Profile
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OrganizationPurdue University
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Biography
David Ebert is an Associate Professor in the School of Electrical Engineering at Purdue University and received his Ph.D. from the Computer Science and Engineering Department at The Ohio State University in 1991. His research interests are scientific, medical, and information visualization, computer graphics, animation, and procedural techniques. Dr. Ebert performs research in volume rendering, illustrative visualization, minimally-immersive visualization, realistic rendering, procedural texturing, modeling, and animation, and modeling natural phenomena. Ebert has been very active in the graphics community, teaching courses, presenting papers, chairing the ACM SIGGRAPH 97 Sketches program, co-chairing the IEEE Visualization ’98 and ’99 Papers program, serving on the ACM SIGGRAPH Executive Committee and serving as Editor-in-Chief for IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics. Ebert is also editor and co-author of the seminal text on procedural techniques in computer graphics, Texturing and Modeling: A Procedural Approach, whose third edition was published in December 2003.