on automatic image metadata generation research,
Mark Zarella of the Mayo Clinic and Dr. Fernando Garcia of Tower Health on digital pathology research,
Genevieve Dion's Center for Functional Fabrics, Dr. Vadim Shapiro's Spatial Automation Laboratory and the (Dr. Randy) Kamien Group on textile modeling research,
Dr. Ken Museth of Voxel Tech Inc. and Rafael Campos of the University of São Paulo on 3D morphing research.

I am the Program Co-Chair for the 2023 8th International Conference on Biomedical Signal and Image Processing.
I am currently on the Program Committee of
the 2023 Asia Symposium on Image Processing and
the 2023 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine.

Teaching

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Research Interests

Geometry is the technical thread that runs through most of my research. This may include geometric computation, geometric modeling, and geometric analysis.
Having studied physics as an undergraduate, physics-based modeling also is a frequent theme in my research, which can be seen in my energy-based optimization and simulation work.

Since I am fascinated by living systems and how they develop, I have worked extensively with biologists, biomedical engineers and physicians. This interest has led to my research efforts in geometric biomedical computing. This is a research area that lies at the intersection of biology, medicine, engineering and computer science, and one that develops algorithms and software to solve geometry-related computing problems for a variety of biomedical applications.

I am intrigued by the dynamic processes that aggregate small-scale, local interactions to produce large-scale, self-organizing macroscopic behavior and structures.

I have also returned to my technical roots (cloth modeling) by getting involved with the research at the Center for Functional Fabrics.
I am helping to develop computational technologies needed for the design of advanced textiles.

I am currently involved in seven research projects:

modeling and design of 4D surfaces,

computational technologies for the design of knitted structures,

swarm-based prediction techniques,

automatic image metadata generation,

mesh-based deep learning for object classification and shape matching,

shape and image analysis for computer-aided diagnosis of breast tumors,

feature-based 3D level set morphing.

Here is an overview of my research activities/expertise.

My research is funded by the National Science Foundation.