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Miriah Meyer, Ph.D
Miriah Meyer joins the SCI Institute from Harvard University, where she was a postdoctoral research fellow in the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences since 2008. From 2010 she was also a visiting scientist at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard where she cofounded the Data Visualization Initiative.
Dr. Meyer is the recipient of a 2009 and 2010 NSF/CRA Computing Innovation Fellow Award for her work on collaboratively designing visualization tools for biological data. She was also awarded a 2006 AAAS Mass Media Fellowship that landed her a stint as a science writer for the Chicago Tribune. In 2008 she obtained her Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Utah. Dr. Meyer currently serves on the organizing committee for the inaugural IEEE Symposium on Biological Data Visualization.
In her research, Dr. Meyer develops visualization tools that help scientists make sense of complex, heterogeneous data, currently with a focus on biology. She takes a problem-driven approach to research, designing visualization systems in close collaboration with small teams of biologists. The resulting tools are intuitive and targeted, and have led to new hypotheses, discoveries, and insights on the part of her collaborators. Dr. Meyer uses these collaborations to develop new methodologies and principles for visualization research. She believes deeply that targeting computing systems to specific problems and groups of users is an important component to the future of computer science research.
See Dr. Meyer in Technology Review's list of 35 Innovators Under 35.