Tamar Shinar Amrik Singh Poonian Assistant Professor Computer Science & Engineering Department University of California - Riverside Riverside, CA 92521 shinar@cs.ucr.edu Curriculum Vitae

Research

• Microtubule-based motion in the single-celled C. elegans embryo (with M. Mana, F. Piano, and M. Shelley)
  
  
  
• Stokes flow in a complex geometry coupled to dynamic rigid structures and filaments (with M. Shelley)
  
  
  
• Deformable creatures with articulated, actuated rigid skeletons (with C. Schroeder and R. Fedkiw)
  
  
  
• Full two-way coupling of rigid and deformable bodies (with C. Schroeder and R. Fedkiw)
  
  
  
• Two-way coupling of fluids to rigid and deformable solids and shells (with A. Robinson-Mosher, J. Gretarsson, J. Su, and R. Fedkiw)
  
  
  
• Hybrid simulation of deformable solids (with E. Sifakis, G. Irving, and R. Fedkiw)
  
  
  
• Wrinkled flames and cellular patterns (with J.-M. Hong and R. Fedkiw)
  
  
  
• Multiple interacting liquids (with F. Losasso, A. Selle, and R. Fedkiw)
  

Publications

• Hohenegger, C. and Shinar, T. Fluid coupling in continuum modeling of microtubule motility assays, in preparation.
• Shinar, T. and Shelley, M., A numerical method for Stokes flow in a complex geometry coupled to dynamic rigid structures and filaments, in preparation.
• Robinson-Mosher, A., Shinar, T., Silver, P. and Way J. Dynamics simulations for engineering macromolecular interactions, submitted.
• Shinar, T., Mana, M., Piano, F. and Shelley, M., A model of cytoplasmically-driven microtubule-based motion in the single-celled C. elegans embryo, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 108 (26), pp. 10508-10513, 2011
• Robinson-Mosher, A., Shinar, T., Gretarsson, J., Su, J. and Fedkiw, R., Two-way coupling of fluids to rigid and deformable solids and shells, SIGGRAPH 2008, ACM TOG 27, 2008
• Shinar, T., Schroeder, C., and Fedkiw, R., Two-way coupling of rigid and deformable bodies, ACM SIGGRAPH/Eurographics Symposium on Computer Animation (SCA), edited by D. James and M. Gross, pp. 95-103, 2008
• Sifakis, E., Shinar, T., Irving, G. and Fedkiw, R., Hybrid simulation of deformable solids, ACM SIGGRAPH/Eurographics Symposium on Computer Animation (SCA), edited by D. Metaxas and J. Popovic pp. 81-90, 2007
• Hong, J.-M., Shinar, T. and Fedkiw, R., Wrinkled flames and cellular patterns, SIGGRAPH 2007, ACM TOG 26, 47.1-47.6, 2007
• Hong, J.-M., Shinar, T., Kang, M. and Fedkiw, R., On boundary condition capturing for multiphase interfaces J. Sci. Comput. 31, 99-125, 2007
• Losasso, F., Shinar, T. Selle, A. and Fedkiw, R., Multiple interacting liquids SIGGRAPH 2006, ACM TOG 25, 812-819, 2006

Thesis

• Shinar, T., Simulation of Coupled Rigid and Deformable Solids and Multiphase Fluids, Scientific Computing and Computational Mathematics, Stanford, 2008

Teaching

Outreach

I was a mentor in the Technovation Challenge program in NYC. Our team won 1st place in NYC and went on to the national competition at Google HQ where we placed 3rd overall! Go Firebirds! Read about the team and our winning app in this Huffington Post article.

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