Biography | Publications

Jeff earned B.S. degrees in Computer Science and Mathematics from Clarkson University in 2000. Since then, he worked for two years at Eastman Kodak in Rochester, NY as a development engineer, and also participated in their Imaging Science Career Development Program. At Kodak he developed computer models for photographic film scanners and digital microfilm writers. From 2003 until 2006 he was a Ph.D. student at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. A student of Prof. Mark Goldberg, his thesis topic was Discovering Groups in Communication Networks. The goal of his research there was to automatically discover coalitions in vast communication databases using structural information only. His contributions include novel graph clustering algorithms which allow cluster overlap, and algorithms for discovering subsets of individuals persistently connected over time. He has also developed a software tool for executing these algorithms and visualizing the results.

Jeff joined Kitware part time in April 2006, and became a full-time employee in September 2006. Jeff is focused on the information visualization project, Titan in conjunction with Sandia National Laboratories.  The purpose of Titan is to add support for visualizing graphs, trees, tables, databases, and the Earth into VTK in a way that integrates with existing scientific visualization capabilities to create a powerful visualization framework.

Publications

Brian Wylie, Jeffrey Baumes, and Timothy M. Shead. G-Space: A Linear Time Graph Layout.  IS&T/SPIE Electronic Imaging 2008, Visual Data Analytics (VDA 2008), San Jose, January 27–31 2008.

Andrej Cedilnik, Jeffrey Baumes, Luis Ibanez, Sean Megason, Brian Wylie.  Integration of Information and Volume Visualization for Analysis of Cell Lineage and Gene Expression during Embryogenesis.  IS&T/SPIE Electronic Imaging 2008, Visual Data Analytics (VDA 2008), San Jose, January 27–31 2008.

Jeffrey Baumes, Hung-Ching Chen, Matthew Francisco, Mark Goldberg, Malik Magdon-Ismail, William Wallace.  ViSAGE: A Virtual Laboratory for Simulation and Analysis of Social Group Evolution.  To appear: ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems, 2008.

Jeffrey Baumes, Mark Goldberg, Malik Magdon-Ismail, Al Wallace. Identification of Hidden Groups in Communications. Book Chapter, Handbook in Information Systems, Elsevier, Volume 2, 209-242, 2007.

Jeffrey Baumes. Algorithms for Discovering Hidden Groups in Communications. Ph.D. Dissertation. Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Mark Goldberg, advisor. August 2006.

Jeffrey Baumes, Hung-Ching Chen, Matthew Francisco, Mark Goldberg, Malik Magdon-Ismail, Al Wallace. Dynamics of Bridging and Bonding in Social Groups: A Multi-Agent Model. North American Computational Social and Organization Science (NAACSOS 2005), Notre Dame, IN, June 26-28, 2005.

Jeffrey Baumes, Mark Goldberg, Malik Magdon-Ismail. Efficient Identification of Overlapping Communities. IEEE Symposium on Intelligence and Security Informatics (ISI 2005), Atlanta, GA, May 19-20, 2005.

Jeffrey Baumes, Mark Goldberg, Mukkai Krishnamoorthy, Malik Magdon-Ismail, Nathan Preston. Finding Communities by Clustering a Graph into Overlapping Subgraphs. International Conference on Applied Computing (IADIS 2005), Algarve, Portugal, Feb 22-25, 2005.

Jeffrey Baumes, Mark Goldberg, Malik Magdon-Ismail, Al Wallace. On Hidden Groups in Communication Networks. Available online at www.cs.rpi.edu/research/tr.html. Technical Report 05-15, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 2005.

Jeffrey Baumes, Mark Goldberg, Malik Magdon-Ismail, Al Wallace. Discovering Hidden Groups in Communication Networks. 2nd NSF/NIJ Symposium on Intelligence and Security Informatics (ISI 2004), Tucson, AZ, June 11-12, 2004.

Jeffrey Baumes, Mark Goldberg, Malik Magdon-Ismail, Al Wallace. Discovering Hidden Groups in Communication Networks. Available online at www.cs.rpi.edu/research/tr.html. Technical Report 04-04, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 2004.

Jeffrey Baumes. On the Maximum Average Degree of Graphs. Clarkson University Honors Undergraduate Thesis, 2000.