Regular biography
Dr. Alexei Sourin is an Associate Professor in the College of Computing & Data Science at Nanyang Technological University. He was born in Moscow and earned his M.Eng. and Ph.D. degrees in computer graphics from the Moscow Engineering Physics Institute (MEPhI) in 1983 and 1988, respectively. From 1983 to 1993, he was a researcher at MEPhI, working on scientific visualization and computer animation projects. Since 1993, he has held faculty positions at NTU, except for a period from 1999 to 2000 when he was an Associate Professor at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT). His research interests include shape modeling, multi-modal interaction, music visualization, and automated visual inspection in manufacturing. He has published over 230 referred research papers and is a Senior Member of IEEE and a member of ACM SIGGRAPH.
Scholar-generated biography
Alexei Sourin is a researcher at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, specializing in solid modeling, haptics, and virtual reality. His work explores advanced geometric modeling techniques, such as function representation for sweeping by a moving solid and multidimensional geometric modeling. Sourin's research also includes applications in virtual orthopedic surgery training and virtual campus design. He has contributed to defect detection in automatic optical inspection and unsupervised surface defect detection using deep autoencoders. His projects integrate haptics and virtual reality for interactive learning and simulation, emphasizing the use of linked visualizations and active learning in data annotation. Sourin's research bridges computational geometry, machine learning, and immersive technologies for practical applications in education and industry.