Amy Ashurst Gooch is an American computer scientist known for her contributions in non-photorealistic rendering.
She is currently the Chief Operations Officer at ViSOAR LLC, a data visualization research spin-off software company from the Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute.
While working on her master's degree, she explored interactive non-photorealistic technical illustration as a new rendering paradigm and developed Gooch shading, which she presented at the 1998 SIGGRAPH conference.
[9] Following her PhD, she joined the faculty at the University of Victoria in British Columbia as an assistant professor of computer science.
In 2013, she joined the Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute to help develop the ViSUS software core into a product.