BioVis@ISMB 2024 Program

July 14, 2024

Invited Speakers

Melanie Tory

Melanie Tory, The Roux Institute, Northeastern University

Speaker Biography: Melanie Tory is the director of human data interaction research at the Roux Institute. She is also a professor of the practice at Northeastern, with appointments in the Khoury College of Computer Sciences and the College of Arts, Media and Design. Tory’s research focuses on helping people and businesses to do more with data through the design and evaluation of novel visualization techniques and human-data interactions. This is exactly the type of expertise the Roux Institute brings to the Portland area, state of Maine, and the Northeast.

Prior to joining Northeastern and the Roux Institute, Tory worked at Tableau Software, an interactive data visualization software company that was acquired by Salesforce for over $15 billion. Her work at Tableau focused on enabling natural language interaction through visualizations, as well as on how people use analytics and business intelligence tools within organizations. Tory also served for nine years as a computer science faculty member at the University of Victoria.

She earned her PhD in computer science from Simon Fraser University and her Bachelor of Science from the University of British Columbia. She is the associate editor of several visualization journals and serves on the steering committee of the IEEE VIS Conference.

Tory lives in Portland’s East End. An outdoors enthusiast, she explores Maine’s many parks, trails, and islands.

Fritz Lekschas

Fritz Lekschas, Ozette Technologies

Speaker Biography: Fritz Lekschas is a computer scientist researching scalable visual exploration techniques for biomedical data. As the Head of Visualization Research at Ozette Technologies, he is leading the development of ML-powered data visualization and exploration tools for analyzing high-dimensional single-cell data on the web. Fritz earned his PhD in computer science from Harvard University, where he was advised by Hanspeter Pfister and Nils Gehlenborg. Prior to his PhD, Fritz was a visiting postgrad research fellow in the Department of Biomedical Informatics at Harvard Medical School and obtained a Bachelor and Master degree in bioinformatics from the Freie Universität Berlin. Fritz has published more than twenty peer-reviewed papers in renowned biomedical journals and computer science conferences, and his work has been recognized with several prestigious awards.

Program

To be announced.