Education:

Currently pursuing Ph.D., Computer Science, University of Utah, Expected Decemeber 2008
Dissertation:   Visualization of Statistical Uncertainty
Advisor: R.F. Riesenfeld
Committee Members: Elaine Cohen, Mike Kirby, Christopher Johnson, Bruce Gooch.

Masters of Science, Computer Science, University of Utah, May 2003
Thesis: 3D Line Textures for NPR Walkthroughs
Advisor: R.F. Riesenfeld, Committee Members: Peter Shirley, Charles Hansen.

Bachelor of Science, Double Major, University of Oregon, May 2000
Computer Science. Focus: Computer Graphics
Fine Arts. Focus: Photography, Oil Painting

Technical
Skills:

In-depth knowledge of computer visualization, graphics and visual arts as well as strong software engineering, communication, organization, and writing skills.
Software: C++, C, Java, OpenGL, HTML, tcl/tk, Perl, FLTK, Qt, CMake, LaTeX, Maya
Operating Systems: UNIX/LINUX, Windows, Macintosh

Experience:

Research Assistant, January 2008 - present
Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute, University of Utah
Researching techniques for incorporating uncertainty, error, and confidence information into pre-existing visualization techniques. This work investigates both 2D and 3D datasets through traditional graphical display methods such as the boxplot for 2D and volume rendering for 3D. Responsibilities include examining existing methods and gathering background research, writing code that integrates multiple libraries, and writing research papers. Also pursuing collaborative projects in memory trace visualization, and non-photorealistic rendering.

Research Assistant, August 2000 - December 2007
University of Utah, School of Computing
Geometric Design and Computation Research Group (GDC)
Explored non-photorealistic and haptic rendering techniques.

Teaching Assistant, 2001-2005
University of Utah, School of Computing
Introduction to Computer Graphics, Human Computer Interaction.
Gave lectures, lead class discussions, assisted in curriculum organization and development, grading, and tutoring of students.

Leader, Undergraduate Research Team, Summer 2001
Department of Computer Science, University of Utah
Mentored CS women in the Computing Research Association's Distributed Mentor Project.

Professional
Activities:

Women@CS Co-founder and Webmaster, December 2005 - present.
University of Utah, School of Computing.
Co-founder and webmaster for fledgling women@cs group designed to support women and encourage community in the School of Computing.

Graduate Student Advisory Committee,
Member: August 2001- August 2002, Chair: August 2002 - August 2003
University of Utah, School of Computing.
Liaison between graduate students and the administration.

Publications:

Kristin Potter, Amy Gooch, Bruce Gooch, Peter Willemsen, Joe Kniss, Richard Riesenfeld and Peter Shirley. Resolution Independent NPR-Style 3D Line Textures. In Computer Graphics Forum (to appear), 2008.

A.N.M. Imroz Choudhury, Kristin Potter and Steven Parker. Interactive Visualization for Memory Reference Traces. In Proceedings EuroVis 2008 (to appear), 2008.

Joe Kniss, Warren Hunt, Kristin Potter, and Pradeep Sen. IStar: A Raster Representation for Scalable Image and Volume Data. In IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, Vol 13, No. 6, pp.1424-1431, 2007.

Kristin Potter, Amy Gooch, Bruce Gooch, Peter Willemsen, Joe Kniss, Richard Riesenfeld, and Peter Shirley. 3D Line Textures and the Visualization of Confidence in Architecture, University of Utah Technical Report, #UUCS-07-005, 2007.

Kristin Potter, Joe Kniss and Richard Riesenfeld. Visual Summary Statistics. University of Utah Tech Report #UUCS-07-004, 2007.

Kristin Potter. Methods for Presenting Statistical Information: The Box Plot. In Hans Hagen, Andreas Kerren and Peter Dannenmann (Eds.), Visualization of Large and Unstructured Data Sets, (LNI), Vol. S-4, pp. 97-106, 2006.

Kristin Potter, David Johnson, and Elaine Cohen. Haptically Guided Filtering for Reverse Engineering. In Proceedings of the International Design Engineering Technical Conference, (DETC 2004), 2004.

Kristin Potter, David Johnson, and Elaine Cohen. Height Field Haptics. In Proceedings of the 12th International IEEE Symposium on Haptics, pp.258-265, 2004.

Shaun Ramsey, Kristin Potter, and Charles Hansen. Ray Bilinear Patch Intersections. Journal of Graphics Tools, Vol 9, No 3, 2004.

Interests:

Art. Photography: black and white, small and medium formats. Painting: oil and acrylic.
Outdoor Activities. Alpine and nordic skiing, snowboarding, hiking, camping, biking.