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Research Scientist
Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute
Office: Warnock Engineering Building 4622
Phone: 1.801.585.0769
Fax : 1.801.585.6513
SCI Personnel Page
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Education 1985 Bachelor of Science with High
Honors, Mechanical
Engineering, Oregon State
University
1988 Master of Engineering, Bioengineering, University of Utah
1996 Doctor of Philosophy, Computer Science, University of Utah
Fellowships 1996 Bourse
Chateaubriand, Epidaure
Research Group (Now Epione), Institut National de
Recherche en Informatique et en Automatic (INRIA), Sophia
Antipolis, France
Research
Currently, I am a research scientist (retired) at the Scientific
Computing and Imaging Institute (aka SCI which is pronounced 'ski').
Because of my diverse background I have worked in many application
areas. But for the most part my research interest lies in applying
computer graphic and computer vision techniques to data analysis and
visualization in HPC (High Performance Computng) applications. I have
applied this to areas ranging from medical image data to ice core
data. I have worked with Plasma Physicists and Oceanographers to
develop techniques for analyzing and visualizing toroidal fields which
are a type of Hamiltonian system. Another interest is in the analysis
and visualization of Lagrange Coherent Structures (LCS) in flow
fields. More recently I have developed techniques for visualizing the
performance of supercomputers. My latest worked has been to integrate
Kokkos in to Uintah and other HPC applications that are running on
some of newest and fastest super computers in the word such as the DOE
machines Frontier and Aurora. I find that the best solutions to hard
problems are often the simplest and a firm believer in the KISS
principle.
Personal After 42 years of banging on the
keyboard, the last 22 at SCI I have retired. Though still continuing
to work on few projects of interest. When not at SCI I can usually be
found climbing, skiing, canyoneering, or biking in the local Wasatch
Mountains or down in Southern Utah. When not playing locally I am
often traveling about the world either in the high mountains climbing
or under the ocean blue scuba diving. I have been doing this nonsense
for a long time and I try to visit one new country each year. This
past year it was Australia.
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