Presenters

"(Network) Data Visualization Literacy"

Katy Börner is the Victor H. Yngve Distinguished Professor of Information Science in the Department of Intelligent Systems Engineering and the Department of Information and Library Science, School of Informatics and Computing, Adjunct Professor at the Department of Statistics in the College of Arts and Sciences, Core Faculty of Cognitive Science, Member of the Advanced Visualization Laboratory, Founding Director of the Cyberinfrastructure for Network Science Center at Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, Visiting Professor at the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) in The Netherlands, and Visiting Professor and Mercator Fellow, Department of Computer Science and Applied Cognitive Science, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany. She is a curator of the international Places & Spaces: Mapping Science exhibit and the author of the Atlas of Knowledge and Atlas of Science (MIT Press). She holds a MS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Technology in Leipzig, 1991 and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Kaiserslautern, 1997. She is a member of ACM and IEEE. In 2012, she became an American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Fellow.