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Georgia Tech College of Computing GVU Center Information Interfaces Group

Stasko picture 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/~john.stasko

Background I 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). I joined the faculty here at Georgia Tech in 1989, and I am presently the Associate Chair of the School of Interactive Computing in the College of Computing. My primary research area is human-computer interaction, with a focus on information visualization and visual analytics.
Research I am the 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 my 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, we are creating visual analytics systems to help people with "sense-making" activities on data sets such as large document collections. We also have developed a number of techniques and systems for providing people with peripheral awareness of useful information. Follow the link to my research group in order to visit pages with more details on these projects.
I am a faculty investigator in the Dept. of Homeland Security's VACCINE Center of Excellence 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. I am also an affiliated faculty member in the Tennenbaum Institute at Georgia Tech.
Curriculum vita (pdf - updated 12/09)
Information Interfaces Research Group (projects, people, publications, talks, videos)
Publications (html)
Recent talks
Jigsaw - visualization for investigative analysis

Students Current PostDoc
Carsten Görg

Current PhD
Mengdie Hu
Zhicheng Liu
Youn ah Kang
Zach Pousman

Former PhD
Chris Plaue, 2009, Instructor at Univ. of Georgia
James Eagan, 2008, Post-doctoral researcher at Computer Science Research Laboratory, University of Paris South XI
Ji Soo Yi, 2008, Asst. Professor (Industrial Engineering) at Purdue
Jun Xiao 2006, Research Scientist at HP Labs
Duke Hutchings, 2006, Asst. Professor at Elon
Alex Zhao 2001, Amazon.com
Scott McCrickard, 2000, Assoc. Professor at Virginia Tech
Brad Topol, 1998, IBM, (co-advisor with M. Ahamad)
Dean Jerding, 1997, President, Infinovate Corp
Eileen Kraemer, 1995, Professor and CS Dept. Chair 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

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 2009-2010 academic year
Fall
   CS 1331--Introduction to Object-Oriented Programming
Spring
   CS 4460 & 7450--Information Visualization

Past courses
CS 3158--Design and Analysis of Algorithms (Fall '98)
CS/PSY 6750--Human-Computer Interaction (Spring '07)
CS 7390--Software Visualization (Spring '98)
CS 4460 & 7450--Information Visualization (Spring '09)    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 watching The Amazing Race.
The hardest working computer scientist in America. :^)
My second home.
Fun stuff - Browse only if you have a sense of humor.
The current date and time.
Zip code decoder.
The End

Background	I 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). I joined the faculty here at Georgia Tech in 1989, and I am presently the Associate Chair of the School of Interactive Computing in the College of Computing. My primary research area is human-computer interaction, with a focus on information visualization and visual analytics.
Research	I am the 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 my 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, we are creating visual analytics systems to help people with "sense-making" activities on data sets such as large document collections. We also have developed a number of techniques and systems for providing people with peripheral awareness of useful information. Follow the link to my research group in order to visit pages with more details on these projects. I am a faculty investigator in the Dept. of Homeland Security's VACCINE Center of Excellence 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. I am also an affiliated faculty member in the Tennenbaum Institute at Georgia Tech. Curriculum vita (pdf - updated 12/09) Information Interfaces Research Group (projects, people, publications, talks, videos) Publications (html) Recent talks Jigsaw - visualization for investigative analysis
Students	Current PostDoc Carsten Görg Current PhD Mengdie Hu Zhicheng Liu Youn ah Kang Zach Pousman Former PhD Chris Plaue, 2009, Instructor at Univ. of Georgia James Eagan, 2008, Post-doctoral researcher at Computer Science Research Laboratory, University of Paris South XI Ji Soo Yi, 2008, Asst. Professor (Industrial Engineering) at Purdue Jun Xiao 2006, Research Scientist at HP Labs Duke Hutchings, 2006, Asst. Professor at Elon Alex Zhao 2001, Amazon.com Scott McCrickard, 2000, Assoc. Professor at Virginia Tech Brad Topol, 1998, IBM, (co-advisor with M. Ahamad) Dean Jerding, 1997, President, Infinovate Corp Eileen Kraemer, 1995, Professor and CS Dept. Chair 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 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	2009-2010 academic year Fall CS 1331--Introduction to Object-Oriented Programming Spring CS 4460 & 7450--Information Visualization Past courses CS 3158--Design and Analysis of Algorithms (Fall '98) CS/PSY 6750--Human-Computer Interaction (Spring '07) CS 7390--Software Visualization (Spring '98) CS 4460 & 7450--Information Visualization (Spring '09) 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 watching The Amazing Race. The hardest working computer scientist in America. :^) My second home. Fun stuff - Browse only if you have a sense of humor. The current date and time. Zip code decoder. The End