Gordon L. Kindlmann is anAmerican computer scientist who works oninformation visualization andimage analysis.^[1] He is recognized for his contributions in developing tools fortensor data visualization.

Gordon Kindlmann graduated fromCornell University with aBA in mathematics in 1995 and aMS in computer graphics in 1998. He then attended theUniversity of Utah for his PhD, where he worked at theScientific Computing and Imaging Institute underChristopher R. Johnson and graduated in 2004. While at Utah, he developed a set of methods for visualizingvolumetric data interactively using multidimensionaltransfer functions, which were each cited over 500 times.^[2][3][4]

Following his PhD, he was a post-doctoral research fellow in the Laboratory of Mathematics in Imaging atBrigham and Women's Hospital affiliated withHarvard Medical School, where he developed thetensor glyph, a scientific visualization tool for visualizing thedegrees of freedom of a${\displaystyle 3\times 3}$.^[5] His work indiffusion tensor MRI visualization was included in a chapter ofThe Visualization Handbook.^[6] He joined the computer science faculty at theUniversity of Chicago as anassistant professor in 2009, where he teaches an acclaimed course on Scientific Visualization.^[7]

In 2013, Kindlmann appeared inComputer Chess, an independent comedy-drama film written and directed byAndrew Bujalski about a group of software engineers in 1980 who write programs to compete incomputer chess.^[8] The film premiered at the2013 Sundance Film Festival, where it won theAlfred P. Sloan Prize, and subsequently screened atSXSW and theMaryland Film Festival.

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