Faculty, Students, and Affliates of UViz
Current Students
Mona Malik
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Experienced Software Engineer with a demonstrated history of working in the information technology and services industry. Skilled in Agile Methodologies, Java, C, Python, front end development, sql and management.
David Oetter
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Working towards a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Computer Science, with a major of Software Engineering.
Jacob Lower
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Being in my final semester here at UVic I look back on years of hard work, and experience earned in a variety of fields. I've conducted research into data visualization, taught machine learning and electronics workshops, constructed a retro computing collection for UVic, and developed computer vision software for AUVs. But now, I get to take my next step into the workforce with research papers and a degree in hand. I am grateful for the opportunities afforded to me at UVic and I am excited to find my next challenge.
Tristan Douville
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My name is Tristan Douville and I am an IT & Support Specialist at Rooof. I recently graduated from the University of Victoria with a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science and Professional Communication. Below you will find more detailed information about my education, skills, experience, and projects.
Affliates
Sheelagh Carpendale
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Sheelagh Carpendale is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Calgary where she holds a Canada Research Chair in Information Visualization and NSERC/AITF/SMART Technologies Industrial Research Chair in Interactive Technologies.
Elisabeth Andre
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Full Professor of Computer Science (W3), Chair of Human-Centered Multimedia, Faculty of Applied Informatics, Augsburg University since 2001
Bon Adriel Aseniero
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I am a PhD candidate at the Interactions Lab (iLab), Innovations in Visualization (InnoVis) group, University of Calgary, supervised by Dr. Sheelagh Carpendale and Dr. Anthony Tang. My research topic is in Information Visualization (InfoVis), Personal Informatics, and Human–Computer Interaction (HCI).
Julie Babione
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Julie Babione has a B.Sc. in Biology, an M.Sc in Computer Scienceas and a Graphics Design Certificate. Her Masters thesis focused on interactive visualizations of medical imaging data in virtual environments.
Benjamin Bach
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Benjamin is a Lecturer in Design Informatics and Visualization at the University of Edinburgh. His research designs and investigates interactive information visualization interfaces to help people explore, communicate, and understand data.
Jeremy Boy
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Jeremy Boy is the data visualization specialist at UN Global Pulse. His research focuses primarily on assisting the learning process of new interactive digital media that can help citizens better understand today’s new information sources. He explores the challenges people face when confronted with information visualizations online, and seeks ways to accelerate their learning through innovative design solutions.
Peter Buk
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I’m an Experience Designer. I strive to bridge technology with design in order to bring value to everyday people. My technical background, enriched by design thinking, allows me to play a key role in creating holistic products and services.
Christopher Collins
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I am an associate professor and Canada Research Chair in Linguistic Information Visualization at the Ontario Tech University (Ontario Tech), where I lead a lab of 10 students at various levels of study. My research focus is interdisciplinary, combining information visualization and human-computer interaction with natural language processing to address the challenges of linguistic information management and the problems of information overload.
Romain Di Vozzo
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I am currently Fablab Project Manager at Université Paris-Saclay and Global Coordinator for FAB14+ (Global Fablab Network Conference) for the Fab Foundation. Between dec 2013 and may 2018 I was an R&D engineer at the Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et Automatisme (AVIZ-INRIA and EX|SITU-INRIA) and associate R&D engineer of le Laboratoire de Recherche en Informatique (HCC).
Shreya Chopra
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I am a Computer Scientist who enjoys building things that people can use. Projects that I have previously worked on range from augmented reality, the Internet of things (IoT), user-experience design, databases, networks, software engineering, phone applications, human-robot interaction, 3-D printing to tangible user-interfaces.
Raimund Dachselt
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Since April 2012, Raimund Dachselt is the head of the Interactive Media Lab Dresden (Professorship of Multimedia Technology) at the Faculty of Computer Science of the Technische Universität Dresden. At the end of 2015, he was appointed director of the Institute of Software and Multimedia Technology.
Marc Christie
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My research interest focuses on smart tools to assist the creation of complex 3D contents by mixing Computer Graphics and Artificial Intelligence techniques.I am currently working on automated and assistive camera control techniques for interactive environments.
Pierre Dragicevic
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Permanent research scientist at Inria, Aviz team.Studying information visualization and human-computer interaction.
Eric Donovan
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Eric Donovan is an Associate Professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Calgary. His research is on mass and energy transport in the near Earth plasma environment and involves observations of the aurora using ground- and space-based digital imagers. Eric holds a Tier II Canada Research Chair, and was recently awarded an NSERC Discovery Accelerator Supplement.
Nicole Dufournaud
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My analyzes are based on computer methods. Since 1982, I work with advanced IT tools: at the World IT and Human Resource Center, I acquired a real IT culture, then, from 1996, a digital skill in text encoding with TEI (Text encoding initiative) . Since the early 2000s, I have been working in navigation and data exploration using exhaustive transcripts and counting tables. Social and kinship networks are tools that help make the women of the Old Regime visible.
Evanthia Dimara
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I am a research scientist at the Data Analysis and Visualization laboratory of University of Konstanz. My fields of research are Human-Computer Interaction and Information Visualization.
Roxane Fallah
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Roxane Fallah is a multidisciplinary artist and architect that transforms existing boundaries into sentient spaces of experience. Merging tangible objects with digital/computational capacities she envisions them to feel, react and communicate.
Alex Endert
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As data continues to grow in size and complexity, how will interactive data analysis continue to create insights? My primary research interests address this challenge through combining techniques from visualization, human-computer interaction, statistics, machine learning, and data mining. My students and I invent novel user interaction techniques for people to explore data through visual analytic systems.
Thomas Ertl
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The Institute for Visualization and Interactive Systems (VIS) at the University of Stuttgart is an institute in the Department of Computer Science at the Faculty of Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, and Information Technology . There is a close cooperation with the visualization institute of the University of Stuttgart (VISUS).
Marjan Eggermont
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Marjan Eggermont is a Teaching Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, Schulich School of Engineering at the University of Calgary, Canada. She served as the school’s Associate Dean (Student Affairs) from 2012 to 2017.
Sean Follmer
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The Stanford SHAPE Lab, directed by Prof. Sean Follmer, explores how we can interact with digital information in a more physical and tangible way. Towards our goal of more human centered computing, we believe that interaction must be grounded in the physical world and leverage our innate abilities for spatial cognition and dexterous manipulation with our hands.
Eirini Goudarouli
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Eirini is a member of the Research Team at The National Archives. Her current research interests include digital humanities and digital archives. She is particularly interested in bringing together methods and theories from a range of disciplines that could essentially contribute to the rethinking of digital, archival and collection-based research. She is also excited about new ideas around the collection, storage, and research of born-digital records.
William Ghali
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Currently a professor in the Departments of Medicine and Community Health Sciences, Ghali’s new role will allow him to link together members in the Institute who have similar research interests and foster team initiatives. He also plans to take the Institute’s research and align it with provincial partners and decision makers as the research has direct applications.
Jean-Daniel Fekete
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I am a Researcher in Computer Science, Scientific Leader of the Inria Research Lab Aviz, also part of Université Paris-Saclay. My research is about exploring and understanding data through interactive visualizations enhanced with interactive analysis methods.
Christian Frisson
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Christian Frisson is a postdoctoral researcher, previously at the University of Calgary with the Interactions Lab and at Inria in France with the Mjolnir team. He obtained his PhD at the University of Mons, numediart Institute, in Belgium; and his MSc in “Art, Science, Technology” from Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble with the Association for the Creation and Research on Expression Tools (ACROE), in France.
Tamara Flemisch
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I started working at the Interactive Media Lab Dresden as a Research Associate in March 2019. As part of the DFG funded Collaborative Research Centre “Foundations of Perspicuous Software Systems”, I’m exploring new methods to interactively visualize models, information flows, and data of cyber-physical systems. In general, my research focuses on combining interaction with information visualization, especially multivariate graphs.
Kyle Hall
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Kyle Hall is a PhD candidate in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Calgary under the supervision of Dr. Sheelagh Carpendale and Dr. Peter Kusalik. His research interests lie at the intersection of physical chemistry, simulations, and visualization. By combining these interests in novel ways, he advances both chemistry and visualization research. His current computer science research themes include visualizations of chemical simulations, the role of emphasis in visualization, and graphs.
Mark Hancock
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I am an associate professor in the Department of Management Sciences in the Faculty of Engineering, where I direct the Touchlab, and the Associate Director of the Games Institute at the University of Waterloo. I am also cross-appointed in the Department of Systems Design Engineering.
Carl Gutwin
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Dr. Carl Gutwin is a professor in the Department of Computer Science and the director of the HCI lab. His main research areas are computer-supported cooperative work, interaction techniques, and surface computing.
Diane Gromala
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Diane Gromala, PhD, is a Full Professor in the School of Interactive Arts and Technology (SIAT). She builds bridges spanning technology (design, HCI, and engineering) and health (researchers, clinicians, patients and their advocates).
Saul Greenberg
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Saul Greenberg is a Faculty Professor and Emeritus Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Calgary. While he is a computer scientist by training, the work by Saul and his talented students typify the cross-discipline aspects of Human Computer Interaction, Computer Supported Cooperative Work, and Ubiquitous Computing.
Petra Isenberg
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I am a research scientist (CR) at INRIA in the AVIZ research group. My main research interests are: information visualization, visual analytics, computer-supported cooperative work, and human-computer interaction more generally.
Tobias Isenberg
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I am a senior research scientist (directeur de recherche) with the AVIZ project team at Inria, located on the Saclay / Université Paris Saclay campus, south of Paris in France.
Mona Hosseinkhani Loorak
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I am currently a PhD candidate working with Dr. Sheelagh Carpendale in the Innovis Group (Interactions Lab, Department of Computer Science) at University of Calgary. My main areas of interest are Information Visualization (InfoVis), Visual Analytics, Human Computer Interaction (HCI), User Interface Design, and Interaction Design.
Michael Hill
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Dr. Michael Hill is a Professor for the Departments of Clinical Neurosciences, Community Health Sciences, Medicine and Radiology at the University of Calgary. He is also Director of the Stroke Unit for the Calgary Stroke Program, Alberta Health Services.
Soren Knudsen
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I am a Marie Curie Postdoctoral scholar with Sheelagh Carpendale in her InnoVis group at the Interactions Lab at Department of Computer Science, University of Calgary. My research focuses on information visualization and human-computer interaction.
Jaime Kaufman
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Jaime completed a PhD in Microbiology and Infectious Diseases from the University of Calgary specializing in bacterial genetics, with additional post-doctoral research experience in large-scale data analysis for microbial community composition of the human microbiome.
Philipp Koytek
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Research internship at the Innovis Group within the Interactions Lab, during which I did my master's project on brushing and linking with personal agency.
Peter Kusalik
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Dr. Kusalik's research program focuses on model studies of condensed-phase (solid, liquid, or solution) systems, where molecular simulation will be the primary research too
Mathieu Le Goc
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I am a Hardware Prototyper at Google ATAP. I received my PhD in Computer Science from Inria and Université Paris-Saclay, France, under the supervision of Jean-Daniel Fekete and Pierre Dragicevic. I was a Postdoctoral Researcher at Stanford University in ShapeLab where I worked with Sean Follmer. I also had the chance to work at Microsoft Research and Disney Research.
Johannes Liem
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johannes liem is a freelance cartographer, gis & web developer and a phd candidate with city university london.
Lien Quach
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I am a well-rounded UX designer who crafts thoughtful products by listening to people and designing solutions to enhance their experiences.
Lindsay MacDonald
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I am an interaction designer, artist and researcher, and I am currently a Post-Doctoral researcher at the Centre for Digital Creativity at Aarhus University in Denmark.
Christophe Lino
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My research themes are mainly related to computer animation and rendering, and to the provision of smart tools for digital artists (e.g. virtual production, entertainment).
Haley MacLeod
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Im a UX Researcher at Facebook on the Profile team. Before this, I completed by PhD in the School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering at Indiana University, working with Kay Connelly and Katie Siek in the ProHealth group. My dissertation focused on social support in rare disease and common chronic illness communities. During my PhD, I completed internships at PARC, Microsoft Research, and Facebook.
Lora Oehlberg
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My research in Human-Computer Interaction focuses on interactive tools and technologies that support creativity, innovation, and multi-disciplinary collaboration in domains such as interaction design, maker communities, sustainable product design and health care. I also explore interaction design theory and methodology— theoretical frameworks and techniques that allow computer scientists and interaction designers to understand and empathize with end-users, express and embody design ideas, and engage with collaborators beyond computing disciplines. My main research themes are human-computer interaction, creativity & cognition, information visualization, and computer-supported cooperative work.
Maria Santana
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Dr. Maria J. Santana is a health services researcher, patient and family-centred care scientist, an Assistant Professor in the departments of Pediatrics and Community Health Sciences at the University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada. She is the provincial lead for the Strategy of Patient-oriented Research, Patient Engagement.
Bahador Saket
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I am currently a fifth year PhD student at the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech), where I work with Alex Endert.
Fateme Rajabiyazdi
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am currently a Postdoctoral Fellow at McGill University Health Center focusing on developing Patient-Reported Outcome Measurement to track patient recovery after abdominal surgery. My research interests are improving patient self-management, establishing effective patient-physician communication, and measuring patient recovery.
Javad Sadeghi
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I am currently working as a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Innovations in Visualization Laboratory at the University of Calgary under the supervision of Dr. Sheelagh Carpendale.
Melanie Tory
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Melanie Tory manages user research in the area of visual analytics. One of Melanie's key projects at Tableau explores natural language interaction with visualizations
Alice Thudt
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Alice is a PhD student in Computational Media Design under the supervision of Dr. Sheelagh Carpendale. She is interested in how visualization can transform personal data collections into evocative mementos. Her research aims to understand how people construct meaning with personal digital data collections and how a symbiosis of digital and physical visualization can be used to support emotional resonance with digital artifacts and archives.
Aurelien Tabard
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My research focuses on one consequence of the digital revolution: the pervasiveness of digital traces we leave behind us.
Peter Sargious
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Dr. Peter Sargious is Assistant Dean, Continuing Medical Education, Cumming School of Medicine at UCalgary.
Andre Spritzer
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Researcher in information visualization. Interested in network/graph visualization, visualization for communication (storytelling, data journalism), and visualization of political, financial, and economic data.
John Stasko
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John is Director of the Information Interfaces Research Group whose mission is to help people take advantage of information to enrich their lives.
Frederic Vernier
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I am a teacher-researcher in computer science, a lecturer at Paris-Sud University (Paris-Orsay, Paris XI). I am doing my research at the LIMSI laboratory in the AMI team which is interested in the study of multimodality, information visualization, conversational agents and distributed collective practices I carried out a post-doctoral year at Mitsubishi Electric Researsh Laboratories (MERL-CRL) in 2001-2002 with Chia Shen.
Riane Vardeleon
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Utilized design skills by creating a visualization through Java using the Processing library for InfoVis
Jo Vermeulen
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I am an Assistant Professor at the Department of Computer Science at Aarhus University. I do research at the intersection of Human–Computer Interaction, Ubiquitous Computing and Information Visualization.
Jagoda Walny
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I design and research software interfaces to support visual thinking about data. Currently: Data visualization team lead at the Canada Energy Regulator. Previously: Postdoctoral Fellow + Data Vis Team Lead at the Interactions Lab working with Dr. Wesley Willett and Dr. Sheelagh Carpendale on an open energy data visualization project. I completed my PhD in Computer Science with Dr. Sheelagh Carpendale in 2016.
Romain Vuillemot
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I craft novel visual tools, to support humans in solving real-world, data-intensive problems. This work lies at the intersection of the academic fields of Information/Data Visualization (Infovis, DataViz), Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), and Design.
Jo Wood
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Jo is a Professor of Visual Analytics and co-director of the giCentre. He has been involved in teaching and research in GI Science and visualization since 1990.
Tiffany Wun
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I'm a PhD Student in the Interactions Lab at the University of Calgary researching Human Computer Interaction (HCI), and supervised by Lora Oehlberg.
Mieka West
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I am a dataviz designer and data artist with an interest in the public good and emerging trends. I visualize energy, public health, legal text, qualitative, numeric, geospatial and climate change data. In my spare time, I create handmade physicalizations of data or data art. I am interested in how to represent data using multiple senses such as sound, texture and shape for universal access.
Wesley Willett
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I am computer scientist specializing in information visualization, social computing, new media, and human computer interaction. I am currently an Assistant Professor at the University of Calgary where I lead the Data Experience Lab. I am a faculty member in Department of Computer Science and Computational Media Design and a part of the Interactions Lab.