Pat Hanrahan

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Pat Hanrahan is a computer graphics pioneer, Stanford professor, and Turing Award–winning researcher best known for co-founding Tableau and his influential work on rendering and visualization.


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Predicate Object
instanceOf Turing Award laureate
computer graphics researcher
computer scientist
university professor
academicDiscipline computer science
electrical engineering
almaMater University of Wisconsin–Madison
awardReceived ACM A.M. Turing Award
ACM Fellow
ACM SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics Achievement Award
ACM SIGGRAPH Steven Anson Coons Award
Academy Award for Scientific and Technical Achievement
Academy Award for Technical Achievement
IEEE Visualization Career Award
citizenship United States
coFounderOf Tableau
Tableau Software
contributedTo RenderMan rendering system
development of shading languages
graphics hardware design
degree PhD in biophysics
employer Pixar NERFINISHED
Princeton University
Silicon Graphics
Stanford University NERFINISHED
fieldOfWork computer graphics
data visualization
image synthesis
parallel computing
rendering
founded Tableau Software
givenName Patrick
knownFor RenderMan shading language
co-founding Tableau Software
computer graphics
data visualization
graphics hardware architectures
physically based rendering
rendering algorithms
volume rendering
memberOf ACM SIGGRAPH community
Association for Computing Machinery
name Pat Hanrahan
nationality American
notableStudent Jeff Heer
notableWork RenderMan shading language design
Tableau visual analytics system
research on light transport
work on programmable graphics pipelines
occupation entrepreneur
professor
researcher
positionHeld Canon Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at Stanford University
reasonForAward contributions to data visualization through Tableau
fundamental contributions to 3D computer graphics
pioneering work on rendering and image synthesis
researchInterest GPU architectures
parallel rendering
scientific visualization
visual analytics
turingAwardSharedWith Edwin Catmull
turingAwardYear 2019
workedAt Pixar NERFINISHED
Princeton University
Silicon Graphics
workInstitution Stanford University NERFINISHED

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