Jean Favre

Dr. Jean M. Favre joined the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre in 1995. He is a staff member in the Scientific Computing unit and leads the Scientific Visualization Task. His interests in graphics and visualization started in 1987, when he joined Tektronix Computer Graphics Research Labs. Jean M. Favre received his Doctor of Science degree in the EE&CS Department at the George Washington University in Washington DC where he was awarded the Presidential Merit Fellowship.

Dr. Favre contributes to visualisation projects for the whole Swiss academic community with special interests in parallel and large-scale computing, and open-source visualisation environments. He is a contributor to the widely known VisIt and ParaView applications. Dr. Favre has contributed to the graphics community with paper reviews for the IEEE CG&A, the IEEE TVCG and the IEE CSE, tutorials at the SIGGRAPH, IEEE Vis, ISC, SC conferences and PRACE, and committee duties at the Eurographics and SC conferences.