Scholar
Cindy Xiong Bearfield
Google Scholar ID: fFc3ezYAAAAJ
Georgia Institute of Technology
Citations & Impact
Citations
1,122
H-index
20
i10-index
29
Publications
20
Co-authors
13
list available
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- Recipient of NSF CAREER award; paper awards at premier psychology and data visualization venues including ACM CHI, IEEE PacificVis, IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, Psychonomics, and IEEE VIS; one of the founding leaders of VISxVISION (visxvision.com), an initiative to increase collaboration between visualization researchers and perceptual + cognitive psychologists.
Research Experience
- Assistant Professor in the School of Interactive Computing at Georgia Tech. Research areas include visual perception, cognitive processes, and the design of data visualizations.
Education
- Ph.D. in Cognitive Psychology from Northwestern University; B.S. in Applied Mathematics and Psychology from UCLA.
Background
- Computer Scientist + Cognitive Psychologist Studying Data Visualizations. Her research combines visual perception, cognition, and data visualization, aiming to answer questions about how people perceive, interpret, and make decisions from visualized data.
Miscellany
- Pronunciation of last name: The 'X' makes a 'sh' sound, so you can pronounce it as 'shown', as in 'they have shown an eager desire to work with Cindy because her research sounds so interesting.'
