Jeffrey Michael Heer | |
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 Heer in 2016 | |
| Born | (1979-06-15)June 15, 1979 (age 45) |
| Alma mater | University of California, Berkeley (BS,MS,PhD) |
| Known for | Data visualization |
| Awards | TR35,Sloan Fellowship,ACM Grace Murray Hopper Award |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Computer science |
| Institutions | University of Washington, Stanford University |
| Doctoral advisor | Maneesh Agrawala |
| Doctoral students | |
| Website | homes |
Jeffrey Michael Heer (born June 15, 1979) is an Americancomputer scientist best known for his work oninformation visualization and interactivedata analysis. He is a professor of computer science & engineering[1] at theUniversity of Washington, where he directs the UW Interactive Data Lab.[2] He co-foundedTrifacta withJoe Hellerstein andSean Kandel in 2012.
Heer received aB.S.,M.S. andPhD from theUniversity of California, Berkeley.[3] As a graduate student at UC Berkeley, he developed thePrefuse and Flare[4] visualization toolkits.
Heer was an assistant professor of computer science atStanford University, from 2009 to 2013.[3] He is also co-founder and chief experience officer of Trifacta.[5] Heer's research focuses on new systems and techniques fordata visualization. As a member of the Stanford University faculty, he worked withMike Bostock on the Protovis andD3.js systems.
Heer then moved to theUniversity of Washington where he worked with students and collaborators to develop theVega and Vega-Lite visualisation grammars. Along withJoe Hellerstein andSean Kandel, Heer has also developed interactive tools for data transformation (including Data Wrangler[6]), leading to the founding of Trifacta. Other research contributions include work on the graphical perception of visualizations, social data analysis, text visualization, and interactive language translation tools.
Heer's research has been recognized by an ACMGrace Murray Hopper Award,[7] aGordon and Betty Moore Foundation Data-Driven Discovery Investigator Award,[8] an Alfred P.Sloan Fellowship,[9] and MITTechnology Review'sTR35 list.[10] Heer and his students have won best paper awards at human-computer interaction[11][12] and visualization[13] conferences. His work has also appeared in the popular press.[14][15][16][17][18][19]
Heer was named as anACM Fellow, in the 2024 class of fellows, "for contributions to information visualization, human-centered data science, and interactive machine learning".[20]
