Jeffrey Heer

Bio

Jeffrey Heer is a co-founder and CXO (Chief Experience Officer) at Trifacta, a start-up company creating new tools for enhancing the productivity of data analysts. He is also a professor of Computer Science at Stanford University, where he leads the Stanford Visualization Group. His group has created a number of popular tools, including D3.js (Data-Driven Documents) and Data Wrangler. In Fall 2013, Jeff will join the faculty of Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Washington. In 2009 Jeff was named to MIT Technology Review's TR35; in 2012 he was named a Sloan Foundation Research Fellow. He holds BS, MS and PhD degrees in Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley.