Dr. MA, Weiyin

Associate Professor

BSc(EastChinaEI), MSc(EastChinaIT), MEng(Leuven), PhD(Leuven), MACM/SIGGRAPH, MIEEEComputer, MSIAM, MASME, SrMSME

Research interests: Computer Aided Geometric Design, CAD/CAM, Virtual Reality for Product Design, Reverse Engineering, Rapid Prototyping and Manufacturing

Dr. Ma is an associate professor in the Department of Manufacturing Engineering and Engineering Management (MEEM), City University of Hong Kong (CityU), lecturing in the area of geometric design, CAD/CAM and rapid prototyping technologies. Before joining the Department in 1995, he worked as a research fellow at Materialise N.V., a rapid prototyping firm in Belgium, where he developed software modules on medical CAD modelling from CT-data. He also worked as a research fellow in the Division of Production Engineering, Machine Design and Automation, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium) on CAD/CAM, reverse engineering, dimensional metrology and dimensional inspection. He also worked in the Department of Space Vehicle Engineering of East China Institute of Technology (China), now Nanjing University of Science and Technology (China), on dynamic measurements, mechanical vibration and design optimization. Dr. Ma is coauthor of over 120 technical publications, including 1 book, 8 book chapters / articles in edited books, over 50 refereed journal publications, and over 60 articles in conference proceedings. His present research interests include computer aided geometric design, CAD/CAM, virtual reality for product design, reverse engineering, and rapid prototyping technologies.

Education

Ph.D (1994), Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
Master of Engineering (1989), Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
Master of Science (1985), East China Institute of Technology, Nanjing, China
Bachelor of Science (1982), East China Engineering Institute, Nanjing, China

Current Research Interests

Computer Aided Geometric Design (CAGD),
Computer Graphics, Virtual Reality, Virtual Prototyping,
Computer Aided Design (CAD), Computer Aided Manufacturing (CAM),
Rapid Prototyping and Manufacturing

Related Laboratories in MEEM

Integrated Design and Prototyping Laboratory (IDPL)
Computer Aided Design and Computer Applications Laboratory (CAD&CAL)
Computer Aided Manufacturing Laboratory (CAM)
Materials Processing and Fabrication Laboratories

Editorship and Professional Activities

Associate Editor, Computer-Aided Design and Applications
Editorial Board Member, International Journal of CAD/CAM
Editorial Board Member, International Journal on Interactive Design and Manufacturing
Member of Programme Committees for about 30 international conferences
Referee of articles for about 25 international journals

Membership in Professional Societies

Member, ASME (American Society of Mechanical Engineers)
Member, SIGGRAPH/ACM (SIG on Graphics and Interactive Techniques of ACM)
Member, IEEE (The Computer Society of IEEE)
Member, SIAM (Geometric Design Group of SIAM)
Senior Member, SME (Rapid Prototyping Association of SME)

Teaching Duties at CityU

MEEM1001 Introduction to Product Design and Prototyping
MEEM3007 CAD/CAM
MEEM4002 Computer Aided Process Planning
MEEM4005 Computer Aided Engineering
MEEM4035 Geometric Design and Graphics Applications
MEEM4036 Rapid Prototyping Technologies
MEEM4048 Advanced Manufacturing Technologies
MEEM6001 CAD/CAM Integration
MEEM6049 Introduction to Advanced Manufacturing Technologies

Selected Publications

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Li G Q and Ma W Y, Composite root 2 subdivision surfaces, Computer Aided Geometric Design, Vol. 24, No. 6, October 2007, pp. 339-360. (Abstract)

Li G Q and Ma W Y, A method for constructing interpolatory subdivisions and blending subdivisions, Computer Graphics Forum, Vol. 26, No. 2, June 2007, pp. 185-201. (Abstract)

Zhang R J, Ma W Y, Some improvements on the derivative bounds of rational Bézier curves and surfaces, Computer Aided Geometric Design, Vol. 23, No. 8, October 2006, pp. 563-572. (Abstract)

Pang M Y, Ma W Y, Pan Z G and Zhang F Y, Smooth approximation to surface meshes of arbitrary topology with locally blended radial basis functions, Computer-Aided Design and Applications, Vol. 3, No. 5, June 2006, pp. 587-596. (PDF)

Li G Q, Ma W Y, Interpolatory ternary subdivision surfaces, Computer Aided Geometric Design, Vol. 23, No. 1, January 2006, pp. 45-77. (Abstract)

Ma W Y, Subdivision surfaces for CAD - an overview, Computer-Aided Design, Vol. 37, No. 7, June 2005, pp. 693-709. (Abstract)

Ma W Y and Wu Z Z, Texture synthesis on subdivision surfaces, Computer-Aided Design & Applications, Vol. 2, Nos. 1-4, June 2005, pp 449-458. (PDF)

Li G Q, Ma W Y, Bao H J, A new interpolatory subdivision scheme for quadrilateral meshes, Computer Graphics Forum, Vol. 24, No. 1, March 2005, pp. 3-16. (Abstract)

Piegl L A, Ma W Y and Tiller W, An alternative method of curve interpolation, The Visual Computer, Vol. 21, Nos. 1-2, February 2005, pp. 104-117. (Abstract)

Ma W Y, But W C, He P R, NURBS-based adaptive slicing for efficient rapid prototyping, Computer-Aided Design, Vol. 36, No. 13, November 2004, pp. 1309-1325. (Abstract)

Ma W Y, Zhong Y M, Tso S K, Zhou T X, A hierarchically structured and constraint-based data model for intuitive and precise solid modelling in a virtual reality environment, Computer-Aided Design, Vol. 36, No. 10, September 2004, Pages 903-928. (Abstract)

Ma W Y, Ma X H, Tso S K, Pan Z G, A direct approach for subdivision surface fitting from a dense triangle mesh, Computer-Aided Design, Vol. 36, No. 6, May 2004, pp. 525-536. (Abstract)

Li G Q, Ma W Y, Bao H J, Root 2 subdivision for quadrilateral meshes, The Visual Computer, Vol. 20, Nos. 2-3, May 2004, pp. 180-198. (Abstract)

Li G Q, Bao H J, Ma W Y, A unified approach for faring arbitrary polygonal meshes, Journal of Graphical Models, Vol. 66, No. 3, May 2004, pp. 127-179. (Abstract)

Piegl L A, Ma W Y, Tiller W, Surface fitting to random data via constrained shaping, International Journal of Shape Modeling, Vol. 9, No. 1, June 2003, pp. 1-20. (Abstract)

Ma W Y and Zhao N L, Smooth multiple B-spline surface fitting with Catmull-Clark surfaces for extraordinary corner patches, The Visual Computer, Vol. 18, No. 7, November 2002, pp. 415-436. (Abstract)

Liu S B, and Ma W Y, Motif analysis for automatic segmentation of CT-surface contours into individual surface features, Computer-Aided Design, Vol. 33, No. 14, December 2001, pp. 1091-1109. (Abstract)

Ma Z M, Zhang W J and Ma W Y, Semantic measure of fuzzy data in extended possibility-based fuzzy relational databases, International Journal of Intelligent Systems, Vol. 15, No. 8, August 2000, pp. 705-716. (Abstract)

Liu S B and Ma W Y, Seed-growing segmentation of 3D surfaces from CT-contours data, Computer-Aided Design, Vol. 31, No. 8, July 1999, pp. 517-536. (Abstract)

Ma W Y and Kruth J P, NURBS curve and surface fitting for reverse engineering, International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology, Vol. 14, No. 12, December 1998, pp. 918-927. (Abstract)

Ma W Y and He P R, B-spline surface local updating with unorganized points, Computer-Aided Design, Vol. 30, No. 11, September 1998, pp. 853-862. (Abstract)

Ma W Y and Kruth J P, Parametrization of randomly measured points for least squares fitting of B-spline curves and surfaces, Computer-Aided Design, Vol. 27, No. 9, September 1995, pp. 663-675. (Abstract)

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