Curriculum Vitae

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HRISTOPHER

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OLLINS

Assistant ProfessorComputer Science, Faculty of ScienceUniversity of Ontario Institute of Technology

Office:Fax: E-mail:URL:

+1 (905) 721-8668 x. 6581+1 (905) 721-3304christopher.collins@uoit.cahttp://www.christophercollins.ca

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UMMARY

Ph.D.

, University of Toronto, Computer Science & Knowledge Media Design

NSERC Postdoctoral Fellowship

,

2009–2011 (declined)

Research Intern, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center

, 2007, 2008

Graduate Students' Union President

, University of Toronto

2002–2003

University of Toronto

Award of Excellence

(Adel S. Sedra Distinguished Graduate Award)

, 2006–2007

University Affairs Board Member

, University of Toronto 2003–2006

NSERC PGS Scholarships

, 2001–2005;

IBM Scholarship,

2008–2009

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NTERESTS

Information Visualization

linguistic visualization, coordinated views, ambient visualization, animation, scientific visual analytics

Human-Computer Interaction

text entry techniques, document navigation, digital tabletop interfaces, supporting collaborative analysis

Computational Linguistics

high-performance computing approaches, lexical semantics, translation and summarization interfaces,sentiment, information retrieval

Interdisciplinary Collaborations

scientific visualization, fine art, web-based visualization, mobile devices, adaptive visualization, visualization for forensic applications and anthropological data, digital libraries, decipherment

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ROFICIENCIES

Expert (4+ years of experience)

Java, OpenGL, Java3D, SQL, PHP, XML, HTML, Linux, Windows

Proficient (2+ years of experience)

Perl, SPSS, Adobe CS, C++, SOAP, Lucene, Tomcat

Experienced (1-2 years of experience)

Python, Flash, C#, Mac OS, UIMA

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Ph.D. in Computer ScienceUniversity of Toronto(2004–2010)

Dissertation:

Interactive Visualizations of Language

Committee: Gerald Penn

(Advisor)

; Sheelagh Carpendale

(Advisor)

;

Ravin Balakrishnan; Graeme HirstAffiliations: Computational Linguistics Group & Knowledge Media Design Institute, University of Toronto;Innovations in Visualization Laboratory, University of Calgary; T. J. Watson Research Center, IBMCoursework Average: A

M.Sc. in Computer ScienceUniversity of Toronto(December, 2003)

Thesis:

Head-Driven Statistical Parsing for Word Lattice

Advisor

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Gerald Penn; Second Reader: Suzanne Stevenson

Affiliation: Computational Linguistics GroupCoursework Average: A

B.Sc. (Hons.) in Chemistry & Computer ScienceMemorial University of Newfoundland(May, 2001)

Thesis:

Stability Constants for Glycine under Hydrothermal Conditions using Colorimetric Indicators

Advisor: Peter R. Tremaine (currently Dean of Science, University of Guelph)University Medal for Academic Excellence (top of class in computer science)GPA: 3.96/4.00; Dean's Honour List each year of study

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[J.6] Collins, Christopher; Penn, Gerald; Carpendale, Sheelagh.

Bubble Sets: Revealing Set Relations withIsocontours over Existing Visualizations.

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics(Proc. of the IEEE Conference on Information Visualization (InfoVis ’09)),

15(6), November–December2009.

(Acceptance rate: 37/142=26%)

[J.5] Collins, Christopher; Carpendale, Sheelagh; Penn, Gerald.

DocuBurst: Visualizing Document Content Using Language Structure.

Computer Graphics Forum (

Proc. of the Eurographics/IEEE VGTC Symposiumon Visualization (EuroVis ’09)),

28(3): pp. 1039–1046,

Berlin, Germany, June 2009.

(Acceptance rate:43/143=30%)

[J.4] Dörk, Marian; Carpendale, Sheelagh; Collins, Christopher; Williamson, Carey.

VisGets: CoordinatedVisualizations for Web-based Information Exploration and Discovery.

IEEE Transactions onVisualization and Computer Graphics (Proc. of the IEEE Conference on Information Visualization (InfoVis’08)), 14(6): pp. 1205–1213, November–December 2008.(Acceptance rate: 28/106 = 26.4%)

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[J.3] Collins, Christopher; Carpendale, Sheelagh.

VisLink: Revealing relationships amongst visualizations.

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (Proc. of the IEEE Symposium on InformationVisualization (InfoVis ’07)),

13(6): pp. 1192–1199,

November–December 2007.

(Acceptance rate: 27/114 = 23.6%)

[J.2] Clarke, Rodney G.; Collins, Christopher M.; Roberts, Jenene C.; Trevani, Liliana; Bartholomew,Richard J.; Tremaine, Peter R.

Ionization constants of aqueous amino acids at temperatures up to 250°Cusing hydrothermal pH indicators and UV-visible spectroscopy: Glycine,

α

-alanine, and proline.

Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta,

69 (12): 3029–3043, June 2005.

[J.1] Collins, Christopher; Tobin, Joelle; Shvedov, Dmitri; Palepu, Rom; Tremaine, Peter R.

Thermodynamicproperties of aqueous diethanolamine (DEA), N,N-dimethylethanolamine (DMEA), and their chloridesalts: apparent molar heat capacities and volumes at temperatures from 283.15 to 328.15 K.

Canadian Journal of Chemistry,

78(1): 151–165, January 2000.

Conference Full Papers (Peer Reviewed)

Acceptance rates listed where information is available.

[C.7] Hancock, Mark; Hilliges, Otmar;

Collins, Christopher

; Baur, Dominikus; Carpendale, Sheelagh.

Exploring tangible and direct touch interfaces for manipulating 2

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information on a digital table.