Kelly joined TACC as Associate Director in September 2001. She is the Associate Director of Research and Development. Before coming to TACC, Dr. Gaither worked as a research professor in computational engineering at Mississippi State University.

• Scientific visualization
• Feature detection
• Illumination techniques
• Visualization techniques
• Visualization applications

• Feature Detection Techniques
• Real Time Rendering of Complex Time-Dependent Data Set
• Remote and Collaborative Visualization

Gaither, K., Visualization's Role in Analyzing Computational Fluid Dynamics Data, Visualization Viewpoints, (to appear) IEEE Computer Graphics & Applications, May/June 2004, pp. 2-4.

Y. Jang, M. Weiler, M. Hopf, J. Huang, D. Ebert, K. Gaither, and T. Ertl. Interactively Visualizing Procedurally Encoded Scalar Fields. In O. Deussen, C. Hansen, D.A. Keim, and D. Saupe, editors, Proceedings of EG/IEEE TCVG Symposium on Visualization VisSym '04 (to appear), 2004.

Gaither, K., Hyams, D.G., Sreenivas, K. and McDonald, H., "Large Scale Visualization and Animation of Computational Fluid Dynamics Simulations," Proceedings of 9th International Symposium on Flow Visualization, Edinburgh, August 2000, pp. 96-1:96-9.

Marcum, D., and Gaither, K., "Solution Adaptive Unstructured Grid Generation Using Pseudo-Pattern Recognition Techniques," AIAA Paper 97-1860, 1997.

Gaither, K., Moorhead, R., Nations, S., and Fox, D., "Visualizing Ocean Circulation Models Through Virtual Environment," IEEE Computer Graphics & Applications, Vol. 17, No. 1, Jan-Feb, 1997, pp. 16-19.

Weatherill, N.P., Gaither, K.P., and Gaither, J.A., "Building Unstructured Grids for Computational Fluid Dynamics," Computational Fluid Dynamics Journal, Vol. 4, No. 1, April 1995, pp. 1-28.

IEEE

ACM

ACM SIGGRAPH

"Grid-Enabled Terascale Visualization," SUN Theatre SC03, November 2003.

"The Future for Visualizing Computational Simulations," SIGGRAPH Campfire: Visualization Meets Visual Effects, Snowbird, UT, September 2003.

"Statistically Based Volumetric Feature Identification," Dagstuhl Conference on Scientific Visualization: Extracting Information and Knowledge from Scientific Data Sets, June 2003

"Interactive Visualization and Interrogation of Large-Scale Geosciences Simulations," SIAM Minisymposium on Geosciences, March 2003.

"Introduction to the Scientific Visualization Process," DoD Users Group Meeting, Austin, TX, June 2002.

"Procedural Modeling and Perceptual Design Projects at TACC," Texas A&M University Undergraduate Seminar, TEXGRAPH, 2002.

• Conference General Chair, IEEE Visualization 2004
• Co-Organizer, SIGGRAPH Campfire "Visualization Meets Visual Effects," 2003
• Program Co-Chair, IEEE Visualization 2003
• Case Studies Co-Chair, IEEE Visualization 2002
• Works in Progress Co-Chair, IEEE Visualization 2001

Ph.D., Computational Engineering, Mississippi State

M.S., Computer Science, Texas A&M University

B.S., Computer Science, Texas A&M University