Edward Clarkson

Current

• Research Scientist II at Georgia Tech Research Institute

Past

• Graduate Research Assistant at Georgia Institute of Technology College of Computing
• Research & Development Intern at The Weather Channel Interactive
• Software Engineer at IBM

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Education

• Georgia Institute of Technology
• Georgia Institute of Technology
• Washington and Lee University

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Connections

84 connections

Industry

Computer Software

Websites

• My Website

Edward Clarkson’s Summary

I am broadly interested in human-computer interaction topics related to information retrieval and visualization, input modeling and mobile platforms.

For my Ph.D. I developed and studied applications of information visualization to digital repository search interfaces.

Edward Clarkson’s Specialties:

Quantitative and qualitative study design, execution and analysis; statistical modeling; usability analysis; software design, development and testing. Java, C/C++, DHTML/AJAX, Python, KML, PHP, Perl, Qt, et al.

Edward Clarkson’s Experience

• Research Scientist II

  Georgia Tech Research Institute

  (Non-Profit; Research industry)

  August 2009 — Present (5 months)

  Currently part of design team leading the implementation of software Qt/C++) for creating, managing, monitoring and analyzing large sets (10-100K) of high-dimensional (100+) simulation data. Lead designer for analysis component, which combines facet-based filtering with a variety of information visualization components (scatter plots, parallel coordinates, etc.).

• Graduate Research Assistant

  Georgia Institute of Technology College of Computing

  (Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)

  August 2004 — May 2009 (4 years 10 months)

  Direct lead on design and development effort for two educational digital libraries, using them as research tools into library usage patterns and behavior.

• Research & Development Intern

  The Weather Channel Interactive

  (Public Company; 501-1000 employees; Broadcast Media industry)

  May 2007 — August 2007 (4 months)

  Explored applications (e.g., mashups) for TWC data streams for new internal and external products.

• Software Engineer

  IBM

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; IBM; Computer Software industry)

  August 2000 — August 2003 (3 years 1 month)

  Design, development and function/system testing of Enterprise Network Computing software for the z/OS platform.

Edward Clarkson’s Education

• Georgia Institute of Technology

  Ph.D. , Computer Science , 2003 — 2009

  See my website C.V. for a list of publications.

  Activities and Societies:

  Graduate Student Council - Vice President (School of Interactive Computing)
  Graduate Student Council - Ph.D. Admissions Committee Student Representative

• Georgia Institute of Technology

  M.S. , Computer Science , 2003 — 2007

• Washington and Lee University

  B.S. summa cum laude , Mathematics and Computer Science , 1996 — 2000

  Activities and Societies:

  Chi Psi, The Trident, Phi Beta Kappa, Pi Mu Epsilon

Additional Information

Edward Clarkson’s Websites:

• My Website

Edward Clarkson’s Interests:

Sports, photography, writing.

Edward Clarkson’s Groups:

ACM, IEEE, Georgia Tech GVU Center

•    Computing Alumni Organization, Georgia Tech
•    The Greater IBM Connection: IBM's alumni program for past and present IBM employees
•    Chi Psi Fraternity
•    Washington and Lee University Alumni
•    Alpha Omicron Delta of Chi Psi Fraternity

Edward Clarkson’s Honors:

Best Paper Nominee, IEEE JCDL 2009, ISWC 2005

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