Dr. Adrian Rusu
Associate Professor

Address : Rowan University
                Department of Computer Science
                201 Mullica Hill Road
                Glassboro, NJ 08028
    Phone : (856) 256-4500 ext. 3884
    Email : rusu@rowan.edu

Education:

Ph.D., Computer Science and Engineering, University at Buffalo, 2003
M.S., Computer Science and Engineering, University at Buffalo, 2000
M.S., Computer Science, University of Craiova, Romania, 1997
B.S., Computer Science, University of Craiova, Romania, 1996

Research Interests:

Information Visualization
Human-Computer Interaction
Design and Analysis of Algorithms
Graph Theory
Computer Graphics
Computer Animation
Computer Security
Digital Watermarking
Software Engineering Education

Software Engineering, Graphics & Visualization (SEGV) Research Group @ Rowan:

Research Group

Fall 2008 Courses:

Professional Appointments:

Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science, Rowan University, Glassboro, NJ, 2008-
Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, Rowan University, Glassboro, NJ, 2003-2008
Director, FAA/Rowan Air Transportation Research Laboratory, 2005-
Founding Director, Software Engineering, Graphics & Visualization (SEGV) Research Group, 2004-
Adjunct Faculty, Department of Computer Science, St. John Fisher College, Rochester, NY, 2002-2003
Instructor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, 2001-2002
Teaching and Research Assistant, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, 1998-2003
Summer Manager, AT&T Bell Labs, Holmdel, NJ, 1999
Teaching Assistant, Department of Computer Science, University of Craiova, Romania, 1996

Journal Publications:

Drawing Binary Trees in Linear Area, with Ashim Garg. Invited paper. Journal of Graph Algorithms and Applications (JGAA). Special Issue on Selected Papers from Tenth International Symposium on Graph Drawing (GD 2002), 8(2): 135-160, 2004.
Drawing Ordered Trees in Small Area , with Ashim Garg. Invited Paper. International Journal of Computational Geometry and Applications (IJCGA) 13(6): 487-505, 2003.
Drawing Outerplanar Graphs in Small Area, with Ashim Garg. Invited for publication in the Discrete Applied Mathematics Journal. Accepted.
Almost Bend-Optimal Drawings of 3-Planar Graphs, with Ashim Garg and Giuseppe Liotta. In preparation.
Area-Efficient Drawings of Trees – An Experimental Study, with Radu Jianu. In preparation.

Conference Publications:

Area-Efficient Visualization of Web Data, with Vishal Anand, Keith Hansen, and Radu Jianu. Proc. 5^th International Conference on Internet Computing - IC 2004, CSREA Press 2004, Vol. I, ISBN 1-932415-44-0, pp. 83-89.
Area-Efficient Drawings of Outerplanar Graphs, with Ashim Garg. Proc. 11^th International Symposium on Graph Drawing – GD 2003, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 2912, Springer, pp. 129-134.
A More Practical Algorithm for Drawing Binary Trees in Linear Area with Arbitrary Aspect Ratio, with Ashim Garg. Proc. 11^th International Symposium on Graph Drawing – GD 2003, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 2912, Springer, pp. 159-165.
Area-Efficient Grid Drawings of Graphs. Ph. D. Thesis, University at Buffalo.
Area-Efficient Order-Presrving Planar Straight-Line Drawings of Ordered Trees, with Ashim Garg. Proc. 9^th International Computing and Combinatorics Conference – COCOON 2003, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 2697, Springer, pp. 475-486.
Straight-line Drawings of General Trees with Linear Area and Arbitrary Aspect Ratio, with Ashim Garg. Proc. 2003 International Conference on Computational Science and Its Applications - ICCSA 2003, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 2669, Springer, pp. 876-885.
Two Efficient and Accurate N-dimensions Minimum Distance Classifier Algorithms, with Amalia Rusu and Catalin Tomai. Proc. 3^rd International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Digital Communications – AIDC 2003, Research Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 103, pp. 16-28.
Straight-line Drawings of Binary Trees with Linear Area and Arbitrary Aspect Ratio, with Ashim Garg. Proc. 10^th International Symposium on Graph Drawing – GD 2002, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 2528, Springer, 2002, pp. 320-331.
Graph Drawing: A Short Overview and Two Open Problems. Proc. 2^nd International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Digital Communications - AIDC 2002, Research Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 102, pp. 54-69.

Last Updated: 06/21/2008.