Tao Ju

Tao Ju is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science & Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis, part of the McKelvey School of Engineering. He joined the faculty in 2005 and holds affiliations with the Imaging Science PhD Program. His research focuses on computer graphics and biomedical image analysis, supported by grants from NSF and NIH. He has served on editorial boards of journals like IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics and program committees for conferences such as ACM Siggraph.

• Education: PhD (Rice University, 2005), BS and BA (Tsinghua University, 2000 and 1999).

Research Interests: His work bridges computer graphics with biomedical applications, including 3D surface modeling and image analysis techniques for plant biology. Recent projects include NSF-funded research on 3D modeling algorithms and collaborations with the Danforth Plant Science Center to study plant-environment interactions.

Scientific Contributions: Notable achievements include the NSF CAREER Award (2009) and impactful collaborations, such as quantifying sorghum panicle traits with graduate student Dan Zeng.

• Advising: Mentor to students like Dan Zeng, advancing interdisciplinary research.
• Labs/Teams: Leads a lab focused on computational methods in biology and visualization, with active partnerships in plant science.