About me

I am a 3rd year PhD student at the University of Maryland, College Park. My interests lie primarily in human computer interaction, specifically information visualization.

My advisor is Ben Shneiderman and I am a member of the UMD Human-Computer Interaction Lab.

Projects

Developing citation network analysis and document summary visualization techniques for iOpener: A Flexible Framework to Support Rapid Learning in Unfamiliar Research Domains, incorporating SocialAction for network analysis and JabRef for reference management.
Advisor for NodeXL - Network Overview, Discovery and Exploration for Excel (formerly .NetMap), an Excel 2007 template and set of class libraries for viewing and analyzing network graphs.
Incorporating real-time Graph Drawing Readability Metrics into SocialAction, a social network analysis tool that integrates visualization and statistics to improve the analytical process.
NetGrok, a tool for real-time visualization of computer network traffic, was recently featured in a cover story on security visualization in Linux Magazine (pdf).
Analyzed the network of collaborations between National Cancer Institute research organizations as part of a HCIL research group with Catherine Plaisant and Ben Shneiderman.

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Email:

c{lastname} AT cs.umd.edu

Address:

Department of Computer Science
Human-Computer Interaction Lab
2117 Hornbake Libary, S. wing
University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742