Charles D. Hansen
{{Short description|American computer scientist}}
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| alma_mater = Memphis State University
University of Utah
| thesis_title = CAGD-based Computer Vision
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| thesis_year = 1987
| doctoral_advisor = Thomas C. Henderson
| known_for = Co-editor of The Visualization Handbook
| awards = IEEE Visualization Technical Achievement Award (2005)
IEEE Fellow (2012)
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| field = Computer Science, Graphics, Scientific visualization
| work_institution = Los Alamos National Laboratory
INRIA
University of Utah
Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute
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Charles "Chuck" D. Hansen is an American computer scientist at the University of Utah who works on scientific visualization. He is a Distinguished Professor, a Fellow of the IEEE{{cite web|url=https://www.computer.org/web/pressroom/81-fellows|title=81 IEEE-CS Members Elevated to Fellow|date=30 November 2011|website=IEEE Fellows|publisher=IEEE Computer Society|accessdate=7 April 2017}} and a founding faculty member of the Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute. He was an associate editor-in-chief of IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Graphics.
Biography
Hansen received a BS in computer science from Memphis State University in 1981 and a PhD in computer science from the University of Utah in 1987. From 1989 to 1997, he was a Technical Staff Member in the Advanced Computing Laboratory (ACL) at Los Alamos National Laboratory, where he formed and directed the visualization efforts.{{cite web|url=http://rp-www.cs.usyd.edu.au/~visual/pvis2013/program/keynotespeakers.php|title=Keynote Speakers|website=IEEE Pacific Visualization 2013|publisher=University of Sydney|accessdate=7 April 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161225080353/http://rp-www.cs.usyd.edu.au/~visual/pvis2013/program/keynotespeakers.php|archive-date=25 December 2016|url-status=dead}} He was a Bourse de Chateaubriand PostDoc Fellow at INRIA in Rocquencourt, France in 1987 and 1988. Since 1998, he has been a full professor in Computer Science at the University of Utah. In 2019, he was named a Distinguished Professor of Computing at the University of Utah. He was a visiting scientist at INRIA-Rhône-Alpes in the GRAVIR group in 2004-2005 and a visiting professor at the Joseph Fourier University in Grenoble in 2011-2012. In 2005, he won the IEEE Visualization Technical Achievement Award for his "seminal work on tools for understanding large-scale scientific data sets".{{cite web|url=http://www.sci.utah.edu/software/140-news/honors-and-awards/246-2005-visualization-technical-achievement-award.html|title=Chuck Hansen Receives IEEE 2005 Visualization Technical Achievement Award|publisher=Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute|language=en-gb|last1=Galli|first1=Nathan|accessdate=7 April 2017}} In 2017, he was awarded the IEEE Technical Committee on Visualization and Graphics "Career Award" in recognition for his contributions to large scale data visualization, including advances in parallel and volume rendering, novel interaction techniques, and techniques for exploiting hardware; for his leadership in the community as an educator, program chair, and editor; and for providing vision for the development and support of the field.{{Cite web|url=https://www.sci.utah.edu/images/news/2017/vis_career17.pdf|title=Hansen receives VGTC Career Award|last=Gali|first=Nathan|date=October 2017|website=SCI Institute|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191101152452/https://www.sci.utah.edu/images/news/2017/vis_career17.pdf |archive-date=2019-11-01 |access-date=}} He was associate editor-in-chief of IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Graphics from 2003 to 2007, and again from 2014 to 2018.{{cite journal|date=1 January 2004|title=Editor's note|journal=IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics|volume=10|issue=1|pages=1|doi=10.1109/TVCG.2004.1260753|issn=1077-2626|last1=Ebert|first1=D. S.}} He was elected an IEEE Fellow in 2012.
Books
- {{cite book|editor1-last=Hansen|editor1-first=Charles D.|editor2-last=Johnson|editor2-first=Christopher R.|title=The Visualization Handbook|date=2005|publisher=Elsevier|isbn=978-0-12-387582-2}}
- {{cite book|editor1-last=Bethel|editor1-first=E. Wes|editor2-last=Childs|editor2-first=Hank|editor3-last=Hansen|editor3-first=Charles|title=High Performance Visualization: Enabling Extreme-Scale Scientific Insight|date=2013|publisher=CRC Press|location=Boca Raton|isbn=9781439875728}}
- {{cite book|editor1-last=Hansen|editor1-first=Charles|editor2-last=Chen|editor2-first=Min|editor3-last=Johnson|editor3-first=Christopher|editor4-last=Kaufman|editor4-first=Arie|editor5-last=Hagen|editor5-first=Hans|title=Scientific Visualization: Uncertainty, Multifield, Biomedical, and Scalable Visualization|date=2014|publisher=Springer-Verlag|isbn=978-1-4471-6497-5}}
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Category:American computer scientists
Category:University of Utah alumni
Category:Computer graphics researchers
Category:Los Alamos National Laboratory personnel
Category:University of Utah faculty
Category:Year of birth uncertain
Category:Data and information visualization experts
Category:University of Memphis alumni