Matt Brehmer
Assistant Professor at University of Waterloo
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolMatt Brehmer is a data-visualization and human-computer interaction researcher and educator shaping how people communicate and collaborate with data through interactive visual experiences. As Assistant Professor at the University of Waterloo, he designs, implements, and evaluates novel ways to represent data and support collective sense-making. He brings a strong industry perspective from his tenure at Tableau, where he advanced from Research Scientist to Senior and Lead Research Staff, translating real-world data challenges into rigorous academic research. His training spans a PhD and MSc in Computer Science with a specialization in Information Visualization and HCI from the University of British Columbia, following a B.Comp(Hons) from Queen's University in Cognitive Science with a professional internship. Based in Waterloo, Ontario, he has 11 years of experience bridging academia and industry to advance data-driven visualization and collaborative analytics.
12 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Computer Science (Specializing in Information Visualization and Human-Computer Interaction), PhD, Computer Science (Specializing in Information Visualization and Human-Computer Interaction) at The University of British ColumbiaBachelor of Computing (Honours, with Distinction), Specialization in Cognitive Science with Professional Internship, Bachelor of Computing (Honours, with Distinction), Specialization in Cognitive Science with Professional Internship at Queen's University
Github Skills (26)
power-bi10
journal9
visualization9
infovis9
ieee9
microsoft-research9
expressive8
phones8
mobile-phones7
quantitative7
microsoft6
signal-processing6
bubble4
dynamic-data4
perception4
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
visinpractice/visinpractice.github.io
Nov 2018 - Sep 2021
VisInPractice website
Contributions:1 PR, 47 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 11 months
mattbrehmer/ieeevis.org
Jul 2019 - Jan 2025
Website for ieeevis.org
Contributions:28 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 7 months
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.