Posts Tagged ‘keynote’

Sheelagh Carpendale to Give a Keynote on ‘Usability & Computer Interfaces’

Thursday, January 2nd, 2014

The final keynote of the VIZBI 2014 meeting on the Usability and Computer Interfaces will be given by Sheelagh Carpendale. Sheelagh Carpendale is a professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Calgary where she holds the Canada Research Chair in Information Visualization and heads the InnoVis (Innovations in Visualization) laboratory. She uses her combined background in visual arts and computer science to enable the design of accessible visual representations of data. Her research interests include information visualization, user interface design, human-computer multi-touch tabletop interaction, visual languages and graph layout. She has received several major awards in the recognition of her contribution to information visualization including the Canada Foundation for Innovation Award, E. W. R. Steacie Memorial Fellowship from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada and a BAFTA for Off-Line Learning among others.

Bang Wong to give the VIZBI 2014 keynote on ‘Communicating Science Visually’

Thursday, January 2nd, 2014

Bang Wong may be known to many of you by now as the co-chair of the VIZBI meeting series.  He is the creative director at the Broad Institute of MIT and an adjunct assistant professor in the Department of Art as Applied to Medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He holds a Masters degree in Immunology and a Masters degree in Medical Illustration, both from the John Hopkins University School of Medicine.  His work focuses on developing visual strategies to meet the analytical challenges posed by the unprecedented scale, resolution, and variety of data in biomedical research. He also writes a monthly column for Nature Methods that deals with the fundamental aspects of visual presentation. This year, he will present a keynote on ‘Communicating Science Visually’. His previous presentations at the VIZBI meeting series can be found here.

Jeffrey Heer to give the opening keynote at VIZBI 2014

Friday, December 20th, 2013

Jeffrey Heer is an Associate Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Washington. His work focuses on social computing, human-computer interaction and interactive visualization particularly in relation to large data collections with the aim of developing novel interactive systems for visual analysis and communication.

His lab has developed numerous visualization tools (D3, Protovis, Flare, Prefuse) which are widely used by the research community, companies and thousands of data enthusiasts around the world. Jeff is the recipient of a Sloan Research Fellowship, an ACM UIST Notable Paper Award, and a Technology Review TR35 Award for the top innovators under the age of 35. He will deliver the opening VIZBI 2014 keynote on on Data Visualization Principles.