A.  Alan Kilian
Lead Visualization Engineer, Academic Computing and Bioinformatics
Academic Health Center
University of Minnesota
UMHC Box 43
420 Delaware St S.E.
Minneapolis, MN 55455-0312
612-625-8648
kilian@med.umn.edu

Education and Professional experience:
Lakewood Community College 1982-1984
University of Minnesota    1984-1985
Cray Research, Inc.        1981-1995
 Multiprocessor Supercomputer hardware diagnostics 1981-1983
 Unix Networking Kernel internals                  1983-1985
 X-Window system development                       1986-1988
 On-site system development Zurich Switzerland     1988-1989
 Visualization tools development                   1989-1995
CyberOptics Inc.           1995-1999
 Digital Signal Processing Image analysis development.
University of Minnesota    1999-Current
 Quantitative information display development for Comparative Genomics

Research Interests:
Scientific interests involve the development and analysis of
new methods of human-machine visual interaction including methods for:
displaying large scale relationships between multiple data domains,
high bandwidth interfaces for interpreting complex non-physical information,
accurately interpreting multiple data sources for corroborating conclusions. 
In pursuit of these goals it has been necessary to develop technical skills 
in the areas of massively parallel computation, high performance networking, 
UNIX kernel optimization, human visual perception, display systems design, 
and design of physical interaction mechanisms for human-machine interfaces.

B. Publications, Patents and Software Systems

Design and development of a high performance polygon renderer running on a Cray
T3D 1024 processor supercomputer capable of rendering datasets containing over
10 billion triangles. Cray Research 1994

Design and development of a height field renderer used by the NASA Jet 
Propulsion Laboratory for realtime displays of Magellan Venus radar altimeter
data using a Cray Research 64 Processor T3D. Cray Research 1995

Patent #5,245,319 Synchronized stereoscopic display system; A system for 
stereographic display in a computer system having a display medium has an 
image data file having data for right and left eye images encoded with 
visible signal data, so that when the right and left eye images are 
displayed on the display medium the corresponding visible signal is also 
displayed. A sensor senses the displayed visible signal and is coupled to 
glasses or goggles having right and left eye shutters. The right and left 
eye shutters open and close in response to the visible signal sensed.
Cray Research 1993

Design and development of a Virtual Reality display environment for use in 
evaluating the effectiveness of immersive displays in the design of Automotive
crash analysis. Cray Research 1990

Other publications:

None

C. Additional Collaborators

CyberOptics Incorporated personel:
 Ron Reitan, Bill Farmer, Dave Duquette, Lance Fisher, Trent Brundage,
 Dave Fishbaine, Gary Muellenberg, Bruce Peterson

Collaborators not at the University of Minnesota:
 S. McCouch, R. Wing, R. Shoemaker, L. Vodkin, N. Young, B. Sobral

D. Graduate Students and Postdoctoral Associates

None

E. Former Advisors

None