Hanspeter Pfister
Academic Dean Of Computational Science And Engineering
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolHanspeter Pfister is an academic leader and researcher with over a decade of experience bridging visualization, computer graphics, and computer vision, currently serving as Academic Dean of Computational Science and Engineering at Harvard SEAS. As the An Wang Professor of Computer Science, he directs interdisciplinary research spanning biomedical image analysis, machine learning, 3D fabrication, and scientific and information visualization. He has a strong applied background from MERL and early ASIC and DRAM controller work at ETH Zurich, giving him rare hardware-to-algorithm perspective in visual computing. Hanspeter has shaped graduate training as former director of the Institute for Applied Computational Science and continues to advise brain science initiatives as affiliate faculty. He consults and serves as an expert witness on hardware and software technologies, translating deep technical expertise into real-world impact. Based in Cambridge, his work combines rigorous academic scholarship with practical systems and device-level experience that drives novel visualization applications.
12 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
M.Sc., Electrical Engineering, M.Sc., Electrical Engineering at ETH ZürichPh.D., Computer Science, Ph.D., Computer Science at Stony Brook University
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Github Skills (6)
homebrew6
pyqt6
ipython6
python6
atom-editor4
latex2
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
hpfister/github-test
Aug 2016 - Aug 2016
Contributions:4 PRs, 3 pushes, 5 branches in 3 days
hpfister/ds10
Feb 2020 - Apr 2020
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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