Maxine D. Brown

Maxine D. Brown
Director, Electronic Visualization Laboratory
University of Illinois at Chicago

[en] Maxine Brown is the Director of the Electronic Visualization Laboratory (EVL) at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC), responsible for fundraising, outreach, documentation, and promotion of its research activities. Her research interests include computer graphics, scientific visualization, collaboration, human-computer interfaces, and high-performance computing and international network infrastructure. Brown has been active in the ACM SIGGRAPH organization and in SIGGRAPH and ACM/IEEE Supercomputing conferences; she is currently the General Coordination Chair for IEEE Visualization 2015. In recognition of her services to UIC and the community at large, Brown is a recipient of the 1990 UIC Chancellor’s Academic Professional Excellence (CAPE) award; the 2001 UIC Merit Award; and the 1998 ACM SIGGRAPH Outstanding Service Award. In 2009, Chicago’s award-winning multimedia public affairs series “Chicago Matters: Beyond Burnham” designated Brown as one of 15 Global Visionaries for her role in co-developing the StarLight national/international communications exchange, located in downtown chicago. Brown is co-principal investigator of the US National Science Foundation’s (NSF) International Research Network Connections Program’s TransLight / StarLight award, and was previously co-principal investigator of the NSF-funded EuroLink and STAR TAP / StarLight initiatives. Brown was also the project manager of the NSF-funded OptIPuter project. She is a founding member of the Pacific Rim Applications and Grid Middleware Assembly (PRAGMA) and the Global Lambda Integrated Facility (GLIF). Brown is also the UIC representative and Past President of the Board of Directors of the Great Lakes Consortium for Petascale Computing. She co-created and co-chaired the international grid (iGrid) Workshops in 1998, 2000, 2002 and 2005.

[pt] Maxine Brown é diretora do Laboratório de Visualização Eletrônica (EVL) da Universidade de Illinois em Chicago (UIC), responsável pela captação de recursos, divulgação, documentação e promoção de suas atividades de pesquisa. Seus interesses de pesquisa incluem computação gráfica, visualização científica, colaboração, interfaces homem-computador e computação de alto desempenho e de infra-estrutura de rede internacional. Prof. Brown tem sido ativa na organização da ACM SIGGRAPH e das conferências ACM / IEEE na área de Supercomputação; atualmente preside a Coordenação-Geral de IEEE Visualization 2015 em reconhecimento a seus serviços à UIC e à comunidade em geral, Brown recebeu em 1990 do reitor da UIC o prêmio de Excelência Profissional Acadêmica (CAPE), em 2001 recebeu o UIC Merit Award; e o ACM SIGGRAPH Outstanding Service Award em 1998. Brown é co-pesquisadora principal do Programa Conexões translight (NSF) da Rede Internacional de Pesquisa da National Science Foundation dos EUA e foi anteriormente co-pesquisadora principal do EuroLink . Brown também foi gerente de projeto do projeto OptIPuter financiado pela NSF. Ela é um dos membros fundadores do Pacific Rim Applications, da Grid Middleware Assembly (PRAGMA) e do Global Lambda Integrated Facility (GLIF). Brown é também a representante da UIC e ex-presidente do Conselho de Administração no Consórcio Great Lakes para computação em Petaescala. Ela co-criou e co-presidiu o workshop internacional de Grids (iGrid) em 1998, 2000, 2002 e 2005.