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{{short description|American computer graphics researcher}}
{{Infobox scientist
| name               = Pat Hanrahan
| image              = Pat Hanrahan Tableau Customer Conference 2009.jpg
| caption            = Hanrahan in 2009
| birth_date         = {{Birth year and age|1954}}
| nationality        = American
| fields             = [[Computer graphics]]
| workplaces         = [[Organization:New York Institute of Technology|New York Institute of Technology]]<br>[[Organization:Stanford University|Stanford University]]<br>[[Organization:Princeton University|Princeton University]]<br>Pixar
| alma_mater         = [[Organization:University of Wisconsin–Madison|University of Wisconsin]] {{small|(BS, [[Social:Doctor of Philosophy|PhD]])}}
| doctoral_advisor   = Antony Stretton
| thesis_title       =
| thesis_url         =
| thesis_year        =
| doctoral_students  = [[Biography:Peter Schröder|Peter Schröder]], [[Biography:Tamara Munzner|Tamara Munzner]], [[Biography:Matt Pharr|Matt Pharr]], Ren Ng
}}
'''Patrick M. Hanrahan''' (born 1954){{cn|date=March 2020}} is an American [[Computer graphics|computer graphics]] researcher, the [[Company:Canon Inc.|Canon]] USA Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering in the Computer Graphics Laboratory at [[Organization:Stanford University|Stanford University]].
His research focuses on rendering algorithms, [[Graphics processing unit|graphics processing unit]]s, as well as [[Scientific illustration|scientific illustration]] and [[Scientific visualization|visualization]].<ref>{{Cite journal |title= A Conversation with Kurt Akeley and Pat Hanrahan|journal=ACM Queue|volume=6|issue=2|date=April 28, 2008|url= http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=1365496}}</ref> He has received numerous awards, including the 2019 Turing Award.

==Education and academic work==
Hanrahan grew up in Green Bay, Wisconsin. He attended the [[Organization:University of Wisconsin–Madison|University of Wisconsin–Madison]] and graduated with a B.S. in [[Engineering:Nuclear engineering|nuclear engineering]] in 1977,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.engr.wisc.edu/2012-distinguished-achievement-award-patrick-hanrahan/|title=2012 Distinguished achievement award: Patrick Hanrahan|date=May 23, 2012|website=College of Engineering - University of Wisconsin-Madison|language=en-US|access-date=March 19, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200318212155/https://www.engr.wisc.edu/2012-distinguished-achievement-award-patrick-hanrahan/|archive-date=March 18, 2020|url-status=dead}}</ref> continued his education there, and as a graduate student taught a new computer science course in graphics in 1981. One of his first students was an art graduate student, [[Biography:Donna Cox|Donna Cox]], now known for her art and [[Scientific visualization|scientific visualization]]s.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.awn.com/animationworld/survey-siggraph-women-todays-role-women-digital-media-visual-effects-computer|title=A Survey of SIGGRAPH Women: Today's Role for Women in Digital Media, Visual Effects, Computer Graphics and Animation|website=Animation World Network|language=en|access-date=March 19, 2020}}</ref> In the 1980s he went to work at the [[Organization:New York Institute of Technology|New York Institute of Technology]] Computer Graphics Laboratory and at [[Company:Digital Equipment Corporation|Digital Equipment Corporation]] under [[Biography:Edwin Catmull|Edwin Catmull]].<ref name="nytimes turing"/> He returned to U.W. Madison and completed his Ph.D. in [[Physics:Biophysics|biophysics]] in 1985.<ref>{{Cite book |chapter= Creating volume models from edge-vertex graphs |author= Patrick M. Hanrahan |title= Proceedings of the 9th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques - SIGGRAPH '82 |publisher= ACM |pages= 77–84 |date= July 26, 1982 |doi= 10.1145/800064.801265 |isbn= 978-0-89791-076-7 |s2cid= 7054703 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title= Almost Famous: Pat Hanrahan of Tableau |author= Drake Martinet |work= All Things Digital |date= February 26, 2010 |url= http://allthingsd.com/20100226/almost-famous-pat-hanrahan-of-tableau/ |access-date= November 23, 2016 }}</ref>

==Career==
As a founding employee at Pixar Animation Studios, from 1986 to 1989 Hanrahan was part of the design of the [[Software:RenderMan Interface Specification|RenderMan Interface Specification]] and the [[RenderMan Shading Language]].<ref>{{Cite book |chapter= A brief introduction to RenderMan |publisher= ACM |pages= 2 |date= July 30, 2006 |author= Saty Raghavachary |title= ACM SIGGRAPH 2006 Courses on - SIGGRAPH '06 |url= http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1185817 |doi= 10.1145/1185657.1185817 |isbn= 978-1-59593-364-5 |s2cid= 34496605 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |title= A language for shading and lighting calculations |author1=Pat Hanrahan  |author2=Jim Lawson |journal=ACM SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics |volume=24  |issue=4  |pages= 289–298 |date= August 4, 1990 |doi= 10.1145/97880.97911 |citeseerx=10.1.1.210.5592  }}</ref>
He was credited in Pixar productions including The Magic Egg (1984), Tin Toy (1988) and Toy Story (1995).<ref name="imdb">{{IMDb name|0360561}}</ref>

In 1989 Hanrahan joined the faculty of [[Organization:Princeton University|Princeton University]]. In 1995 he moved to [[Organization:Stanford University|Stanford University]]. In 2003 Hanrahan co-founded [[Company:Tableau Software|Tableau Software]]<ref>{{cite web|website=fortune.com|url=http://fortune.com/2011/11/15/how-tableau-software-makes-business-data-beautiful/|title=How Tableau Software makes business data beautiful|access-date=December 7, 2019|date=November 5, 2011|first1=Richard|last1=Nieva}}</ref> and remains its chief scientist.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.tableau.com/about/leadership|title=Leadership|website=Tableau Software}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title= Form D: Notice of Sale of Securities |publisher= SEC |date= February 7, 2003 |url= https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/vprr/0300/03005660.pdf |access-date= November 23, 2016 }}</ref> In February 2005 Stanford University was named the first regional visualization and analytics center for the United States Department of Homeland Security, focused on problems in information visualization and visual analytics.<ref>{{cite web |url= http://nvac.pnl.gov/stanford_press.stm |title= Stanford selected as first regional center for DHS' national visual analytics work |work= Press release |date= February 7, 2005 |url-status= dead |archive-date= April 7, 2006 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20060407031639/http://nvac.pnl.gov/stanford_press.stm |access-date= November 23, 2016 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://psychcentral.com/news/archives/2006-04/uonc-cvc042406.html|title=Charlotte Visualization Center celebrates opening with Visionary Symposium|access-date=August 24, 2008|archive-date=November 24, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161124094819/http://psychcentral.com/news/archives/2006-04/uonc-cvc042406.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> In 2011 Intel Research announced funding for a center for visual computing, co-led by Hanrahan and Jim Hurley of Intel.<ref>{{Cite news |work= Press release |date= May 31, 2011 |title= New Intel Center Driving the Future of Visual Computing |publisher= Intel |url= https://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/new-intel-center-driving-the-future-of-visual-computing |access-date= November 23, 2016 }}</ref>

He was the doctoral advisor of [[Biography:Peter Schröder|Peter Schröder]] and [[Biography:Tamara Munzner|Tamara Munzner]].<ref name="munzner">{{Cite web |url=http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~tmm/cv/cv.long.pdf |title=Curriculum vitae |access-date=2021-05-12}}</ref>

==Awards==
Hanrahan received three Academy Awards for his work in [[Rendering (computer graphics)|rendering]] and computer graphics research. In 1993 Hanrahan and other Pixar founding employees were awarded a scientific and engineering award for RenderMan.<ref name="imdb"/> In 2004 he shared a technical achievement award with Stephen R. Marschner and [[Biography:Henrik Wann Jensen|Henrik Wann Jensen]], for research in simulating [[Physics:Subsurface scattering|subsurface scattering]] of light in translucent materials.<ref>{{Cite book |chapter= A practical model for subsurface light transport |last1=Jensen |first1=Henrik Wann |last2=Marschner |first2=Stephen R. |last3=Levoy |first3=Marc |last4=Hanrahan |first4=Pat |title=Proceedings of the 28th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques |date=2001 |pages= [https://archive.org/details/siggraph2001conf00fium/page/511 511–518] |doi= 10.1145/383259.383319 |year= 2001 |isbn= 978-1-58113-374-5 |citeseerx= 10.1.1.503.7787 |s2cid= 11408331 |chapter-url= https://archive.org/details/siggraph2001conf00fium/page/511 }}</ref>
In 2014 he shared a technical achievement award with [[Biography:Matt Pharr|Matt Pharr]] and Greg Humphreys, for their formalization and reference implementation of the concepts behind [[Physically based rendering|physically based rendering]], as shared in their book ''Physically Based Rendering''.<ref>{{cite web |work= Press release |url= http://www.oscars.org/press/pressreleases/2014/20140108.html |title= Technical Achievements To Be Honored With 2014 Academy Awards |date= January 8, 2014 |url-status= dead |archive-date= January 11, 2014 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20140111001424/http://www.oscars.org/press/pressreleases/2014/20140108.html |access-date= November 23, 2016 }}</ref>

Hanrahan received the 2003 SIGGRAPH Steven A. Coons Award for Outstanding Creative Contributions to Computer Graphics, for "leadership in rendering algorithms, graphics architectures and systems, and new visualization methods for computer graphics", and the 1993 SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics Achievement Award.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.siggraph.org/about/awards/2003-coons-award/|title=2003 Steven A. Coons Award: Pat Hanrahan|website=ACM SIGGRAPH|language=en-US|access-date=March 18, 2020}}</ref> He was inducted into the 2018 ACM SIGGRAPH Academy Inaugural Class.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.siggraph.org/about/awards/acm-siggraph-academy/|title=ACM SIGGRAPH Academy|website=ACM SIGGRAPH|date=May 6, 2018 |language=en-US|access-date=March 18, 2020}}</ref>

He received the 2006 Career Award for Visualization Research from the IEEE [[Organization:Technical Committee on Visualization and Graphics|Technical Committee on Visualization and Graphics]] (VGTC) at the IEEE Visualization Conference,<ref>{{cite web |title=The 2006 Visualization Career Award |url=http://vgtc.org/attachments/awards/vis_career06.pdf |publisher=IEEE Computer Society VGTC |access-date=21 March 2020}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|date=2007|title=IEEE Visualization Conference and IEEE Information Visualization Conference Proceedings 2007 pre-pages|url=https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/4376128|journal=IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics|volume=13|issue=6|pages=ii-xxvii|doi=10.1109/TVCG.2007.70564|issn=2160-9306|url-access=subscription}}</ref>

He became a member of the National Academy of Engineering in 1999,<ref>{{Cite web |title= Dr. Patrick M. Hanrahan |publisher= National Academy of Engineering |work= Member Directory |url= https://www.nae.edu/30245.aspx |access-date= November 23, 2016 }}</ref> a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2007 and of the [[Organization:Association for Computing Machinery|Association for Computing Machinery]] in 2008, and received three university teaching awards at Stanford.<ref>{{cite web| url= http://news-service.stanford.edu/news/2007/may9/acad-050907.html |title= Stanford scholars elected to American arts, sciences academy |date= May 4, 2007 |work= Stanford Report |access-date= November 23, 2016 }}</ref>

Hanrahan shared the 2019 ACM A.M. Turing Award with Catmull for their pioneering efforts on computer-generated imagery.<ref name="nytimes turing">{{cite news | url = https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/18/technology/pixar-pioneers-win-1-million-turing-award.html | title = Pixar Pioneers Win $1 Million Turing Award | first = Cade | last = Metz | date = March 18, 2020 | access-date = March 18, 2020 | work = {{wipe|The New York Times}} }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://awards.acm.org/about/2019-turing|title=2019 ACM A.M. Turing Award Laureates|website=awards.acm.org|language=en|access-date=2020-03-20}}</ref>

==Quotes==
* '''''Curiosity and passion determine success'''''

==References==
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==External links==
* [http://graphics.stanford.edu/~hanrahan/ Pat Hanrahan's academic home page]
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* {{IMDb name|0360561}}

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