Hank Childs is a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Oregon. Before joining UO, Hank spent 14 years at Lawrence Livermore and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratories. During this period, Hank served as the architect of the open-source VisIt project, which is used to visualize and analyze the world's largest scientific data sets. At UO, Hank and his advisees have developed additional visualization solutions for in situ processing on supercomputers. These solutions were deployed in the Ascent and VTK-m projects, which were used on the world's first exascale supercomputer. All three software packages required significant research, and Hank has been a co-author on over 100 full-length, peer-reviewed papers, many on methods used within these packages or evaluations of their efficacy.
