Faculty
Stahovich, Thomas
Associate Professor,
Mechanical Engineering
Professor Stahovich received his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute
of Technology in 1995, where he conducted his Ph.D. research in the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.
He joined the University of California in 2003 from Carnegie Mellon University, where he served as an
Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering. Professor Stahovich was the founding director of the
Smart Tools Lab at Carnegie Mellon.
Research
Professor Stahovich's research is in the area of design and artificial intelligence. Current projects
include: LearnIT, a system for capturing and preserving design procedures; RedesignIT, a system for managing
design changes in large scale systems; and ExplainIT, a system for automatically documenting designs. In
recent work, Professor Stahovich has begun applying design automation techniques to the problem of cryosurgical
planning. Another major research focus is sketch understanding. Professor Stahovich and his students are developing
techniques to enable natural, sketch-based user interfaces for a variety of software applications, such as engineering
design and analysis software
Selected Publications
Aguirre, G. and Stahovich, T.F., "Redesign IT - a Model-Based Tool for Managing Design Changes," ASME J.
Mechanical Design, to appear 2003. (See also ASME Design Theory and Methodology Conference, DETC 2001/DTM-21702, 2001.)
Rabin, Y., and Stahovich, T. F., “Cryoheater as a means of cryosurgery control,” Physics in Medicine
and Biology, Vol. 48, pp 619 – 632, 2003.
Calhoun, C., Stahovich, T. F., Kurtoglu, T., Kara, L. B., “Recognizing Multi-Stroke Symbols,”
AAAI Spring Symposium, Sketch Understanding, 2002.
Rabin, Y., and Stahovich, T.F., “The thermal effect of urethral warming during cryosurgery, CryoLetters,
Vol. 23, pp 361 – 374, 2002.
Stahovich, T.F. and Bal, H., "An Inductive Approach to Learning and Reusing Design Strategies," Research
in Engineering Design, Vol 13, No. 2, pp109-121, 2002.
Stahovich, T.F. and Kara L.B., "A Representation for Comparing Simulations and computing the Purpose of
Geometric Features," AI EDAM, Vol. 15, No. 2, pp 189-201, 2001.
Stahovich, T.F., Davis, R., and Shrobe, J., "Generating Multiple New Designs from a Sketch," Artificial
Intelligence, Vol. 104, pp. 211-264, 1998.
Stahovich, T. F., Davis, R., and Shrobe, H., “Qualitative Rigid Body Mechanics,” Artificial Intelligence,
Vol. 119, No. 1-2, pp 19 - 60, 2000.
