Christopher L. North – Curriculum Vitae (updated Sept 2014) Department of Computer Science (540) 231-2458 114 McBryde Hall (540) 231-9218 fax Virginia Tech north @ vt . edu Blacksburg, VA 24061-0106 http://www.cs.vt.edu/~north/ Google Scholar: • http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=yBZ7vtkAAAAJ • h-index = 35 Short Bio: Dr. Chris North is a Professor of Computer Science at Virginia Tech. He is Associate Director of the Discovery Analytics Center, and leads the Visual Analytics research group. He is principle architect of the GigaPixel Display Laboratory, one of the most advanced display and interaction facilities in the world. He also participates in the Center for Human-Computer Interaction, and the Hume Center for National Security, and is a member of the DHS supported VACCINE Visual Analytics Center of Excellence. He was awarded Faculty Fellow of the College of Engineering in 2007, and the Dean’s Award for Research Excellence in 2014. He earned his Ph.D. at the University of Maryland, College Park, in 2000. He has served as General Co-Chair of IEEE VisWeek 2009, and as Papers Chair of the IEEE Information Visualization (InfoVis) and IEEE Visual Analytics Science and Technology (VAST) Conferences. He has served on the editorial boards of IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG), the Information Visualization journal, and Foundations and Trends in HCI. He has been awarded over $6M in grants, co-authored over 100 peer-reviewed publications, and delivered 3 keynote addresses at symposia in the field. He has graduated 8 Ph.D. and 14 M.S. thesis students, 4 receiving outstanding research awards at Virginia Tech, and advised over 70 undergraduate research students including several award winners at Virginia Tech’s annual undergraduate research symposium. His research seeks to enable people to interactively visualize and explore big data for discovering new insights, by establishing usable, effective, and scientifically-grounded methods for visual interaction. His current research themes focus on (1) creating powerful interactions for computational analytics that respond to human cognitive sensemaking activity, and (2) exploiting large high-resolution displays to create rich embodied-interactive spaces. Research and Teaching Interests: • Areas: Visual Analytics, Information Visualization, Human-Computer Interaction • Basic research: Large high-resolution displays and interaction techniques; display ecologies; combining visualization and data mining; visual text analytics and sensemaking; insight-based evaluation of visualization; multiple-view techniques; visualization usability; usability of data mining. • Applied domains: Intelligence analysis, cyber security, geographic info, bioinformatics. Position: • Professor of Computer Science, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, June 2014 – present • Associate Professor of Computer Science, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, June 2006 – June 2014 • Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, August 2000 – June 2006 • Sabbaticals as Visiting Researcher: o Sandia National Laboratories, Cyber Engineering Research Lab, January 2013 – May 2013 o Pacific Northwest National Laboratories, National Visual Analytics Center, January 2009 – May 2009 o Microsoft Research, August 2008 – December 2008 Education: • University of Maryland, College Park, MD Ph.D., Computer Science, May 2000 Dissertation: “A User Interface for Coordinating Visualizations based on Relational Schemata: Snap-Together Visualization” Advisor: Dr. Ben Shneiderman Committee: Dr. Ben Bederson, Dr. David Mount, Dr. Kent Norman, Dr. Adam Porter • University of Maryland, College Park, MD M.S., Computer Science, December 1995 • Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA B.S. with University Honors, Computer Science / Mathematics, May 1992 Awards: • Dean's Award for Excellence in Research, College of Engineering, Virginia Tech, May 2014. • Grand Prize Award, Yelp Dataset Challenge, Yelp Inc., 2013. For submission: “Clustered Layout Word Cloud for User Generated Review.” Ji Wang, Jian Zhao, Sheng Guo, Chris North, Naren Ramakrishnan, Virginia Tech and University of Toronto. • Honorable Mention Award, VAST Challenge, IEEE VisWeek, Oct 2012. • Scholar of the Week, Virginia Tech, July 23, 2012. • Challenge Award, VAST Challenge, IEEE VisWeek, Oct 2011. • Best Paper Honorable Mention Award, ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), April 2010. For article: C. Andrews, A. Endert, C. North, "Space to Think: Large, High-Resolution Displays for Sensemaking". • Top Cited Article in 2005-2010 Award, Computers & Graphics journal, Elsevier. For article: Robert Ball, Chris North, “Realizing embodied interaction for visual analytics through large displays”, Computers & Graphics, 31(3): 380-400, June 2007. Awarded 2010. • Service Award, IEEE Computer Society, October 2009. For service as General Co-Chair of VisWeek 2009 Conference. • Award for Special Contributions, VAST Challenge, IEEE VAST 2009 Conference, October 2009. • Faculty Fellow Award, College of Engineering, Virginia Tech, May 2007. • Best Paper Honorable Mention award, ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), April 2007. For article: R. Ball, C. North, D. Bowman, "Move to Improve: Promoting Physical Navigation to Increase user Performance with Large Displays". • Best Panel Award, IEEE Visualization Conference, October 2006. For panel: T.J. Jankun-Kelly, R. Kosara, G. Kindlmann, C. North, C. Ware, E.W. Bethel, “Is There Science in Visualization?”. • Best student-authored paper award, Human Factors and Ergonomics Society 47th Annual Meeting (HFES), Oct. 2003. For article: Y.S. Ryu, B. Yost, G. Convertino, J. Chen, C. North, “Exploring Cognitive Strategies for Integrating Multiple-View Visualizations”. • Director's Award for Innovation, U.S. Bureau of the Census, May 2000. • ACM CHI'98 Doctoral Consortium, Conference Scholarship, April 1998. • U.S. National Library of Medicine, 2-year Graduate Fellowship, September 1994 - August 1996. • Eastman Kodak Company, 2-year Full-Tuition Scholarship Award, August 1990 - May 1992. • Dean's List, Carnegie Mellon University, 3 semesters. Awards to Graduate Research Advisees: • Lauren Bradel (PhD advisee), 2nd Place Best Poster Award, Graduate Poster Showcase, Department of Computer Science, April 2014. • Andre Esakia (PhD advisee), Outstanding GTA Award, Department of Computer Science, April 2014. • Alex Endert (PhD advisee), Best Doctoral Dissertation Award, IEEE Computer Society’s Visualization and Graphics Technical Committee (VGTC), presented at the IEEE VIS Conference, October 2013. • Alex Endert (PhD advisee), Outstanding PhD Dissertation Award, Department of Computer Science, May 2013. • Jessica Self (PhD advisee), Davenport Fellowship Award, Virginia Tech, 2011, 2013. • Jessica Self (PhD advisee), Pratt Fellowship & Walts Fellowship Award, Virginia Tech, 2012. • Lauren Bradel (PhD advisee), Hume Center and IC-CAE Intelligence Community Fellowship Award, 2012-2014. • Alex Endert (PhD advisee), selected as TEDxVirginiaTech presenter, 2012. • Alex Endert (PhD advisee), Davenport Fellowship Award, Virginia Tech, 2010 and 2011. • Lauren Shupp (MS advisee), Outstanding Master’s Thesis Award, Department of Computer Science, May 2007; Nominated by Virginia Tech for the Conference of Southern Graduate Schools 2007 Innovative Application of Technology in a Master's Thesis Award, 2007. • Nicholas Polys (PhD advisee), Outstanding PhD Dissertation Award, Department of Computer Science, May 2006. • Glenn Fink (PhD advisee), NSF IGERT graduate fellowship award, 2004-2006. • Nathan Conklin (MS advisee), Outstanding Master’s Thesis Award, Department of Computer Science, May 2002. Awards to Undergraduate Research Advisees: • Lauren Gibboney, Society of Women Engineers (SWE) and College of Engineering Scholarship, 2012. • Kristen Koch, Undergraduate Research Award, VTURCS Symposium, 2012. • David Machaj, Scott Connor, and Ron Forbes, 1st place Faculty Choice Undergraduate Research Award, 3rd Place People’s Choice Undergraduate Research Award, VTURCS Symposium, 2007. • Matt Witherspoon, 3rd Place Undergraduate Research Award, VTURCS Symposium, 2006. • Andrew Sabri, People’s Choice Undergraduate Research Award, VTURCS Symposium, 2005; 1st Place Undergraduate Research Award, VTURCS Symposium, 2006. • Paul Muessig, Faculty Choice Undergraduate Research Award, VTURCS Symposium, 2005. Externally Funded Research: (26 grants total = $6,320,344. Personal share = $2,826,303) 1. NSF, “BIGDATA: F: DKA: Usable Big Data Analytics via Multi-Scale Visual to Parametric Interaction (MV2PI)”, C. North, S. Leman, L. House, Y. Cao. 9/2014 – 9/2017. Total: $998,912. Personal share: $249,278 (25%). 2. L-3 STRATIS, “Discovering Coordinated Malicious Activity and Network Usage Patterns”, C. North, N. Ramakrishnan. 7/2014 – 7/2015. Total: $56,610. Personal share: $27,805 (50%). 3. PNNL, “Display Ecologies and Large-Scale Graph Visualization”, Chris North, Yong Cao. 9/2013 – 6/2014. Total: $117,548. Personal share: $58,774 (50%). 4. L-3 STRATIS, “Visual Analytics for Cyber Security”, C. North. 1/2013 – 6/2014. Total: $200,885. Personal share: $200,885 (100%). 5. NSF TUES, “Critical Thinking with Data Visualization (CTDV)”, L. House, S. Leman, C. North, N. Ramakrishnan, K. McConnell. 1/2013 – 12/2015. Total: $199,943. Personal share: $39,987 (20%). 6. NSF HCC, “Semantic Interaction for Visual Text Analytics”, C. North. 9/2012 - 8/2015. Total: