About Gravity

The Gravity research group is led by Prof. Han-Wei Shen in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at The Ohio State University. Our main research is focused on data Visualization and Computer Graphics. We are collaborating with researchers from all over the country including NASA, US Department of Energy National Laboratories, Ohio Supercomputer Center, and OSU Medical Center. The driving applications for our research include Plasama Physics, Turbulence Research, Medical Surgical Simulations, Auronautics, and Informaton Visualization.  Since 1999, the Gravity research group has received $2M of funding,  sponsored by NSF, DOE, NASA, and NIH.


Currently the Gravity research group consists of 9 Ph.D. and 3 Master students. Students are located in Dreese Lab 786 (the main lab), 680, and 574 on the Ohio State main Campus. To date, the Gravity research group has graduated Six Ph.D.s and two Masters since 1999. Our alumni are placed at various industrial and academic positions including nVidia, Intel, ATI, Vital Images, Exxon Mobile, University of Pacific, and University of California Davis.



Prof. Han-Wei Shen’s short Biography:

Han-Wei Shen is an Associate Professor at The Ohio State University. He received his BS degree from Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering at National Taiwan University in 1988, the MS degree in computer science from the State University of New York at Stony Brook in 1992, and the PhD degree in computer science from the University of Utah in 1998. From 1996 to 1999, he was a research scientist at NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain View California. His primary research interests are scientific visualization and computer graphics. Professor Shen is a winner of National Science Foundation's CAREER award and US Department of Energy's Early Career Principal Investigator Award. He also won an Outstanding Teaching award in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the Ohio State University.
























The Ohio State University, Department of Computer Science and Engineering

395 Dreese Lab, 2015 Neil Avenue, Columbus OH 43210

Professor Han-Wei Shen

hwshen@cse.ohio-state.edu (V) 614 292 0060  (F) 614 2922911