Chris North

Professor
Department of Computer Science and
Center for Human-Computer Interaction

Associate Director, Discovery Analytics Center

Virginia Tech

Contact:

(540)231-2458 (Office)
(540)231-6931 (CS Department)

Office: 3160D Torgersen Hall
Office hours: posted here

Mailing address:
Department of Computer Science
114 McBryde Hall, Virginia Tech
Blacksburg, VA 24061-0106

Research:

InfoVis Lab @ Virginia Tech, and Students
GigaPixel Display Laboratory, and BlackLab equipment resources
Recent Publications (Older Publications)
Chris's Google Scholar page
Research areas: Visual Analytics, Information Visualization, Human-Computer Interaction, Data Science
Basic research topics: Big data visualization and analytics; human-in-the-loop interactive analytics; semantic interaction; usability in data science; immersive analytics; large high-resolution displays and interaction techniques; visual text analytics and sensemaking; insight-based evaluation of visualization; multiple-view techniques.
Applied research domains: Intelligence analysis, cyber security, digital humanities, geographic information systems, bioinformatics.

Teach:

CS 3114 Data Structures and Algorithms
CMDA 3654 Data Analytics and Visualization
CS 3724 Human-Computer Interaction
CS 3744 GUI Programming and Graphics
CS 4604 Database Management Systems
CS 5764 Information Visualization
CS 6604 Visual Analytics
CS 6724 Display-Wall User Interfaces
Workshops on GUI programming in Java and C#

Computational Modeling and Data Analytics (CMDA) degree program
Graduate Certificate in Data Analytics

Recent Service:

Papers Co-Chair, IEEE VAST 2014
Associate Editor, Information Visualization
Co-Organizer, PowerWall: Intl. Workshop on Interactive Ultra-High-Resolution Displays, at CHI 2013
Member, VACCINE DHS Visual Analytics Center of Excellence

More Info:

http://people.cs.vt.edu/~north/