David E. Breen

Teaching Research Publications Research Group CV

Associate Professor
Geometric Biomedical Computing Group
Department of Computer Science
College of Computing and Informatics
Drexel University
3141 Chestnut Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104

Office : 143 University Crossings
3175 JFK Boulevard
Office # : (215) 895-1626
Dept. # : (215) 895-2669
FAX # : (215) 895-0545
david AT cs.drexel.edu

News

I participated in the Greater Philadelphia Smart Fabrics Conference held at Drexel on May 9th.
Go here for more info.

I have received a CURE Grant with Dr. Mark Zarella of DUCoM.

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

I am 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 will be led by MIT.
Go here for more information.

Check out "Level Set Morphing Goes to Hollywood!"

I am affiliated with the Center for Visual and Decision Informatics, the Center for Functional Fabrics,
and the Center for Biological Discovery from Big Data.

I collaborate with five research teams:

Dr. Mark Zarella of Drexel University College of Medicine's Advanced Pathology Imaging Laboratory and Dr. Fernando Garcia of Cancer Treatment Centers of America
Genevieve Dion's Shima Seiki Haute Technology Laboratory, Dr. Antonios Kontsos' Theoretical and Applied Mechanics Group and Vadim Shapiro's Spatial Automation Laboratory
Dr. Ken Museth of Dreamworks Animation
Dr. Christian Dahmann's Group at the Dresden University of Technology and
Dr. Frank Jülicher's Biological Physics Department at the Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems
a team led by Dr. Ali Shokoufandeh in Drexel's Computer Science Department

I am the Program Co-Chair for the 2018 International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedical Technology,
  and the Program Co-Chair for the 2017 International Conference on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics.
I am currently on the Program Committee of
      the 14th European Conference on Artificial Life, and
      the 2017 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO), and
      the 2017 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine.

Teaching

Research Interests

With my background in computer graphics, geometric modeling and visualization, I am now focusing my research efforts on 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 five research projects:

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

feature-based 3D level set morphing,

computational technologies for the design of knitted structures,

3D reconstruction of the developing Drosophila wing disc,

self-organizing geometric models.

My research is funded by the National Science Foundation and the Center for Visual and Decision Informatics.