Paul Parsons
Associate Professor
West Lafayette, Indiana, United States
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Top SchoolPaul Parsons is an Associate Professor and leader of the User Experience Design program at Purdue University with 11 years of academic and research experience focused on human-computer interaction, interactive visualization, and design cognition. His interdisciplinary work—bridging design practice, data visualization, and complex sociotechnical systems—has earned an NSF CAREER award and informs both his research lab and curriculum. He advises students in the Design, Visualization, & Cognition Lab and contributes UX expertise to large-scale projects like the NSF SGX3 cyberinfrastructure center and NASA's RETHi initiative. Before academia he spent two years as a research scientist at IBM, and his background in computing and cognitive psychology gives him a rare blend of technical depth and cognitive insight. Based in West Lafayette, he is known for translating design theory into practical visualization tools used in real-world, high-stakes settings.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Computer Science (Human-Computer Interaction), PhD, Computer Science (Human-Computer Interaction) at The University of Western OntarioBS, Computer Science & Cognitive Science, BS, Computer Science & Cognitive Science at Queen's University
Github Skills (9)
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directive2
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Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
pparsons/angular-chromosome-vis
Jan 2015 - Jun 2015
Contributions:71 commits, 6 PRs, 46 pushes in 4 months
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pparsons/bib-publication-list
Feb 2017 - May 2017
Contributions:4 pushes in 3 months
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