Niklas Elmqvist

Niklas Elmqvist is an Adjunct Professor at the University of Maryland's iSchool (College of Information Studies) and associate editor of Information Visualization journal. An internationally recognized researcher, he has received numerous awards for his contributions to visual computing.

Awards & Honors:

• NSF CAREER Award
• IEEE Information Visualization Best Paper Award
• ASME IDETC/CIE 2013 Best Paper Award
• Purdue Student Government Graduate Mentoring Award (2014)
• Ruth and Joel Spira Outstanding Teacher Award (2012)

Elmqvist's research in information visualization and visual analytics has been funded by NSF, DHS, Google, NVIDIA, and Microsoft. He currently advises doctoral candidates including Biswaksen Patnaik.