FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: February 13, 2008

DRI hires Assistant Research Visualization Scientist
Daniel Coming, Nevada’s first Millennium Scholarship graduate

RENO – Daniel Coming, Nevada’s first Millennium Scholar to graduate, has been hired as an Assistant Research Visualization Scientist to work in the Desert Research Institute’s Center for Advanced Visualization, Computation and Modeling.

“Daniel is a celebrated individual for his undergraduate accomplishments at the University of Nevada, Reno, but we’re also very impressed with what he did in graduate school at the University of California, Davis as well,” said Stephen Wells, DRI President. “We’re proud to keep a homegrown product in-state and we believe he has a wonderful opportunity here in a cutting edge technology.”

Coming, who will be a faculty member in the Division of Hydrologic Sciences, has joined DRI’s CAVE program that provides researchers and industry state-of-the-art visualization and virtual reality tools and hardware. Currently, the program has a four-sided immersive display and will have a six-sided version completed later this year.

After graduating as the Valedictorian from Las Vegas Bonanza High School in 2000, he finished his undergraduate degree at UNR in just two years. He received a Master of Science in Computer Science in 2006, and a Doctor of Philosophy in Computer Science in 2007, both from UC Davis.

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