Matt Brehmer
Assistant Professor at University of Waterloo
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolMatt Brehmer is an assistant professor and HCI-focused data visualization researcher with 12 years of experience designing, building, and evaluating interactive tools that help people communicate and collaborate around data. He has moved between academic and industry research roles—most recently leading visualization research at Tableau after a postdoc at Microsoft—bringing practical product insight to rigorous user-centered studies. His work spans novel interfaces (including AR and narrative timeline tools integrated with Power BI) and mixed-method evaluations, frequently partnering with product teams and journalists to deploy real-world prototypes. Known for blending cognitive science grounding with systems prototyping, he creates visualization experiences that scale from crowdsourced mobile studies to enterprise 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 (24)
journal9
visualization9
infovis9
ieee9
microsoft-research9
expressive8
phones8
mobile-phones7
quantitative7
microsoft6
signal-processing6
bubble4
dynamic-data4
perception4
charts3
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
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