the cavalcade of old Tamara Munzner bios: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Oct 2021 Tamara Munzner is a Professor of Computer Science at the University of British Columbia. She was on the technical staff of The Geometry Center from 1991 through 1995, and holds a PhD from Stanford from 2000. She published the book "Visualization Analysis and Design" in 2014 as the first in the AK Peters Visualization Series (CRC/Routledge), and continues as series editor. She received the IEEE VGTC Visualization Technical Achievement Award in 2015. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Jul 2021 Tamara Munzner is a Professor of Computer Science at the University of British Columbia. She holds a PhD from Stanford, has been active in the visualization field for over 30 years, and has published over 80 papers. Her longstanding engagement with the IEEE VGTC community includes service as InfoVis and EuroVis Papers Co-Chair, and chair of the VIS Restructuring Committee, the VIS Executive Committee, and the InfoVis Steering Committee. She published the book "Visualization Analysis and Design" in 2014 as the first in the AK Peters Visualization Series (CRC Press), and continues as series editor. She received the IEEE VGTC Visualization Technical Achievement Award in 2015. Prior to UBC, she worked as a research scientist at the Compaq Systems Research Center in California and as technical staff at The Geometry Center at the University of Minnesota. She and her group have released over 25 software packages as open source. She has consulted for or collaborated with many companies including Agilent, AT&T Labs, Google, Microsoft, Mobify, Silicon Graphics, Tableau, Uber, and early-stage startups. She serves on the advisory boards for the Data Visualization Society and Data Literacy LLC. She has worked on problem-driven visualization in many domains including genomics, computational linguistics, web log analysis, and journalism. Her technique-driven visualization interests include graph drawing and dimensionality reduction. Her evaluation interests include controlled experiments in a laboratory setting and qualitative studies in the field. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Jun 2021 Tamara Munzner is a Professor of Computer Science at the University of British Columbia. She obtained a Ph.D. and B.S from Stanford in Computer Science in 2000 and 1991, respectively. She was on the technical staff of The Geometry Center at the University of Minnesota from 1991 to 1995. Her book Visualization Analysis and Design appeared in 2014, and she received the IEEE VGTC Visualization Technical Achievement Award in 2015. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ May 2021 Tamara is a professor at the University of British Columbia, which she joined in 2002 after two years as a research scientist at the Compaq Systems Research Center. She earned her PhD from Stanford in 2000, working with Pat Hanrahan. She was a technical staff member at the University of Minnesota Geometry Center from 1991 to 1995. She was co-designer of the interactive 3D visualization system Geomview, which directly supported non-Euclidean geometries. She was co-creator of two animations that brought concepts from geometric topology to general audiences: "The Shape of Space" is about spaces that are finite but have no boundaries, and "Outside In" explores turning a sphere inside out. These videos were shown at the SIGGRAPH Electronic Theater, featured on the cover of Scientific American, and won awards at NICOGRAPH, the London Effects and Animation Festival, Prix Pixel Imagina, and Prix Ars Electronica. Tamara's research interests include the development, evaluation, and characterization of visualization systems and techniques from both problem-driven and technique-driven perspectives. In problem-driven work, known as design studies, the focus is on designing systems to solve specific needs for a target group of real-world users. Tamara has pioneered the development of design study methodology, reflecting on work within a broad range of application domains, including genomics, evolutionary biology, fisheries management, web log analysis, e-commerce, and journalism. Her technique-driven interests include graph drawing and dimensionality reduction, with an emphasis on scalable algorithms. Her evaluation interests include both controlled experiments in a laboratory setting and qualitative studies in the field. She has contributed substantially to the theoretical foundations of visualization design and the visualization research process. Her widely used book Visualization Analysis and Design provides a systematic, comprehensive framework for thinking about visualization in terms of principles and design choices. It features a unified approach encompassing information visualization techniques for the abstract data of tables and networks, scientific visualization techniques for spatial data, and visual analytics techniques for interweaving data transformation and analysis with interactive visual exploration. Tamara has published over 80 papers, including 21 at IEEE InfoVis, and others at many venues including TVCG, VAST, EuroVis, SciVis, SIGGRAPH, CHI, Graphics Interface, PacificVis, Graph Drawing, Information Visualization, and CG&A. Her h-index is 49, her work has amassed over 11,000 citations, and she has given over 200 talks. She has supervised over 40 students and postdocs, who have gone on to positions including Google, Tableau Research, Electronic Arts, AeroInfo, and professorships at Zurich, Northeastern, Stuttgart, Utah, Victoria, and Beuth. She and her group have released over 25 software packages as open source. She has consulted for or collaborated with many companies including Agilent, AT&T Labs, Google, Microsoft, Mobify, Silicon Graphics, Tableau, Uber, and early-stage startups. She serves on the advisory boards for the Data Visualization Society and Data Literacy LLC. She is the co-editor of the AK Peters Visualization Series with CRC Press / Routledge. Tamara has helped to organize InfoVis in roles ranging from webmaster to inaugural posters chair to papers chair to steering committee chair. She has served as chair of the VIS Executive Committee, chair of the VIS Restructuring Committee (reVISe), and a member of the VGTC Executive Committee. She was papers chair for EuroVis and a founding member of the BioVis Steering Committee. She received the IEEE VGTC Visualization Technical Achievement Award in 2015 and is a founding member of the VIS Academy. Her 2009 paper on the nested model of visualization design and validation earned the InfoVis 10-year Test of Time award in 2019. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Feb 2021 Tamara Munzner is a Professor of Computer Science at the University of British Columbia. She holds a PhD from Stanford and has been active in the visualization field for over 30 years. Her longstanding engagement with the IEEE VGTC community includes service as InfoVis and EuroVis Papers Co-Chair, and chair of the VIS Restructuring Committee, the VIS Executive Committees, and the InfoVis Steering Committee. She published the book "Visualization Analysis and Design" in 2014 as the first in the AK Peters Visualization Series (CRC Press), and continues as series editor. She received the IEEE VGTC Visualization Technical Achievement Award in 2015. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Oct 2020 Tamara Munzner is a computer science professor at the University of British Columbia and holds a PhD from Stanford. She has been active in visualization research since 1991, has published over eighty papers, and co-chaired InfoVis and EuroVis. Her book Visualization Analysis and Design appeared in 2014, and she received the IEEE VGTC Visualization Technical Achievement Award in 2015. She has worked on problem-driven visualization in many domains including genomics, computational linguistics, web log analysis, and journalism. Her technique-driven visualization interests include graph drawing and dimensionality reduction. Her evaluation interests include controlled experiments in a laboratory setting and qualitative studies in the field. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ May 2020 Tamara (Prof, CS) works in visualization and visual analytics, with extensive experience in the methodology of collaboration. She has worked across a broad range of application domains, including genomics (with Harvard Med School, the Harvard/MIT Broad Institute, and UBC Microbio Hancock Lab), genomic epidemiology (with SPPH Gardy Lab), cancer research (with BC Cancer), and evolutionary biology (with UBC Biodiversity and UT-Austin Hillis Lab), in addition to other areas ranging from core Internet (with Google and AT&T) to journalism (with the Associated Press). ------------------------------------------------------------------------ March 2020 Tamara Munzner is a professor of computer science at the University of British Columbia and holds a PhD from Stanford. Her book Visualization Analysis and Design appeared in 2014; she has been active in visualization research since 1991 with projects across a broad set of areas including genomics, evolutionary biology, geometric topology, computational linguistics, e-commerce, and journalism. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ October 2019 Tamara Munzner is a professor at the University of British Columbia Department of Computer Science, and has been active in visualization since 1991. 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 has published over sixty-five papers, and co-chaired InfoVis and EuroVis. Her book Visualization Analysis and Design appeared in 2014, and she is the editor of the AK Peters Visualization series with CRC Press. She received the IEEE VGTC Visualization Technical Achievement Award in 2015, the InfoVis 10-year Test of Time award in 2019, and is a founding member of the VIS Academy. She served on the InfoVis Steering Committee 2010-2017, as chair of the VIS Executive Committee 2012-2017, and was a founding member of the BioVis Steering Committee 2012-2013. She has consulted for or collaborated with many companies including Agilent, AT&T Labs, Google, Microsoft, Silicon Graphics, and early-stage startups. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ May 2019 I am a Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of British Colombia. My h-index is 45 (from Google Scholar in April 2019). I have published 70 papers, with 26 open-source software releases arising from this work. I have given over 200 talks including 8 keynotes; I served on over 40 program committees. I have been papers chair for IEEE InfoVis and EuroVis, on the steering committees for InfoVis and BioVis, chaired the IEEE VIS Executive Committee, and served on the IEEE VGTC Executive Committee. I am on the advisory board for Data Literacy LLC. I served as an external evaluator for the Microsoft-INRIA Joint Research Center. I have consulted for or collaborated with many companies including Agilent, AT&T Labs, Google, Microsoft, Silicon Graphics, and early-stage startups. I am the author of the textbook Visualization Analysis and Design, published December 2014, which has sold over 5000 copies, been cited over 600 times, and been adopted as a textbook by dozens of institutions. I am also the editor of the A K Peters Visualization book series at CRC Press. My research interests include the development, evaluation, and characterization of information visualization systems and techniques. I have worked on problem-driven visualization in a broad range of application domains, including genomics, evolutionary biology, geometric topology, computational linguistics, large-scale system administration, web log analysis, and journalism. My technique-driven interests include graph drawing and dimensionality reduction. My evaluation interests include empirical studies with human subjects through both controlled experiments in a laboratory setting and qualitative studies in the field. I have supervised or co-supervised 5 postdocs, 5 PhD students, 15 MSc students, and 12 undergrads. My former trainees have gone on to outstanding positions in academia and industry: 5 professors (Beuth Hochschule, Swansea, Utah, Victoria, Vienna, and Victoria), 1 startup co-founder (Mobify), and many at companies including Bloomberg, Electronic Arts, Google, Microsoft Research, Tableau, and Zynga. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ December 2018 Tamara Munzner is a professor at the University of British Columbia Department of Computer Science, and holds a PhD from Stanford. She has been active in visualization research since 1991 and has published over sixty-five papers and chapters. Her book Visualization Analysis and Design appeared in 2014 and she received the IEEE VGTC Visualization Technical Achievement Award in 2015. She has been papers chair for IEEE InfoVis and EuroVis, on the steering committees for InfoVis and BioVis, and the chair of the VIS Executive Committee. She has worked on visualization projects in a broad range of application domains, including genomics, evolutionary biology, geometric topology, computational linguistics, large-scale system administration, web log analysis, and journalism. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ July 2018 Tamara Munzner is a professor at the University of British Columbia Department of Computer Science, and holds a PhD from Stanford. She has been active in visualization research since 1991 and has published over sixty-five papers and chapters. Her book Visualization Analysis and Design appeared in 2014. She co-chaired InfoVis in 2003 and 2004, co-chaired EuroVis in 2009 and 2010, and chaired the VIS Executive Committee 2013-2017. She received the IEEE VGTC Visualization Technical Achievement Award in 2015. She has worked on visualization projects in a broad range of application domains, including genomics, evolutionary biology, geometric topology, computational linguistics, large-scale system administration, web log analysis, and journalism. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Sep 2017 Tamara Munzner is a professor at the University of British Columbia Department of Computer Science, and holds a PhD from Stanford. She has been active in visualization research since 1991 and has published over sixty-five papers and chapters. Her book Visualization Analysis and Design appeared in 2014. She co-chaired InfoVis in 2003 and 2004, co-chaired EuroVis in 2009 and 2010, and is chair of the VIS Executive Committee. She received the IEEE VGTC Visualization Technical Achievement Award in 2015. She has worked on visualization projects in a broad range of application domains, including genomics, evolutionary biology, geometric topology, computational linguistics, large-scale system administration, web log analysis, and journalism. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Jul 2015 Tamara Munzner is a full 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). She earned her PhD from Stanford between 1995 and 2000, working with Pat Hanrahan. She holds a BS from Stanford from 1991, the year she first attended VIS. She was born in 1969 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. From 1991 to 1995, Tamara was a technical staff member at The Geometry Center, based at the University of Minnesota. She was one of the architects and implementors of Geomview, the Center's public domain interactive 3D visualization system that supported hyperbolic and spherical geometry in addition to Euclidean geometry. She was co-director and one of the animators of two videos that brought concepts from the cutting edge of geometric topology research to a general audience. The 11-minute "The Shape of Space" video, shown at the SIGGRAPH 95 Electronic Theater and the Prix Pixel Imagina, develops the concept of spaces that are finite but have no boundaries. "Outside In" is a 22-minute video on turning a sphere inside out, and an 8-minute excerpt was shown at the SIGGRAPH 94 Electronic Theater. It was featured on the cover of Scientific American and won awards at NICOGRAPH, the London Effects and Animation Festival, Prix Pixel Imagina, and Prix Ars Electronica. Tamara's current research interests include the development, evaluation, and characterization of visualization systems and techniques from both problem-driven and technique-driven perspectives. In problem-driven work, known as design studies, the focus is on designing systems to solve specific needs for a target group of real-world users. Tamara has worked on problem-driven visualization in a broad range of application domains, including genomics, evolutionary biology, fisheries management, environmental sustainability, large-scale system administration, web log analysis, networking, computational linguistics, data mining, and journalism. Her technique-driven interests include graph drawing and dimensionality reduction, with an emphasis on scalable algorithms. Her evaluation interests include both controlled experiments in a laboratory setting and qualitative studies in the field. She has a strong interest in the theoretical foundations of visualization, with a series of publications that describe and prescribe models and methods for visualization design and the research process itself, including a nested model of design and validation and methodology for design studies. Her 2014 book Visualization Analysis and Design provides a systematic, comprehensive framework for thinking about visualization in terms of principles and design choices. It features a unified approach encompassing information visualization techniques for the abstract data of tables and networks, scientific visualization techniques for spatial data, and visual analytics techniques for interweaving data transformation and analysis with interactive visual exploration. Tamara has published over 65 papers and chapters, with 20 at InfoVis, 3 at VAST, 1 at SciVis, and others at many venues including TVCG, EuroVis, SIGGRAPH, CHI, Graph Drawing, Information Visualization, and CG&A. She has given over 150 talks, and supervised over 30 students and postdocs. She and her group have released over 20 software packages as open source. She has consulted for or collaborated with many companies including Agilent, AT&T Labs, Google, Microsoft, Silicon Graphics, and early-stage startups. Tamara has helped to organize InfoVis in roles ranging from webmaster to inaugural posters chair to papers chair. She was on the InfoVis Steering Committee 2010-2017, chair of the VIS Executive Committee 2012-2017, and was a founding member of the BioVis Steering Committee 2012-2013. She has been papers chair of EuroVis, and co-authored the NIH/NSF Visualization Research Challenges Report. She received the IEEE VGTC Visualization Technical Achievement Award in 2015. She is the editor of the AK Peters Visualization series with CRC Press. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ March 2015 Tamara Munzner is a professor at the University of British Columbia Department of Computer Science, and holds a PhD from Stanford. She has been active in visualization research since 1991 and has published over sixty papers and book chapters. Her book Visualization Analysis and Design appeared in 2014. She co-chaired InfoVis in 2003 and 2004, co-chaired EuroVis in 2009 and 2010, and is chair of the VIS Executive Committee. Her research interests include the development, evaluation, and characterization of information visualization systems and techniques. She has worked on problem-driven visualization in a broad range of application domains, including genomics, evolutionary biology, geometric topology, computational linguistics, large-scale system administration, web log analysis, and journalism. Her technique-driven interests include graph drawing and dimensionality reduction. Her evaluation interests include both controlled experiments in a laboratory setting and qualitative studies in the field. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ January 2015 Tamara Munzner is a professor at the University of British Columbia Department of Computer Science, and holds a PhD from Stanford. She has been active in visualization research since 1991 and has published over sixty papers and book chapters. Her book Visualization Analysis and Design appeared in 2014. She co-chaired InfoVis in 2003 and 2004, co-chaired EuroVis in 2009 and 2010, and is chair of the VIS Executive Committee. She has worked on visualization projects in a broad range of application domains, including genomics, evolutionary biology, geometric topology, computational linguistics, large-scale system administration, web log analysis, and journalism. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ July 2014 Tamara Munzner is a professor at the University of British Columbia Department of Computer Science. She has been active in visualization research since 1991 and has published sixty papers and book chapters; her synthesis textbook on Visualization Analysis and Design will appear in the fall of 2014. She has worked on visualization projects in a broad range of application domains including genomics, evolutionary biology, geometric topology, computational linguistics, large-scale system administration, web log analysis, and journalism. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ May 2014 Tamara Munzner is a professor at the University of British Columbia Department of Computer Science, and holds a PhD from Stanford. She has been active in visualization research since 1991 and has published over fifty papers and book chapters. She co-chaired co-chaired EuroVis in 2010 and 2009, and InfoVis in 2004 and 2003. Her research interests include the development, evaluation, and characterization of information visualization systems and techniques from both problem-driven and technique-driven perspectives. She has worked on problem-driven visualization projects in a broad range of application domains including genomics, evolutionary biology, geometric topology, computational linguistics, large-scale system administration, web log analysis, and journalism. Her technique-driven interests include graph drawing and dimensionality reduction. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ May 2014 Tamara Munzner is a professor at the University of British Columbia Department of Computer Science, and holds a PhD from Stanford. She has been active in visualization research since 1991 and has published over fifty papers and book chapters. She has worked on visualization projects in a broad range of application domains including genomics, evolutionary biology, geometric topology, computational linguistics, large-scale system administration, web log analysis, and journalism. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ May 2014 Tamara Munzner is a professor at the University of British Columbia Department of Computer Science, and holds a PhD from Stanford. She has been active in visualization research since 1991 and has published over fifty papers and book chapters. Her research interests include the development, evaluation, and characterization of information visualization systems and techniques from both problem-driven and technique-driven perspectives. She has worked on problem-driven visualization projects in a broad range of application domains including genomics, evolutionary biology, geometric topology, computational linguistics, large-scale system administration, web log analysis, and journalism. Her technique-driven interests include graph drawing and dimensionality reduction. She co-chaired EuroVis in 2010 and 2009, and InfoVis in 2004 and 2003. She currently serves as chair of the VisWeek Executive Committee and a member of the InfoVis Steering Committee. She was a founding member of the BioVis Steering Committee, and a Member At Large of the Executive Committee of the IEEE Visualization and Graphics Technical Committee (VGTC) from 2004 through 2009. She has consulted for or collaborated with many companies including Agilent, AT&T Labs, Google, Microsoft, Silicon Graphics, and several startups. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ October 2013 Tamara Munzner is a Professor of Computer Science at the University of British Columbia, in the research area of information visualization. She has been active in visualization research since 1991, and has published over fifty papers and book chapters. Before earning a PhD from Stanford in 2000, she was a technical staff member at the NSF-funded Geometry Center at the University of Minnesota for four years. Afterwards, she was a research scientist at the Compaq Systems Research Lab from 2000 to 2002. She co-chaired InfoVis in 2003 and 2004 and EuroVis in 2009 and 2010. She is currently on the InfoVis Steering Committee and the VIS Executive Committee, was a founding member of the BioVis Steering Committee from 2010 through 2013, and was a Member At Large of the Executive Committee of the IEEE Visualization and Graphics Technical Committee from 2004-2009. She has consulted for companies including Silicon Graphics, Microsoft, and early-stage startups. Her research interests include the development, evaluation, and characterization of information visualization systems and techniques from both problem-driven and technique-driven perspectives. She has worked on problem-driven visualization projects in a broad range of application domains, including genomics, evolutionary biology, large-scale system administration, web log analysis, computational linguistics, and geometric topology. Her technique-driven interests include dimensionality reduction and graph drawing. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ October 2013 Tiny bio: Tamara Munzner is a Professor of Computer Science at the University of British Columbia, in the research area of information visualization. She has been active in visualization research since 1991, and has published over fifty papers and book chapters. Before earning a PhD from Stanford in 2000, she was a technical staff member at the NSF-funded Geometry Center at the University of Minnesota for four years. Afterwards, she was a research scientist at the Compaq Systems Research Lab from 2000 to 2002. She co-chaired InfoVis in 2003 and 2004 and EuroVis in 2009 and 2010. Short bio: Tamara Munzner is a Professor of Computer Science at the University of British Columbia, in the research area of information visualization. She has been active in visualization research since 1991, and has published over fifty papers and book chapters. Before earning a PhD from Stanford in 2000, she was a technical staff member at the NSF-funded Geometry Center at the University of Minnesota for four years. Afterwards, she was a research scientist at the Compaq Systems Research Lab from 2000 to 2002. Her research interests include the development, evaluation, and characterization of information visualization systems and techniques from both problem-driven and technique-driven perspectives. She has worked on visualization projects in a broad range of application domains, including genomics, evolutionary biology, large-scale system administration, web log analysis, computational linguistics, and geometric topology. She co-chaired InfoVis in 2003 and 2004 and EuroVis in 2009 and 2010. She has consulted for companies including Silicon Graphics, Microsoft, and early-stage startups. Long bio: Tamara Munzner is a Professor of Computer Science at the University of British Columbia, in the research area of information visualization. She has been active in visualization research since 1991, and has published over fifty papers and book chapters. Before earning a PhD from Stanford in 2000, she was a technical staff member at the NSF-funded Geometry Center at the University of Minnesota for four years. Afterwards, she was a research scientist at the Compaq Systems Research Lab from 2000 to 2002. Her research interests include the development, evaluation, and characterization of information visualization systems and techniques from both problem-driven and technique-driven perspectives. She has worked on visualization projects in a broad range of application domains, including genomics, evolutionary biology, large-scale system administration, web log analysis, computational linguistics, and geometric topology. She has been heavily involved in organizing InfoVis, the top conference in our field, in many capacities including a two-year term as co-chair in 2003 and 2004 and is currently on its steering committee. She is currently chair of the VIS Executive Committee. She served a two-year term as EuroVis co-chair in 2009 and 2010, and was a founding member of the BioVis Steering Committee from 2010 through 2013. She was a Member At Large of the Executive Committee of the IEEE Visualization and Graphics Technical Committee, the governing body for all IEEE visualization activities, from 2004-2009. 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. She has consulted for companies including Silicon Graphics, Microsoft, and early-stage startups. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Nov 2012 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. She has worked on visualization projects in a broad range of application domains, including evolutionary biology, microbiology, topology, computational linguistics, large-scale system administration, web site design, and web log analysis. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Jun 2012 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. She has worked on visualization projects in a broad range of application domains, including evolutionary biology, microbiology, topology, computational linguistics, large-scale system administration, web site design, and web log analysis. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Jun 2012 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. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ July 2011 Tamara Munzner is an associate professor at the University of British Columbia Department of Computer Science. She holds a BS and PhD in Computer Science from Stanford University. Her research area is information visualization: using a mix of computer graphics, human-computer interaction, and cognitive psychology to help people understand and navigate through abstract data. 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. Her online list of book/series recommendations has 1100+ science fiction and fantasy entries (plus several hundred outside the genre). It started in 1994 as a simple chronological list of all books deemed good or great as she read them, and got more elaborate during PhD thesis procrastination. The current version is at http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~tmm/books ------------------------------------------------------------------------ March 2011 Tamara Munzner is an associate professor at the University of British Columbia Department of Computer Science. She holds a BS and PhD in Computer Science from Stanford University. Her research area is information visualization: using a mix of computer graphics, human-computer interaction, and cognitive psychology to help people understand and navigate through abstract data. 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. Her online list of book/series recommendations has 1100+ science fiction and fantasy entries (plus several hundred outside the genre). It started in 1994 as a simple chronological list of all books deemed good or great as she read them, and got more elaborate during PhD thesis procrastination. The current version is at http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~tmm/books ------------------------------------------------------------------------ November 2010 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. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ September 2010 Tamara Munzner has spent 20 years in the design, implementation and evaluation of interactive visualization systems, with an emphasis on networks. Tamara's research focuses on the intersection of human-computer interaction and algorithmic techniques for network visualization. She is an Associate Professor at the University of British Columbia, and has collaborated with a wide range of technology companies, including Google, Agilent, AT&T Labs, Microsoft, and Silicon Graphics. Tamara holds a BS and PhD in Computer Science from Stanford University. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ July 2010 I am Associate Professor of Computer Science at the University of British Columbia, and my research area is information visualization. I spent two years as a researcher in a distributed systems lab, the Systems Research Center (the former DEC SRC, then owned by Compaq, and now owned by HP). I earned my Ph.D from Stanford in 2000, and before that was a technical staff member at the National Science Foundation Research Center for Computation and Visualization of Geometric Structures at the University of Minnesota from 1991 to 1995. I have published over forty papers and book chapters. I was co-chair of InfoVis, the top conference in our field, in 2003 and 2004, and just finished a two-year term as EuroVis co-chair in 2009 and 2010. I was a Member At Large of the Executive Committee of the IEEE Visualization and Graphics Technical Committee, the governing body for all IEEE visualization activities, from 2004-2009. I 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. My research interests include the development, evaluation, and characterization of information visualization systems and techniques from both user-driven and technique-driven perspectives. A deliberate methodological choice in my work is to collaborate with scientists and engineers in a broad range of application domains, including evolutionary and systems biology, topology, computational linguistics, large-scale system administration, computer networking, and web log analysis. I have also consulted for companies including Silicon Graphics and Microsoft. I have taught a graduate course in information visualization since 2003. When I introduced the course, less than one dozen offerings of an infovis course had ever existed at any university, including the one that I had co-taught at Stanford the previous year as a graduate student. I have posted the full curriculum, including the complete reading list and all of my lecture slides, on a series of archival course web pages. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ July 2010 I am Associate Professor of Computer Science at the University of British Columbia, and my research area is information visualization. I earned my Ph.D from Stanford in 2000, and before that was a technical staff member at the National Science Foundation Research Center for Computation and Visualization of Geometric Structures at the University of Minnesota from 1991 to 1995. I have published over forty papers and book chapters. I was co-chair of InfoVis, the top conference in our field, in 2003 and 2004, and just finished a two-year term as EuroVis co-chair in 2009 and 2010. I was a Member At Large of the Executive Committee of the IEEE Visualization and Graphics Technical Committee, the governing body for all IEEE visualization activities, from 2004-2009. I 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. I have also consulted for companies including Silicon Graphics, Microsoft, and the supercomputer company ETA Systems. A deliberate methodological choice in my work is to collaborate with scientists and engineers in a broad range of application domains, including evolutionary and systems biology, topology, computational linguistics, large-scale system administration, computer networking, and web log analysis. I spent two years as a researcher in a distributed systems lab, the Systems Research Center (the former DEC SRC, then owned by Compaq, and now owned by HP). ------------------------------------------------------------------------ June 2010 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. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ January 2009 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, and earned her PhD from Stanford between 1995 and 2000. She was on the technical staff of The Geometry Center, a mathematical visualization research group at the University of Minnesota, from 1991 to 1995. Tamara was the IEEE Symposium on Information Visualization (InfoVis) Program/Papers Co-Chair in 2003 and 2004. Her current research interests are information visualization, graph drawing, and dimensionality reduction. She has worked on visualization projects in a broad range of application domains, including evolutionary biology, microbiology, topology, computational linguistics, large-scale system administration, web site design, and web log analysis. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ October 2007 I work on information visualization, namely using interactive computer graphics to help people solve problems that require understanding a complex abstract dataset. One of my central research concerns is scalability to large datasets, addressing both algorithmic and perceptual issues. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ October 2007 Tamara Munzner is an associate professor in the Computer Science Department of the University of British Columbia. She was a technical staff member at the University of Minnesota Geometry Center from 1991 to 1995, received the PhD degree in 2000 from Stanford, and was a research scientist at the Compaq Systems Research Center from 2000 to 2002. Her research interests are information visualization, graph drawing, and dimensionality reduction. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ September 2007 Tamara Munzner is an associate professor at the University of British Columbia Department of Computer Science, where she has been since 2002. Her current research interests are information visualization, graph drawing, and dimensionality reduction. She was a research scientist from 2000 to 2002 at the Compaq Systems Research Center in California, and earned her PhD from Stanford between 1995 and 2000. She was on the technical staff of The Geometry Center, a mathematical visualization research group at the University of Minnesota, from 1991 to 1995. Tamara was the IEEE Symposium on Information Visualization (InfoVis) Program/Papers Co-Chair in 2003 and 2004. google.07 Tamara Munzner works on information visualization, creating and evaluating software that uses interactive computer graphics to help people understand large abstract datasets. One of her central research concerns is scalability, addressing both algorithmic and perceptual issues. She has worked on projects in a broad range of application domains, including evolutionary biology, microbiology, environmental sustainability, topology, computer networking, transaction databases, cluster computing, and web design. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ October 2006 I do visualization: interactive software for exploring abstract datasets, for apps ranging from bioinformatics to topology to computational linguistics to web site design to computer networks. I read way too much, see list of 1300+ recommended books/series on web. Recently: Evaluating how both linear and nonlinear geometric transformations affect visual memory. Coauthoring NSF/NIH sponsored report on visualization state-of-the-field and recommendations. Using cell localization info to make less tangled drawings of protein-protein interaction networks. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ October 2006 Tamara Munzner became an assistant professor of computer science at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver in the summer of 2002. Her current research interests are information visualization, graph drawing, and dimensionality reduction. She is particularly interested in creating scalable algorithms. She has designed visualization systems for a wide variety of domains, ranging from biology to computational linguistics to computer networks to web site designers to topologists. She is currently collaborating with researchers at Agilent, AT&T Labs, Google, the University of Bordeaux, and the University of Maryland. From 2000 until 2002 she was a research scientist at at Compaq Systems Research Center in Palo Alto, California. She completed her PhD in computer science at Stanford University in June 2000, where she also received a BS in computer science in 1991. Between 1991 and 1995 she was a member of the technical staff at the University of Minnesota Geometry Center, with the research focus of mathematical visualization. Her projects included the Geomview system for flexible interactive 3D visualization, and award-winning expository computer animations on how to turn a sphere inside out, and on spaces that are finite but have no boundary. She was one of the developers of an exhibit for the Science Museum of Minnesota allowing museum visitors to explore symmetry, tiling, and both Euclidean and non-Euclidean geometry through interactive 3D software. She has also worked at Silicon Graphics Inc, Microsoft Research, and the supercomputer company ETA Systems. She was the IEEE Symposium on Information Visualization (InfoVis) Program/Papers Co-Chair in 2003 and 2004, and is currently a Member at Large of the Executive Committee of the IEEE Visualization and Graphics Technical Committee. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ July 2006 short bio: Tamara Munzner has been an assistant professor in the University of British Columbia Department of Computer Science since 2002. Her current research interests are information visualization, graph drawing, and dimensionality reduction. She was a research scientist from 2000 to 2002 at the Compaq Systems Research Center in California, and earned her PhD from Stanford between 1995 and 2000. She was on the technical staff of The Geometry Center, a mathematical visualization research group at the University of Minnesota, from 1991 to 1995. Tamara was the IEEE Symposium on Information Visualization (InfoVis) Program/Papers Co-Chair in 2003 and 2004. long bio: Tamara Munzner became an assistant professor of computer science at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver in the summer of 2002. Her current research interests are information visualization, graph drawing, and dimensionality reduction. She is particularly interested in creating scalable algorithms. She has designed visualization systems for a wide variety of domains, including biology, computational linguistics, and topology. From 2000 until 2002 she was a research scientist at at Compaq Systems Research Center in Palo Alto, California. She completed her PhD in computer science at Stanford University in June 2000, where she also received a BS in computer science in 1991. Between 1991 and 1995 she was a member of the technical staff at the University of Minnesota Geometry Center, with the research focus of mathematical visualization. Her projects included the Geomview system for flexible interactive 3D visualization, and expository computer animations on how to turn a sphere inside out, and on spaces that are finite but have no boundary. She has also worked at Silicon Graphics Inc, Microsoft Research, and the supercomputer company ETA Systems. She was the IEEE Symposium on Information Visualization (InfoVis) Program/Papers Co-Chair in 2003 and 2004, and is currently a Member at Large of the Executive Committee of the IEEE Visualization and Graphics Technical Committee. medium bio: Tamara Munzner became an assistant professor of computer science at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver in the summer of 2002. Her current research interests are information visualization, graph drawing, and dimensionality reduction. From 2000 until 2002 she was a research scientist at at Compaq Systems Research Center in Palo Alto, California. She completed her PhD in computer science at Stanford University in June 2000, where she also received a BS in computer science in 1991. Between 1991 and 1995 she was a member of the technical staff at the University of Minnesota Geometry Center, with the research focus of mathematical visualization. She has also worked at Silicon Graphics Inc, Microsoft Research, and the supercomputer company ETA Systems. She was the IEEE Symposium on Information Visualization (InfoVis) Program/Papers Co-Chair in 2003 and 2004, and is currently a Member at Large of the Executive Committee of the IEEE Visualization and Graphics Technical Committee. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ April 2006 Tamara Munzner received a BS in 1991 and a PhD in 2000 from Stanford. She was on the technical staff of The Geometry Center, a mathematical visualization research group at the University of Minnesota, from 1991 to 1995. From 2000 to 2002 she was a research scientist at the Compaq Systems Research Center in California. She has been an assistant professor in the University of British Columbia Department of Computer Science since 2002. Her current research interests are information visualization, graph drawing, and dimensionality reduction. She was the IEEE Symposium on Information Visualization (InfoVis) Program/Papers Co-Chair in 2003 and 2004. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ April 2006 Tamara Munzner is an assistant professor of computer science at the University of British Columbia. Her current research interests are information visualization, graph drawing, and dimensionality reduction. She was the IEEE Symposium on Information Visualization (InfoVis) Program/Papers Co-Chair in 2003 and 2004. Contact her at tmm@cs.ubc.ca. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ February 2006 Tamara Munzner works in information visualization, creating and evaluating software that uses interactive computer graphics to help people understand large abstract datasets. She has designed systems for a broad range of domains, including evolutionary biology, environmental sustainability, topology, networking, databases, cluster computing, and web site design. She has recently begun working on exploration and browsing of information spaces for music, email, and images with a visualization interface that exploits recent machine learning results. One of her central research concerns is scalability to large datasets, addressing both algorithmic and perceptual issues. She is interested in designing algorithms and data structures for rendering datasets of millions of items at interactive frame rates, to support fluid navigation. On the perceptual side, she is interested in designing visual representations that allow people to understand dataset structure at multiple levels, integrating overview and detail information on the fly. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ January 2006 My research area is information visualization; that is, creating interactive software visual representations that allow people to explore abstract datasets. I started working in bioinformatics with the TreeJuxtaposer project for the visual comparison of phylogenetic trees. TJ allows people to compare two or more trees in detail, highlighting the exact areas of difference using a generalization of the Robinson-Foulds metric. Although originally designed for phylogenetic data, it can work with any kind of hierarchical data including taxonomies and dendrograms, and it can handle trees of size ranging from dozens to millions of nodes. We're also actively working on fluid visual comparison of gene sequences with the SequenceJuxtaposer project, and are interested in hearing from people who need large-scale browsing of sequence data. In the future we hope to provide more support for annotation data and editing. I've also worked in many application areas outside of bioinformatics, including topology, computer networking, computational linguistics, and environmental sustainability. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ October 2005 I do visualization. Current: visual diff for trees. Lately: interactive software for exploring abstract datasets. Earlier: software + videos for math viz. I also read way too much science fiction & fantasy. See my web site for good books since 1994. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ October 2005 Tamara Munzner received the BS degree in 1991 and the PhD degree in 2000 from Stanford. She was on the technical staff of The Geometry Center, a mathematical visualization research group at the University of Minnesota, from 1991 to 1995. From 2000 to 2002 she was a research scientist at the Compaq Systems Research Center in California. She has been an assistant professor in the University of British Columbia Department of Computer Science since 2002. Her current research interests are information visualization, graph drawing, dimensionality reduction, and interactive computer graphics. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ April 2004 Tamara Munzner has been an assistant professor in the University of British Columbia Department of Computer Science since 2002. Her current research interests are information visualization, graph drawing, dimensionality reduction, and interactive computer graphics. She was a research scientist from 2000 to 2002 at the Compaq Systems Research Center in California, and earned her PhD from Stanford between 1995 and 2000. She was on the technical staff of The Geometry Center, a mathematical visualization research group at the University of Minnesota, from 1991 to 1995. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ February 2004 Tamara creates visualization systems that use interactive computer graphics to help people navigate through data. Her systems are used to show the hyperlink structure of an entire web site, or how DNA mutates between animal species, or how the words in a dictionary relate to each other. She recently moved to Canada from San Francisco, and enjoys reading science fiction and fantasy to unwind. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ February 2004 I work on information visualization, namely using interactive computer graphics to help people solve problems that require understanding a complex abstract dataset. I'm particularly interested in designing algorithms that scale gracefully to handle the huge datasets that inevitably occur in the real world. I'm also getting interested in how to design visualization systems to best exploit the new generation of high-resolution displays. I'm currently collaborating with researchers in evolutionary biology, data mining, and environmental sustainability. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ January 2004 Dr. Tamara Munzner, Assistant Professor, Computer Science, Ph.D. Stanford 2000. Tamara was technical staff at the University of Minnesota Geometry Center from 1991-1995, and a research scientist at the Compaq Systems Research Center from 2000-2002. Her research focus is information visualization, including the layout, navigation, and comparison of large trees, graphs, and networks. Her other research interests include graph drawing, mathematical visualization, interactive 3D graphics, and pedagogical video creation. She is the InfoVis Symposium Program Co-Chair for 2003 and 2004, and has been contributing to SIGGRAPH since 1994 in the Electronic Theater, Courses, Panels, and Papers. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ June 2003 Tamara Munzner became an assistant professor of computer science at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver in the summer of 2002. Her current research interests are information visualization, graph drawing, and interactive computer graphics. She is particularly interested in creating scalable algorithms, both in the size of the dataset and the number of display pixels. She has designed visualization systems for a wide variety of domains, including computational linguistics, topology, networking, and web site design. The domains of her current projects include bioinformatics, data mining, and environmental sustainability. From 2000 until 2002 she was a research scientist at at Compaq Systems Research Center in Palo Alto, California. She completed her PhD in computer science at Stanford University in June 2000, where she also received a BS in computer science in 1991. Between 1991 and 1995 she was a member of the technical staff at the University of Minnesota Geometry Center, with the research focus of mathematical visualization. Her projects included the Geomview system for flexible interactive 3D visualization, and expository computer animations on topics such as how to turn a sphere inside out, or spaces that are finite but have no boundary. She has also worked at Silicon Graphics Inc, Microsoft Research, and the supercomputer company ETA Systems. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ February 2003 Tamara Munzner became an assistant professor of computer science at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver in the summer of 2002. Her current research interests are information visualization, graph drawing, and interactive computer graphics. She is particularly interested in creating scalable algorithms, both in the size of the dataset and the number of display pixels. She has designed visualization systems for a wide variety of domains, including computational linguistics, topology, networking, and web site design. The domains of her current projects include bioinformatics, data mining, and the integration of semantic networks with geospatial data. From 2000 until 2002 she was a research scientist at at Compaq Systems Research Center in Palo Alto, California. She completed her PhD in computer science at Stanford University in June 2000, where she also received a BS in computer science in 1991. Between 1991 and 1995 she was a member of the technical staff at the University of Minnesota Geometry Center, with the research focus of mathematical visualization. Her projects included the Geomview system for flexible interactive 3D visualization, and expository computer animations on topics such as how to turn a sphere inside out, or spaces that are finite but have no boundary. She has consulted for Silicon Graphics Inc, Microsoft Research, and the supercomputer company ETA Systems. She is Program Co-Chair of the 2003 IEEE Symposium on Information Visualization, and was Posters Co-Chair in 2002 and 2001. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ January 2003 Tamara began her work in visualization as a member of the technical staff at the Geometry Center, a mathematical visualization research group at the University of Minnesota, after finishing her B.S. at Stanford in 1991. Her projects at the Center included the public domain interactive 3D visualization system Geomview, and the two expository animations Outside In and The Shape of Space. She returned to Stanford from 1995 to 2000 for a Ph.D. with Pat Hanrahan's graphics group. From 2000 to June 2002, she was a research scientist at Compaq Systems Research Center, Palo Alto, California. Her research focus is information visualization, and her current major project is on visual comparison of large biological trees. Her other research interests include graph drawing, mathematical visualization, interactive 3D graphics, and pedagogical video creation. She has been a reviewer for many of the major conferences and journals in graphics and visualization (SIGGRAPH, UIST, I3D, InfoVis, IEEE CG&A, TVCG). She has served on several program committees in the past six years, including the main InfoVis symposium. She was the InfoVis Posters Co-Chair in 2001 and 2002, and is the 2003 Program Co-Chair. She has spoken at two past SIGGRAPH courses ("Survey of Visualization Toolkits" in 1997, and "Visualizing Mathematics" in 1995), presented at the SIGGRAPH 1995 panel on "3D Graphics through the Internet", and her videos were shown in the SIGGRAPH Electronic Theater in 1994 and 1995. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ October 2002 People today must deal with more information than they can easily comprehend, and the amount of data created and gathered is exploding even faster than the growth rate of computational power. The field of computer-based information visualization, or infovis, is about creating tools that exploit the human visual system to help people explore or explain data. Interacting with a carefully designed visual representation of data can help us form mental models that let us perform specific tasks more effectively. I am interested in designing algorithms that scale gracefully, in terms of both dataset size and the resolution of the display device. For the past seven years, I've been particularly interested in visualizing trees and node-link graphs. I've created several visualization systems in collaboration with users in several different domains: topology, web site design, computer networking, and computational linguistics. I'm currently working with evolutionary biologists on a visualization system for comparing of phylogenetic evolutionary trees. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ September 2002 Tamara Munzner is an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of British Columbia. From 2000 to June 2002, she was a research scientist at Compaq Systems Research Center, Palo Alto, California. Her current research project is in visualizing bioinformatics, and her research interests include information visualization, graph drawing, mathematical visualization, interactive 3D graphics, and pedagogical video creation. She completed her PhD in computer science with Pat Hanrahan at Stanford University in June 2000, where she also received a BS in computer science in 1991. Between 1991 and 1995 she was a member of the technical staff at the Geometry Center, a mathematical visualization research group at the University of Minnesota. She was one of the authors of Geomview, the Center's public domain interactive 3D visualization system. While at the Center she was co-director and one of the animators of two computer-generated mathematical videos, Outside In and The Shape of Space. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ February 2002 Tamara Munzner is a research scientist at Compaq Systems Research Center, Palo Alto, California. Her current research project is in visualizing bioinformatics, and her research interests include information visualization, graph drawing, mathematical visualization, interactive 3D graphics, and pedagogical video creation. She completed her PhD in computer science with Pat Hanrahan at Stanford University in June 2000, on the topic of interactive navigation of large graphs and networks. She also received a BS in computer science from Stanford in 1991. Between 1991 and 1995 she was a member of the technical staff at the Geometry Center, a mathematical visualization research group at the University of Minnesota. She was one of the authors of Geomview, the Center's public domain interactive 3D visualization system. While at the Center she was co-director and one of the animators of two computer-generated mathematical videos, Outside In and The Shape of Space. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ January 2001 Tamara Munzner joined Compaq Systems Research Center in September of 2000. She completed her PhD in computer science with Pat Hanrahan at Stanford in June 2000, where she also received a BS in computer science in 1991. Her research interests include information visualization, graph drawing, mathematical visualization, interactive 3D graphics, and pedagogical video creation. She has interned at Microsoft Research, Silicon Graphics, and ETA Systems. Between 1991 and 1995 she was a member of the technical staff at the Geometry Center, a mathematical visualization research group at the University of Minnesota. She was one of the authors of Geomview, the Center's public domain interactive 3D visualization system. While at the Center she was co-director and one of the animators of two computer generated mathematical videos, Outside In and The Shape of Space. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ June 2000 Tamara Munzner finished her PhD in computer science at Stanford in June 2000, where she also received a BS in computer science in 1991. Her research interests include information visualization, graph drawing, mathematical visualization, interactive 3D graphics, and pedagogical video creation. She has interned at Microsoft Research, Silicon Graphics, and ETA Systems. Between 1991 and 1995 she was a member of the technical staff at the Geometry Center, a mathematical visualization research group at the University of Minnesota. She was one of the authors of Geomview, the Center's public domain interactive 3D visualization system. While at the Center she was co-director and one of the animators of two computer generated mathematical videos, Outside In and The Shape of Space. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ July 1999 Tamara Munzner is a PhD candidate at Stanford University, where she received a BS in computer science in 1991. In the intervening years she was a member of the technical staff at the Geometry Center, a mathematical visualization research group at the University of Minnesota. She was one of the authors of Geomview, the Center's public domain interactive 3D visualization system. While at the Center she was co-director and one of the animators of two computer generated mathematical videos, Outside In and The Shape of Space. Her current research interest is information visualization, specifically interactive techniques for visualizing large graphs and networks. Her recent research work on interactive layout and drawing of large graphs in 3D hyperbolic space has been commercialized through Silicon Graphics in the Site Manager application for webmasters. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ June 1998 Tamara Munzner is currently in the PhD program in computer graphics at Stanford University, where she received a BS in computer science in 1991. In the intervening years she was a member of the technical staff at The Geometry Center, an NSF-funded mathematics visualization research group based at the University of Minnesota. She was one of the architects and implementors of Geomview, a public domain 3D interactive visualization package now used by thousands of people worldwide in a variety of mathematical and scientific disciplines. She was co-director and one of the animators of two videos that brought concepts from the cutting edge of mathematical research to a general audience. "The Shape of Space" is an 11-minute animation which gently introduces the idea and a few of the implications of spaces that are finite but have no boundaries. It was shown at the SIGGRAPH 95 Electronic Theater and the Prix Pixel Imagina. "Outside In" is a 22- minute animation which presents the surprising result that it's possible to turn a sphere inside out without tearing it, even though there's no way to do this with a circle. It was shown at the SIGGRAPH 94 Electronic Theater, won awards at NICOGRAPH, the London Effects and Animation Festival, Prix Pixel Imagina, and Prix Ars Electronica, and was featured on the cover of Scientific American. Her current research focus at Stanford is information visualization, particularly techniques for drawing large graphs. Her recent research work on interactive layout and drawing of large graphs in 3D hyperbolic space has been commercialized through Silicon Graphics in the Site Manager application for webmasters and content creators. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ January 1997 Tamara Munzner is currently in the PhD program at Stanford University, where she received a BS in computer science in 1991. In the intervening years she was a member of the technical staff at the Geometry Center, a mathematical visualization research group at the University of Minnesota. She was one of the authors of Geomview, the Center's public domain interactive 3D visualization system. While at the Center she was co-director and co-animator of two computer generated mathematical videos, Outside In and The Shape of Space. Her involvement with 3D and the Web began with the WebOOGL proposal, which took second place in the 1994 VRML 1.0 standards vote. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ November 1996 Tamara Munzner is currently in the PhD program in computer graphics at Stanford University, where she received a BS in computer science in 1991. In the intervening years she was a member of the technical staff at The Geometry Center, an NSF-funded mathematics visualization research group based at the University of Minnesota. She was one of the architects and implementors of Geomview, a public domain 3D interactive visualization package now used by thousands of people worldwide in a variety of mathematical and scientific disciplines. She also led a collaboration between the Geometry Center and the Science Museum of Minnesota which allows museum visitors to explore the connections between symmetry groups, tiling, the Platonic and Archimedean solids, and non-Euclidean geometry through interactive 3D graphics. She was co-director and one of the animators of two videos that brought concepts from the cutting edge of mathematical research to a general audience. "The Shape of Space" is an 11-minute animation which gently introduces the idea and a few of the implications of spaces that are finite but have no boundaries. It was shown at the SIGGRAPH 95 Electronic Theater and the Prix Pixel Imagina. "Outside In" is a 22- minute animation which presents the surprising result that it's possible to turn a sphere inside out without tearing it, even though there's no way to do this with a circle. It was shown at the SIGGRAPH 94 Electronic Theater, won awards at NICOGRAPH, the London Effects and Animation Festival, Prix Pixel Imagina, and Prix Ars Electronica, and was featured on the cover of Scientific American. While on the staff of the Geometry Center and as a visitor at the Technical University of Berlin she developed a prototype system for visualizing the Web in hyperbolic space in collaboration with Paul Burchard. The tool discussed in the talk is currently under development at Silicon Graphics Computer Systems in Mountain View, where she is now a consultant. Her current research focus at Stanford is information visualization. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ November 1995 Tamara Munzner is currently in the PhD program at Stanford University, where she received a BS in computer science in 1991. In the intervening years she was a member of the technical staff at the Geometry Center, a mathematical visualization research group at the University of Minnesota. She was one of the authors of Geomview, the Center's public domain interactive 3D visualization system. While at the Center she was co-director and one of the animators of two computer generated mathematical videos, Outside In and The Shape of Space. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ November 1992 In 1986 I graduated from South High. I went on to get a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science from Stanford in 1991. During my first three summers of college I was a summer intern at the now-defunct ETA Systems, which was Control Data's supercomputer subsidiary. For two summers, I converted FORTRAN programs originally written on mainframes so that they would run on CYBER205 and ETA10 supercomputers. The last summer was spent providing technical support for SuperQuest, a national competition for high school students that brought winning teams to ETA for the summer to use a supercomputer for individual projects. After the untimely demise of ETA, the UMTYMP resume program saved the day when I heard about summer internships at the Geometry Supercomputer Project, a research group affiliated with the University of Minnesota. I spent a summer there writing C programs on Silicon Graphics Iris workstations for 3D graphics, and was offered a job there after graduation. I enjoyed the job enough to actually move back to Minnesota from the California Bay Area, which is saying a lot! Meanwhile the Project enlarged to become The Geometry Center, with the three-fold mission of promoting math and computer science research, software and animation development, and education and communication of mathematics on all levels. My first year there I was an apprentice, and now I'm a member of the full-time technical staff. I spend most of my time writing programs to do interactive 3D graphics, making computer-generated mathematical visualization videos, and providing technical support for visitors. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ September 1992 Brief Professional Biography of Tamara Munzner: B.S. Computer Science, Stanford University 1991 Full time technical staff involved in software development, user support, and outreach at The Geometry Center. (The National Science and Technology Center for the Computation and Visualization of Geometric Structures) The Geometry Center a research group affiliated with the University of Minnesota with the three-fold mission of promoting math and computer science research, software and animation development, and education and communication of mathematics on all levels. ------------------------------------------------------------------------