PHILIP M. SUTTON
             Center for Scientific Computing & Imaging
                 50 S. Central Campus Drive #3440
                   Merrill Engineering Building
                        University of Utah
                  Salt Lake City, Utah 84112-9205
                           (801)463-9757
                        psutton@cs.utah.edu

Objective

A position as a researcher and software developer that utilizes
my expertise in scientific visualization and computer graphics.

Summary

Graduate student in Computer Science, specializing in visualization
of dynamic simulation and measurement data.  Experience with ray tracing 
and photorealistic rendering, volumetric data visualization, and 
parallel algorithms.  Skilled at developing software within large,
existing computational frameworks.  Seeking a challenging position
creating and working with new technology.

Skills and Accomplishments

* Created and implemented an algorithm to extract isosurfaces from
time-varying volumetric data.  Technique demonstrates up to eight times
speedup over previous methods, and consumes less memory than other
dynamic techniques.

* Implemented a ray tracer, incorporating a bounding box hierarchy, 
anti-aliasing, texture mapping, and lens effects.

* Extensive programming experience under the SCIRun Problem Solving 
Environment, an existing infrastructure providing computational steering
and interactive visualization.

* Programming experience in C, C++, Java, Perl, C-Shell, HTML, Tcl-Tk.
Experience with UNIX, MacOS, Windows NT.

Education

Master of Science (expected December 1999)              University of Utah
1997 - Present
Computer Science major (GPA 3.9)

Bachelor of Science                                                Caltech
1993 - 1997
Engineering and Applied Science major (GPA 3.5)

Experience

Research Assistant                                      University of Utah
September 1998 - Present
Compared methods for three dimensional isosurface extraction in scalar
fields.  Designed and implemented the Temporal Branch-on-Need tree 
algorithm for isosurface extraction in time-varying fields.

Research Assistant                                      University of Utah
January 1998 - June 1998
Extended the SCIRun problem solving environment by including modules for
the visualization of Computational Fluid Dynamics Fluid Implicit
Particle (FLIP) data.  Included support for two- and three-dimensional scalar
fields, vector fields, and particle sets.  

Undergraduate Researcher                                           Caltech
1995 - 1996
Developed and implemented a new ray tracing algorithm that allows any
existing ray tracer to render fur and other microsurface-based textures,
such as trees, clouds, and flowers.

Awards

NSF Graduate Traineeship
Graduation with Honors, Caltech

Professional Affiliations

ACM Student Member
Utah SIGGRAPH Chapter

Publications
Philip Sutton and Charles D. Hansen.  "Isosurface Extraction 
in Time-varying Fields Using a Temporal Branch-on-Need Tree (T-BON)."
Proceedings of IEEE Visualization 1999.