Beth
A. Yost
Ph.D.
Candidate
Department of Computer Science
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
I'm a Ph.D. student at Virginia
Tech in the Department of Computer
Science and am
part of the Center for Human Computer
Interaction. My
advisor is Chris North, the head of the Information Visualization
Research Group. We work on designing and evaluating
visualizations for large and complex datasets in hopes of helping
scientists gain additional insights. We've been exploring when
and how to use multiple views for visualizing information.
Currently, we're exploring how well different designs perceptually and
cognitively scale for large, high-resolution displays. Some of my
other research interests include
collaborative visualization, virtual environments, various
bioinformatics and graph drawing problems, and the advancement of women
in the sciences and engineering.