• 1986 B.S., University of Utah (Mathematics)
• 1988 M.S., Arizona State University (Computer Science), Advisor: R.E. Barnhill
• 1991 Ph.D., Arizona State University (Computer Science), Advisor: R.E. Barnhill

• 1985-1987 Research Assistant, University of Utah
  
  
  
• 1987-1991 Research Assistant/Associate, Arizona State University
  
  
• 1986-1990 Consulting: Lockheed Aeronautical Co Mercedes-Benz Environmental Systems Research Institute (ESRI)
  
  
• 1991-1992 Fulbright Research Scientist in Germany Technical University Darmstadt (Host: J. Hoschek) Technical University Braunschweig (Host: W. Boehm)
  
  
• 1992-1994 Senior CADD/CAM Scientist, Manufacturing & Consulting Services, Inc.
  
  
• 1994- Owner, Farin-Hansford R&D / NURBS Depot: CAD/CAM consulting and software
  development For sample projects see www.farinhansford.com/consulting.html
  
  
• 1996-1997 Visiting Assistant Professor, Arizona State University
  
  
• 1996-2002 Editorial Assistant, CAGD Journal, Elsevier Science Publishing, Amsterdam
  
  
• 2000- Co-founder, 3D Compression Technologies, Inc.: www.3dcompress.com
  
  
• 2002- Adjunct Faculty, Arizona State University
  
  
• 2004-2006 Assistant Research Scientist, Arizona State University, InCISE and PRISM
  
  
• 2006- Associate Research Professor, School of Computing and Informatics, Arizona State University

Teaching Experience

• 1990 Computer Graphics CSE 470, Arizona State University (ASU) Semester: Su90
  
  
• 1995-1997 Computer Aided Geometric Design CSE 477, ASU Semesters: F95, F96, S97
  
  
• 2002 Computer Aided Geometric Design CSE 477, ASU Semester: Sp02
  
  
• 2002-2005 Computer Graphics CSE 470, ASU Semesters: Sp02, F03, Sp04 (latter two: co-instructed with R. Holmes), F04, S05
  
  
• 2005 Independent Study: Randy Grafton, Music Visualizations
  
  
• 2005 Independent Study: Jason Garland, Gaming
  
  
• 2005 Introduction to Gaming CSE 494; served as mentor to graduate student instructors
  
  
• 2005 Honors Project: Bradford Hudspeth; Java, OpenGL and Math Tutorials
  
  
• 2004- For mentoring list, see www.farinhansford.com/dianne/dch-teaching.htm
  
  
• 2007 Introduction to Informatics CPI 101 http://www.farinhansford.com/dianne/teaching/cpi101/index.html
  
  
• 2008 Mathematical Foundations of Informatics CPI 200 http://www.farinhansford.com/dianne/teaching/cpi200/index.html

Scholarships & Honors

• 1987-1990 Graduate Tuition/Academic Scholarships, ASU
  
  
• 1990 Upsilon Pi Epsilon -- National Computer Science Honor Society
  
  
• 1990 Achievement Rewards for College Scientists (ARCS) Scholarship
  
  
• 1991 Sigma Xi Scientific Research Society (Induction)
  
  
• 1991 Distinguished Achievement Award from ASU Faculty Women's Association
  
  
• 1991 NSF-NATO Postdoctoral Fellowship (declined, in favor of Fulbright)
  
  
• 1991 Fulbright Junior Research Position (accepted)
  
  
• 2005-06 President-elect of the ASU chapter of Sigma Xi
  
  
• 2006-07 President of the ASU chapter of Sigma Xi: www.sigmaxi.asu.edu

Grants

• 2005 Incorporation of a psychological basis in the design of haptic user interfaces, NSF SGER, 1 year for $196K, Co-PI with S. Panchanathan (lead), D. Homa, T. Hedgepeth
  
  
• 2006 Tactile User Interface for project for Phoenix Urban Research Lab (PURL) Granted $2K by College of Design (Dean Reiter) for purchase of a Polhemus Tactile Digitizer

Invited Talks, Tutorial Speaker & Visiting Research Positions

• 1991-1992 Fulbright Junior Research Position in Germany
  
  
• 2000 University of Umea, Department of Computer Science, Umea, Sweden; Four day NURBS tutorial with G. Farin; Host: Prof. Per-Ake Wedin, http://www.cs.umu.se/
  
  
• 2002 Université de Valenciennes, ENSIAME - Laboratoire MACS (Applied Mathematics), Valenciennes, France; Two week research collaboration; Talk presented: Shape for Meshes Host: Gudrun Albrecht, http://www.univ-valenciennes.fr/macs/albrecht/
  
  
• 2003 Université de Valenciennes, ENSIAME - Laboratoire MACS (Applied Mathematics), Valenciennes, France; Two week research collaboration; Talk presented: Voronoi Diagrams in CAGD Host: Gudrun Albrecht, http://www.univ-valenciennes.fr/macs/albrecht/
  
  
• 2006 PRISM: A Focal Point of Modeling and Visualization at ASU, Psychology Department
  
  
• 2006 PRISM: A Focal Point of Modeling and Visualization at ASU, Technical University of Kaiserslautern, Computer Science Department.

Society Membership and Activities

• 1988-1992 Association for Computing Machinery/ SIGGRAPH
  
  
• 1989- Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM): Special interest group: Geometric Design 1991- Sigma Xi Scientific Research Society
  
  
• 1992- Fulbright Association 2005-2006 President-elect, Sigma Xi at ASU
  
  
• 2005 - Created website and serve as webmaster for Fulbright Arizona http://fulbright.asu.edu
  
  
• 2005 - Created website and serve as webmaster for Sigma Xi at ASU http://sigmaxi.asu.edu
  
  
• 2006-2007 President Sigma Xi ASU Chapter 2005 - ACM and SIGGRAPH 2005 - IEEE

Refereeing and Reviewing

Journal Refereeing: Computer Aided Geometric Design, Computer-Aided Design, Three SIAM CAGD books, SIGGRAPH, ACM Transaction on Graphics, IEEE Multimedia Magazine, IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications

Book Reviews: Academic Press, AK Peters, Morgan Kaufmann, SIAM

Publications