Chris North Associate Professor Department of Computer Science and Center for Human-Computer Interaction, Virginia Tech

Contact:

http://people.cs.vt.edu/~north/ 

Office hours:  by appointment
KW2 1142

(540)231-2458 (office)
(540)231-6931 (CS Department)
(540)231-9218 (fax)

Dept of Computer Science
2202 Kraft Drive
Virginia Tech
Blacksburg, VA  24061-0106

Research:

• Laboratory for Information Visualization and Evaluation (LIVE)
• GigaPixel Display Laboratory, and BlackLab resources
• Recent Publications (Older Publications)
• Primary Research Areas:  Visual Analytics, Information Visualization, Human-Computer Interaction
• Basic Research:  large high-resolution displays and interaction techniques, display ecologies, visualization + data mining, visual text analytics, sensemaking, insight-based evaluation of visualization, Snap-Together Visualization, usability of information visualization, information-rich virtual environments.
• Applied Research: intelligence analysis, cyber security, text, geovis, bioinformatics (gene expression, pathway networks, ontology trees).
• Opportunities for student projects: PhD, MS, VTURCS (see me).
• Chris's Google Scholar page

Teach:

• CS 6724 Display-Wall User Interfaces
• CS 5764  Information Visualization
• CS 4604  Database Management Systems
• CS 3724  Human-Computer Interaction
• CS 2604  Data Structures and File Processing
• Workshops on GUI programming in Java and C#

More Info:

• Chris's CV
• Visionarium at Virginia Tech
• Center for Human-Computer Interaction, Virginia Tech
• Discovery Analytics Center, Virginia Tech
• Hume Center for National Security and Technology, Virginia Tech
• Information Security research group, Virginia Tech
• Center for Geospatial Information Technology, Virginia Tech
• Genetics, Bioinformatics, and Computational Biology (GBCB) PhD Program, Virginia Tech
• Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, Virginia Tech
• Grace Covenant Presbyterian Church, PCA

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