Rich Gossweiler | |
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Citizenship | American |
Alma mater | University of Virginia |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Human-computer interaction Social computing |
Institutions | SGI PARC IBM Almaden Research Center NASA Ames Hewlett-Packard |
Thesis | Perception-Based Time Critical Rendering (1996) |
Doctoral advisor | Randy Pausch[1] |
Website | www |
Rich Gossweiler is a research scientist with Google whose area of expertise is in HCI, interaction design, front-end web development, and System architecture.
Gossweiler graduated from the College of William and Mary, majoring in Computer Science and minoring in mathematics.[2] He received both his master's degree and Ph.D. from the University of Virginia, focusing on computer science and perceptual psychology[3][4] in relation to 3D graphics[5][6] and VR.[7][8][9][10][11][12] He was Randy Pausch's first Ph.D. student.[13]
Gossweiler is currently researching new search models, user experiences and collaborative applications for Google.[14][15][16][17] He has worked at Hewlett-Packard,[18][19][20][21] IBM Almaden Research Center,[22] Xerox PARC,[23][24] SGI[4] and NASA where he worked at NASA Ames[25] participating in the Mars Exploration Rover (MER) mission.