2026 Doug L. James: Computer Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Computer Science	41	8747	8498	3738	3590	94	8268

Research.com Recognitions

2011 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
2006 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Doug L. James is affiliated with Stanford University in the United States and has a research portfolio spanning computer science and engineering. Their work primarily focuses on computer graphics, computational mechanics, computer vision, signal processing, and biomedical engineering. The research output covers both foundational and applied topics within these fields.

The main topics addressed in their research include:

3D Shape Modeling and Analysis
Computer Graphics and Visualization Techniques
Computational Geometry and Mesh Generation
Music Technology and Sound Studies
Advanced Numerical Analysis Techniques
Speech and Audio Processing
Anatomy and Medical Technology

Doug L. James has published extensively in several academic venues. The most frequent publication venues include:

ACM Transactions on Graphics
The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
arXiv (Cornell University)
Journal of Biomechanical Engineering
IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Notable recent papers by Doug L. James consist of:

"Weavecraft," 2020, ACM Transactions on Graphics
"Progressive Simulation for Cloth Quasistatics," 2022, ACM Transactions on Graphics
"Fast linking numbers for topology verification of loopy structures," 2021, ACM Transactions on Graphics
"svMorph: Interactive Geometry-Editing Tools for Virtual Patient-Specific Vascular Anatomies," 2022, Journal of Biomechanical Engineering
"Electric-to-acoustic pickup processing for string instruments: An experimental study of the guitar with a hexaphonic pickup," 2021, The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

The scientist frequently collaborates with a consistent group of co-authors, which includes:

Jiayi Eris Zhang
Danny M. Kaufman
Jonathan Pham
Alison L. Marsden
Mark Rau

Over the course of their career, Doug L. James has been recognized with awards such as being named a Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in 2011 and a Fellow of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation in 2006.

Best Publications

ArtDefo: accurate real time deformable objects

Doug L. James;Dinesh K. Pai

754
Citations
Real-Time subspace integration for St. Venant-Kirchhoff deformable models

Jernej Barbič;Doug L. James

556
Citations
Skinning mesh animations

Doug L. James;Christopher D. Twigg

519
Citations
EigenSkin: real time large deformation character skinning in hardware

Paul G. Kry;Doug L. James;Dinesh K. Pai

376
Citations
Wavelet turbulence for fluid simulation

Theodore Kim;Nils Thürey;Doug James;Markus Gross

308
Citations
BD-tree: output-sensitive collision detection for reduced deformable models

Doug L. James;Dinesh K. Pai

291
Citations
Scanning physical interaction behavior of 3D objects

Dinesh K. Pai;Kees van den Doel;Doug L. James;Jochen Lang

288
Citations
DyRT: dynamic response textures for real time deformation simulation with graphics hardware

Doug L. James;Dinesh K. Pai

276
Citations
Optimizing cubature for efficient integration of subspace deformations

Steven S. An;Theodore Kim;Doug L. James

266
Citations
Simulating knitted cloth at the yarn level

Jonathan M. Kaldor;Doug L. James;Steve Marschner

266
Citations
FastLSM: fast lattice shape matching for robust real-time deformation

Alec R. Rivers;Doug L. James

252
Citations
Precomputing interactive dynamic deformable scenes

Doug L. James;Kayvon Fatahalian

234
Citations
Staggered projections for frictional contact in multibody systems

Danny M. Kaufman;Shinjiro Sueda;Doug L. James;Dinesh K. Pai

229
Citations
Six-DoF Haptic Rendering of Contact Between Geometrically Complex Reduced Deformable Models

J. Barbic;D.L. James

214
Citations
Precomputed acoustic transfer: output-sensitive, accurate sound generation for geometrically complex vibration sources

Doug L. James;Jernej Barbič;Dinesh K. Pai

203
Citations
Scanning physical interaction behavior of 3D objects

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198
Citations
Stitch meshes for modeling knitted clothing with yarn-level detail

Cem Yuksel;Jonathan M. Kaldor;Doug L. James;Steve Marschner

192
Citations
A unified treatment of elastostatic contact simulation for real time haptics

Doug L. James;Dinesh K. Pai

180
Citations
Fabricating articulated characters from skinned meshes

Moritz Bächer;Bernd Bickel;Doug L. James;Hanspeter Pfister

179
Citations
Efficient yarn-based cloth with adaptive contact linearization

Jonathan M. Kaldor;Doug L. James;Steve Marschner

144
Citations
Multiresolution green's function methods for interactive simulation of large-scale elastostatic objects

Doug L. James;Dinesh K. Pai

136
Citations
ACCURATE REAL TIME DEFORMABLE OBJECTS

D. L. James;D. K. Pai

105
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Dinesh K. Pai University of British Columbia

Steve Marschner Cornell University

Bernd Bickel ETH Zurich

Markus Gross ETH Zurich

Eugene Fiume Simon Fraser University

Hanspeter Pfister Harvard University

Marie-Paule Cani École Polytechnique

George Drettakis French Institute for Research in Computer Science and Automation - INRIA

Jaydev P. Desai Georgia Institute of Technology

Matthias Müller Nvidia (United States)

External Links

Personal website of Doug L. James Google Scholar page

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