Hank Childs: Bio

Hank Childs

Professor
CIS Department
University of Oregon

Office:	301 Deschutes Hall
Phone:	+1 (541) 346-3414 (Note: terrible way to get in touch with me)
Fax:	+1 (541) 346-5373
E-mail:	hank@uoregon.edu
Web Page:	http://ix.cs.uoregon.edu/~hank
Appointments:	calendar

Bio and Awards Publications Teaching Advising Service Textbooks Calendar CV

Bio

Hank Childs is a Professor in the Computer and Information Science Department at the University of Oregon. He received his Ph.D. in computer science from the University of California at Davis in 2006. Hank's research focuses on scientific visualization, high performance computing, and the intersection of the two. In addition to his research, Hank has been an active participant in visualization software, including the VisIt, Ascent, and VTK-m projects. Before joining UO, Hank spent over a dozen years working in big data visualization at Lawrence Berkeley and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories.

Hank's CV contains more details about his activities.

Research Awards

Over $4M in funding awards for research at the University of Oregon (since 2013).
Department of Energy Early Career Award (2012) to research visualization with exascale computers (i.e., computers that can do 10^18 floating operations per second).
Paper Awards:

Best Paper, Main Track at ICCS	June 2021
Best Full Paper at EGPGV	June 2021
Best Short Paper at EGPGV	June 2021
Best Paper Honorable Mention at LDAV	Oct 2019
Best Paper at ISAV	Nov 2018
Best Paper Finalist at SC16	Nov 2016
Best Paper at VDA (one of three)	Feb 2015
Best Paper at LDAV	Nov 2014
Best Paper at EGPGV	May 2012
Best Paper at EGPGV (one of two)	May 2010
Best Paper at SpringSim HPC	Apr 2006

University of Oregon Awards

University of Oregon Excellence Awards

Faculty Excellence Award (2018), which is designed to recognize, reward and retain nationally competitive faculty members who have a record of excellence in research, scholarship, creative accomplishment and education. More information on the award can be found here.
Research Excellence Award for Outstanding Early Career (2015), which is the highest university award for early career faculty. Only two awards were made campus-wide in 2015. More information on the award can be found here.

CIS Department Awards
- 2018-2019 Best Teacher Award (award selected based on student nominations from the graduating class of 2019)
- 2016-2017 Best Teacher Award (award selected based on student nominations from the graduating class of 2017)
- 2015-2016 Best Teacher Award (award selected based on student nominations from the graduating class of 2016)
- 2014-2015 Best Teacher Award (award selected based on student nominations from the graduating class of 2015)