{"id":22,"date":"2006-09-18T19:12:46","date_gmt":"2006-09-19T00:12:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/technologize.ualrprd.wpengine.com\/computerscience\/?page_id=22"},"modified":"2024-12-03T12:28:45","modified_gmt":"2024-12-03T18:28:45","slug":"jan-springer","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ualr.edu\/computerscience\/faculty-and-staff\/jan-springer\/","title":{"rendered":"Jan P. Springer, Ph.D. &#8211; Professor &amp; EAC Director"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"204\" height=\"206\" src=\"https:\/\/ualr.edu\/computerscience\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/167\/2020\/12\/Jan-204x206.jpg\" alt=\"Dr. Jan Springer Headshot\" class=\"wp-image-2393\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ualr.edu\/computerscience\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/167\/2020\/12\/Jan-204x206.jpg 204w, https:\/\/ualr.edu\/computerscience\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/167\/2020\/12\/Jan-124x125.jpg 124w, https:\/\/ualr.edu\/computerscience\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/167\/2020\/12\/Jan-109x109.jpg 109w, https:\/\/ualr.edu\/computerscience\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/167\/2020\/12\/Jan-148x148.jpg 148w, https:\/\/ualr.edu\/computerscience\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/167\/2020\/12\/Jan.jpg 256w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 204px) 100vw, 204px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr. Jan P. Springer is the Director of the <a href=\"https:\/\/eac-ualr.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Emerging Analytics Center<\/a> 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-Universit\u00e4t 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-Universit\u00e4t Weimar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-expertise-and-interests\">Expertise and Interests<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><b>Interactive Computer Graphics<\/b>: Methods for image generation at<br><br>        interactive and real-time frame rates, user-driven scene importance,<br><br>        graphics hardware supported phenomena simulation, shader-program<br><br>        accumulation, domain-specific languages, artificial\/augmented\/mixed\/virtual realities<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><b>Asynchronous Computing<\/b>: Effective use of hybrid CPU\/GPU<br><br>        architectures, stream\/vector\/multi-core computation paradigms and their<br><br>        practical use, building and using framework-level software systems<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><b>Visual Perception<\/b>: Human visual system based image generation,<br><br>        display systems, sensor input for image guidance, \u201cbeautiful\u201d images<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-contact-information\">Contact Information<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Office: EIT 574<br>\nPhone: 501-916-3140<br>\nE-mail: <a href=\"mailto:jpspringer@ualr.edu\">jpspringer@ualr.edu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Jan P. 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