PERSONNEL

Faculty

Dr. Deborah Silver

Project Investigator, Visualization and Graphics

Deborah Silver is full professor in the Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey and the Executive Director of the Professional Science Master's Program. She received a B.S. from Columbia University School of Engineeringi and an MS. and Ph.D. from Princeton University in Computer Science. She has taught courses in Computer Graphics, Visualization, Data Structures, Software Engineering and Robotics. Her main research area in visualization including oceanographic visualization, bioeffects visualization, CFD visualization, medical visualization and volume graphics. She has over 125 publications and her research has been funded by the National Science Foundation, NASA, the Department of Energy, the US Air Force, Department of Education, and the Department of Labor. She has been co-chair of the papers session and program co-chair of the yearly IEEE Visualization conference, and is on the IEEE Visualization Steering Committee (2020-present). She is also on the IEEE Computer Society Board of Governors (2021-2023) and a board member of the National Professional Science Master’s Association.  She has been Vice Chair of operations for the IEEE Technical Committee on Computer Graphics and has been on the editorial committee of the IEEE Transaction on Visualization and Computer Graphics.

For more information about Prof. Silver, please see here: https://mbs.rutgers.edu/staff/deborah-silver

For more information about the Professional Science Master’s Program: http://mbs.rutgers.edu

For more information on STEM and workforce development, please see http://msidp.org

Dr. Karen Bemis

Assistant Research Professor

71 Dudley Rd,
New Brunswick, NJ 08901
Room 204H
Personal Webpage

Karen Bemis is an Assistant Research Professor in Marine and Coastal Sciences at Rutgers University. Her research interests include exploring uses of scientific visualization in oceanographics and geologic problems and the psychology of understanding and using visualizations. She also uses visualizations in her studies of the shapes and eruption mechanisms of scoria cones and other volcano types.  She is also an Assistant Director of the Externship Exchange, an experiential learning course connected with the Rutgers Masters of Business and Science program. She received her Ph.D. in Geological Sciences at Rutgers in 1995.

Associated Faculty

Dr. Sedat Ozer