Dianne Carol Hansford (born 1964)[1] is an American computer scientist known for her research on Coons patches in computer graphics and for her textbooks on computer-aided geometric design, linear algebra, and the mathematics behind scientific visualization.
She is a lecturer at Arizona State University in the School of Computing and Augmented Intelligence, and the cofounder of a startup based on her research, 3D Compression Technologies.
She went to Arizona State University for graduate study, earning a master's degree in 1988 and completing her Ph.D. in 1991.
[2] Her dissertation, Boundary Curves with Quadric Precision for a Tangent, Continuous Scattered Data Interpolant, was supervised by Robert E.
[4] Hansford's books, coauthored with Arizona State University professor Gerald Farin, include: She is also the author of a highly cited paper on Coons patches: