Hayley Iben

Information:

I have recently completed my PhD from the University of California, Berkeley. There, I studied computer graphics and did my thesis research on "Generating Surface Crack Patterns."

At UCB, I served three years as president of CSGSA and two years as Co-President of WICSE.

I'm currently employeed at Pixar Animation Studios in the Studio Tools group.

I am an alumna of Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, PA where I received a BS in computer science and a minor in mathematics.

Office:

537 Soda Hall

Computer Science Division, EECS

University of California

Berkeley, CA 94720-1776

Phone: (510) 642-3631

E-mail: iben at cs dot berkeley dot edu

Research Advisor: James O'Brien

Research Group: Berkeley Computer Animation and Modeling

Course work:

See my course work page for course related projects.

Research Projects:

Generating Surface Crack Patterns

Refolding Planar Polygons

An Energy-Driven Approach to Linkage Unfolding

Our research on Unfolding and Refolding Planar Polygons was selected to appear in the Berkeley Student Technical Achievement in Research Series, held on February 27, 2004.

Publications:

Iben, H. N. and O'Brien, J. F., "Generating Surface Crack Patterns." In the Proceedings of the ACM SIGGRAPH/Eurographics Symposium on Computer Animation, pages 177-185, Vienna, Austria, September 2-4, 2006.
This paper received an Honorable Mention in the Best Paper Award at SCA 2006 and was invited to the journal GMOD.
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Iben, H. N., O'Brien, J. F., and Demaine, E. D., "Refolding Planar Polygons." Proceedings on the 2006 Symposium on Computational Geometry, pages 71-79, Sedona, Arizona, June 5-7, 2006.
This paper was invited to a special issue of the journal Discrete and Computational Geometry.
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Cantarella, J. H., Demaine, E. D., Iben, H. N., and O'Brien, J. F., "An Energy-Driven Approach to Linkage Unfolding." Proceedings of the 2004 Symposium on Computational Geometry, Brooklyn, New York, June 9-11, 2004.
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Cantarella, J. H., Demaine, E. D., Iben, H. N., and O'Brien, J. F., "An Energy-Driven Approach to Linkage Unfolding." Proceedings of the 12th Annual DIMACS Workshop on Computational Geometry, Piscataway, New Jersey, November 14-15, 2002.
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Other:

Iben, H. N., "Generating Surface Crack Patterns." In the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing, PhD Forum, San Diego, California, October 4-7, 2006.
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Iben, H. N., O'Brien, J. F., and Demaine, E. D., "Refolding Planar Polygons." ACM SIGGRAPH 2004, Los Angeles, California, August 8-12. Technical Sketch.
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Iben, H. N., "Refolding Planar Polygons." Master's Report, University of California, Berkeley, May 2005.
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