Tamara Munzner Biography
Short Bio:
Tamara Munzner is an associate professor at the University of British
Columbia Department of Computer Science, where she has been since
2002. She was a research scientist from 2000 to 2002 at the Compaq
Systems Research Center in California, earned her PhD from Stanford
between 1995 and 2000, and was a technical staff member at the
Geometry Center mathematical visualization research group from 1991 to
1995. Tamara was InfoVis Co-Chair in 2003 and 2004 and EuroVis
Co-Chair in 2009 and 2010. Her research interests include the
development, evaluation, and characterization of information
visualization systems and techniques from both user-driven and
technique-driven perspectives.
Long Bio:
Tamara Munzner is an associate professor at the University of British
Columbia Department of Computer Science, where she has been since
2002. She was a research scientist from 2000 to 2002 at the Compaq
Systems Research Center (SRC), and earned her PhD from Stanford
between 1995 and 2000. She was a technical staff member at the
National Science Foundation Research Center for Computation and
Visualization of Geometric Structures (The Geometry Center) at the
University of Minnesota from 1991 to 1995.
Her research interests include the development, evaluation, and
characterization of information visualization systems and techniques
from both user-driven and technique-driven perspectives. She has
worked on visualization projects in a broad range of application
domains, including evolutionary biology, genomics, systems biology,
large-scale system administration, computer networking, web log
analysis, computational linguistics, and geometric topology. She has
consulted for or collaborated with many companies including Agilent,
AT&T Labs, Google, Lytix, Microsoft, and Silicon Graphics.
Dr. Munzner was the IEEE Symposium on Information Visualization
(InfoVis) Program/Papers Co-Chair in 2003 and 2004, and the
Eurographics/IEEE Symposium on Visualization (EuroVis) Program/Papers
Co-Chair in 2009 and 2010. She was a Member At Large of the Executive
Committee of the IEEE Visualization and Graphics Technical Committee
(VGTC) from 2004 through 2009, and is currently a member of the
InfoVis Steering Committee. She was one of the six authors of the 2006
Visualization Challenges Research report, commissioned by several
directorates of the US National Science Foundation and National
Institutes of Health.
Tamara Munzner
Last modified: Fri Jun 17 22:28:30 PDT 2011