# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/thomas-a-defanti
# Generated: 2026-08-14T08:24:26.403Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/thomas-a-defanti"
name: "Thomas A. DeFanti"
slug: "thomas-a-defanti"
description: "Thomas Albert \"Tom\" DeFanti is an American computer graphics researcher and pioneer. His work has ranged from early computer animation, to scientific visualization, virtual reality, and grid computing. He is a distinguished professor of Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Chicago, and a research scientist at the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2)."
tagline: "American computer Graphics researcher"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1948-09-18"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           38.98
  momentum:             2.595419847328245
  historical:           4.80594
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_A._DeFanti"
    title: "Thomas A. DeFanti"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_A._DeFanti"
    title: "Thomas A. DeFanti"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%88%E3%83%BC%E3%83%9E%E3%82%B9%E3%83%BB%E3%83%87%E3%83%95%E3%82%A1%E3%83%B3%E3%83%86%E3%82%A3"
    title: "トーマス・デファンティ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%ED%86%A0%EB%A8%B8%EC%8A%A4_%EB%8D%B0%ED%8C%90%ED%8B%B0"
    title: "토머스 데판티"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_A._DeFanti"
    title: "Thomas A. DeFanti"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q841127"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump