Biography:Dianne Hansford
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Dianne Carol Hansford (born 1964)[1] is an American computer scientist known for her research on Coons patches in computer graphics and for her textbooks on computer-aided geometric design, linear algebra, and the mathematics behind scientific visualization. She is a lecturer at Arizona State University in the School of Computing and Augmented Intelligence, and the cofounder of a startup based on her research, 3D Compression Technologies.[2]
Education and career
Hansford is a 1986 graduate of the University of Utah. She went to Arizona State University for graduate study, earning a master's degree in 1988 and completing her Ph.D. in 1991.[2] Her dissertation, Boundary Curves with Quadric Precision for a Tangent, Continuous Scattered Data Interpolant, was supervised by Robert E. Barnhill.[3]
She became a Fulbright Scholar in German, doing postdoctoral research at the Technical University Darmstadt, and then worked in the computing industry for several years, including co-founding 3D Compression Technologies in 2000, before returning to Arizona State as a research scientist in 2004. She became an associate research professor in 2006 and a lecturer in computing in 2016.[4]
Selected publications
Hansford's books, coauthored with Arizona State University professor Gerald Farin, include:
- The Geometry Toolbox for Graphics and Modeling (A K Peters, 1998);[5] revised as Practical Linear Algebra: A Geometry Toolbox (A K Peters, 2005; 4th ed., CRC Press, 2021)[6]
- The Essentials of CAGD (CRC Press, 2000)[7]
- Mathematical Principles for Scientific Computing and Visualization (A K Peters, 2008)[8]
She is also the author of a highly cited paper on Coons patches:
- Farin, Gerald; Hansford, Dianne (1999), "Discrete Coons patches", Computer Aided Geometric Design 16 (7): 691–700, doi:10.1016/S0167-8396(99)00031-X
References
- ↑ Birth year from German National Library catalog entry, retrieved 2022-03-13
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Dianne Hansford", Faculty & Staff (Arizona State University), 2022-03-13, https://isearch.asu.edu/profile/28616
- ↑ Dianne Hansford at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ↑ Curriculum vitae, http://www.farinhansford.com/dianne/dch-cv.html, retrieved 2022-03-13
- ↑ Reviews of The Geometry Toolbox for Graphics and Modeling:
- Sabella, P. (September 1998), "Review", ACM Computing Reviews, https://www.computingreviews.com/review/review_review.cfm?review_id=122004
- Wallner, Johannes, "none", zbMATH
- ↑ Reviews of Practical Linear Algebra:
- Chavez, Edgar R. (January 2006), "Review", ACM Computing Reviews, https://www.computingreviews.com/review/review_review.cfm?review_id=132364
- Dixon, John D., "none", zbMATH; re-review of 3rd ed., Zbl 1278.15002
- Johnson, Warren (January 2006), "Review", MAA Reviews, https://www.maa.org/publications/maa-reviews/practical-linear-algebra-a-geometry-toolbox
- Maher, Philip (March 2010), "none", The Mathematical Gazette 94 (529): 185–187, doi:10.1017/S0025557200007488
- Swaminathan, S. (February 2006), "Brief book reviews", CMS Notes 38 (1): 7, https://notes.math.ca/archives/Notesv38n1.pdf
- Watkins, David S. (June 2006), "Featured review: Textbooks on linear algebra", SIAM Review 48 (2): 393–396, doi:10.1137/SIREAD000048000002000393000001
- ↑ Reviews of The Essentials of CAGD:
- Giblin, Peter (March 2002), "none", The Mathematical Gazette 86 (505): 183–184, doi:10.2307/3621635
- Petcu, Dana, "none", zbMATH
- Qin, Hong (April 2003), "Learning CAGD is easier and more fun than ever", Computer-Aided Design 35 (5): 507–508, doi:10.1016/s0010-4485(02)00071-4
- "Bulletin bibliographique: Informatique", L'Enseignement mathématique 47 (1–2): 31–33, January–June 2001, https://www.e-periodica.ch/digbib/view?pid=ens-001%3A2001%3A47%3A%3A522
- ↑ Review of Mathematical Principles for Scientific Computing and Visualization:
- Duben, Anthony J. (July 2009), "Review", ACM Computing Reviews, https://www.computingreviews.com/review/review_review.cfm?review_id=137107
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