• BS, 1999, California, Davis
• PhD, 2006, California, Davis

Prof. Hank Childs' research interests include visualization, high-performance computing, and computer graphics.  Much of his work to date has focused on visualizing the very large data sets generated by physics simulations on the world's fastest supercomputers.  

Hank Childs is a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Oregon. He received his Ph.D. in computer science from the University of California at Davis in 2006.  Prior to joining academia, Hank spent fourteen years working at Lawrence Livermore and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratories.  During this time, he served as the architect of the open source VisIt project, which is used to visualize and analyze the world's largest scientific data sets.  After moving to academia, he and his advisees worked on additional visualization solutions for in situ processing on supercomputers, namely the Ascent and VTK-m projects.  All three software packages required significant research, and Hank has been a co-author on over 100 full-length, peer-reviewed papers, with a large number on approaches used within these packages or evaluation of their efficacy.