Lisa Avila
President And CEO at Kitware Inc.
New York, United States
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Top SchoolLisa Avila is a seasoned software R&D leader and CEO with 30 years of experience building research-driven products and organizations. As co-founder and president of Kitware, she has steered the company from commercial operations to a 100% employee-owned enterprise that champions open science and open source collaboration. Her technical roots trace to a PhD in computer science and early work as a graphics scientist, giving her rare credibility across research, engineering, and business development. She is known for creating flexible, fair workplace cultures that enable distributed technical teams to tackle hard problems. Based in New York, Lisa blends academic rigor with practical leadership, repeatedly turning advanced software ideas into sustainable, mission-driven impact.
30 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Computer Science, PhD, Computer Science at Stony Brook University
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Github Skills (34)
open-science10
visualization10
3d-graphics10
computer-graphics10
scientific-visualization10
data-visualization10
vtk10
data-analysis10
image-filters7
segmentation7
medical-imaging6
itk6
neuroimaging6
computed-tomography6
image-processing6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
sobieavila/ieeevis.org
Dec 2017 - Jun 2021
Website for ieeevis.org
Contributions:16 pushes in 3 years 6 months
naucoin/VTKData
May 2000 - Feb 2010
Contributions:31 commits in 9 years 11 months
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