Tamara Munzner Biography
Short Bio:
Tamara Munzner is a 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 a 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 (the former DEC 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. She holds a BS from Stanford from 1991.
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, Microsoft, and Silicon Graphics, and early-stage
startups.
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 and the VisWeek Executive 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
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