Alumni Highlight: Milan Ikits

Ph.D. in Computer Science, 2007 Dissertation Title: Interactive Exploration of Volumetric Data Sets With a Combined Visual and Haptic Interface Advisor: Charles D. Hansen

Milan Ikits is the focus of this quarter’s SCI Alumni Highlight. Milan worked with Chuck Hansen at the SCI Institute, where he received his Ph.D. in 2007. His dissertation focused on the development and evaluation of interactive visualization methods that combine 3-D graphical and haptic displays for the exploration of volumetric data sets. He also collaborated with Claudio T. Silva on GPU-assisted rendering of unstructured volume data. Milan is a major contributor to the popular OpenGL Extension Wrangler library, which he started while working at the SCI Institute.

Alumni Highlight: Carlos Scheidegger

Ph.D. in Computing, 2009 Dissertation Title: Provenance of Exploratory Tasks in Scientific Visualization: Management and Applications Advisor: Cláudio T. Silva

Alumni Highlight: David Augustus Hart

Lead Programmer for Avalanche Software SCI Staff Scientist, 1999-2000 http://www.dahart.com/

Alumni Highlight: Gordon L. Kindlmann

University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science Assistant Professor and Fellow, Computation Institute Ph.D. in Computer Science, 2004 Dissertation Title: Visualization and Analysis of Diffusion Tensor Fields Advisor: Christopher R. Johnson