Remco Chang

Remco Chang is a Professor in the Computer Science Department at Tufts University. He received his BA from Johns Hopkins University in 1997 in Computer Science and Economics, MSc from Brown University in 2000, and PhD in Computer Science from UNC Charlotte in 2009. Prior to his PhD, he worked for Boeing developing real-time flight tracking and visualization software, followed by a position at UNC Charlotte as a research scientist. His current research interests include visual analytics, information visualization, HCI, and databases. His research has been funded by the NSF, DARPA, Navy, DOD, the Walmart Foundation, Merck, DHS, MIT Lincoln Lab, and Draper, and he is a co-founder of two startups (Hopara.io and GraphPolaris). He has had best paper, best poster, and honorable mention awards at InfoVis, VAST, CHI, EuroVis, and VDA and was a program chair of the IEEE VIS conference in 2018 and 2019 and a general chair in 2024. He is currently an associate editor for the ACM TiiS and the IEEE TVCG journals. He received the NSF CAREER Award in 2015. He has supervised 11 PhD students and postdocs who became professors in Computer Science and Information Science (at Smith College (x2), DePaul University, Washington University in Saint Louis, University of Washington, University of San Francisco, University of Colorado Boulder, WPI, San Francisco State, the University of Utrecht, and Brandeis) and 7 who became researchers in companies and government agencies (Google, Draper, Facebook, MIT Lincoln Lab (x2), the National Renewable Energy Lab, and the Idaho National Lab).