Jean-Daniel Fekete

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Jean-Daniel Fekete
Born12 April 1963 (1963-04-12) (age 58)
NationalityFrench
Alma materParis-Sud 11 University (PhD)
Scientific career
FieldsComputer science (human–computer interaction, Information Visualization)
InstitutionsINRIA Saclay
Doctoral advisorMichel Beaudouin-Lafon

Jean-Daniel Fekete is a French computer scientist working in the fields of information visualization and human–computer interaction. As an undergraduate student he worked at the fr: Centre mondial informatique et ressource humaine. He received his PhD from the Paris-Saclay University in 1996.

He obtained his Habilitation in 2005, entitled "Nouvelle génération d'Interfaces Homme-Machine pour mieux agir et mieux comprendre" (New generation of Human Machine Interfaces for better interacting and understanding) at Université Paris-Sud 11 (now Paris-Saclay University). The jury was Joëlle Coutaz (Prof. Université de Grenoble II), Saul Greenberg (Prof. University of Calgary, Canada), Ben Shneiderman (Prof. University of Maryland, USA), Michel Beaudouin-Lafon (Prof. Paris-Saclay University, FR), Jean-Gabriel Ganascia (Prof. Sorbonne University, FR), Guy Mélançon (Prof. Université Montpellier III, FR) and Claude Puech (Prof. Grenoble Alpes University, FR). He is currently Senior Researcher at INRIA and the founding and current director of the AVIZ[1] group since 2007.

He developed the Infovis Toolkit[2] which is a Java toolkit to facilitated the design of information visualization interfaces.

From August 2001 to August 2002 he was visiting scientist at the University of Maryland Human – Computer Interaction Lab (HCIL), which he previously visited (July to August 1998) to develop "Excentric Labeling"[3] along with Catherine Plaisant as an efficient technique to display height density of labels on maps.

From 2009 to 2012 Jean-Daniel Fekete was the president of l'AFIHM,[4] the French national equivalent of Association for Computing Machinery SIGCHI. He has served as IEEE InfoVis Paper Co-Chair (2009–2010) and Conference Chair (2011). He was the general chair of the IEEE VisWeek 2014 conference (Paris, France).

Jean-Daniel Fekete was elected to the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) CHI Academy in 2020, for his contributions to the field of study of human–computer interaction.[5]

In October 2020 Fekete was recognized by IEEE VGTC with the 2020 Technical Achievement Award for "his research innovations in network visualization, visual analytics infrastructure, and data physicalization."[6]

References[]

  1. ^ [1], AVIZ group webpages.
  2. ^ [2], Fekete, J-D 2004. The InfoVis Toolkit. In Proceedings of the 10th IEEE Symposium on Information Visualization (InfoVis 04), pages 167–174, Austin, TX, October 2004. IEEE Press
  3. ^ [3], Fekete, J-D, Plaisant, C. 1998. Excentric labeling: dynamic neighborhood labeling for data visualization. In Proceedings of CHI '99 Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing system (CHI 98), pages 512–519. ACM.
  4. ^ [4], AFIHM's website (in french).
  5. ^ "SIGCHI Award Recipients". SIGCHI.org. Retrieved 3 November 2020.
  6. ^ "IEEE VGTC Visualization Technical Awards". computer.org. Retrieved 13 May 2020.

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