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Catherine Plaisant

Catherine Plaisant (hcil.umd.edu/catherine-plaisant) is a Senior Research Scientist at the University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies and Associate Director of Research of the Human-Computer Interaction Lab. Catherine Plaisant earned her Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering at the Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris VI, France. She was elected to the ACM SIGCHI Academy in 2015 for her contributions to the field of human-computer interaction, medical informatics and information visualization.