Perception of computer graphics
Holly Rushmeier's research area is computer graphics, particularly shape and appearance capture, applications of perception in computer graphics, modeling material appearance, and developing computational tools for cultural heritage. Rushmeier's work involves understanding how people perceive and interact with visual media to design more effective content creation systems for graphics applications. In the area of cultural heritage, she develops systems to enable scholars to better make sense of diverse data and artifacts to understand the past.
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Biography
Rushmeier is the John C. Malone Professor of Computer Science at Yale. She received her BS, MS, and PhD degrees in Mechanical Engineering from Cornell University in 1977, 1986, and 1988 respectively. After working in industry at Boeing and Washington Natural Gas, she joined Georgia Tech's Mechanical Engineering faculty in 1988. She transitioned to the National Institute of Standards and Technology in 1991, focusing on scientific data visualization, and later worked at IBM's T.J. Watson Research Center, focusing on data visualization. Rushmier joined Yale in 2004.