Tamara Munzner

Tamara Munzner is a professor at the University of British Columbia

Department of Computer Science, where she has been since 2002. She was

a research scientist from 2000 to 2002 at the Compaq Systems Research

Center (the former DEC SRC), and earned her PhD from Stanford between

1995 and 2000. She was a technical staff member at the National

Science Foundation Research Center for Computation and Visualization

of Geometric Structures (The Geometry Center) at the University of

Minnesota from 1991 to 1995. She holds a BS from Stanford from 1991.

She has been active in visualization research since 1991 and has

published over sixty 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 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. She has consulted for or collaborated with

many companies including Agilent, AT&T Labs, Google, Microsoft,

Silicon Graphics, and early-stage startups.

Dr. Munzner was the IEEE 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 is currently a member of the InfoVis Steering Committee

and chair of the umbrella VIS Executive Committee that has oversight

over VAST, InfoVis, SciVis, and associated symposia. She was a Member

At Large of the Executive Committee of the IEEE Visualization and

Graphics Technical Committee (VGTC) from 2004 through 2009, and was a

founding member of the BioVis Steering Committee.