He has particular interests in visualization and computer graphics applications and has published in the top venues in both areas. Dr. Summa's work, in collaboration with his interdisciplinary partners, is helping advance several research disciplines such as geology, physics, and neurobiology. His work has supported the creation of large data processing software that scales from mobile devices to supercomputers. Applications from his research have been deployed at several university departments, Department of Energy national laboratories, a national health science laboratory, and even private corporations. He received his Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Utah where his dissertation focused on large image processing. He received his bachelor's and master's degrees from the University of Pennsylvania.