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2003 NEWS AND HIGHLIGHTS
03.24.03 - Kao Named to IEEE Editorial Post
NAS Division scientist David Kao has been named an associate editor of Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG), a quarterly journal of the IEEE. The journal is designed to inform readers on the state of the art of the specialized field of scientific visualization.
During his two-year tenure, which began in February, Kao's duties will include soliciting manuscripts for the journal, distributing them to recognized experts for peer review, and evaluating and recommending them for publication. Kao has published extensively in the scientific visualization field and has served as co-chair or member of technical committees at several international conferences. He received his Ph.D. from Arizona State University in Computer Science.
David S. Ebert, newly appointed TVCG editor-in-chief, cited Kao's "reputation in the field" and recommendations from colleagues and current members of the TVCG Editorial Board as the basis for the appointment.
As a scientist in the NAS Division's Research Branch, Kao is working with government and university collaborators to develop several new visualization tools and techniques for analyzing Earth- and space science data. Some of the techniques will be applied, for example, to Earth Observing System (EOS) satellite image-derived data representing snapshots in time of the Earth's surface.
Kao has co-developed several visualization software packages, including the award-winning Unsteady Flow Analysis Toolkit (UFAT), a pioneering tool for visualizing very large time-dependent or "unsteady" flow datasets. UFAT reduces the analysis time of multi-gigabyte datasets from weeks to hours, and has been used to process and analyze simulation results of the Space Shuttle and artificial heart devices.
TVCG publishes papers that present important research results and state-of-the-art seminal papers related to visualization and computer graphics techniques, systems, software, hardware, and user interface issues.
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