Tamara Munzner

Tamara Munzner is a professor at the University of British ColumbiaDepartment of Computer Science, where she has been since 2002. She wasa research scientist from 2000 to 2002 at the Compaq Systems ResearchCenter (the former DEC SRC), and earned her PhD from Stanford between1995 and 2000. She was a technical staff member at the NationalScience Foundation Research Center for Computation and Visualizationof Geometric Structures (The Geometry Center) at the University ofMinnesota from 1991 to 1995. She holds a BS from Stanford from 1991.She has been active in visualization research since 1991 and haspublished over sixty papers and book chapters. Her research interestsinclude the development, evaluation, and characterization ofinformation visualization systems and techniques from both problem-drivenand technique-driven perspectives. She has worked on problem-drivenvisualization in a broad range of application domains, includinggenomics, evolutionary biology, geometric topology, computationallinguistics, large-scale system administration, web log analysis, andjournalism. Her technique-driven interests include graph drawing anddimensionality reduction. Her evaluation interests includeboth controlled experiments in a laboratory setting and qualitativestudies in the field. She has consulted for or collaborated withmany 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/IEEESymposium on Visualization (EuroVis) Program/Papers Co-Chair in 2009and 2010. She is currently a member of the InfoVis Steering Committeeand chair of the umbrella VIS Executive Committee that has oversightover VAST, InfoVis, SciVis, and associated symposia. She was a MemberAt Large of the Executive Committee of the IEEE Visualization andGraphics Technical Committee (VGTC) from 2004 through 2009, and was afounding member of the BioVis Steering Committee.