Hank Childs

Hank Childs is an Associate Professor in the Computer and Information Science Department at the University of Oregon. He received his Ph.D. in computer science from the University of California at Davis in 2006. Hank's research focuses on scientific visualization, high performance computing, and the intersection of the two. Outside of his research, Hank is best known for his role in the VisIt project, a visualization application for very large data that is used around the world. Before joining UO, Hank spent over a dozen years at Lawrence Berkeley and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories working in big data visualization.