Dr. Steven G. Parker - Adjunct SCI Faculty Member

Assistant Professor of Computer Science
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Background

I received my Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Utah in August 1999. In 1994, I received a DOE Computational Science Graduate Fellowship, which supported much of my Ph.D. research. At Visualization 1998, I received the best paper award for the paper Interactive Ray Tracing for Volume Visualization. My undergraduate degree is from the University of Oklahoma in Electrical Engineering (1992).

Current Responsibilities

I am an Assistant Professor in the School of Computing at the University of Utah. As a faculty member of the Scientific Computing and Imaging (SCI) Institute, I perform a number of duties:

• The software architect for the Center for Accidental Fires and Explosions, where I work on creating a problem solving environment for a complex multi-physics simulation running on thousands of processors.
• Continuing the the development of SCIRun, which was the basis of my PhD dissertation and forms the basis for a number of projects in the SCI institute.
• Work on the Real-time ray tracer, which is used for large-scale scientific visualization and realistic image generation.
• Research component architectures for scientific computing. In particular, I am a voting member of the DOE Common Component Architecture Forum.

Research Interests

• Scientific Visualization
• Computational Steering
• High Performance Computing
• Computer Graphics
• Problem Solving Environments
• Component Architectures
• Parallel Programming
• Distributed Computing
• Visual Programming

My research agenda involves bringing together these varied interests. For information about specific research projects, see my research page.