Biomedical engineers in the laboratory of Christopher R. Butson, PhD at the Scientific Computing & Imaging (SCI) Institute are part of a team currently investigating the use of deep brain stimulation (DBS) to treat patients suffering from traumatic brain injury. The goal of this investigational therapy is to restore function through electrical stimulation. The first […]
Read MoreCongratulations to Sarang Joshi for being elected a Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE). Fellows are nominated each year by their peers and represent the top 2% of the medical and biological engineering community. They are considered the life-blood of AIMBE and work towards realizing AIMBE’s vision to provide medical […]
Read MoreSchool of Computing professor Charles Hansen has been appointed as a Distinguished Professor of Computing at the University of Utah. The title of Distinguished Professor is a rare and prestigious honor granted by the University of Utah to faculty who meet the highest standards of scholarship, international stature, and dedication to teaching and service.
Read MoreThe SCI Institute is excited to announce the release of the SCI Institute’s female head and brain model data repository and pipeline. The dataset and corresponding publication can be found here.
Read MoreThe National Science Foundation (NSF) announced today that it has awarded $60 million to the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) at The University of Texas at Austin for the acquisition and deployment of a new supercomputer that will be the fastest at any U.S. university and among the most powerful in the world. The new […]
Read MoreYou can’t see nasty microscopic air pollutants in your home, but what if you could? Engineers from the University of Utah’s School of Computing conducted a study to determine if homeowners change the way they live if they could visualize the air quality in their house. It turns out, their behavior changes a lot.
Read MoreThe SCI Institute is pleased to announce the addition of two new faculty members. Timo Heister joins us as an assistant professor of mathematics. Timo is an applied mathematician and a computational scientist. His research centers around numerical analysis and the numerical solution of partial differential equations using the finite element method, which are used […]
Read MoreResearchers have successfully performed 3D personalized virtual simulations of the heart A 3-D virtual heart. Credit: Johns Hopkins University
Read MoreBy Paul Gabrielsen, science writer, University of Utah Communications On Monday, August 13, the computer graphics world honored 52 people as inaugural members of the SIGGRAPH Academy. Each played a role in bringing graphics from their beginnings as arrangements of glowing lines to the immersive 3D worlds that moviemakers, game designers and others build today. […]
Read MoreThe University of Utah has announced that Christopher Johnson, Ph.D., will be stepping down from his role as director of the university’s Scientific Computing and Imaging (SCI) Institute. Johnson, a pioneer in the fields of visualization, scientific computing, and image analysis, will remain on the U’s faculty as a distinguished professor of computer science and […]
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