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In the last two years since I graduated:
- Received my first major grant from the French National Research Agency (ANR) for a 4-year project, worth ~$325k
- Published 5 journal articles and 3 conference papers (CHI, PacificVis, VAST)
- Had one workshop paper with a best paper award, and one best paper honorable mention at VAST
- Graduated 2 Master's students
- Been invited to teach at 2 summer schools (University of Zurich, University of Konstanz) and gave 5 invited talks on collaborative visualization (University of Kaiserslautern, Konstanz, Toronto, Georgia Tech, MSR)
- I have been a regular reviewer for top conferences (CHI, InfoVis, AVI, CSCW, UIST, ... and several journals such as Computers and Graphics, Computer Graphics and Applications, Information Visualization Journal)
- I was an organizing committee member for VisWeek, ITS, CSCW
- I was a program committee member for 7 conferences
CV Summary
Universities Attended
- University of Magdeburg, Germany
- Diplom-Degree in Computational Visualistics (eqv. to a MSc), with distinction
- University of Calgary, Canada
- PhD Degree in Computer Science
PhD Thesis
- Collaborative Information Visualization in Co-located Environments
Most Important Awards
- 2010: Best paper honorable mention at VAST 2010
- 2010: Best paper award at Beliv, the InfoVis workshop on evaluation techniques for information visualization
- 2009: A best paper award (third best paper) at EuroVis.
- 2004-2009: Alberta Ingenuity/iCORE Studentship Award. Scholarship for PhD studies (total value about $30k for 5 years).
- 2004: Best graduate in Computer Science, University of Magdeburg, Germany (Faculty Award), best graduate in Computational Visualistics (my specific program)
Grants
- Connect, Collaborate, Analyze : From Individual Work to Collaborative Vi-
sual Analytics. Grant from the French National Research Agency (ANR), PI, $325,000.
Publication Totals (Peas)
- 11 journal papers (4 in 2011)
- 15 conference papers
- 2 book chapters
- 8 refereed workshop papers
- 7 refereed demos, videos, or poster pubs
- 6 non-refereed pubs
- 2 theses (Diplom, PhD) + 1 honors thesis
Teaching
I have taught:
- At summer schools for the university of Konstanz and the University of Zurich: Introduction to Information Visualization and CSCW
- Several shorter guest lectures at the University of Calgary & Purdue
- I was teaching assistant with course-development duties for an information visualization and a graphics class
Mentoring
- Co-supervised two Master's students in France
- Supervising was officially not allowed in Calgary for PhD students - for this time period better to use the word "mentoring" (?)
- Mentor for Matthew Tobiasz (MSc student - 1 InfoVis 09 paper from his work), Julie Stromer (Research assistant - 1 Tabletop 09 paper)
- Volunteered to mentor 1 PhD student in Magdeburg (a Magdeburg mentoring project), 2 young girls in SciberMENTOR mentoring program)
Research Visits
- 2002: University of Calgary (5 months)
- 2003: National Taiwan University (2 months)
- 2008: INRIA, France (1 month)
- 2008: Microsoft Research, USA (3 months)
- 2009: University of Groningen, NL (9 months / part-time in Calgary)