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Sep. 1996 - Mar. 1999, University of Minnesota
* Ph.D. Thesis: "A Framework for Information Visualization Spreadsheets"
* Advisor: John T. Riedl
* Area: Visualization, User Interfaces, Graphics
* Awarded 1998 University of Minnesota Graduate School Doctoral
Dissertation Fellowship
* Awarded Research Contribution Award 1998, Doctoral Dissertation
Award 1998, Best Teaching Award 1997, Best Written Qualifying Exam
1996, Computer Science Department, University of Minnesota
* GPA: 4.0
Sep. 1994 - Dec. 1996, University of Minnesota
* Area: Computation Molecular Biology with emphasis on
Information Visualization
* Graduate Minor in Scientific Computation
* GPA: 4.0
Sep. 1992 - June, 1994, University of Minnesota
* Minor in Mathematics
* Summa Cum Laude with Highest Distinction in two years
* GPA: 4.0
* Valedictorian with Highest Distinction
* Attended University of Minnesota for College-level Classes
from June 1989 to June 1992
* GPA: 4.08
* Defined and led a group of Ph.D. researchers on
Social Web and Web2.0 technologies that augmented a group's ability to
remember, think, and reason.
* member of User Interface Research Group
* Led research in social computing, social and personalized
search, electronic reading environments, eyetracking experiments.
* member of User Interface Research Group
* Research in Web Analysis algorithms, Information Visualization
* Leader of the Information Scent Project that studied the
behavior of web surfers and applied the understanding to
web analysis and web applications (co-managed 10 people).
* Mentored and supervised many summer interns
* Mentor: Stuart K. Card, Peter Pirolli
* Designed and implemented a Web Analysis
Visualization Spreadsheet.
* Mentor: Stuart K. Card, Peter Pirolli
* Participated and formulated a new design for visualizing
evolving Web ecologies.
* Several inventions filed for patents.
* Designer of 1997 Xerox PARC Intern Program T-Shirt
* Lectured on an advanced 5000-level course in C++ and
object-oriented design (70 students).
* Won Best Teaching Award
* Advisor: Dr. John Riedl
* Supervisors: Dr. Silvio Levy, Dr. Richard McGehee
* Advisor: Dr. John Carlis
* Supervisor: Dr. Ed Egelman
* Supervisors: Dr. Brad Barber, Dr. Pat Hanrahan
Information Visualization and Visual Perception, CHI 2002 Conference (with Stu Card)
Visual Perception and Data Visualization, CHI 2000 Conference,
Hague, Netherlands. (with Colin Ware, Rich Gossweiler)
Coverage also by:
Investor's Business Daily, and
The Feature.
2.45pm, Tuesday, May 15th, 2001, Host: Tracy Romine
Researchers try to make "scents" out of tangled Web
Coverage by:
South Florida Sun Sentinel, May 15th, 2001
Orlando Sentinel, May 15th, 2001
Lecturer (supervised 3 TAs)
Spring, 1997.
* Lectured on an advanced 5000-level course in C++ and
object-oriented design (70 students).
* Won Best Teaching Award
Visual Cognition
Nov. 26, 2003.
Visual Cognition
Hosted by Terry Winograd. Nov. 19, 2003.
Information Visualization
Hosted by Jan Borchers. November 27, 2002.
Information Visualization
Hosted by Terry Winograd. October 24, 2001.
Information Visualization
Hosted by Terry Winograd. October 23, 2000.
Advantages of Information Visualization
Hosted by Terry Winograd. October 18, 1999.
Information Visualization of Molecular Biology Data
Spring 1997
University of Minnesota
Computation Molecular Biology
Fall, 1995
Genetic Sequence Information Visualization: Background and
Practice
Summer 1993
Many artifacts are obviously collaboratively developed.
A Framework for Visualizing Information.
Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Publishers, April 2002.
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This book received the Computers and Composition Distinguished
Book Award 2007.
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Info for a Free Unix Operating System.
In Technolog, University of Minnesota, 1994.
Ed H. Chi
A tutorial on Computational Molecular Biology.
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