User:Tmrhyne

Theresa-Marie Rhyne is an active contributor to the information visualization and scientific visualization communities. She was the lead co-chair of IEEE Visualization 1998 and senior co-chair of IEEE Visualization 1999. She currently is the Visualization Viewpoints Department Editor of IEEE Computer Graphics & Applications Magazine. Many opinion pieces and case study applications from the visualization community are published under her direction as the Visualization Viewpoints editor.

She is also the founding director of the Association for Computing Machinery Special Interest Group on Graphics Cartographic Visualization Project (ACM SIGGRAPH Carto Project) that began in 1996. This effort holds a Birds-of-a-Feather session each year at the annual SIGGRAPH conference.

She was the founding visualization expert at the United States Environmental Protection Agency's Scientific Visualization Center from 1990 - 2000. From 2001 - July 2005, she was the coordinator of special technology projects for online instructional learning at North Carolina State University. During that period, she served as a visualization adviser to North Carolina State University’s Information Technology Division on High Performance Computing efforts. In July 2005, she founded the Center for Visualization and Analytics (CVA) in the Department of Computer Science at North Carolina State University in Raleigh. The CVA studies the use of visualization technology and analytical methods to explore engineering, scientific, design and educational challenges. In July 2006, she also became the Director of the Renaissance Computing Institute's (RENCI) North Carolina State University (NCSU) Engagement Facility.