Arie E. Kaufman

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Most Recent Affiliation(s):


  • State University of New York, Stony Brook, Professor of Computer Science

Other / Past Affiliation(s):


  • Ben Gurion University of the Negev

Location:


  • Stony Brook, New York, Tunisia

Bio:

  • SIGGRAPH 1999

    Arie Kaufman is a Leading Professor of Computer Science and Radiology at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, He is the director of the Center for Visual Computing (CVC) supported by the NSF, DoE, Hughes Aircraft, ONR, NRL, NASA, MERL, HP, SGI, JRC, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Biotechnology Center, and State of New York. His research interests include volume visualization, graphics architectures, algorithms, and languages, user interfaces, and multimedia. He has lectured widely and published numerous technical papers in these areas,  including the IEEE tutorial book on Volume Visualization. He has given several courses on Volume Visualization for SIGGRAPH, Visualization, VBC, CGI, Eurographics, GI, and IBM. He has been the Papers or Program co-Chair for Visualization ’90-’94, co-Chair for several Eurographics Graphics Hardware Workshops, and the chairman of the IEEE CS Technical Committee on Computer Graphics. Kaufman is currently the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transaction on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG). He received a BS in Mathematics and Physics from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (1969), an MS in Computer Science from the Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot (1973), and a PhD in Computer Science from Ben-Gurion University, Israel (1977). He is a Fellow of IEEE, and the recipient of a 1995 IEEE Outstanding Contribution Award and the 1996 IEEE Computer Society’s Golden Core Member.  

    SIGGRAPH 1996

    Arie Kaufman is a Leading Professor of Computer Science and Radiology at the State University  of New York at Stony Brook, He is the director of the Cube project for volume visualization sup- ported by the NSF, DoE, Hughes Aircraft, HP, SGI, JRC, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Center for Biotechnology, and the State of New York. His research interests include volume  visualization, computer graphics architectures, algorithms, and languages, user interfaces, scientific visualization and multimedia. He has lectured widely and published numerous technical  papers in these areas, including the IEEE tutorial book on Volume Visualization. He has given several courses on Volume Visualization for SIGGRAPH, Visualization, VBC, CGI, Eurographics, GI, and IBM. He has been the Papers or Program co-Chair for Visualization ‘90-’94, co-Chair  for several Eurographics Graphics Hardware Workshops, and the chairman of the IEEE CS Technical Committee on Computer Graphics. Kaufman is currently the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE  Transaction on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG). He received a BS in Mathematics and Physics from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (1969), an MS in Computer Science from  the Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot (1973), and a PhD in Computer Science from Ben- Gurion University, Israel (1977).  

    SIGGRAPH 1993

    Arie E. Kaufman is a Professor of Computer Science at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. He is the director or the Cube project for volume visualization supported by the National Science Foundation, Hughes Aircraft Company, Hewlett· Packard Company, Silicon Graphics Company, the Center for Biotechnology, and the State of New York. His research interests include volume visualization, computer graphics architectures, algorithms, and languages, user interfaces, and multimedia. Professor Kaufman has lectured widely and published numerous technical papers in these areas, including the IEEE tutorial book on Volume Visualization. He has given several courses on Volume Visualization for SIGGRAPH, EUROGRAPHICS, CGI, Gl, and IBM. He is the chairman of the IEEE CS Technical Committee on Computer Graphics, and has been the Papers co-Chair and Program co-Chair for Visualization ’90-’93 Conferences, and co-Chair for several EUROGRAPHICS Graphies Hardware Workshops. He received a BS in Mathematics and Physics from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, an MS in Computer Science from the Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, and a PhD in Computer Science from the Ben-Gurion University.  

    SIGGRAPH 1990

    Arle E. Kaufman is currently a Professor of Computer Science at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. Professor Kaufman is the director of the Cube project for volume visualization supported by the National Science Foundation, Hughes Aircraft Company, Hewlett-Packard Company, Silicon Graphics Company, and the State of New York. He has held positions as a Senior lecturer and the Director of the Center of Computer Graphics of the Ben-Gurion University in Beer-Sheva, Israel, and as an Associate and Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Florida International University in Miami. His research interests include computer graphics architectures, algorithms, and languages, volume visualization, user interfaces, computer vision, and scientific visualization. Professor Kaufman has published over 70 papers in these areas, has received 23 grants and awards, and has filed 5 patent applications. He received a BSc in Mathematics and Physics from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1969, an MSc in Computer Science from the Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, in 1973, and a PhD in Computer Science from the Ben-Gurion University in 1977.  He is a member of ACM, SIGGRAPH, IEEE-CS, EUROGRAPHICS, NCGA, and IPA.  

     

     

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