David E. Breen

Teaching Research Publications CV

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

Office : 3675 Market Street, Room 1134
Office # : (215) 895-1626
Dept. # : (215) 895-2669
FAX # : (215) 895-0545
david AT cs.drexel.edu

News

I was an invited keynote speaker at the 2020 International Conference on System Modeling and Optimization.

I have recently joined the editorial board of the International Journal of Modeling and Optimization.

My undergraduate advisee Peter Gagliardi was given the CS Department A* Award and High Performance Computing Award.
My PhD student Sean Grimes was given the Graduate Student Teaching Excellence Award.

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 is led by MIT.
Go here for more information.
AFFOA and the State of Pennsylvania recently established a Fabric Discovery Center here at Drexel.

Check out "Level Set Morphing Goes to Hollywood!"

I am affiliated with the Center for Functional Fabrics, and the Center for Biological Discovery from Big Data.
I participate in the REThink CS @ Drexel Program.

I collaborate with three research teams:

Dr. Mark Zarella of Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and Dr. Fernando Garcia of Cancer Treatment Centers of America,
Genevieve Dion's Center for Functional Fabrics, Dr. Antonios Kontsos' Theoretical and Applied Mechanics Group,
Dr. Vadim Shapiro's Spatial Automation Laboratory and the (Dr. Randy) Kamien Group,
Dr. Ken Museth of Voxel Tech Inc. and Rafael Campos of the University of São Paulo.

I am the Program Co-Chair for the 2020 5th International Conference on Biomedical Signal and Image Processing.
I am currently on the Program Committee of
      the 2020 International Conference on System Modeling and Optimization,
      the 2020 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO), and
      the 2020 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine.

Teaching

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 work, I have worked extensively with biologists, biomedical engineers and physicians. This 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 four research projects:

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

computational technologies for the design of knitted structures,

swarm-based prediction techniques,

feature-based 3D level set morphing.

Here is an overview of my research activities/expertise.

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