Dr. Donna J. Cox is the Michael Aiken Chair, Director of the Advanced Visualization Laboratory (AVL) at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), Director of Illinois eDream Institute (Emerging Digital Research and Education in Arts Media), and Professor in the School of Art and Design, University of Illinois. For over 25 years, she has pioneered the art of scientific visualization for communication and outreach. She organized the first "Renaissance Teams" as an interdisciplinary methodology to address visualization challenges. The Chicago Museum of Science and Industry selected her as one of 40 modern Leonardo DaVinci's. She and her collaborators have thrilled millions of people with stunning cinematic visualizations for IMAX movies, feature films, PBS HD television, and large-screen digital museum shows around the world. She has served as Director-at-Large and Experimental Technologies Chair for the SIGGRAPH Conference. As Director of the eDream Institute, she is working with campus leadership, faculty and students to foster and support creative visualization projects at the University of Illinois. She and her collaborators have thrilled millions of people with visualizations for IMAX movies, feature film, PBS HD television, and large-screen digital shows at museums around the world. AVL prototypes novel visualization technologies and works closely with the eDream Institute. In collaboration with University of Illinois leadership, Cox formed the eDream Institute to synergize innovation across the arts and sciences, supporting artists, faculty and students and creative productions such as the Tao of Bach.

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Dr. Donald H. House is Professor and Chair of Visual Computing in the School of Computing at Clemson University. His primary research areas are in the broad fields of computer graphics and visualization, with special interests in physically based animation, and in perceptual issues. He is coeditor of the seminal book on cloth simulation in graphics, Cloth and Clothing in Computer Graphics, A K Peters, Ltd., 2000. Dr. House holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Rensselaer, and a B.S. in Mathematics from Union College.

Dr. Joshua A. Levine is an assistant professor in the Visual Computing division of the School of Computing at Clemson University. He received his PhD from The Ohio State University after completing his BS and MS in Computer Science from Case Western Reserve University. His research interests include geometric modeling, scientific visualization, mesh generation, topological analysis, vector fields, volume and medical imaging, surface reconstruction, computer graphics, and computational geometry.

Dr. Michael Smith is a visual media architect and academic program director with Intel where he leads education programs in visualization, high performance computing, parallel programming and mobile computing. He has over 15 years of experience in visual media and academic collaborations. He is a specialist in computational media systems and the author of numerous papers and a book on video indexing and summarization. He is also a research advisor with the NSF Broadening Participation in Computing Digital Library at U.C. Berkeley. He recently completed a post with the Government of Trinidad and Tobago to develop a new national university, where he was the Vice President of Digital Media Studies. He has served as the Director of Research at France Telecom R&D, San Francisco, and a visiting researcher at the University of Texas, Morehouse College, the University of Campinas, Brazil, and the University of Cape Town. Michael Smith holds a PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University, a Master's in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University, and a Bachelor's degree from Tuskegee University and North Carolina A&T University.

Dr. Nancy M. Amato, Distinguished ACM Speaker, is Unocal Professor and Interim Department Head of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Texas A&M University where she co-directs the Parasol Lab.

She received undergraduate degrees in Mathematical Sciences and Economics from Stanford University in 1986, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from UC Berkeley and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1988 and 1995, respectively. She was an AT&T Bell Laboratories PhD Scholar, received a CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation, is a Distinguished Speaker for the ACM Distinguished Speakers Program, was a Distinguished Lecturer for the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society, and is an IEEE Fellow.

She has served as an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation and of the IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Computing. She was co-Chair of the National Center for Women in Information Technology(NCWIT) Academic Alliance (2009-2011), is a member of the Computing Research Association's Committees on the Status of Women in Computing Research CRA-W)and Education (CRA-E), and of the ACM, IEEE, and CRA sponsored Coalition to Diversity Computing (CDC). She has directed or co-directed the CRA-W/CDC Distributed Research Experiences for Undergraduates (DREU, formally known as the DMP) since 2000. She received a University-level teaching award from the Texas A&M Association of Former Students and the Betty M. Unterberger Award for Outstanding Service to Honors Education at Texas A&M. Her main areas of research focus are motion planning and robotics, computational biology and geometry, and parallel and distributed computing.

Christopher J. Senesac joined The Boeing Company in 1993. Chris is a Senior System Architect for Engineering Systems at Boeing South Carolina responsible for coordinating the development, deployment and support of visualization tools and processes for Boeing South Carolina. Chris has 22 years of experience implementing visualization inside Boeing. Chris has a BS from Northern Illinois University in Software Engineering.

Benjamin Rennison is an archaeologist and metrologist based at the Clemson Restoration Institute in Charleston, SC. He specializes in three-dimensional archaeological reconstruction and documentation. His work has included the three-dimensional documentation and analysis of the H.L Hunley's crew and associated artifacts, and the recording the hull surface of the submarine. His main field of research has been in the development of a system of artifact analysis and three-dimensional reconstruction utilizing three-dimensional scanning methods and photogrammetry to survey an artifact's spatial characteristics over time from recovery and excavation, to a final conserved state.

Michael Scafuri is an archaeologist and metrologist at the Clemson University Restoration Institute (CURI) with over twenty years of experience in archaeological survey and excavation around the world. He was actively involved in the raising, excavation, and analysis of the H.L Hunley submarine and is a specialist in computer applications to archaeology and cultural heritage, focusing on the development of 3D scanning, documentation, and digital modeling of the H.L. Hunley.

Dr. Casey Goodlett joined Kitware in August 2009 after receiving his Ph.D. in Computing from the University of Utah. Casey Goodlett also earned his M.S. in Computer Science from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill in 2007 and his B.S. in Computer Science from Clemson University in 2003.

At Kitware, Casey focuses on developing innovative software solutions to research problems in the fields of medical image analysis and computer vision. In particular, Casey has experience in registration of data (images, point clouds, surfaces), optimization methods, software application development, and software project management.

Maxine D. Brown is an Associate Director of the Electronic Visualization Laboratory (EVL) at UIC. She is currently co-principal investigator of the US National Science Foundation's (NSF) International Research Network Connections Program's TransLight/StarLight award, and was previously co-principal investigator of the NSF-funded EuroLink and STAR TAP/StarLight initiatives. Brown was the project manager of the NSF-funded OptIPuter project.

Brown is a member of the Pacific Rim Applications and Grid Middleware Assembly (PRAGMA), is a founding member of Global Lambda Integrated Facility (GLIF), and is co-chair of the GLIF Research & Applications working group. Brown is also the UIC representative and past President of the Board of Directors of the Great Lakes Consortium for Petascale Computing (GLCPC). Previously, Brown served as an officer of the ACM SIGGRAPH organization and has been very active in ACM SIGGRAPH and ACM/IEEE Supercomputing conferences. She was was one of several American technical advisors to the G7 GIBN activity in 1995, and co-created and co-chaired the international grid (iGrid) Workshops in 1998, 2000, 2002 and 2005.

In recognition of her services to UIC and the community at large, Brown is a recipient of the 1990 UIC Chancellor's Academic Professional Excellence (CAPE) award; the 2001 UIC Merit Award; and the 1998 ACM SIGGRAPH Outstanding Service Award. In 2009, Chicago's award-winning multimedia public affairs series "Chicago Matters: Beyond Burnham" designated Brown as one of 15 Global Visionaries for her role in co-developing StarLight.

Dr. Sophie Jörg is an Assistant Professor in the Visual Computing division of the School of Computing at Clemson University. Her research interests are in computer graphics, specifically character animation and perception. Before joining Clemson, she received her PhD from Trinity College Dublin, Ireland, interned at Disney Research, Pittsburgh, and was a postdoctoral researcher at Carnegie Mellon University. Further information about her research can be found at her website.

Dr. Alberto I. Roca is a first-generation Peruvian-American from Houston, Texas who received his Ph.D. in Molecular Biology from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Dr. Roca is an independent scientist who developed a novel visualization technique ProfileGrid for the bioinformatic analysis of large protein families. The work has been published BMC Bioinformatics and F1000Research. Dr. Roca has presented his award-winning JProfileGrid software at the bioinformatic visualization conferences VIZBI and BioVis. He is a member of International Society for Computational Biology and volunteers on diversity activities by mentoring minority trainees at the ISCB/ISMB annual conference as well as at the student conferences: Society for the Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in Science (SACNAS) and Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minority Students (ABRCMS). Dr. Roca is also the Founder and Executive Director of DiverseScholar whose mission is to promote the recruitment, mentoring, and success of diverse doctorates thereby facilitating the diversification of the STEM doctoral workforce. The non-profit's programming and professional development activities help graduate students and postdocs transition to professional positions by connecting trainees with institutional diversity recruiters.