Hanspeter Pfister
Hanspeter Pfister | |
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| Born | April 3, 1964 (age 61) |
| Nationality | Swiss/American |
| Alma mater | ETH Zurich Stony Brook University |
| Known for | VolumePro |
| Awards | Mitsubishi Electric President's Award (2000) IEEE Visualization Technical Achievement Award (2010) IEEE Visualization Academy Fellow (2019) ACM Fellow (2019) IEEE Fellow (2023) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Computer graphics, Computer vision, Scientific visualization, Information visualization |
| Institutions | Harvard University |
| Thesis | Cube-4: A Scalable Architecture for Real-Time Volume Rendering (1996) |
| Doctoral advisor | Arie Kaufman |
| Website | https://vcg.seas.harvard.edu |
Hanspeter Pfister is a Swiss computer scientist. He is the An Wang Professor of Computer Science at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and an affiliate faculty member of the Center for Brain Science at Harvard University. His research in visual computing lies at the intersection of scientific visualization, information visualization, computer graphics, and computer vision and spans a wide range of topics, including biomedical image analysis and visualization, image and video analysis, and visual analytics in data science.