MAXINE D. BROWN Associate Director, Electronic Visualization Laboratory University of Illinois at Chicago maxine@uic.edu

Maxine D. Brown is an Associate Director of the Electronic Visualization Laboratory (EVL) at UIC. She is currently co-principal investigator of the US National Science Foundation’s (NSF) International Research Network Connections Program’s TransLight/StarLight award, and was previously co-principal investigator of the NSF-funded EuroLink and STAR TAP/StarLight initiatives. Brown was the project manager of the NSF-funded OptIPuter project. Brown is a member of the Pacific Rim Applications and Grid Middleware Assembly (PRAGMA), is a founding member of Global Lambda Integrated Facility (GLIF), and is co-chair of the GLIF Research & Applications working group. Brown is also the UIC representative and past President of the Board of Directors of the Great Lakes Consortium for Petascale Computing (GLCPC). Previously, Brown served as an officer of the ACM SIGGRAPH organization and has been very active in ACM SIGGRAPH and ACM/IEEE Supercomputing conferences. She was was one of several American technical advisors to the G7 GIBN activity in 1995, and co-created and co-chaired the international grid (iGrid) Workshops in 1998, 2000, 2002 and 2005. In recognition of her services to UIC and the community at large, Brown is a recipient of the 1990 UIC Chancellor’s Academic Professional Excellence (CAPE) award; the 2001 UIC Merit Award; and the 1998 ACM SIGGRAPH Outstanding Service Award. In 2009, Chicago’s award-winning multimedia public affairs series "Chicago Matters: Beyond Burnham" designated Brown as one of 15 Global Visionaries for her role in co-developing StarLight.