Education:
Ph.D., New York University - 1988 (Computer Science)
M.S., New York University - 1984 (Computer Science)
B.S., Manhattan College - 1980 (Mathematics with minors in Philosophy and Computer Science)
Areas of Expertise:
Cox's areas of interest include robotics algorithms, discrete and combinatorial algorithms, and computational complexity, with an eye to the practical applications of these techniques. His goal in implementing his theoretical work has been to produce production quality software, and not mere "academic toys" or "proofs of concept." In the area of visualization, he has largely achieved this goal.
Books and Publications
Cox, James and Wen-Ju Cheng. "Random Walks on Some Basic Classes of Digraphs." Submitted to ICTAC. (Books and Publications: Forthcoming Publications) 2013
Cox, J., D. Kopec and S. Lucci. "Search Techniques in A.I." ACM/CRC Handbook of Computer Science and Engineering 3rd ed. (Books and Publications: Forthcoming Publications) 2012
Cox, James, Praveen Thiagarajan, Guang Gao, Karl Steiner and D.B. Karron. "Segmentation of Anatomical Features Using Topological Zone Organization." Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics. (Books and Publications: Forthcoming Publications) 2007
Marsland, T., D. Kopec and Jim Cox. "Advanced Search" (Chapter 63). ACM/CRC Handbook of Computer Science and Engineering 2nd edition. CRC Press. (Books and Publications: Chapter) 2005
Cox, J., D.B. Karron and N. Ferdous. "Topological Zone Segmentation of Scalar Volume Data." Journal of Mathematical Imaging and Vision 18: 95-117. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2003
Cox, J. and D. Karron. "Digital Morse Theory for Anatomical Modeling." Engineering in Medicine and Biology, 21st Annual Conference, and BMES/EMBS: Proceedings of the First Joint Conference. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 1999
Cox, J. and D.B. Karron. "Extracting 3D Objects from Volume Data using Digital Morse Theory." Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Volume 905: Computer Vision, Virtual Reality and Robotics in Medicine. Ed. Nicholas Ayache. (Books and Publications: Edited Book) 1995
Cox, J., B. Mishra and D. Karron. "New Findings from the Spider Web Algorithm: Toward a Digital Morse Theory." Proceedings of SPIE--Volume 2359; Visualization in Biomedical Computing 1994: 643-57. Ed. Richard A. Robb. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 1994
Cox, J., D.B. Karron and Bud Mishra. "The SpiderWeb Algorithm for Surface Construction from Medical Volume Data: Geometric Properties of its Surfaces." Innovation et Technologie en Biologie et Medecine 14.6. Invited paper. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 1993
Cox, James and Ken McAloon. "Decision Procedures for Constraint-based Extensions of Datalog." Constraint Logic Programming: Selected Research. Eds. F. Benhamon and A. Colmerauer. MIT Press. Invited paper. (Books and Publications: Chapter) 1993
Cox, J., K. Mcaloon and C. Tretkoff. "Computational Complexity and Constraint Logic Programming Languages." Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence 5. Invited paper. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 1992
Cox, J., J. Chen and B. Mishra. "NL Heirarchy." Information Processing Letters 39. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 1991
Cox, James and Chee Yap. "On-line Motion Planning: Case of a Planar Rod." Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence 1.3. Inivted paper. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 1991
Cox, J., K. Mcaloon and C. Tretkoff. "Computational Complexity and Constraint Logic Programming Languages: Extended Abstract." Logic Programming: Proceedings of the 1990 North American Conference. MIT Press Logic Programming Series. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 1990
Awards, Honors and Fellowships
Cox, J., D.B. Karron and Bud Mishra, co-inventors. "A System and Method for Surface Rendering of Internal Structures Within the Interior of a Solid Body." U.S. patent 5,898,793, granted April 27. (Awards and Honors) 1999
NSF Research Initiation Award. Two-year award. (Grants and Fellowships) 1990
Research Activities
I am working on logarithmic space bounded complexity classes with my doctoral student Wen-Ju Cheng, and I am working on counting complexity classes with my doctoral student Tayfun Pay. 2013
With the doctoral student Wu Jen Cheng, I am working on random walks and deterministic searches on some classes of directed graphs, for application to space bounded complexity, involving the well-known classes DL, RL and NL. A paper is in preparation. 2012
Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums
Cox, J., P. Thiagarajan, D.B. Karron and M. Rothman. "Segmentation Using Digital Morse Theory." Medicine Meets Virtual Reality. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2004
"Digital Morse Theory for BioMedical Images." DIMACS Workshop on Medical Applications in Computational Geometry, Center for Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science, an NSF Science and Technology Center, with abstract in workshop proceedings, April. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2003
Cox, J., D. Karron and M. Rothman. "Development and Testing of an Algorithm and Its Implementation to Validate Digital Morse Methods for Segmentation of Image Data." Proceedings of the IEEE 29th Annual Bioengineering Conference. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2003
"Mathematical Analysis of 'SpiderWeb' Surface Construction Algorithm." Proceedings of the 14th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Eds. J.P. Morucci, R. Plonsey, J.L. Coatrieux and S. Laxminarayan. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 1992
Professional Leadership
Member, Faculty Council Core Curriculum Committee. (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2013
Member, Graduate Curriculum Committee, Department of Computer and Information Science. (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2013
Member, Department of Computer and Information Science Graduate Curriculum Committee. (Professional Leadership: Public Service) 2011
Member, Faculty Council Graduate Curriculum Committee. (Professional Leadership: Public Service) 2011
Panel member, NSF Career Robotics Awards. (Professional Leadership: Public Service) 2000
Pedagogical Achievements
Mentor for one Ph.D. student and one undergraduate research student. 2011
Helped develop new undergraduate and graduate curricula in parallel and distributed computing, and introduced a new keystone course for both the proposed graduate certificate program and the undergraduate minor. 2007
