University of Ontario Institute of Technology

Faculty Member, Faculty of Science

SHARCNET Chair in Information Visualization

About

I am an assistant professor in the Faculty of Science at the University of Ontario Institute of Technology -- if you are interested in studying with me for undergraduate or graduate research, please contact me.

I received my PhD in 2010 from the University of Toronto. My doctoral research was a hybrid of computational linguistics, information visualization, and human-computer interaction. I was affiliated with the Computational Linguistics group & Knowledge Media Design Institute at the University of Toronto and the InnoVis Lab at the University of Calgary. I also received an M.Sc. in the area of computational linguistics from the University of Toronto.

My dissertation research, supervised by Gerald Penn and Sheelagh Carpendale, involves investigating interactive visualizations of linguistic data with a focus on convergence of sophisticated natural language processing techniques with new and existing forms of interactive information visualization. I have developed various methods for generating, reading, and comparing visual summaries of text data, including books (DocuBurst), for everyday users and data analysts.

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