Professor Alan Craig

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Professor Craig is the Senior Associate Director for Human-Computer Interaction at the Institute for Computing in Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences (I-CHASS) and a Research Scientist at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA). He is also the Humanities, Arts, and Social Science‘s specialist for the Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE).

Professor Craig holds Ph.D., M.S and B.S from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His paramount career focus has been on the interface between humans and machines. He is involved in many cutting-edge capacities related to scientific visualization, virtual reality, data mining, multi-modal representation of information, and collaborative systems. In his continued association with NCSA for the past twenty-five years, he has underpinned and aided scientists in adopting high performance computing technologies to advance their research. Alan has also been instrumental in developing next generation tools and techniques in high performance computing. With his new role at I-CHASS, he is bringing HPC methodology, tools, and techniques to researchers and educators in humanities, arts, and social science. He has recently authored Developing Virtual Reality Applications, from Elsevier Publishing, and co-authored Understanding Virtual Reality, published by Morgan Kaufmann Publishing.