[Ieee_vis] The 2015 IEEE VGTC Visualization Technical Achievement Award goes to....

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The 2015 Visualization Technical Achievement Award goes to TAMARA MUNZNER
in recognition of foundational research that has produced a scientific
basis for principles and design choices for visualization. 

Tamara Munzner is a full professor at the University of British Columbia
Department of Computer Science, where she has been since 2002.

Tamara has made seminal contributions to the development, evaluation, and
characterization of visualization systems and techniques from both
problem-driven and technique-driven perspectives. In problem-driven work,
known as design studies, the focus is on designing systems to solve
specific needs for a target group of real-world users. Tamara has worked on
problem-driven visualization in a broad range of application domains,
including genomics, evolutionary biology, fisheries management,
environmental sustainability, large-scale system administration, web log
analysis, networking, computational linguistics, data mining, and
journalism. Her technique-driven interests include graph drawing and
dimensionality reduction, with an emphasis on scalable algorithms. Her
evaluation interests include both controlled experiments in a laboratory
setting and qualitative studies in the field.

Tamara has a strong interest in the theoretical foundations of
visualization, with a series of publications that describe and prescribe
models and methods for visualization design and the research process
itself, including a nested model of design and validation and methodology
for design studies. Her 2014 book Visualization Analysis and Design
provides a systematic, comprehensive framework for thinking about
visualization in terms of principles and design choices. It features a
unified approach encompassing information visualization techniques for the
abstract data of tables and networks, scientific visualization techniques
for spatial data, and visual analytics techniques for interweaving data
transformation and analysis with interactive visual exploration. She is
also the co-author of the NIH/NSF Visualization Research Challenges Report.

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The IEEE VGTC Visualization Technical Achievement Award was established in
2004. It is given every year to recognize an individual for a seminal
technical achievement in visualization. VGTC members may nominate
individuals for the Visualization Technical Achievement Award by contacting
the awards chair, Larry Rosenblum, at vgtc-vis-awards at vgtc.org [1]. For the
past awardee, please
visit http://vgtc.org/content/visualization-technical-awards.

 

Best regards,

- Jian (on behalf of VIS 2015 publicity chairs)

----------------------------------------------------------Jian Chen, PhD,
Assistant Prof. CSEE, University of Maryland Baltimore
Countyhttp://www.csee.umbc.edu/~jichen [2]

 
 

 

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[1] http://vgtc.org/
[2] http://www.csee.umbc.edu/~jichen
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