Danielle Szafir
Associate Professor
Boulder, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDanielle Szafir is an Associate Professor of Computer Science specializing in perceptual computing and scalable visualization design, leveraging nine years of academic and industry experience to make complex data more interpretable. Her research combines perceptual psychology with visualization techniques to support visual comparisons of large, heterogeneous datasets, with applied collaborations spanning biology, the humanities, and industry partners like Tableau and Google. She has a strong background in building perceptually-motivated visualization systems and prototypes, informed by hands-on internships that ranged from cloud-based analytics to visualization color studies. Based in Boulder, Colorado, she maintains an active research program at UNC-Chapel Hill and brings a rare blend of rigorous experimental methods and practical system-building to visualization problems.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelors, Computer Science, Bachelors, Computer Science at University of WashingtonPh.D., Computer Sciences, 3.8, Ph.D., Computer Sciences, 3.8 at University of Wisconsin-Madison
Github Skills (16)
creative-commons4
journal4
open-access3
javascript2
academia2
css1
typescript1
visualizations1
edtech1
jack1
mongodb1
mozilla1
nodejs1
perception1
julia1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
uwgraphics/Release-TextDNA
Jul 2016 - Sep 2016
Contributions:5 commits, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
javascriptfix
dnszafir/ieeevis.org
Apr 2021 - Aug 2022
Website for ieeevis.org
Contributions:3 pushes in 1 year 4 months
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