ANDY R. HAAS

SUMMARY: 10 years multi-disciplinary experience in computational science and visualization acquired across several agencies: 1998 - employed 5 years with Northrop Grumman Information Technology as lead engineer of scientific visualization at the Naval Oceanographic Office, Department of Defense Major Shared Resource Center.

1994 - worked 3.5 years at the FDA National Center for Toxicological Research as an analyst in computational biology and visualization. 1993 - developed a graphical interface for the layout of numerical propulsion components at NASA Lewis Research Center, which led to the completion of a M.S. degree thesis. 1992 - built virtual reality applications for physics and material science research at the site-wide visualization center at Argonne National Laboratory (ANL). 1990 - began developing software for global climate model visualization for the Mathematics and Computer Science Division at ANL.

EMPLOYMENT DETAIL:

03/98 - 03/03, NORTHROP GRUMMAN INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

- Senior Principal Engineer Lead engineer of the scientific visualization center at the Naval Oceanographic

Office (NAVO) at NASA Stennis Space Center. Responsible for the outreach and development of scientific visualization solutions for Defense Department funded high-performance computing projects.

08/94 - 03/98, R.O.W. FEDERAL DATA CORPORATION

- Systems Analyst III Led computational and visualization efforts at the National Center for Toxicological

Research (NCTR). NCTR scientists were given solutions in image volume analysis, neural-networks, 3-D reconstruction, and modeling and simulation – Collaborated with NASA Ames Research Center and developed a workbench for the reconstruction of 2-D slices of microscopic image data into 3-D objects - Created visual simulations of models of human bone growth - Produced software for modeling, quantifying, and visualizing protein structures from gel electrophoresis images, and developed algorithms for the measurement and visualization of fluorescent markers in tissue imaged by 3-D confocal microscopy..

05/93 - 08/93, NASA LEWIS RESEARCH CENTER, OHIO AEROSPACE INSTITUTE

- Graduate Intern Created a reusable, object-oriented graphical user-interface (GUI) for the Numerical Propulsion System Simulator project. The project focused on the layout of numerical software codes used to simulate jet and rocket engine systems, and made extensive use of C++, X Windows, and GUI Motif programming on SGI and IBM RS6000 systems.

08/92 - 05/94, SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY, DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE

- Teaching Assistant Worked four half-time semesters teaching senior and graduate-level course-work in graphics programming, user-interface design, and operating systems – also instructed laboratory sessions for an undergraduate course in business computing.

05/92 - 08/92, ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY, COMPUTING AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS DIVISION - Student Resident Associate, Assisted in the instruction and application of visualization technology -

Developed tools using the Application Visualization System (AVS) software to study the structure of finite element data sets, and demonstrated these tools as part of a full-day AVS course to Argonne scientists - Designed a virtual environment used by material scientists to witness ion interaction with atoms inside a 3-D crystal lattice.

05/91 - 08/91, ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY, MATHEMATICS AND COMPUTER SCIENCE

DIVISION - Summer Research Student, Completed the 1991 Summer Research Program to continue work in climate model visualization. Constructed 3-D icosahedral global models mapped with vector and scalar data depicting wind velocity, vorticity, and geo-potential. Used the Graphics Kernel System (GKS) to produce 2-D projection maps of regional climate data.

08/90 - 12/90, ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY, MATHEMATICS AND COMPUTER SCIENCE

DIVISION - Science and Engineering Research Semester Student Wrote global climate model visualization software on an Ardent Titan graphics workstation. The software enabled the visualization temperature data as well as

The workloads of parallel processors involved in the computation.

ACCOMPLISHMENTS:

Recent software accomplishments include: streamlining through velocity fields, particle advection in "4-D cubed" data spaces, virtual oceanographic and atmospheric simulation environments, interactive display of large sized data, and mapping of high-resolution imagery to terrain. The software runs on Windows or Linux PC's as well as specialized UNIX workstations with stereoscopic viewing and motion tracking hardware.

SPECIFIC SOFTWARE:

RANGERSCOPE - Enables the interactive exploration and animation of large 2-D variables directly from netCDF files. Presented to SuperComputing 2002 Conference during the HPC Challenge Award Session. Used by Ocean Modeling group at the Naval Research Laboratory, Stennis Space Center.

ATOMSVIEWER - Offers visualization capability for large-scale atomistic simulations of high-temperature materials. Selected in top 5% of papers as "Best Papers at the IEEE Virtual Reality 2002 Conference" for the first interactive rendering of a billion particle dataset in an immersive virtual environment. AtomsViewer was featured by MIT Press on the cover of the February 2003 issue of Presence: "Teleoperators and Virtual Environments."

BATHYEXPLORER - Executes on-the-fly rendering and interaction with small to very-large sized elevation data. Numerous Windows and Linux versions have been distributed to users at Oceans MTS and IEEE SuperComputing Conferences, as well as various educational and operational military groups that have toured NAVO.

Other specific applications are used by: NASA JPL, Dynalysis Corporation, NAVO, University of Texas Center for Subsurface Modeling, University of Southern California, Naval Research Laboratory, Naval Post Graduate School, Georgia Tech Computational Combustion Laboratory, Fleet Numeric Meteorological and Oceanography Command,

University of Miami, Northrop Grumman Modeling and Simulation Analysis Center, and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.

EDUCATION:

1994, Southern Illinois University, M.S. Computer Science, GPA 4.0/4

1992, Southern Illinois University, B.S. Computer Science, GPA 3.7/4

1988, Moline High School, Moline Illinois, GPA 3.0/4

CONFERENCES AND PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES:

IEEE Visualization, IEEE SuperComputing, ACM SIGGRAPH, Oceans MTS/IEEE,

IEEE Virtual Reality.

SPECIAL RECOGNITION:

Development of flow visualization software for exploring ocean currents in support of the Ehime Maru recovery operation off the coast of Oahu. Recognized by Timothy McGee, Captain, U.S. Navy, Commanding Officer NAVO, 2001.

In support of scientific visualization and simulation techniques displayed at the Oceans '99 MTS/IEEE Conference and Exposition. The results reflected great credit upon the Naval Meteorology and Oceanography Command. Recognized by K.E. Barbor, Rear Admiral, U.S. Navy, Commander, 1999.