| Education |
| |
| University of Texas at Austin |
Ph.D., expected
May 2008 |
Computer
Science |
| University of Alaska Fairbanks |
M.Sc.,
1995 |
Computer
Science |
| University of Alaska
Fairbanks |
B.Sc. Honors,
1993 |
Computer
Science |
| |
| Research Interests |
- real-time computer graphics: hybrid Z-buffer / ray tracing
algorithms, spatial data structures, global illumination
- parallel graphics architecture: multithreading and
multi-core GPU designs
|
| Graduate Advisor |
| William R. Mark,
University of Texas at Austin |
|
| Selected Publications |
| |
| G. |
Johnson, J. Lee, C. Burns,
and W. R. Mark. The Irregular Z-Buffer:
Hardware Acceleration for Irregular Data Structures.
ACM Transactions on Graphics, 24(4): 1462-1482, October 2005.
J. C. Hart, editor. |
| |
| G. |
Johnson, W. R. Mark, and C.
Burns. The Irregular Z-Buffer and its Application to Shadow Mapping.
The University of Texas at Austin, Department of Computer Sciences
Technical Report TR-04-09, March 2004. |
| |
| G. |
Johnson and S.
Sethumadhavan. Compiler Directed
Parallelization of Loops in Scale for Shared-Memory Multiprocessors.
In Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Computational
Science - ICCS 2003, Melbourne, Australia and St. Petersburg, Russia,
June 2003. P. Sloot, D. Abramson, A. Bogdanov, J. Dongarra, A.
Zomaya, and Y. Gorbachev, editors. |
| |
| G. |
Johnson. Collaborative Visualization 101.
ACM SIGGRAPH - Computer Graphics, 32(2): 8-11, May 1998.
G. Cameron, editor. |
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| Funding Awards |
| |
| 2006
|
G. Johnson.
Graduate Fellowship Award. NVIDIA Corporation. Award amount:
$25,000. |
| |
| 2005
|
G. Johnson.
Graduate Fellowship Award. NVIDIA Corporation. Award amount:
$25,000. |
| |
| 2004
|
G. Johnson.
Graduate Fellowship Award. NVIDIA Corporation. Award amount:
$25,000. |
| |
| 2003 |
K. Gaither and G.
Johnson. Towards Improved Methods for Large-Scale Data
Analysis. DoD Engineering Research & Design Center.
Award amount: $90,679 over 8 months commencing March 2003.
|
|
| Selected Panels and Invited Talks |
| |
| 2004
| The
Future Visualization Platform, conference panel with G. Johnson
(organizer), D. Ebert, C. Hansen, D. Kirk, W. R. Mark, and H. Pfister.
IEEE Visualization 2004.
Austin, Texas. |
| |
| 2003
| Perception
of Shape in Immersive and Non-Immersive Environments. Advanced
Display Environments Workshop, Arctic
Region Supercomputing Center. Fairbanks, Alaska. |
| |
| 2002 |
Distributed
Large-Scale Visualization in a Campus Area Network.
Department of Mathematical Sciences Computer Science Colloquium,
University of Alaska Fairbanks.
Fairbanks, Alaska. |
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