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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2000 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Nina Amenta is affiliated with the University of California, Davis in the United States. Their research primarily spans engineering with a focus on several subfields including general economics, econometrics and finance, aerospace engineering, global and planetary change, computer graphics and computer-aided design, and computational mechanics.

Their work covers a range of main topics, notably in aviation industry analysis and trends, air traffic management and optimization, advanced aircraft design and technologies, computer graphics and visualization techniques, forensic anthropology and bioarchaeology studies, body composition measurement techniques, and advanced numerical analysis techniques.

They have contributed to multiple publications, including:

  • "Nudging Consumers Toward Greener Air Travel by Adding Carbon to the Equation in Online Flight Search" (2021) in Transportation Research Record Journal of the Transportation Research Board
  • "Anisotropy and Cross Fields" (2024) in Computer Graphics Forum
  • "Dihedral deformation and rigidity" (2020) in Computational Geometry
  • "Developing an automated skeletal phenotyping pipeline to leverage biobank-level medical imaging databases" (2023) in American Journal of Biological Anthropology
  • "Adding Carbon to the Equation in Online Flight Search" (2020) in RePEc: Research Papers in Economics

Frequent co-authors in their research include Angela Sanguinetti, Chelsea C. Cataldo-Ramirez, David Haddad, Timothy D. Weaver, and Lance C. Simons.

Several publication venues are recurrent in their work, such as:

  • Transportation Research Record Journal of the Transportation Research Board
  • Computer Graphics Forum
  • American Journal of Biological Anthropology
  • Computational Geometry
  • RePEc: Research Papers in Economics

Nina Amenta is a recipient of an award from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation as a fellow in 2000.

Best Publications

  • Surface Reconstruction by Voronoi Filtering

    Nina Amenta;Marshall W. Bern

  • A SIMPLE ALGORITHM FOR HOMEOMORPHIC SURFACE RECONSTRUCTION

    Nina Amenta;Sunghee Choi;Tamal K. Dey;Naveen Leekha

  • A new Voronoi-based surface reconstruction algorithm

    Nina Amenta;Marshall Bern;Manolis Kamvysselis

  • The power crust

    Nina Amenta;Sunghee Choi;Ravi Krishna Kolluri

  • The power crust, unions of balls, and the medial axis transform

    Nina Amenta;Sunghee Choi;Ravi Krishna Kolluri

  • The crust and the B-Skeleton: combinatorial curve reconstruction

    Nina Amenta;Marshall Bern;David Eppstein

  • Defining point-set surfaces

    Nina Amenta;Yong Joo Kil

  • Evolutionary morphing

    D.F. Wiley;N. Amenta;D.A. Alcantara;D. Ghosh

  • Optimal Point Placement for Mesh Smoothing

    Nina Amenta;Marshall Bern;David Eppstein

  • 3D skeletons: a state-of-the-art report

    Andrea Tagliasacchi;Thomas Delame;Michela Spagnuolo;Nina Amenta

  • Real-time parallel hashing on the GPU

    Dan A. Alcantara;Andrei Sharf;Fatemeh Abbasinejad;Shubhabrata Sengupta

  • Incremental constructions con BRIO

    Nina Amenta;Sunghee Choi;Günter Rote

  • Surface reconstruction from noisy point clouds

    Boris Mederos;Nina Amenta;Luiz Velho;Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo

  • Helly-type theorems and Generalized Linear Programming

    N. Amenta

  • Case study: visualizing sets of evolutionary trees

    N. Amenta;J. Klingner

  • Space-time surface reconstruction using incompressible flow

    Andrei Sharf;Dan A. Alcantara;Thomas Lewiner;Chen Greif

  • Deformed products and maximal shadows of polytopes

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  • Computational topology: ambient isotopic approximation of 2-manifolds

    Nina Amenta;Thomas J. Peters;Alexander C. Russell

  • The domain of a point set surface

    Nina Amenta;Yong J. Kil

  • The Medial axis of a union of balls

    Nina Amenta;Ravi Krishna Kolluri

  • Efficient hash tables on the gpu

    Nina Amenta;Dan Anthony Feliciano Alcantara

Frequent Co-Authors

Marshall Bern
Marshall Bern Protein Metrics (United States)
David Eppstein
David Eppstein University of California, Irvine
Owen Carmichael
Owen Carmichael Pennington Biomedical Research Center
John D. Owens
John D. Owens University of California, Davis
Tamal K. Dey
Tamal K. Dey Purdue University West Lafayette
Bernd Hamann
Bernd Hamann University of California, Davis
Charles DeCarli
Charles DeCarli University of California, Davis
Michael Kazhdan
Michael Kazhdan Johns Hopkins University
Paul M. Thompson
Paul M. Thompson University of Southern California
Jack Snoeyink
Jack Snoeyink University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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