Penny Rheingans

Penny L. Rheingans is an American computer scientist specializing in information visualization, including methods for non-photorealistic rendering of volumetric data and for visualizing uncertainty in data.

[1] Rheingans majored in computer science at Harvard University, graduating cum laude in 1985.

[2] She went to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for graduate study, completing her Ph.D. in computer science there in 1993.

Her dissertation, Dynamic Explorations of Multiple Variables in a 2D Space, was supervised by Fred Brooks.

[2] In 2018 she moved to the University of Maine as director of the School of Computing and Information Science.