Published the book 'Data Visualization - Principles and Practice', first edition in 2008, second edition in 2014, Chinese edition in 2018, with over 6000 copies sold. Has a Google Scholar profile. Supervised around 40 PhD students and 100+ MSc students as thesis director.
Research Experience
Formerly a full professor of Multiscale Visual Analytics at the SVCG group, Bernoulli Institute, Faculty of Science and Engineering, University of Groningen. Currently a full professor in Visual Data Analytics at the Department of Information and Computing Sciences, Utrecht University.
Education
PhD research (2000) on the design and implementation of VISSION, an application-building environment for VIsualization and SImulation with Object-oriented Networks. Proved that everything one can achieve in Java can also be done in C++; only better, cleaner, faster, and easier.
Background
Research interests include information visualization and visual analytics, visualization for AI, big data multiscale visualization, shape/image processing, scientific visualization, interactive systems design, and program analysis. Holds a full professor position in Visual Data Analytics at the Department of Information and Computing Science, Utrecht University, leading the Visualization and Graphics group.
Miscellany
Founded a start-up company, SolidSource BV (2006-2012), specializing in tools and services for the visual analysis of big software data for industry-scale software maintenance, with a turnover of >2M EUR.