Short Bio

Janine Bennett is a Senior Member of the Technical Staff in the Scalable Modeling and Analysis Systems Department at Sandia National Laboratories. Working closely with scientists in the Combustion Research Facility, she is currently building statistical and topological tools to identify, characterize and track features in extreme-scale data. Her research interests include computational geometry, combinatorial topology, mesh parameterization, material boundaries, feature segmentation, vector field analysis, and analysis of uncertain data.

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

Feature-Based Statistical Analysis of Combustion Simulation Data

Janine Bennett, Vaidyanathan Krishnamoorthy, Shusen Liu, Ray Grout, Evatt Hawkes, Jacqueline Chen, Jason Shepherd, Valerio Pascucci, Peer-Timo Bremer, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Graphics, Dec. 2011, pg. 1822-1831. (pdf)

Analysis of Large-Scale Scalar Data Using Hixels

David Thompson, Joshual Levine, Janine Bennett, Attila Gyulassy, Peer-Timo Bremer, Valerio Pascucci, and Philippe Pébay, In Proceedings of IEEE Symposium on Large-Scale Data Analysis and Visualization, 2011. (pdf)

Conditional Analysis of DNS Combustion Data Using Local and Global Shape Characteristics

Janine Bennett, Peer-Timo Bremer, Jacqueline Chen, Ray Grout, Andrea Gruber, Attila Gyulassy, Evatt R. Hawkes, Hemanth Kolla, and Valerio Pascucci, in Proceedings of SciDAC 2011 Scientific Discovery through Advanced Computing, Journal of Physics Conference Series, 2011. (pdf)

Design and Performance of a Scalable, Parallel Statistics Toolkit

Philippe Pébay, David Thompson, Janine Bennett, and Ajith Mascarenhas, 12th IEEE International Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Scientific and Engineering Computing (PDSEC-11), May 2011. (pdf)

Heat Release and Turbulence Statistics From a Direct Numerical Simulation of a Reacting Jet in Cross-Flow Parameterized in a Jet Natural Coordinate System Developed From Scalar Quantities

Ray Grout, Peer-Timo Bremer, Andrea Gruber, Janine Bennett, Jacqueline Chen, Attila Gyulassy, 13th International Conference on Numerical Combustion, Apr. 2011.

Computing contingency statistics in parallel: Design trade-offs and limiting cases

Philippe Pébay, David Thompson and Janine Bennett, in Proceedings IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing 2010. (pdf)

Numerically Stable, Single-Pass, Parallel Statistics Algorithms

Janine Bennett, Ray Grout, Philippe Pébay, Diana Roe, and David Thompson, in Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing 2009. (pdf)

Segmentation and Cross Parameterization Frameworks for Scientific Visualization

Ph.D Dissertation, University of California, Davis, December 2008. (pdf)

A Genus Oblivious Approach to Cross Parameterization

Janine 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 Maps

Janine Bennett, Valerio Pascucci, Kenneth Joy. In Proceedings of Pacific Graphics 2007, pg. 238-247. (pdf)

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Marching Diamonds for Unstructured Meshes

John Anderson, Janine Bennett, Kenneth Joy. In Proceedings of IEEE Visualization 2005, pg. 423-429. (pdf)

Topological Segmentation in Three-Dimensional Vector Fields

Karim 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)

A Segmentation Approach To Scientific Visualization

Janine Bennett, Karim Mahrous, Bernd Hamann, Kenneth Joy. In Proceedings of the ACM Spring Conference on Computer Graphics, 2003, pg. 9-16. (pdf)

Improving the Efficiency of Topological Segmentation of Three-Dimensional Vector Fields

Karim Mahrous, Janine Bennett, Bernd Hamann, Kenneth Joy. In Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Data Visualization, 2003, pg. 203-212. (pdf)

Parallelizing a High Accuracy Hardware-Assisted Volume Renderer for Meshes with Arbitrary Polyhedra

Janine 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)