Brief Description of Position:

Oversee a program of grant-funded research project(s) in the areas of immersive scientific, medical, and information data visualization in collaboration with faculty principal investigator(s) within the Department of Computer Science & Engineering, primarily Dr. Daniel Keefe who directs the department’s Interactive Visualization Lab.

Duties/Responsibilities

40% - Research project management:
  Organizing biweekly research meetings with external project collaborators:
  Organizing regular internal project meetings.
  Managing and mentoring the technical development team, including computer science students who are
  new to data visualization research.
  Planning software development and data analysis activities to meet project milestones outlined in grant
  proposals; revising as necessary based on iterative development and feedback.
  Facilitating regular critique / user feedback sessions with interdisciplinary (external) collaborators that
  include immersive demonstrations of VR/AR tools developed, either on-site or using remote rendering
  capabilities.

35% - Software development o Data wrangling using python, Paraview, and related tools for preparing
large, high-dimensional scientific datasets to be displayed with interactive graphics algorithms:
  Computer graphics development, including writing custom GLSL shaders and C++ and C# code to
  visualize data in interactive immersive environments.
  Development of other software infrastructure to support the research (e.g., databases, web-based portals
  or dashboards) for managing, deploying, and collecting/analyzing data.

20% - Dissemination of project results to communities of interest:
  Preparation of manuscripts and supplemental materials in peer-reviewed venues.
  Preparation and possible presentation of research in progress at internal venues (e.g., colloquium series)
  and external venues (e.g., research conferences).
  Including project results in lab and department dissemination and outreach events.

5% - Synthesizing the latest relevant scientific research results and incorporating into projects o Participating in the weekly Interactive Visualization Lab “all-lab” meetings and similar lab events, seminars, and research skill building workshops that provide direct benefits to the research, such as understanding the latest technological developments and findings across all of the lab’s projects and in the field of computer science; incorporating these into the research by making appropriate adjustments to research questions and the specific visualization software and interactive techniques developed.
Similarly, attending in person and/or closely tracking results from the most relevant external research communities, which are typically presented annually at conferences including IEEE VIS, IEEE VR, ACM UIST, and ACM CHI; synthesizing and incorporating these results to advance project goals to utilize and advance the latest available scientific knowledge