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Jeffrey Heer

Intern

Jeff is pursuing his doctorate in the Computer Science Division at U.C. Berkeley, working with the Group for User Interface Research and Berkeley Institute of Design. Jeff's research interests lie in Human-Computer Interaction, where he has worked on theory, tools, and techniques for Information Visualization and on the design and implementation of various Ubiquitous Computing systems. He has built a number of visualization systems, including information browsers for large hierarchies and visualizations of e-mail archives and online social networks. Jeff is also the creator of prefuse, an open-source software toolkit for building visualization applications.