Christopher Metzler is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at UMD. His research develops new systems and algorithms for solving problems in computational imaging, machine learning, and wireless communications. Before joining UMD, he completed a postdoc in the Stanford Computational Imaging Lab. He received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in electrical and computer engineering from Rice University in 2013, 2014, and 2019, respectively. Chris has received several awards and fellowships including an AFOSR Young Investigator Program award, an Intelligence Community Postdoctoral Fellowship, an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship, a DoD NDSEG Fellowship, and a NASA Texas Space Grant Consortium Fellowship.
Amitabh Varshney is Dean of the College of Computer, Mathematical and Natural Sciences, and Professor of Computer Science at the University of Maryland at College Park. He received a B. Tech. in Computer Science from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, and a M.S. and Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His research is on exploring large data visualization and interaction including spatial and temporal summarization, multiresolution hierarchies, gesture recognition for virtual environments, and visual interaction with wall-sized tiled displays. He is the director of the NVIDIA CUDA Center of Excellence at Maryland. He received an NSF CAREER Award and the IEEE Visualization Technical Achievement Award in 2004. He served as the chair of the IEEE Visualization and Graphics Technical Committee 2008-2011.
