Theresa-Marie Rhyne

Director, RENCI NCSU Engagement Facility (RENCI@NCSU)

(919) 513-4623
(919) 515-0055 (RENCI NCSU Office)
theresa-marie at renci.org

Area of expertise
Visualization (Scientific, Information and Geographic), Visual Analytics, Computer Graphics, Internetworked 3D Graphics, Integration of Computer Graphics and Computer Games, Online Instruction, Computer Art

Responsibilities
Oversight of the RENCI Engagement Facility at North Carolina State University

Projects
Efforts that support visual analytics (visualization and analysis) in the NCSU community

Background in Visualization & Computer Graphics

Founding Visualization Expert at the United States Environmental Protection Agency's Scientific Visualization Center (1990)
-- Government Contractor: Unisys Corporation at US EPA Sci Vis Center 1990 - 1992
-- Government Contractor: Lockheed Martin Technical Services at US EPA Sci Vis Center 1993 - 2000
Multimedia/Visualization Expert in Distance Education and Learning Technology Applications (DELTA) -- DELTA - North Carolina State University 2001 - 2002 Coordinator of Special Technology Projects in Distance Education and Learning Technology Applications -- DELTA - North Carolina State University 2003 - 2005 Director of the Center for Visualization and Analytics - Dept. of Computer Science -- Department of Computer Science, North Carolina State University 2005 - present Director of the RENCI NCSU Engagement Center -- RENCI - Renaissance Computing Institute 2006 - present

Other Positions in Professional Societies:

Director at Large for Association for Computing Machinery's Special Interest Group on Graphics (ACM SIGGRAPH) 1996 - 2000
Lead Co-Chair of the Institute for Electrical and Electronic Engineers' Visualization 1998 Conference (IEEE Visualization 1998)
Past Co-Chair of the Institute for Electrical and Electronic Engineers' Visualization 1999 Conference (IEEE Visualization 1999)
Program/Papers Co-Chair for the European Association for Computer Graphics 2001 Conference (Eurographics 2001)
Director and Founder of the ACM SIGGRAPH Cartographic Visualization Project (1996 - present)

Recent Awards

Editorial Board of IEEE Computer Graphics & Application Magazine 1997 - present
-- Visualization Viewpoints Department Editor
Editorial Board of the Journal for Game Development 2002 - present

IEEE Senior Member 2000
ACM Senior Member 2006

Member of the Transportation Research Board's Committee on Visualization 2007

Selected Publications

Rhyne, T. M., MacEachren, A., and Dykes, J. (2006). Guest Editors' Introduction: Exploring Geovisualization. IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications 26(4), 20-21.

North, C., Rhyne, T. M., Duca, K., (2005) Bioinformatics Visualization: Introduction to the Special Issue. Information Visualization 4(3): 147-148.

Rhyne, T. M. (2003). Does the difference between information and scientific visualization really matter?. IEEE computer graphics and applications, 23(3), 6-8.

Rhyne, T. M. (2002). Computer games and scientific visualization. Communications of the ACM, 45(7), 40-44.

Theresa-Marie Rhyne, Alan Turner, Ron Vetter, Lars Bishop, and David Holmes. ACM SIGGRAPH 2002 Course #48 Notes: Dynamic Media on Demand: Exploring Wireless & Wired Streaming Technologies and Content, (distributed at SIGGRAPH 2002, July 2002).

A. Chalmers & T.-M. Rhyne (Guest Editors). Eurographics 2001 Conference Proceedings, Computer Graphics Forum, Vol. 20, No. 3, Conference Issue, Manchester, United Kingdom, September 3-7, 2001.

Theresa-Marie Rhyne, Bob Barton, Grantley Day, Don Brutzman, and Mike Macedonia. ACM SIGGRAPH 2001 Course #26 Notes: Internetworked 3D Computer Graphics: Overcoming Bottlenecks, Supporting Collaboration, and Stepping Up to Wireless Connectivity.(distributed at SIGGRAPH 2001, August 2001).

Links

Center for Visualization and Analytics, NCSU (http://research.csc.ncsu.edu/cva/).

Artspace web page for T-M. Rhyne (http://www.artspacenc.org/artists/rhyne.html).

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