Researcher in Core 3, University of Utah
Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute
Phone: 801-581-3154
Email: hansen@cs.utah.edu
Webpage: http://www.cs.utah.edu/~hansen/
Charles Hansen serves the institute as a researcher in Core 3 (Data-Driven Computational Science and Visualization). Hansen received his bachelor’s degree from Memphis State University in 1981, following this with a doctorate from the University of Utah in 1987. He was a postdoctoral research scientist at the French National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Control (INRIA) in 1987-1988.
Hansen is presently professor in the School of Computing at the University of Utah, as well as associate director of the Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute at that institution. He has been a faculty member at the University of Utah since 1997. He recently served as visiting scientist for the ARTIS Group, INRIA Rhone-Alps (2004-2005). From 1990 to 1997 Hansen was adjunct assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science at New Mexico Tech, and he also served as visiting research assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of New Mexico from 1994 to 1997. He was director of visualization at the Advanced Computing Laboratory at Los Alamos National Laboratory from 1989 to 1997. Hansen has held editorial positions with the IEEE Transaction on Visualization and Computer Graphics publication and has served on numerous conference organizing committees.