Rich Gossweiler

Rich Gossweiler is a research scientist with Google whose area of expertise is in HCI, interaction design, front-end web development, and System architecture.

Rich Gossweiler
Citizenship	American
Alma mater	University of Virginia
Scientific career
Fields	Human-computer interaction Social computing
Institutions	SGI PARC IBM Almaden Research Center NASA Ames Hewlett-Packard Google
Thesis	Perception-Based Time Critical Rendering (1996)
Doctoral advisor	Randy Pausch[1]
Website	www.richgossweiler.com

Education

Gossweiler graduated from the College of William and Mary, majoring in Computer Science and minoring in mathematics.^[2] He received both his master's degree and Ph.D. from the University of Virginia, focusing on computer science and perceptual psychology^[3][4] in relation to 3D graphics^[5][6] and VR.^{[7][8][9][10][11][12]} He was Randy Pausch's first Ph.D. student.^[13]

Career

Gossweiler is currently researching new search models, user experiences and collaborative applications for Google.^{[14][15][16][17]} He has worked at Hewlett-Packard,^{[18][19][20][21]} IBM Almaden Research Center,^[22] Xerox PARC,^[23][24] SGI^[4] and NASA where he worked at NASA Ames^[25] participating in the Mars Exploration Rover (MER) mission.