(Online) Professor James K. Hahn – George Washington University

DATE:   Wednesday, November 10, 2021

FROM:  7:00pm-9:00pm EST

WHERE:  Online

The Washington DC Chapter of ACM SIGGRAPH is proud to present, James K. Hahn, Professor in the Department of Computer Science and a Professor of Pediatrics in the School of Medicine and Health Sciences at George Washington University.  Professor Hahn will discuss his research journey starting as a doctoral student in the mid 1980’s, during what could arguably be called the “Golden Age of Computer Graphics”, to his current position as a professor of Computer Science with a joint appointment as professor in the School of Medicine and Health Sciences at George Washington University. He will present some of the work that has been conducted in his laboratory, especially, on the use of computer graphics in the medical/health domain. This includes motion control for animation, sound synchronized to motions, 4D reconstruction of body/motion from optical scans, and VR simulators. The talk will illustrate the wide diversity of disciplines that benefit from computer graphics. (https://icg.gwu.edu/)

The meeting will be hosted on the Zoom platform. A link to the meeting will be provided 5 minutes prior to the presentation to all those who have responded to the announcement on our MeetUp. The link will also be visible to those who RSVP. Those who do not RSVP to the MeetUp announcement will not receive the link to the meeting.

https://www.meetup.com/DC-ACM-SIGGRAPH/events/281759559/

Please join us on Wednesday, November 10, 2021 from 7pm to 9pm EST online to learn more about Professor Hahn and his work at George Washington University.

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Biography – James K. Hahn

James K. Hahn is currently a Professor in the Department of Computer Science and a Professor of Pediatrics in the School of Medicine and Health Sciences at the George Washington University where he has been a faculty since 1989. He is the former chair of the Department of Computer Science. He founded the GW Institute for Biomedical Engineering and is the founding director of the Institute for Computer Graphics. His areas of interests are: medical simulation, application of computer graphics and machine learning to medicine, medical visualization, and computer animation. He has over 25 years of experience in leading multi-disciplinary teams involving scientists, engineers, and medical professionals. He has over 120 refereed research publications including SIGGRAPH. His research has been funded by NIH, NSF, ONR, NRL, NASA, and a number of high-tech biomedical companies. He was awarded the School of Engineering and Applied Science Distinguished Researcher Award in 2019. He received his Ph.D. in Computer and Information Science from the Ohio State University in 1989.

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(Online) Adriana Manrique Gutierrez – NASA Conceptual Image Lab

DATE:   Thursday, October 21, 2021

FROM:  7:00pm-9:00pm EDT

WHERE:  Online

The Washington DC Chapter of ACM SIGGRAPH is proud to present, Adriana Manrique Gutierrez, Multimedia Animator Specialist at the NASA Conceptual Image Lab (CIL). Adriana will be sharing her experience creating multimedia products for some of NASA’s largest missions such as the James Webb Telescope. Originally a character animator, she will also discuss how her workflow has evolved to adopt the demands of each new project which have included cloth, fluid, and particle simulations.

The meeting will be hosted on the Zoom platform. A link to the meeting will be provided 5 minutes prior to the presentation to all those who have responded to the announcement on our MeetUp. The link will also be visible to those who RSVP. Those who do not RSVP to the MeetUp announcement will not receive the link to the meeting.

https://www.meetup.com/DC-ACM-SIGGRAPH/events/281323247/

Please join us on Thursday, October 21, 2021 from 7pm to 9pm EDT online to learn more Adriana and her work supporting the NASA CIL mission.

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Biography – Adriana Manrique Gutierrez

Adriana Manrique Gutierrez is a Multimedia Animator Specialist at GSFC’s Conceptual Image Lab (CiLab) and SCAD Animation and Illustration Alumni. As part of the science communication team, Adriana works directly with producers, writers, and scientists to create cutting-edge scientific visuals to explain the work of NASA to the science community, media, and public. Products may be used in presentations to Congress with the aim to approve missions and to procure/maintain funding; also, her work may be used by news media, museums, science centers, educators, NASA’s popular social media streams and international outlets.

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