| Education: | Currently pursuing Ph.D., Computer
Science, University of Utah, Expected Decemeber 2009 Dissertation: Visualization of Statistical Uncertainty Advisor: R.F. Riesenfeld Committee Members: Elaine Cohen, Mike Kirby, Christopher Johnson, Bruce Gooch. Masters of Science, Computer Science, University of Utah, May 2003 Thesis: 3D Line Textures for NPR Walkthroughs Advisor: R.F. Riesenfeld, Committee Members: Peter Shirley, Charles Hansen. Bachelor of Science, Double Major, University of Oregon, May 2000 Computer Science. Focus: Computer Graphics Fine Arts. Focus: Photography, Oil Painting |
| Technical Skills: | In-depth knowledge of computer visualization, graphics and visual
arts as well as strong software engineering, communication,
organization, and writing skills. Software: C++, C, Java, OpenGL, VTK, Perl, Python, bash, tcsh, tcl/tk, FLTK, Qt, CMake, Maya |
| Experience: |
Research Assistant, January 2008 - present Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute, University of Utah Researching techniques for incorporating uncertainty, error, and confidence information into pre-existing visualization techniques. This work investigates both 2D and 3D datasets through traditional graphical display methods such as the boxplot for 2D and volume rendering for 3D. Responsibilities include examining existing methods and gathering background research, writing code that integrates multiple libraries, and writing research papers. Also pursuing collaborative projects in memory trace visualization, and non-photorealistic rendering. Graduate Intern, June 2008 - September 2008 Sandia National Laboratories, NM Pursued research in uncertainty visualization and summary statistics of large datasets. Research Assistant, August 2000 - December 2007 University of Utah, School of Computing Geometric Design and Computation Research Group (GDC) Explored non-photorealistic and haptic rendering techniques. Teaching Assistant, 2001-2005 University of Utah, School of Computing Introduction to Computer Graphics, Human Computer Interaction. Gave lectures, lead class discussions, assisted in curriculum organization and development, grading, and tutoring of students. Leader, Undergraduate Research Team, Summer 2001 Department of Computer Science, University of Utah Mentored CS women in the Computing Research Association's Distributed Mentor Project. |
| Professional Activities: |
Systers Pass-It-On Grants Review Committee Committee Member, 2008, 2009. Reviewing applications for small monetary grants to help women seeking their place in the fields of technology. Women@CS Co-founder and Webmaster, December 2005 - present. University of Utah, School of Computing. Co-founder and webmaster for fledgling women@cs group designed to support women and encourage community in the School of Computing. Graduate Student Advisory Committee, Member: August 2001- August 2002, Chair: August 2002 - August 2003 University of Utah, School of Computing. Liaison between graduate students and the administration. Reviewer ACM Siggraph Technical Sketches, 2005, 2006. American Statistician, 2007. Computer Graphics Forum, 2008. EuroVis, 2008. IEEE Visualization, 2007, 2008, 2009. IEEE InfoVis, 2007. IEEE VAST, 2007. |
| Publications: | Kristin Potter, Amy Gooch, Bruce Gooch, Peter Willemsen, Joe
Kniss, Richard Riesenfeld and Peter Shirley. Resolution
Independent NPR-Style 3D Line Textures. In Computer
Graphics Forum, Vol. 28, No. 1, pp. 52-62, 2009. Kristin Potter, Jens Krüger, and Christopher Johnson. Towards the Visualization of Multi-Dimensional Stochastic Distribution Data. In IADIS Computer Graphics and Visualization 2008 (CGV 2008). Jens Krüger, Kristin Potter, Rob MacLeod, and Christoher Johnson. Unified Volume Format: A General System For Efficient Handling Of Large Volumetric Datasets. In IADIS Computer Graphics and Visualization 2008 (CGV 2008). A.N.M. Imroz Choudhury, Kristin Potter and Steven Parker. Interactive Visualization for Memory Reference Traces. In Proceedings EuroVis 2008 (to appear), 2008. Joe Kniss, Warren Hunt, Kristin Potter, and Pradeep Sen. IStar: A Raster Representation for Scalable Image and Volume Data. In IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, Vol 13, No. 6, pp.1424-1431, 2007. Kristin Potter, Amy Gooch, Bruce Gooch, Peter Willemsen, Joe Kniss, Richard Riesenfeld, and Peter Shirley. 3D Line Textures and the Visualization of Confidence in Architecture, University of Utah Technical Report, #UUCS-07-005, 2007. Kristin Potter, Joe Kniss and Richard Riesenfeld. Visual Summary Statistics. University of Utah Tech Report #UUCS-07-004, 2007. Kristin Potter. Methods for Presenting Statistical Information: The Box Plot. In Hans Hagen, Andreas Kerren and Peter Dannenmann (Eds.), Visualization of Large and Unstructured Data Sets, (LNI), Vol. S-4, pp. 97-106, 2006. Kristin Potter, David Johnson, and Elaine Cohen. Haptically Guided Filtering for Reverse Engineering. In Proceedings of the International Design Engineering Technical Conference, (DETC 2004), 2004. Kristin Potter, David Johnson, and Elaine Cohen. Height Field Haptics. In Proceedings of the 12th International IEEE Symposium on Haptics, pp.258-265, 2004. Shaun Ramsey, Kristin Potter, and Charles Hansen. Ray Bilinear Patch Intersections. Journal of Graphics Tools, Vol 9, No 3, 2004. |
| Interests: | Art. Photography: black and white, small and medium formats.
Painting: oil and acrylic. Outdoor Activities. Alpine and nordic skiing, snowboarding, hiking, camping, biking. |