{"356341":{"#nid":"356341","#data":{"type":"profile","title":"Alex Endert","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EFor the past two years, Endert served as a visual analytics research scientist at\u0026nbsp;the Pacific Northwest\u0026nbsp;National Laboratory, where he worked on visual data\u0026nbsp;exploration, human-computer\u0026nbsp;interaction, and information visualization. His\u0026nbsp;research interests center around\u0026nbsp;exploring novel user interaction techniques\u0026nbsp;for visual data analysis. He explores ways that visualization and data mining techniques can\u0026nbsp;couple the subjective domain\u0026nbsp;expertise of people with the rigorous\u0026nbsp;computational abilities of machines. Ultimately, the goal is to\u0026nbsp;build\u0026nbsp;visualizations that help people gain insight and become empowered in an era\u0026nbsp;where data is superfluous.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHe is\u0026nbsp;an active member of, and contributor to,\u0026nbsp;premier venues for human-computer\u0026nbsp;interaction and information visualization (ACM\u0026nbsp;CHI, IEEE VIS, IEEE TVCG,\u0026nbsp;IEEE CG\u0026amp;A). He received his doctorate in computer\u0026nbsp;science at Virginia Tech in\u0026nbsp;2012, where he worked with Chris North. In\u0026nbsp;2013, his work on semantic\u0026nbsp;interaction was awarded the IEEE VGTC VPG Pioneers\u0026nbsp;Group Doctoral\u0026nbsp;Dissertation Award and the Virginia Tech Computer Science Best\u0026nbsp;Dissertation\u0026nbsp;Award.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27928","created_gmt":"2014-12-15 16:23:25","changed_gmt":"2014-12-15 20:23:25","author":"Raja V Palanisamy","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","extras":[],"hg_media":{"355601":{"id":"355601","type":"image","title":"Alex Endert - Compressed","body":null,"created":"1449245756","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 16:15:56","changed":"1475895087","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:51:27","alt":"Alex Endert - Compressed","file":{"fid":"202040","name":"alex-endert.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/alex-endert.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/alex-endert.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":14268,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/alex-endert.jpg?itok=fsG4En41"}}},"media_ids":["355601"],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"},{"id":"50876","name":"School of Interactive Computing"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[{"id":"8192","name":"College of Computing"},{"id":"8155","name":"School of Interactive Computing"}],"classification":["Faculty"],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":["endert@gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}