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Drapaca, Corina

Drapaca, Corina

Assistant Professor

Office phone: (814) 867-2313
Office address: W-313 Millennium Science Complex
E-mail: csd12@psu.edu
Homepage: http://www.esm.psu.edu/wiki/research:csd12:start

Educational Background

  • Ph.D., Applied Mathematics, University of Waterloo, Canada., 2002
  • M.S., Mathematics and Mechanics, University of Bucharest, Romania., 1996
  • B.S. (Merit Diploma), Mathematics and Mechanics, University of Bucharest, Romania., 1995

Years of Service with Penn State (5 years)

  • Sept 2007 – Present Assistant Professor

Other Related Experience — Teaching, Industrial, Etc.

  • May 2007 – Aug 2007 Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Waterloo, Canada
  • Jan 2007 – Apr 2007 Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Western Ontario, Canada
  • Aug 2005 – Dec 2006 Research Scientist, Department of Physiology and Biomedical Engineering, Mayo Clinic, USA
  • May 2004 – July 2005 Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Waterloo, Canada
  • May 2002 – Apr 2004 Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Radiology, University of California in San Francisco, USA
  • Sept 1997 – Apr 2002 Research Assistant, Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Waterloo, Canada
  • Oct 1996 – May 1997 Instructor, Department of Mathematics, Institute of Civil Engineering and Faculty of Mathematics, Bucharest, Romania

Recent Principal Publications

  • Corina Drapaca, Siv Sivaloganathan, and G. Tenti (2007) “Non-Linear Constitutive Laws in Viscoelasticity,” Mathematics and Mechanics of Solids, 12(5), pp. 475–501.
  • Corina Drapaca, G. Tenti, and Siv Sivaloganathan (2006) “A Quasilinear Viscoelastic Constitutive Equation for the Brain: Application to Hydrocephalus,” Journal of Elasticity, 85(1), pp. 65–83.
  • C. Studholme, Corina Drapaca, and V. Cardinas Nicolson (2006) “Deformation Based Mapping of Volume Change from Serial Brain MRI in the Presence of Local Tissue Contrast Change,” IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, 25(5), pp. 626–639.
  • Corina Drapaca, G. Tenti, Siv Sivaloganathan, and J.M. Drake (2005) “Dynamical Morphology of the Brain’s Ventricular Cavities in Hydrocephalus,” Journal of Theoretical Medicine, 6(3), pp. 151–160.
  • Corina Drapaca, V. Cardinas Nicolson, and C. Studholme (2005) “Segmentation of Tissue Boundary Evolution from Brain MR Image Sequences using Multi-phase Level Sets,” Computer Vision and Image Understanding, 100(3), pp. 312–329.
  • C. Studholme, Corina Drapaca, V. Cardinas Nicolson, and M. Weiner (2004) “Challenges and Progress Toward Quantitative Deformation Morphometry of Gyral Anatomy,” ISBI, pp. 599–602.
  • Corina Drapaca, V. Cardinas Nicolson, and C. Studholme (2004) “Robust Space-Time Extraction of Ventricular Surface Evolution using Multi-Phase Level Sets,” in proceedings Image Processing, Proceedings of SPIE, pp. 538–548, SPIE Medical Imaging 2004.

Recent Institutional and Professional Service

  • Member of the Graduate Students Committee, Pennsylvania State University (Apr 2008 – Present)

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