- Author of over 140 peer-reviewed papers with more than 8500 citations
- Founder/design lead of ParaView, an open-source visualization tool that has been downloaded close to three million times and is in use at supercomputing and scientific centers worldwide
Research Experience
- Director of the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) - Information Science and Technology Institute (ISTI)
- Lead of the Exascale Computing Project - Data and Visualization Area for seven storage, data management, and visualization projects
Background
James Ahrens is a senior scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory. His primary research interests are visualization, computer graphics, data science, and high performance computing.