Kelly Gaither, Associate Director of the Texas Advanced Computing Center
(TACC), is working to develop a strong research and development program at TACC
while conducting research in scientific visualization and data analysis. Gaither, a research scientist, leads TACC’s research
and development activities. She also serves as an area director for data,
information services, visualization, and scheduling in the National Science
Foundation funded TeraGrid project. Gaither received her doctoral degree in Computational Engineering
from Mississippi State University in May 2000, and received her masters and
bachelors degree in Computer Science from Texas A&M University in 1992 and
1988 respectively. While obtaining her
Ph.D., she worked full time at the Simulation and Design Center in the National
Science Foundation Engineering Research Center as the leader of the visualization
group. Gaither has a number of refereed
publications in fields ranging from Computational Mechanics to Supercomputing Applications
to Scientific Visualization. She has given a number of invited talks. Over the past ten years, she has actively
participated in the IEEE Visualization conference, and served as the IEEE
Visualization conference general chair in 2004. She is currently serving on the IEEE Visualization and Graphics
Technical Committee.