Introduction
Hanspeter Pfister is a Swiss computer scientist and the An Wang Professor of Computer Science at Harvard University. He is the Director of the Institute for Applied Computational Sciences at Harvard and on the board of directors of the IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Visualization and Graphics. He was previously the associate director and senior research scientist at Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories.
Biography
Hanspeter Pfister received his master's degree in 1991 in electrical engineering at ETH Zurich and moved to the United States for his PhD in computer science at Stony Brook University. In 1992 he began working with Arie Kaufman on Cube-3, a hardware architecture for volume visualization. By the time of his graduation in 1996, he had finished the architecture for Cube-4 and licensed it to Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories. He then joined Mitsubishi Electric, where he worked for over a decade. He was the chief architect of VolumePro, Mitsubishi Electric’s real-time volume rendering graphics card, for which he received the Mitsubishi Electric President’s Award in 2000. He joined the faculty at Harvard University in 2007. In 2012 he was the Technical Papers Chair at SIGGRAPH. As of 2012 he also serves as a consultant for Disney Research