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CISE Distinguished Lecture Series: Shading Languages and the Emergence of Programmable Graphics Systems by Pat Hanrahan

Pat Hanrahan is the Canon Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering in the Computer Graphics Laboratory at Stanford University. His research focuses on rendering algorithms, graphics systems, and visualization.
Hanrahan received a Ph.D. in biophysics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1985. As a founding employee at Pixar Animation Studios in the 1980s, Hanrahan led the design of the RenderMan Interface Specification and the RenderMan Shading Language. In 1989, he joined the faculty of Princeton University. In 1995, he moved to Stanford University. More recently, Hanrahan served as a co-founder and CTO of Tableau Software. He has received three Academy Awards for Science and Technology, the SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics Achievement Award, the SIGGRAPH Stephen A. Coons Award, and the IEEE Visualization Career Award. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 2019, he received the ACM A. M. Turing Award.

Dec 15, 2022 11:00 AM in Eastern Time (US and Canada)