Penny Rheingans Associate Professor - Computer Science and Electrical Engineering University of Maryland Baltimore County 1000 Hilltop Circle Baltimore, MD 21250 phone: (410) 455-3554 email: rheingan@cs.umbc.edu website: http://www.csee.umbc.edu/~rheingan

Education:
Ph.D., Computer Science, University of North Carolina, 1993
M.S., Computer Science, University of North Carolina, 1988
B.S., Computer Science, Harvard, 1985

Research Areas:
Develop techniques to visually represent large amounts of information using color, texture, motion, and interactivity. Create visualizations which show both data value and data quality clearly and intuitively. Use principles from illustration and human perception to improve visualizations.