Melanie Tory
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Melanie K. Tory is a Canadian computer scientist who works in the US as director of human data interaction research at the Roux Institute of Northeastern University in Portland, Maine, and professor of the practice in Northeastern's Khoury College of Computer Sciences and College of Arts, Media and Design. Her research involves information visualization and human–computer interaction, and especially the interactions of people with data.[1]
Tory was an undergraduate at the University of British Columbia (UBC).[1] She completed a Ph.D. in computer science at Simon Fraser University in 2004.[2] Her dissertation, Combining 2D and 3D views for visualization of spatial data, was supervised by Bradley Bart.[3]
