Georges G. Grinstein, Ph.D.

Dr. Grinstein is a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Massachusetts Lowell and Co-Director of the Institute for Visualization and Perception Research. His research interests are in applied Computer Graphics with focus on the visualization of complex systems. He received his B.S. from City College in New York, his M.S. from New York University, and his Ph.D. in Mathematics from the University of Rochester in 1978.

He has over 25 years of experience in academia with extensive private consulting activities. Dr. Grinstein has over 50 research grants, numerous publications in journals and conferences, and has been the organizer or chair of national and international conferences and workshops in Computer Graphics, in Visualization, and in Data Mining. He served as co-chair of several IEEE Visualization Conferences, program committee for the AAAI Conferences in Knowledge Discovery and Databases, co-chair of the IEEE Workshops on the Integration of Databases and Visualization, co-chair the ACM workshop on the Psychological and Cognitive Issues in the Visualization of Data, and co-chair of several SPIE Visual Data and Exploration and Analysis Conferences.

He is on the editorial boards of several journals in Computer Graphics and Data Mining, has been a member of ANSI and ISO, a NATO Expert, and a technology consultant for various government agencies.