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Hank Childs

Professor
Director of Undergraduate Studies
Computer Science
Phone: 541-346-3414
Office: 301 Deschutes Hall
Research Interests: Scientific Visualization, High Performance Computing

Biography

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.

Education

  • BS, 1999, University of California at Davis
  • PhD, 2006, University of California at Davis

Research Interests

Prof. Hank Childs' research interests include visualization, high-performance computing, and computer graphics.  Much of his work to date has focused on visualizing the very large data sets generated by physics simulations on the world's fastest supercomputers.