Dr. Jason Leigh [University of Illinois, Chicago]

Jason Leigh is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at the Electronic Visualization Laboratory (EVL) at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC). His current areas of interest include: developing techniques for interactive, remote visualization of massive data sets over high-speed photonic networks; and for supporting long-term collaborative work in amplified collaboration environments. Leigh is co-founder of the GeoWall Consortium- a group dedicated to the development of advanced data exploration tools for the geosciences. Leigh now leads EVL's visualization research on the OptIPuter Project- a large NSF-funded project to realize a new computing paradigm in which network bandwidth was no longer the bottleneck.Leigh has led EVL's Tele-Immersion research agenda since 1995 after developing the first networked CAVE application in 1992. The outcome of his work has been in active use by General Motors, Hughes Research Labs, Searle/Monsanto, members of the NSF-funded, PACI Alliance, the Next Generation Internet and Internet2, and collaborators around the world including: the Cooperative Research Centre for Advanced Computational Systems (ACSys) in Australia, Institute of High Performance Computing in Singapore, Intelligent Modeling Laboratory at Tokyo University, and the National Center for High-Performance Computing in Taiwan; and many others.