James Eagan

James Eagan is an Associate Professor (Maître de conférences) and chair of the DIVA (HCI & Visualization) lab at Télécom Paris, a founding school of the Institut Polytechique de Paris.  He is chair of the Interaction, graphics, and design Masters program in Computer Science and former chair of the Big Data professional master’s program.  His research focuses on malleable systems and information sensemaking, and he published regularly in the ACM CHI (Human-Computer Interaction), UIST (User Interface Systems and Technologies), and IEEE VIS (Visualization) communities. He earned his M.S. and Ph.D. in Computer Science from the Georgia Institute of Technology and a B.A. in Mathematics/Computer Science from Lawrence University of Wisconsin.