Ruth West is an artist with background as a molecular genetics researcher. She is Director, Interactive Technologies for CENS (Center for Embedded Networked Sensing) on the UCLA campus and is concurrently an Artist-Research Associate at the UCSD Center for Research in Computing and the Arts, where she is the first CALIT2 New Media Artist crossing over to the Digitally Enabled Genomic Medicine Layer. Prior affiliations include artist-in-residence and Director, Visual Analytics and Interactive Technologies for the National Center for Microscopy and Imaging Research. Her work has been presented at venues such as SIGGRAPH, CAA and the UCLA Fowler Museum, featured in NPR's The Connection, the NY Times, the Genome News Network, Aminima and in Artweek, and has been published various journals, including the American Journal of Human Genetics, Genomics, Leonardo, and the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Todd Margolis is an artist, educator and technologist. Margolis is currently the Technical Director of the Center for Research in Computing and the Arts (CRCA) at UCSD. In 2004, he received his MFA in Electronic Visualization from the Electronic Visualization Laboratory at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He is a founding member of the immersive and interactive art and technology non-profit organization, Applied Interactives, and also a member of the art collaborative Sine::apsis Experiments. Margolis was previously a Visiting Research Programmer at UIC, developing a new virtual reality system, The Varrier(tm) Auto-Stereographic display. Results of this research were presented at the SPIE 2001 conference, "Photonics West" and the system was presented at the IEEE VR converence on March 29, 2004.

Margolis had frequently lectured on new media at UIC, Columbia College, Chicago, and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, as well as shown his work nationally and internationally, in such venues as Ars Electronica (Linz, Austria), Art Chicago, ICC (Tokyo, Japan), ISEA (Paris, France) and SIGGRAPH (LA and New Orleans). As an artist-in-residence at (art)n Laboratory, he participated in the creation of a permanent art installation at Chicago's Midway Airport. He was also awarded the 2000 Christian and Oline Larsen Scholarship for Electronic Visualization and had been the recipient of a UIC Research Assistantship from 1998 till 2003.

Iman Mostafavi is a PhD student at UC San Diego, working primarily in the areas of computer graphics and computer vision.

J.P. Lewis is a computer graphics researcher with interests in applications of statistical learning in entertainment, the arts and face and eye tracking. Previously he has worked at Weta Digital, USC, Stanford University, and Industrial Light & Magic. Lewis has credits on several films including Forest Gump and Matrix Reloaded, and his algorithms have been adopted in several major graphics software packages.

Joachim Gossmann is an audiocentric media artist interested in a true interdisciplinary discourse between science and the senses. His academic career includes a Tonmeister-Diplom from UdK Berlin and an MFA in Composiotion/New Media form CalArts. He has worked widely in the develpment and production of realtime spatial audio environments, designing displays as well as producing installations and concerts for various institutions in research and culture in Germany. His current work is based on the exploration of meaning in intuitive navigable audio-mostly environments that attempt to fuse different layers and structures of auditory and spatial perception and interpretation. He is currently residing at CRCA to implement his research into a PhD thesis.

Ben Hackbarth received his bachelor's in music composition from the Eastman School of Music. His primary teachers were Bob Morris and Allan Schindler, with whom he also studied electronic music. He is currently pursuing his PhD in composition at the University of California, San Deigo where he has studied with Chaya Czernowin and Philippe Manoury and currently works with Roger Reynolds. He is a graduate researcher at the Center for Research and Computing in the Arts (CRCA) where he is currently writing software that creates lists of events for csound/pd. His current compositional interests reside in the electro-acoustic realm where he focuses on dialogue, illusion and interactivity between western instruments and electronic sound.

Alex / Nano specializes in permanent interactive public works. He enjoys making invisible intuitive interfaces that playfully extend reality. Sine 1997 he has installed myriad temporary works, has work in over 10 permanent works in US & abroad. He was attracted to ATLASS InSilico due to subject matter (This is his second large dataset, the first was SDSS visualization), and technical challenges (6 weeks, start to finish!) - and also quite enjoyed working with the many talented individuals involved in this project. He works both independently and through his firm, and teaches a course in realtime media at the Art Insitute of Chicago

Jürgen Schulze is a Project Scientist at the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology in San Diego. He received his doctorate degree in computer science from the University of Stuttgart, Germany, and a M.S. degree in computer science from the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth. In Stuttgart he worked under the leadership of Professor Thomas Ertl and Dr. Ulrich Lang on his dissertation entitled "Interactive Volume Rendering in Virtual Environments" and completed his degree requirements in August 2003. After his graduation he conducted postdoctoral research with Professor Andries van Dam at Brown University and with Professor Thomas DeFanti at the University of California San Diego. His major research interests are scientific visualization in virtual environments, human-computer interaction, real-time volume rendering, and graphics algorithms on programmable graphics hardware.

Weizhong Li is a bioinformatics researcher at the Burnham Institute and Calit2. His research focuses on developing novel and effective methods for sequence analysis, gene discovery, protein structure and function prediction, structure-based drug discovery, genome analysis and molecular modeling. He develops software applications, databases and web servers for bioinformatics research. He is the author of CD-HIT an innovatie and ultra-fast sequence clustering application.

Trevor Henthorn attended The University of California at San Diego, where he majored in Electrical and Computer Engineering and Music. He worked at the Center for Music Experiment and later as network administrator for the UCSD Electrical and Computer Engineering Department. In 1995, he partnered to found ControlRoom - a multimedia company, providing audio streaming services for radio stations and event webcasts. In 1997 he partnered to form Console Incorporated, a company focused on high-end networking, database, and Internet services.

Media projects included digital asset tracking system for Universal Studios, web cams for NBC and streamed audio broadcast of the San Diego Padres. He is credited for his technical lead in such notable webcasts as the '95 Oasis concert in San Francisco, the San Diego City Council meetings, President Clinton's '98 visit to UCSD and the Make-a-Wish Foundation's Jingle Ball events. He has worked with CalIT2 to help develop the "STRokeDOC" telemedical system, multichannel audio streaming for the 2005 iGrid and worked with faculty in the UCSD Psychology Department to publish articles on psychoacoustics. Mr. Henthorn now resides in the UCSD Department of Music.

Rajvikram Singh is a computer science researcher with interests in collaborative environments, ultra-high resolution visualization displays, video streaming and networks.

Javier I. Girardo is a computer science researcher with interests in immersive visualizaiton. He is currently at Qualcomm with prior affiliations at the Calit2 Immersive Visualizaiton Laboratory and EVL UIC.

Student
Researchers
We thank the many student researchers who have participated with us!

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Here is a list of current and ongoing student researchers.