Victoria Interrante
{{Short description|American computer scientist}}
{{Use mdy dates|cs1-dates=ly|date=July 2022}}
{{Use list-defined references|date=July 2022}}
Victoria Lynn Interrante is an American computer scientist specializing in computer graphics, scientific computing, and virtual environments. She is a professor of computer science and engineering at the University of Minnesota, a founder of the annual ACM Symposium on Applied Perception in Graphics and Visualization, and co-editor-in-chief of the journal ACM Transactions on Applied Perception.{{r|career}}
Education and career
Interrante is a 1984 graduate of the University of Massachusetts Boston. After earning a master's degree in 1986 at the University of California, Los Angeles, working with Jacques Vidal on computer graphics modeling of breaking waves,{{r|bio}} she completed a Ph.D. in 1996 at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her doctoral dissertation, Illustrating Transparency: Communicating the 3D Shape of Layered Transparent Surfaces via Texture, was co-advised by Henry Fuchs and Stephen Pizer.{{r|career|bio|mg}}
After postdoctoral research at NASA's Langley Research Center, on the visualization of fluid dynamics, she joined the University of Minnesota faculty in 1998.{{r|career}}
She was the founding co-chair of the ACM Symposium on Applied Perception in Graphics and Visualization, in 2004. She became co-editor-in-chief of the journal ACM Transactions on Applied Perception in 2015.{{r|career}}
Recognition
Interrante was a 1999 recipient of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers. In 2020, the Visualization & Graphics Technical Committee of the IEEE Computer Society gave Interrante their Virtual Reality Career Award.{{r|career}}
References
{{reflist|refs=
}}
External links
- [https://www-users.cse.umn.edu/~interran/ Home page]
- {{Google Scholar id|vQQOZVgAAAAJ}}
{{Authority control|state=collapsed}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Interrante, Victoria}}
Category:Year of birth missing (living people)
Category:American computer scientists
Category:American women computer scientists
Category:University of Massachusetts Boston alumni
Category:University of California, Los Angeles alumni
Category:University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill alumni
Category:University of Minnesota faculty
Category:Recipients of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers