Tamara Munzner

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Tamara Munzner
Born1969 (age 51–52)
Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S.
CitizenshipAmerican, Canadian[1]
Alma materStanford University (BS, PhD)
Scientific career
FieldsComputer Science, Information Visualization
InstitutionsUniversity of Minnesota
(1991–1995)
University of British Columbia (2002–present)
ThesisInteractive Visualization of Large Graphs and Networks (2000)
Doctoral advisorPat Hanrahan

Tamara Macushla Munzner (born 1969)[2] is an American-Canadian scientist. She is an expert in information visualization who works as a professor of computer science at the University of British Columbia (UBC).[3]

Early life[]

Tamara Macushla Munzner was born in 1969 in Minneapolis, Minnesota.[2] She graduated from South High School in 1986.[4] She earned a Bachelor of Science degree in computer science from Stanford University in 1991.[2][4] She returned to Stanford for her graduate studies, completing her Ph.D. in 2000 under the supervision of Pat Hanrahan.[3][5] Her thesis, Interactive Visualization of Large Graphs and Networks, involved using hyperbolic geometry to visualize large graphs.[6][3]

Career[]

Munzner worked as an intern at ETA Systems in the 1980s while still in college.[4] Munzner then worked at The Geometry Center at the University of Minnesota from 1991 to 1995.[3] There, she helped produce two mathematical visualization videos, one about turning spheres inside-out and another about the different topological structures that a three-dimensional universe could have.[7]

She interned at Microsoft Research and Silicon Graphics.[4] After receiving her Ph.D., she became a research scientist at the Compaq Systems Research Center in 2000, before joining the University of British Columbia faculty as an assistant professor of computer science in the summer of 2002.[3][4]

Munzner is the author of the book Visualization Analysis and Design (CRC Press, 2014).[8] She was program co-chair of the InfoVis conference in 2003 and 2004, and of EuroVis in 2009 and 2010. Since 2012 she has been the chair of the executive committee of IEEE Visualization, the umbrella event for InfoVis. She was a keynote speaker at the International Symposium on Graph Drawing in 2013.[3]

References[]

  1. ^ Munzner, Tamara. "Just voted for the first time as a new Canadian citizen - democracy FTW!". Twitter. Retrieved 12 December 2019.
  2. ^ Jump up to: a b c Tamara Munzner biography, retrieved 2017-07-05
  3. ^ Jump up to: a b c d e f Curriculum vitae, retrieved 2015-07-30.
  4. ^ Jump up to: a b c d e "the cavalcade of old Tamara Munzner bios". University of British Columbia. Retrieved 2021-05-12.
  5. ^ Tamara Munzner at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  6. ^ Hardenbergh, Jan (July 22, 2002), "Interview with Tamara Munzner", Reports from SIGGRAPH 2002, ACM SIGGRAPH, archived from the original on 2012-05-22.
  7. ^ Salvo, Natalie (May 19, 2015), "Professor Tamara Munzner and CSIRO's Christian Stolte discuss how to create great visualizations", The AU Interview, The AU Review.
  8. ^ Satzer, William J. (March 17, 2015), "Review of Visualization Analysis and Design", MAA Reviews, Mathematical Association of America.

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