Ken Martin

Ken Martin received the bachelor’s degree in physics and computer science from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1990, the master’s degree in electrical and computer systems engineering with a thesis on abnormality detection for cutting tool fault prediction from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and the Ph.D. degree in computer science with his thesis titled “Image Guided Borescope Tip Pose Determination” in 1998. He joined General Electric Corporate Research and Development as a Member of the Software Technology Program. He is a Co-Founder of Kitware and currently serves as a Distinguished Engineer. He has made contributions to the fields of visualization and software architecture, including a number of peer-reviewed papers and patents. He has coauthored The Visualization Toolkit: An Object Oriented Approach to Computer Graphics and was a Co-Developer and a Lead Architect for the Visualization Toolkit (http://www.vtk.org), a comprehensive visualization package. He is a coauthor and developer for CMake (http://www.cmake.org), a popular build system tool that is seeing wide adoption.