Short Bio
Janine Bennett is a Senior Member of the Technical Staff in the Visualization and Scientific Computing Department at Sandia National Laboratory. Working closely with scientists in the Combustion Research Facility, she is currently building statistical and topological tools to identify, characterize and track features in petascale data. Her research interests include computational geometry, combinatorial topology, mesh parameterization, material boundaries, feature segmentation, vector field analysis, and uncertainty quantification.
Prior to joining Sandia, Janine was a Lawrence Scholar at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory where she focused on cross-parameterization of meshes with arbitrary genus. Janine graduated with a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of California, Davis in 2008 under the joint guidance of Valerio Pascucci and Ken Joy. She received her Masters from the University of California, Davis in 2004 and her B.S. in Engineering, Computer Science with minors in Math and Spanish from the University Of California, Davis in 2000.
Publications
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Numerically Stable, Single-Pass, Parallel Statistics AlgorithmsJanine Bennett, Ray Grout, Philippe Pébay, Diana Roe, and David Thompson, to appear in Proceedings of IEEE Cluster 2009. (pdf) |
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Segmentation and Cross Parameterization Frameworks for Scientific VisualizationPh.D Dissertation, University of California, Davis, December 2008. (pdf) |
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A Genus Oblivious Approach to Cross ParameterizationJanine Bennett, Valerio Pascucci, Kenneth Joy, in Computer Aided Geometric Design, Volume 25, September 2008, pg 592-606. (pdf)
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Genus Oblivious Cross Parameterization: Robust Topological Management of Intersurface MapsJanine Bennett, Valerio Pascucci, Kenneth Joy. In Proceedings of Pacific Graphics 2007, pg. 238-247. (pdf)
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Marching Diamonds for Unstructured MeshesJohn Anderson, Janine Bennett, Kenneth Joy. In Proceedings of IEEE Visualization 2005, pg. 423-429. (pdf) |
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Topological Segmentation in Three-Dimensional Vector FieldsKarim Mahrous, Janine Bennett, Gerik Scheuermann, Bernd Hamann, Kenneth Joy. In IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, Volume 10, Number 2, March/April 2004, pg. 198-205. (pdf) |
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A Segmentation Approach To Scientific VisualizationJanine Bennett, Karim Mahrous, Bernd Hamann, Kenneth Joy. In Proceedings of the ACM Spring Conference on Computer Graphics, 2003, pg. 9-16. (pdf) |
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Improving the Efficiency of Topological Segmentation of Three-Dimensional Vector FieldsKarim Mahrous, Janine Bennett, Bernd Hamann, Kenneth Joy. In Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Data Visualization, 2003, pg. 203-212. (pdf) |
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Parallelizing a High Accuracy Hardware-Assisted Volume Renderer for Meshes with Arbitrary PolyhedraJanine Bennett, Richard Cook, Nelson Max, Deborah May, Peter Williams. In Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Parallel and Large Data Visualization and Graphics, 2001, pg. 150-156. (pdf) |