Gordon Kindlmann
Gordon L. Kindlmann is an American computer scientist who focuses on information visualization and image analysis. He is best known for creating tools to visualize tensor data, including the tensor glyph.
He earned a BA in mathematics from Cornell University in 1995 and an MS in computer graphics from Cornell in 1998. He completed his PhD at the University of Utah in 2004, working at the Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute under Christopher R. Johnson. During his PhD, he developed interactive methods for visualizing volumetric data with multidimensional transfer functions, which have been widely cited.
Afterward, he was a postdoctoral researcher at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, affiliated with Harvard Medical School, in the Laboratory of Mathematics in Imaging. There he created the tensor glyph for visualizing the degrees of freedom of a 3×3 tensor. His diffusion tensor MRI visualization work is noted in The Visualization Handbook.
In 2009 he joined the University of Chicago as an assistant professor, where he teaches scientific visualization. In 2013 he appeared in the independent film Computer Chess by Andrew Bujalski, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and won the Alfred P. Sloan Prize.
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