Jeffrey Heer

Jeffrey Heer is the Jerre D. Noe Endowed Professor of Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Washington, where he co-directs the Interactive Data Lab. His research focuses on data visualization, human-computer interaction, and data science, with tools like D3.js, Vega, and Mosaic used worldwide. He holds B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from UC Berkeley and previously served on Stanford's faculty (2009-2013).

His research integrates perceptual, cognitive, and social factors to develop interactive systems for data analysis. Primary interests include scalable visualization, graphical perception, collaborative data analysis, and adaptive language translation. He leads projects like Vega-Lite for declarative visualization and Mosaic for database-backed visualization.

Major honors include:

• ACM Grace Murray Hopper Award (2016)
• IEEE Visualization Technical Achievement Award (2017)
• ACM Fellow (2025)
• IEEE Visualization Academy (2019)
• ACM CHI Academy (2021)

He co-founded Trifacta (acquired by Alteryx) and advises students through the Interactive Data Lab. Current teaching includes CSE442 Data Visualization and CSE512 Data Visualization courses.