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Karla Vega

Karla Vega

Manager, Vis Interfaces & Applications Group
Research Engineering/Scientist Associate IV
Area: Visualization
(512) 475-7887
ROC 1.525
vega@tacc.utexas.edu

Karla is a research engineer in the Data and Information Analysis group. Her responsibilities include to research, develop, perform and support activities involving advanced scientific visualization techniques and technologies.

Karla joined the Texas Advanced Computing Center in 2010 after finishing a degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of California at Berkeley. Karla previously worked at the Spaces Sciences Laboratory, UC- Berkeley as a graduate student researcher and at TACC as an undergraduate and graduate research assistant.

Areas of Research:

  • Data and information analysis
  • Scientific data visualization
  • Modeling and simulation of spacecraft systems
  • Applied dynamics and control

Selected Publications:

K. Vega, "Attitude Control System for CubeSat for Ions, Neutrals, Electrons and MAgnetic Fields (CINEMA)," Master of Science Thesis, University of California, Berkeley, December 2009.
K. Vega, D. Auslander, and D. Pankow, "Design and Modeling of an Active Attitude Control System for CubeSat Class Satellites," AIAA Modeling and Simulation Technologies Conference, 10 - 13 August 2009, AIAA Paper 2009-5818.
K. Vega, D.G. Dommermuth, "Visualization of Steep Breaking Waves Around an Airfoil," Poster, SC06, Tampa, Florida November 11-17 2006.
K. Vega, G.P. Johnson, Y. Bazilevs, J. Zhang, V.M. Calo and T. Hughes, "Fluid-Structure Interaction Analysis of Arterial Blood Flow, " Poster, SC06, Tampa, Florida, November 11-17 2006.
D. Guzman, R. Reyes, K. Vega, K. Gaither and R. Wyatt, "Visualizing the Energetics of the Dissociation of a Metastable Molecule," Proceedings of the 15th IEEE Visualization 2004 (VIS'04), Austin, Texas, pp. 598.15, October 10-15, 2004.

Education:

  • M.S.E., Mechanical Engineering, University of California, Berkeley
  • M.S.E., Aerospace Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin
  • B.S. cum laude, Aerospace Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin