Melanie Tory

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Melanie K. Tory is a Canadian computer scientist who works in the US as director of human data interaction research at the Roux Institute of Northeastern University in Portland, Maine, and professor of the practice in Northeastern's Khoury College of Computer Sciences and College of Arts, Media and Design. Her research involves information visualization and human–computer interaction, and especially the interactions of people with data. [1]

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Education

Tory was an undergraduate at the University of British Columbia (UBC). [1] She completed a Ph.D. in computer science at Simon Fraser University in 2004. [2] Her dissertation, Combining 2D and 3D views for visualization of spatial data, was supervised by Bradley Bart. [3]

Career

She returned to UBC for an NSERC postdoctoral fellowship from 2004 to 2006, before taking a faculty position at the University of Victoria. [2] She continued at the University of Victoria from 2006 to 2015, and then worked in industry at Tableau Software from 2015 to 2021, before returning to academia and taking her present position at Northeastern University. [4]

References

  1. 1 2 "Melanie Tory", People, Roux Institute, retrieved 2025-09-26
  2. 1 2 "Keynote talk: Visualization and Visual Analytics in Personal Life, Melanie Tory" (PDF), 10th International Symposium on Visual Computing, 9 December 2014, retrieved 2025-09-26; see speaker bio-sketch
  3. ↑ Tory, Melanie, Combining 2D and 3D views for visualization of spatial data (PDF) (Ph.D. thesis), Simon Fraser University, retrieved 2025-09-26
  4. ↑ "Melanie Tory", IEEE Xplore, IEEE, 10 June 2025, retrieved 2025-09-26
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