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Jack van Wijk is a full professor of visualization at the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science of Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e). His current research interests include information visualization and visual analytics. He has previously worked on flow visualization and mathematical visualization, focusing on the challenges of enabling people to explore and understand large amounts of abstract data through integration of statistical methods, machine learning, and data mining techniques. He aims to develop generic methods to visually explain results from automated methods, particularly decision trees used to judge vessel behavior. Van Wijk has developed new techniques, including treemaps, and has explored large image collections, event data, vessel traffic, and medicine prescriptions. His work spans various aspects of visualization: representation, interaction, evaluation, and methodology, for a wide array of data types. He has (co-)authored over 150 papers in the fields of visualization and computer graphics and has served as co-chair for multiple prestigious conferences, further contributing to the advancement of visualization practices in academia and industry.
Eindhoven University of Technology • Eindhoven, Netherlands
Full professor specializing in visualization.
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