Dr. Victoria Interrante interran@cs.umn.edu (612) 625-3543 http://www.cs.umn.edu/~interran

Dr. Victoria Interrante, the newest member of the Department's staff is a specialist in visualization and computer graphics.

Dr. Interrante received her Ph.D. in 1996 from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, advised by Drs. Henry Fuchs and Stephen Pizer. From 1996-1998 she was a staff scientist at ICASE, a non-profit research center operated by the Universities Space Research Association at NASA Langley. Dr. Interrante joined the faculty last July as an assistant professor.

Dr. Interrrante's current research focuses on the application of insights from visual perception, art and illustration to the design of more effective techniques for visualizing 3D data, in particular the study of shape and depth perception, shape-based feature extraction, and the representation of 3D shape through texture. She teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in visualization and computer graphics and has organized and lectured in tutorials on perceptual issues in graphics and visualization at SIGGRAPH '97 and '98, and IEEE Visualization '96, '97, and '98. She was a participant in the panel discussion at IEEE Visualization '98 entitled "Art and Visualization: Oil and Water?" which won the "Best Panel" Award and was very well received. Dr. Interrante was recently awarded a Grant-in-Aid of Research, Artistry and Scholarship from the Office of the Vice President for Research and Dean of the Graduate School of the University of Minnesota.

See Dr. Victoria Interrante's web page for more information on her research and publications.