Current Project

Current project:
Analyzing Variability of Fluid Flow and Biomechanical Patterns in Bat Flight

Publications

Images

Benjamin Lester. 2007 Visualization Challenge Winners. Science 317 (5846), 1858.
David J. Willis and Mykhaylo Kostandov. Modeling the Flight of a Bat.
First place winner, 2007 Science/NSF Visualization Challenge, Informational Graphics.
(Science) (NSF) (AAAS) (Brown CS) (Brown) (MSNBC)

Journal Publications

(in press) Daniel K. Riskin, David J. Willis, Jose Iriarte-Diaz, Tyson L. Hedrick, Mykhaylo Kostandov, Jian Chen, David H. Laidlaw, Kenneth S. Breuer, and Sharon M Swartz. Quantifying the Complexity of Bat Wing Kinematics. Journal of Theoretical Biology.

Conference Posters and Presentations

Mykhaylo Kostandov, Jian Chen, Igor V. Pivkin, Sharon M. Swartz, David H. Laidlaw. Exploring Dimensionality Reduction of Animal Flight Kinematics in an Interactive Virtual Reality Setting. ACM I3D 2008 Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics and Games, Poster Compendium, Redwood City, CA, February 2008.

Mykhaylo Kostandov, Jonas Schwertfeger, Odest Chadwicke Jenkins, Radu Jianu, Mark Buller, Daniel Hartmann, Matthew Loper, Aggeliki Tsoli, Marek Vondrak, Wenjin Zhou, and Mark Fiala. Robot Gaming and Learning using Augmented Reality. ACM SIGGRAPH 2007 Poster Compendium, San Diego, CA, August 2007. (abstract pdf, poster pdf)

Jian Chen, Andrew Forsberg, Mykhaylo Kostandov, David Willis, and David H. Laidlaw. The Effect of Using Large, High-Resolution Stereoscopic Displays for Flow Visualization. ACM SIGGRAPH 2007 Poster Compendium, San Diego, CA, August 2007.

Mykhaylo Kostandov, Igor V. Pivkin, Kenneth S. Breuer, Sharon M. Swartz, and David H. Laidlaw. Proper Orthogonal Decomposition and Particle Image Velocimetry in Bat Flight. IEEE Visualization 2006 Poster Compendium, Baltimore, MD, October 2006. (abstract pdf, poster pdf)

Mykhaylo Kostandov, Radu Jianu, Wenjin Zhou, and Tomer Moscovich. Interactive Layered Character Animation in Immersive Virtual Environments. ACM SIGGRAPH 2006 Poster Compendium, Boston, MA, August 2006. (abstract pdf, poster pdf)

Mykhaylo Kostandov and Joerg Meyer. Smooth Panning and Zooming in Virtual Reality Visualization of Large-Scale Datasets. 2005 Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program (UROP) Symposium, Irvine, CA, May 2005.

Mykhaylo Kostandov and Joerg Meyer. Navigation System for Virtual Reality Visualization of Large-Scale Astronomical Datasets. 2004 Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program (UROP) Symposium, Irvine, CA, May 2004.

Service

Refereeing

CHI 2008

Positions

SIGGRAPH: student volunteer (2004)
IEEE: UC Irvine chapter vice-president (2004/05), publicity chair (2003/04)