Stephen G. Kobourov*
Associate Professor
Department of Computer Science
University of Arizona
*On leave from the University of Arizona in 2011-12, working as a Humboldt Fellow in Germany.
  • I am one of the Program Committee chairs for the IEEE PacificVis conference in 2012.
  • I am on the Program Committee for the Symposium on Graph Drawing in 2012.
  • We are looking for a postdoctoral student and a research programmer for our NetViz project in 2012.
  • Our Dagstuhl seminar on map-based visualization, co-organized with Sascha Wolff and Frank van Ham, is scheduled for June 2012.
  • One in a series of papers about cartograms won the best paper award at ISAAC 2011; the latest one was accepted at SoCG 2012.
  • A recent NSF grant about proportional graph representation was awarded for 2011-2014.
  • A collaborative effort on citizen science and bioimaging is funded by an NSF grant for 2010-2013.
  • Some new movies, images, and live demo from the Lombardi spring embedder project.
  • The algorithms that generate our maps of Bookland, TVLand, and MusicLand are now available in GraphViz. MusicLand has over 640K views on StumbleUpon.
  • Graphael has some nice movies illustrating evolving graphs, including graph drawing topic evolution and information visualization topic evolution.
  • An animated gif showing traditional and multiscale spring embedders in GRIP and a recent survey article on the topic.
  • Google Scholar and DBLP both list most of my papers.

    Contact Information

    Department of Computer Science
    University of Arizona
    1040 E 4th Street
    Tucson, AZ 85721-0077

    Office: Gould-Simpson 715

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