Number of Portfolio Companies 1
Number of Founded Organizations 1
  • Primary Job Title Co-Founder & Chief Scientist
  • Primary Organization 
    Tableau
  • Investor Type  Individual/Angel
  • Investor Stage  Seed

Pat Hanrahan is Tableau Software's Chief Scientist.

He is also the CANON Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at Stanford University, where he teaches computer graphics.

His current research involves visualization, image synthesis, and graphics systems and architectures.

Before joining Stanford he was a faculty

member at Princeton. Pat has also worked at Pixar where he developed volume rendering software and was the chief architect of the RenderMan Interface - a protocol that allows modeling programs to describe scenes to high quality rendering programs.

Pat has received two Academy Awards for Science and Technology, the Spirit of America Creativity Award, the SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics Achievement Award, the SIGGRAPH Stephen A. Coons Award, and the IEEE Visualization Career Award.

He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Number of Investments 1
Pat Hanrahan invested in Apropose on Sep 11, 2014. This investment - Seed Round - Apropose - was valued at
$1.9M
.
Announced Date  
Organization Name  
Lead Investor  
Funding Round  
Money Raised  
Sep 11, 2014
Apropose
Seed Round - Apropose
$1.9M
Number of Current Jobs 1
Number of Past Jobs 3
Pat Hanrahan is the Co-Founder & Chief Scientist at Tableau. Additionally, Pat Hanrahan has had 3 past jobs including Chief Architect at RenderMan Interface.
Organization Name  
Title At Company  
Start Date  
End Date  
RenderMan Interface
Chief Architect
Stanford University
CANON Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering , where he teaches computer graphics.
Pixar Animation Studios
he developed volume rendering software
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