Georgia Tech

College of Computing

School of Interactive Computing

Information Interfaces Group

John T. Stasko Professor & Associate Chair   School of Interactive Computing Georgia Institute of Technology 85 5th St., NW Technology Square Research Building Atlanta, GA 30332-0760   Office Phone: (404) 894-5617, Technology Square Research Building Room 342 Lab phone: (404) 385-2447, Technology Square Research Building Room 342A Fax: (404) 894-3146 Email: staskoccgatechedu URL: http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~stasko Weekly Schedule

Background	John received the B.S. degree in Mathematics at Bucknell University in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania (1983) and Sc.M. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island (1985 and 1989). He joined the faculty here at Georgia Tech in 1989, and he is presently the Associate Chair of the School of Interactive Computing in the College of Computing. His primary research area is human-computer interaction, with a focus on information visualization and visual analytics. John is a senior member of the ACM and IEEE, and an ACM Distinguished Scientist (inducted in 2011).
Research	Prof. Stasko is Director of the Information Interfaces Research Group whose mission is to help people take advantage of information to enrich their lives. As the amount of data available to people and organizations has skyrocketed over the past 10-20 years, largely fueled by the growth of the internet, insufficient methods for people to benefit from this flood of data have been developed. A central focus of many of the group's projects is the creation of information visualization and visual analytics tools to help people explore, analyze, and understand large data sets. In particular, they are creating visual analytics systems to help people with "sense-making" activities on data sets such as large document collections. The group also has developed a number of techniques and systems for providing people with peripheral awareness of useful information. Follow the link to the research group in order to visit pages with more details on these projects. John is a faculty investigator in the Dept. of Homeland Security's VACCINE Center of Excellence (GT page) focusing on developing visual analytics technologies and solutions for grand challenge problems in homeland security, and in the NSF FODAVA Center exploring the foundations of data analysis and visual analytics. He is also an affiliated faculty member in the Tennenbaum Institute at Georgia Tech. Curriculum vita (pdf - updated 2/12) Some pictures of John Information Interfaces Research Group (projects, people, publications, talks, videos) Publications (html) Recent talks Jigsaw - Visualization for investigative analysis
Students	Current PhD Mengdie Hu Zhicheng Liu Youn ah Kang Hannah Pileggi Zach Pousman Chad Stolper Completed PhD Chris Plaue, 2009, Lecturer and Undergraduate Coordinator at Univ. of Georgia James Eagan, 2008, Assistant Professor at Telecom-ParisTech Ji Soo Yi, 2008, Asst. Professor (Industrial Engineering) at Purdue Jun Xiao 2006, Senior Researcher at 3M Labs Duke Hutchings, 2006, Asst. Professor at Elon University Alex Zhao 2001, Google Scott McCrickard, 2000, Assoc. Professor at Virginia Tech Brad Topol, 1998, IBM Distinguished Engineer, (co-advisor with M. Ahamad) Dean Jerding, 1997, President, Infinovate Corp Eileen Kraemer, 1995, Professor at University of Georgia Keith Edwards, 1995, Assoc. Professor at Georgia Tech Mariano Garcia, 1993, UPR-Cayey, (co-advisor with A. Badre)
Service	Papers Co-Chair, 2009 IEEE VAST General Chair, 2007 IEEE InfoVis Papers Co-Chair, 2006 IEEE Symposium on Information Visualization Papers Co-Chair, 2005 IEEE Symposium on Information Visualization Co-Organizer, CHI 2005 Workshop on Distributed Display Environments Program Chair, 2003 ACM Symposium on Software Visualization Co-Organizer, CHI 2003 Workshop on Providing Elegant Peripheral Awareness   Executive Committee, IEEE VisWeek Steering Committee, IEEE Information Visualization (InfoVis) Conference Steering Committee, ACM Symposium on Software Visualization At Large Member, IEEE Visualization and Graphics Technical Committee (VGTC)   Associate Editor, ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (ToCHI) Associate Editor, Information Visualization (IV) Associate Editor, Journal of Visual Languages and Computing (JVLC)
Teaching	2011-2012 academic year Fall    CS 1331--Introduction to Object-Oriented Programming    CS 7450--Information Visualization Spring    CS 4801 SA--Sports Analytics Past courses CS 3158--Design and Analysis of Algorithms (Fall '98) CS 4801 SA--Sports Analytics (Spring '11) CS/PSY 6750--Human-Computer Interaction (Spring '07) CS 7390--Software Visualization (Spring '98) CS 7450--Information Visualization (Spring '11)    Older lecture videos are available too
Personal	In his free time, Prof. Stasko enjoys playing with his kids Tommy, Mitchell and Audrey, doing some vacation travel with his wife Christy, playing golf, gardening around his yard, tending to his fish pond, commiserating over the Atlanta Braves and Falcons, and watching The Amazing Race. My second home. Fun stuff - Browse only if you have a sense of humor. The current date and time. Zip code decoder. The End

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