Research Goals

My past research has focused mainly on developing techniques for constructing effective graph visualizations and working on the related user-interface issues. I have also dealt with issues related to computing over the Web in a research project. In the summer of 1994, while at Cadre Technologies, a leading developer of CASE tools, I worked on a software for visualizing Rumbaugh models of object-oriented programs. This gave me an opportunity for applying my knowledge in an industrial setting.

As part of my future research work, I would like to do the following:

• Continue my current research projects on graph visualization and the related user-interface issues (see the next section).
• Develop technologies for Web-based applications. An immediate goal is to improve our graph drawing and translation service.
• Conduct research on issues arising in information visualization, user-interfaces and human-computer interaction. Specific topics include visualization of large data sets [1, 44], 3D visualizations [11, 72], and demonstrational interfaces [48, 53].
• Use my experience with designing geometric algorithms to solve problems in research areas such as solid modeling, computer graphics, and computational geometry.
• Work on visualizing the information subspaces of the WWW. Specific topics include visualizing the structure of HTML-documents [29, 52, 74], Web-navigation [35, 54, 58], and visualizing Web-search results [51].
• Apply visualization techniques in applications such as software engineering, computer aided design, visual programming, geographic information systems, and multimedia document generation [74].