Tamara Munzner facts for kids
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Tamara Munzner
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Tamara Munzner in Vancouver in 2020
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| Born | 1969 (age 55–56) Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S.
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| Citizenship | American, Canadian |
| Alma mater | Stanford University (BS, PhD) |
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| Fields | Computer Science, Information Visualization |
| Institutions | University of Minnesota (1991–1995) University of British Columbia (2002–present) |
| Thesis | Interactive Visualization of Large Graphs and Networks (2000) |
| Doctoral advisor | Pat Hanrahan |
Tamara Macushla Munzner (born 1969) is a scientist from America and Canada. She is an expert in information visualization, which is about showing complex data in easy-to-understand pictures. She works as a professor of computer science at the University of British Columbia (UBC).
Early Life and Education
Tamara Munzner was born in 1969 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA. Her father, Aribert Munzner, was an abstract painter. She finished high school in 1986.
She went to Stanford University and earned a degree in computer science in 1991. She continued her studies at Stanford and received her Ph.D. in 2000. Her Ph.D. project was about using special math (called hyperbolic geometry) to draw and understand very large networks and graphs.
Career Journey
While in college in the 1980s, Munzner worked as an intern at ETA Systems. From 1991 to 1995, she worked at The Geometry Center at the University of Minnesota. There, she helped create two videos that showed math ideas visually. One video was about how to turn a sphere inside-out, and another was about different shapes the universe could have.
She also worked at Microsoft Research and Silicon Graphics. After getting her Ph.D., she became a research scientist at the Compaq Systems Research Center in 2000. In the summer of 2002, she became a computer science professor at the University of British Columbia.
Munzner wrote a book called Visualization Analysis and Design in 2014. She also helped organize important conferences about visualization, like InfoVis and EuroVis. She has led committees for the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in visualization.
Awards and Recognition
In 2015, Tamara Munzner received the IEEE VGTC Visualization Technical Achievement Award. This award recognized her important research that helped create rules and choices for designing good visualizations.
In 2019, she received a 10-Year Test of Time award from IEEE InfoVis. This award was for her "nested model" for designing visualizations, which she published in 2009. This model helps designers go from a real-world problem to creating clear visual ways to show data.
In 2023, she was chosen as an IEEE Fellow. This honor was given to her for her contributions to the rules and ways of designing visualizations.
See also
In Spanish: Tamara Munzner para niños
