Dept. of Mathematics & Computer Science

 

Raif M. Rustamov

CV

Professional Experience


Assistant Professor, September 2008 – present

Department of Mathematics and Computer Science
Drew University, Madison, NJ, USA

 

Research Assistant Professor, August 2005 – May 2008

Department of Mathematics,                                                        

Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA 

 

Research/Teaching Assistant, 2002 – 2005

Program in Applied and Computational Mathematics

Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA

 

Education

 

Ph.D. 2005, Applied and Computational Mathematics, Princeton University, NJ, USA

 

B.S. 2001, Mathematics, Bogazici University, Turkiye

 

B.S. 2001, Computer Engineering, Bogazici University, Turkiye

Publications


Journal papers

S. Lee, B. Li, D. La, R. Rustamov, D. Kihara, Rapid comparison of properties on protein surface, Proteins: Structure, Function, and Bioinformatics, 73: 1-10 (2008).

S. Lee, B. Li, D. La, Y. Fang , K. Ramani, R. Rustamov, D. Kihara, Fast protein tertiary structure retrieval based on global surface shape similarity, Proteins: Structure, Function, and Bioinformatics, 72: 1259-1273 (2008).

R. Rustamov, Augmented Planar-Reflective Symmetry Transform, The Visual Computer, 24(6): 423-433 (2008)

Conference proceedings

R. Rustamov, On Mesh Editing, Manifold Learning, and Diffusion Wavelets, IMA Conference on the Mathematics of Surfaces, 2009

R. Rustamov, Template Based Shape Descriptor, Eurographics Workshop on 3D Object Retrieval 2009.

R. Rustamov, Laplace-Beltrami Eigenfunctions for Deformation Invariant Shape Representation, Fifth Eurographics Symposium on Geometry Processing 2007, pp 225-233.

R. Rustamov, Augmented Symmetry Transforms, IEEE International Conference on Shape Modeling and Applications 2007, pp. 13-20.

S. Lee, B. Li, D. La, R. Rustamov, D. Kihara, A fast method for high throughput comparison of tertiary structure and physicochemical properties, Biomedical Engineering Society Annual Meeting, 2007 (abstract)

Posters

R. Rustamov, On Mesh Editing and Manifold Learning, Sixth Eurographics Symposium on Geometry Processing 2008 (poster acceptance ratio: 38%)

S. Lee, B. Li, D. La, R. Rustamov, D. Kihara, Protein surface representation for fast comparison of tertiary structure and physicochemical properties,  The 21st Symposium of the Protein Society, Boston, MA, 2007

S. Lee, D. La, B. Li, R. Rustamov, D. Kihara, A fast methodology for high throughput comparison of tertiary structure and physicochemical properties, Indy '07: Indy Regional Bioinformatics Conference, May 31-June 2, 2007

S. Lee, D. La, B. Li, R. Rustamov, D. Kihara, Multi-resolution protein representation for fast protein structure searching, The Third Annual Indiana Bioinformatics Conference, Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, Indiana Univ. School of Medicine, May 19-20, 2006

S.Lee, B.Li, D. La, R. Rustamov, D.Kihara, Multi-Resolution Protein Representation,   Sigma Xi Graduate Student Research Poster Presentation, Purdue University, 2006

Thesis

R. Rustamov, On Heegaard Floer Homology of Three-Manifolds, PhD Thesis, Princeton University, 2005

 Technical reports and preprints

R. Rustamov, On Mesh Editing and Manifold Learning, Technical Report, June 2008

R. Rustamov, Boundary Element Formulation of Harmonic Coordinates, Technical Report, November 2007

R. Rustamov,    The renormalized Euler Characteristic and L-space surgeries, arXiv preprint math.GT/0506320

R. Rustamov, On Plumbed L-spaces, arXiv preprint math.GT/0505349

R. Rustamov, Surgery formula for the renormalized Euler characteristic of Heegaard Floer homology, arXiv preprint math.GT/0409294

R. Rustamov, On Heegaard Floer homology of plumbed three-manifolds with b1 = 1, arXiv preprint math.SG/0405118

R. Rustamov, Calculation of Heegaard Floer homology for a class of Brieskorn spheres, arXiv preprint math.SG/0312071

Selected Presentations


Barycentric Distance, Princeton Graphics Group, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, 2008

Mesh Processing for Freshmen, MA108: Mathematics as a Profession and a Discipline, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, 2007

Laplace-Beltrami Eigenfunctions for Shape Processing, Ramani Lab, Mechanical Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, 2007

Laplace-Beltrami Eigenfunctions for Deformation Invariant Shape Representation, Eurographics Symposium on Geometry Processing, Barcelona, Spain, 2007

Augmented Symmetry Transforms, Shape Modeling International, Lyon, France, 2007

Applied Morse Theory, Ramani Lab, Mechanical Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, 2006

Zernike Descriptors for Shape Retrieval, Kihara Lab, Department of Biology, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, 2005

On Plumbed Manifolds, Clay Mathematics Institute Summer School on Floer Homology, Gauge Theory and Low Dimensional Topology, Budapest, Hungary, 2004

D-brane Decay, Gubser Summer String Theory Group, Department of Physics, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, 2003

Boundary Conformal Field Theories, Gubser Summer String Theory Group, Department of Physics, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, 2003

Heegaard Floer Homology of Plumbed Three Dimensional Manifolds, PACM Graduate Seminar, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, 2003

Dynamical Systems: A Glimpse at Mather Theory, PACM Graduate Seminar, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, 2002

Professional Service

 

Reviewer for SIGGRAPH, Eurographics, IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, International Journal of Computer Vision, IEEE International Conference on Shape Modeling and Applications.

Awards

 

Princeton University Centennial Fellowship, 2001 - 2005

Princeton University President's Fellowship, 2001

Princeton University Graduate Fellowship, 2001

UNESCO Gold Medal for performance in Mathematics Olympiads, 1995