Ann McNamara
About Ann McNamara
Affiliations
- Texas A&M University, School of Performance, Department of Visualization, Assistant Professor
- University of Bristol, Associate Professor
- University of Dublin
- St. Louis University
Location
- College Station, Texas, United States of America
Bio
SIGGRAPH Asia 2023
Ann McNamara is a Professor and the Associate Dean for Research & Creative Works in the School of Performance, Visualization, & Fine Arts at Texas A&M University. She is also the director of the VIVID Lab, an interdisciplinary lab focusing on advancing data visualization and information design. McNamara’s research uses innovative approaches to improve computer graphics and scientific visualization to enhance the user’s experience when creating, viewing, and interacting with virtual and augmented spaces. Her work has various applications in various fields, including architecture, engineering, and medicine.
SIGGRAPH Asia 2021
Ann McNamara is the Associate Dean for Research in the College of Architecture at Texas University. She is also an Associate professor in the Department of Visualization. Her research focuses on novel approaches for optimizing an individual’s experience when creating, viewing, and interacting with virtual and augmented spaces. She is the recipient of an NSF CAREER AWARD entitled “Advancing Interaction Paradigms in Mobile Augmented Reality using Eye-Tracking”. In 2019, she was named as one of twenty-one Presidential Impact Fellows at Texas University.
SIGGRAPH 2020
Ann McNamara is an Associate professor in the Department of Visualization at Texas A&M University. Her research focuses on novel approaches for optimizing an individual’s experience when creating, viewing and interacting with virtual and augmented spaces. She is the recipient of an NSF CAREER AWARD entitled “Advancing Interaction Paradigms in Mobile Augmented Reality using Eye Tracking”. This project investigates how mobile eye tracking, which monitors where a person is looking while on the go, can be used to determine what objects in a visual scene a person is interested in, and thus might like to have annotated in their augmented reality view. In 2019, she was named as one of twenty-one Presidential Impact Fellows at Texas A&M University.
SIGGRAPH Asia 2019
Ann McNamara is an Associate professor in the Department of Visualization at Texas University. Her research focuses on novel approaches for optimizing an individual’s experience when creating, viewing and interacting with virtual and augmented spaces. She is the recipient of an NSF CAREER AWARD entitled “Advancing Interaction Paradigms in Mobile Augmented Reality using Eye-Tracking”. In 2019, she was named as one of twenty-one Presidential Impact Fellows at Texas University.
SIGGRAPH 2014
Dr. Ann McNamara is an assistant professor in the Department of Visualization at Texas A&M University. She is the recipient of an NSF CAREER award. Her research focuses on the advancement of computer graphics and scientific visualization through novel approaches for optimizing an individual’s experience when creating, viewing and interacting with real, augmented and virtual spaces. She investigates new ways to exploit knowledge of human visual perception to produce high quality computer graphics and animations more efficiently. Ann was Siggraph 2011 & Siggraph 2012 Courses Chair. She is Siggraph General Submissions Chair for Siggraph 2014 & Siggraph 2015.
SIGGRAPH 2010
Ann McNamara received her undergraduate and graduate degrees from the University of Bristol, UK. Anns research focuses on the advancement of computer graphics and scientific visualization through novel approaches for optimizing an individual’s experience when creating, viewing and interacting with virtual spaces. She investigates new ways to exploit knowledge of human visual perception to produce high quality computer graphics and animations more efficiently. She joined the faculty of the newly formed Department of Visualization at Texas A&M University in 2008, where she is currently an assistant professor. Ann serves on several IPCs including APGV.
SIGGRAPH Conference Organizing Committee Positions
Chair
- SIGGRAPH 2014: Panels
- SIGGRAPH 2014: Talks
- SIGGRAPH 2015: Panels
- SIGGRAPH 2012: Courses
- SIGGRAPH 2011: Courses
Committee Member
- SIGGRAPH Asia 2008: Sketches
Jury Member
- SIGGRAPH 2012: Studio
- SIGGRAPH 2009: Music Performances
- SIGGRAPH 2009: Talks
- SIGGRAPH 2012: Talks
- SIGGRAPH 2024: Ambient Art Culture – Art Papers
- SIGGRAPH 2012: Panels
- SIGGRAPH 2012: Courses
- SIGGRAPH 2009: Courses
Reviewer
- SIGGRAPH 2005: Sketches
Conference Contributions
Artworks
-
[Augmented Reality/Virtual Reality] Experiences
-
Birds of a Feather
Labs-Studio
SIGGRAPH Mobile
Learning
-
Courses
Dailies
Education
Panels
Posters
Talks-Sketches
Technical Papers
Sessions Moderated
- “Creating Scripted Animation with Python in Autodesk Maya” by McNamara
- “Acquisition of large-scale surface light fields” by Chen, Nyland, Lastra and Fuchs
- “Robust depth estimation from multiple video streams for dynamic light field rendering” by Goldlücke and Magnor
- “Accurate Depth of Field Postprocessing” by Meeker
- “Real-time view morphing of video streams” by Timm
- “Live 3D video in soccer stadium” by Koyama, Kitahara and Ohta
- “Fluid simulation interaction techniques” by Roble and Wrenninge
- “Fluids with extreme viscosity” by Falt and Roble
- “A fast polymesh to level set algorithm” by Falt and Roble
- “A unified approach for modeling complex occlusions in fluid simulations” by Houston, Bond and Wiebe
- “The cubic interpolated level set method for realistic fluid animation” by Tanaka, Ueki and Kunimatsu
Other Information
Roles
- Art Papers Jury Member
- Art Show Artist
- Birds of Feather Presenter
- Conference Support Committee Member: General Jury
- Conference Support Committee Member: Learning Related
- Course Organizer
- Course Presenter
- Courses Organizing Committee Chair/Co-Chair
- Dailies Presenter
- Education Program Presenter
- Poster Presenter
- Posters Organizing Committee Member
- SIGGRAPH Mobile presenter
- Studio (SIGGRAPH Lab) Presenter
- Talk (Sketch) Moderator
- Talk (Sketch) Presenter
- Talks (Sketches) Organizing Committee Member
- Talks (Sketches) Reviewer
Submit a Story
- If you would like to submit a story about this person (please keep it funny, informative and true), please contact us: historyarchives@siggraph.org
If you find errors or omissions on your profile page, please contact us: historyarchives@siggraph.org
Did you know you can send us a photo of yourself and a bio and we will post it? Make sure the photo is at least 1000 x 1000 and send it to the email above along with the bio and we will add it to your page.
