Professor
Utrecht University
Alexandru Telea is Professor of Visual Data Analytics at the Department of Information and Computing Sciences, Utrecht University, where he leads the Visualization and Graphics (VIG) group. He holds a PhD from Eindhoven University and has been active in the visualization field for over 25 years. He has been the program co-chair, general chair, or steering committee member of several conferences and workshops in visualization, including EuroVis, VISSOFT, SoftVis, EGPGV, and SIBGRAPI. His main research interests cover unifying information visualization and scientific visualization, high-dimensional visualization, and visual analytics for machine learning. He has authored over 350 papers. He is the author of the textbook “Data Visualization: Principles and Practice” (CRC Press, 2014), a worldwide reference in teaching data visualization.