Klaus Mueller

Biography

Klaus Mueller has a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the Polytechnic University of Ulm, Germany, and an M.S. in Biomedical Engineering and a Ph.D. in Computer Science, both from The Ohio State University. Apart from his appointment at the Computer Science Department at Stony Brook University, he also holds adjunct faculty positions at the Biomedical Engineering Department and the Radiology Department, and he is an adjunct scientist at the Computational Science Center at Brookhaven National Laboratory. His research is sponsored by NSF (including the Career award in 2001), NIH, DOE, DHS, and private industry and research labs.Klaus Mueller won the US National Science Foundation CAREER award in 2001 and the SUNY Chancellor Award for Excellence in Scholarship and Creative Activity in 2011. He is also a Stony Brook University Undergraduate College Faculty Fellow. Prof. Mueller has authored more than 160 peer-reviewed journal and conference papers, which have been cited more than 4,500 times, according to Google Scholar. He is a frequent speaker at international conferences, has participated in 15 tutorials on various topics, and is a currently the chair of the IEEE Technical Committee on Visualization and Computer Graphics. He is an associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics and is a senior member of the IEEE.

Research Interest

Klaus Mueller's research and publications group into these general areas: Medical imaging; Volume visualization; Filters and grids; Computer graphics: color, texture, details, points; Simulation of natural phenomena and urban security applications; General purpose computing on programmable graphics hardware (GPGPU); Visual analytics, visual data mining and information visualization; Face recognition.