Jo Wood

Jo Wood is a professor of visual analytics in the giCentre, City University London, where he designs, builds and applies data visualization software. He has particular interests in data visualization, narrative in visual analytic design and the intersection between visualisation design and art. His background is in Geographic Information Science and terrain analysis, and has, since 1990 been developing new methods and software that bridge the GI Science and Data Visualization domains. He has more than 50 peer-reviewed articles in this area including best paper and honourable mention awards from the EuroVis, PacificVis and Infovis conferences. He is head of the Department of Computer Science, City University London and has been a member of the organising and programme committees of a number of international conference series in GI Science and visualization including IEEE Infovis and VAST, Eurovis, GIScience, Spatial Accuracy and Geomorphometry.