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]

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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:

She is also the author of a highly cited paper on Coons patches:

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References

  1. Birth year from German National Library catalog entry, retrieved 2022-03-13
  2. 1 2 "Dianne Hansford", Faculty & Staff, Arizona State University, 13 March 2022
  3. Dianne Hansford at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  4. Curriculum vitae , retrieved 2022-03-13
  5. Reviews of The Geometry Toolbox for Graphics and Modeling:
  6. Reviews of Practical Linear Algebra:
  7. Reviews of The Essentials of CAGD:
  8. Review of Mathematical Principles for Scientific Computing and Visualization:
    • Duben, Anthony J. (July 2009), "Review", ACM Computing Reviews