Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences Webinars – Assoc. Prof. James Eagan

Assoc. Prof. James Eagan from Institut Polytechnique de Paris will be the guest of KHAS Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences webinar series with his speech “Building a Better Bicycle for the Mind” on Friday, April 1 at 14.00.

The event will take place on Zoom and is open to anyone interested.

Abstract: Steve Jobs once described the computer as “a bicycle for the mind,” a tool that amplifies people’s cognitive capabilities. My work focuses on making this bicycle a better, more expressive tool for humans in a data-rich world: by understanding how people interact with and make sense of data, by making interactions more flexible and expressive, and by rethinking how we build software so users can appropriate and adapt it to their own idiosyncratic needs. In this talk, I will present an overview of my lab’s work in these three areas.

About the Speaker: James Eagan is an Associate Professor (Maître de conférences) and head of the Design, Interaction, Visualisation & Applications (DIVA) group at Télécom Paris and the Institut Polytechnique de Paris. His research in the fields of human-computer interaction and information visualisation is generally organized around three themes: making software more malleable, using information visualisation to help people better make sense of data, and increasing the expressiveness of the tools people use to do so.

He is also chair of the MS Big Data program at Télécom Paris and the Interaction, Graphics, and Design Master’s program at the Institut Polytechnique de Paris. Before joining Télécom Paris, he was a post-doctoral researcher at LRI (CNRS & Université Paris-Sud). He holds a Ph.D. and M.Sc. in Computer Science from the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) and a B.A. in Mathematics/Computer Science from Lawrence University.