Arie E. Kaufman

Arie Kaufman
Born1954 (age 7071)
Alma materHebrew University (undergraduate)
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (postgraduate)
Scientific career
FieldsComputer Science
Visualization
Computer graphics
InstitutionsBen-Gurion University of the Negev
Stony Brook University
Thesis An Interactive Real-Time Graphic Language
Doctoral advisorSamuel Bergman
Doctoral studentsHanspeter Pfister
Claudio Silva
Huamin Qu

Arie E. Kaufman (born 1954) is an Israeli-American computer scientist best known for his work in volume visualization and virtual reality. Dr. Kaufman is Distinguished Professor and Chair of the Department of Computer Science at Stony Brook University, where he is also Director of the Center for Visual Computing (CVC), and Chief Scientist at the Center of Excellence in Wireless and Information Technology (CEWIT). He has an H-Index of 84 and is currently the ninth most cited researcher in the world working in the area of visualization.