Dr. Jan P. Springer is the Director of the Emerging Analytics Center and a Professor in the department of Computer Science at the Donaghey College of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics, University of Arkansas at Little Rock. From 2012 to 2018 he was an Assistant Professor in the department of Computer Science and Technology at the University of Hull, United Kingdom. From 2008 to 2011, he was a Senior Research Scientist with the CREATE group at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. Until 2008 he was with the Virtual Reality Systems Group at Bauhaus-Universität Weimar in Germany. His work on Virtual Reality Systems for modeling and simulation, in areas such as cluster-based displays, multi-viewer stereo, software frameworks, and interactive high-quality rendering. Dr. Springer holds a PhD in Computer Science (2008) and an MSc in Computer Science (1999) from Bauhaus-Universität Weimar.
Expertise and Interests
- Interactive Computer Graphics: Methods for image generation at
interactive and real-time frame rates, user-driven scene importance,
graphics hardware supported phenomena simulation, shader-program
accumulation, domain-specific languages, artificial/augmented/mixed/virtual realities - Asynchronous Computing: Effective use of hybrid CPU/GPU
architectures, stream/vector/multi-core computation paradigms and their
practical use, building and using framework-level software systems - Visual Perception: Human visual system based image generation,
display systems, sensor input for image guidance, “beautiful” images
Contact Information
Office: EIT 574
Phone: 501-916-3140
E-mail: jpspringer@ualr.edu
