David Laidlaw
Professor Of Computer Science at Brown University
Providence, Rhode Island, United States
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Top SchoolDavid Laidlaw is a Professor of Computer Science at Brown University with over two decades of academic leadership and interdisciplinary research at the intersection of visualization, modeling, and computer graphics. He develops and evaluates robust tools that translate computational methods into practical solutions across biology, medical imaging, fluids, archaeology, geology, and geography. Trained with a Ph.D. from Caltech, he combines deep technical expertise with close collaborations across scientific domains to ensure his work is both scientifically relevant and rigorously validated. Based in Providence, he has a long track record of mentoring students and shaping research that bridges theoretical graphics and real-world scientific problems. An often-overlooked strength is his sustained commitment to cross-disciplinary evaluation strategies that make visualization techniques usable by domain specialists.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
ScM, Computer Science, ScM, Computer Science at Brown UniversityBaltimore Polytechnic Institute
Github Skills (41)
java8
buck8
universe8
astronomy7
ios7
manifold7
fortran7
android7
science7
python7
co-simulation7
computer-vision7
space6
docker-container6
mpi6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
DavidLaidlaw/yurt-ops
May 2016 - Mar 2022
ops guide for the CCV yurt
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 comment in 5 years 10 months
ops
DavidLaidlaw/cave-utils
Jul 2016 - Nov 2017
Contributions:16 pushes in 1 year 4 months
realityvirtual-realityunitybrownbrown-university
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