Bio

Steven G. Parker is an Assistant Professor at the School of Computing as well as a member of the Scientific Computing and Imaging (SCI) Institute.  He performs research in software architectures for scientific computing, and in interactive ray tracing for large-scale scientific visualization and computer graphics applications.  He is the chief software architect for the Center of Accidental Fires and Explosions, where he has helped create a problem solving environment for a complex multi-physics simulation running on thousands of processors.  He is also the initial developer of the SCIRun problem-solving environment, the SCIJump distributed component environment, and the Manta interactive ray tracing system.  Primary research interests for Dr. Parker are scientific visualization, computational steering, high performance computing, interactive ray tracing, computer graphics, problem solving environments, and component architectures. Professor Parker received his B.S. in Electrical Engineering at the University of Oklahoma in 1992 and his PhD. in Computer Science from the University of Utah in 1999.