Charles "Chuck" D. Hansen is an American computer scientist at the University of Utah who works on scientific visualization.
He is a Distinguished Professor, a Fellow of the IEEE[1] and a founding faculty member of the Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute.
[2] He was a Bourse de Chateaubriand PostDoc Fellow at INRIA in Rocquencourt, France in 1987 and 1988.
In 2005, he won the IEEE Visualization Technical Achievement Award for his "seminal work on tools for understanding large-scale scientific data sets".
[3] In 2017, he was awarded the IEEE Technical Committee on Visualization and Graphics "Career Award" in recognition for his contributions to large scale data visualization, including advances in parallel and volume rendering, novel interaction techniques, and techniques for exploiting hardware; for his leadership in the community as an educator, program chair, and editor; and for providing vision for the development and support of the field.