Wouter Meulemans

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office MF 7.072 (MetaForum)
phone +31 40 247 4483
mail address Department of Mathematics and Computer Science
TU Eindhoven
P.O. Box 513
5600MB Eindhoven
The Netherlands
email
office MF 7.072 (MetaForum)
phone +31 40 247 4483
mail address Department of Mathematics and Computer Science
TU Eindhoven
P.O. Box 513
5600MB Eindhoven
The Netherlands

I'm an assistant professor in the Algorithms cluster at TU Eindhoven, with research broadly captured as algorithmic visualization.

Research interests

My research revolves around the intersection of algorithms and information visualization. That is, to study how we can automatically compute high-quality visualizations of data. My research therefore applies methods and techniques from algorithms, computational geometry and graph drawing in the areas of information visualization, automated cartography and geographic information science.

My focus within this intersection lies with designing and optimizing objective measures of visualization quality. This measured approach I use to study how we can best compute visualizations of high quality, low visual complexity or that make a trade-off between various aspects. Showcasing such aspects, a central theme throughout my research is schematic geovisualizations. In such schematizations, the data is not made to fit the (geo)spatial dimension, but rather the other way around. That is, space is seen as a deformable tool that we can use to give focus, provide context and highlight structures of the data.

Octilinear schematization of geographic shapes and networks
Curved schematization of geographic shapes and networks
Computing Fréchet distances, matchings and other forms of similarity
Visualizing set systems or hypergraphs in a spatially informative way

A short resume

2016 - present Assistant professor
Algorithms, Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands
2015 - 2016 Marie-Curie fellow
giCentre, City University London, United Kingdom
2015 - 2015 Post-doctoral researcher
Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Germany
2014 - 2015 Post-doctoral researcher
Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands
2010 - 2014 PhD student
Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands