Jean-Daniel Fekete

Who is Jean-Daniel Fekete?

Jean-Daniel Fekete is a French computer scientist working in the field of Information Visualization and Human-Computer Interaction. He received his PhD from the Paris-Sud 11 University in 1996. He obtained his Habilitation in 2005, entitled "Nouvelle génération d'Interfaces Homme-Machine pour mieux agir et mieux comprendre" at Université Paris-Sud 11. The jury was Joëlle Coutaz, Saul Greenberg, Ben Shneiderman, Michel Beaudouin-Lafon, Jean-Gabriel Ganascia, Guy Mélançon and Claude Puech. He is currently Senior Research at INRIA and the founding and current director of the AVIZ group since 2007.

He developed the Infovis Toolkit which is a Java toolkit to facilitated the design of information visualization interfaces.

From August 2001, to August 2002 he is visiting scientist at the Human-Computer Interaction Lab at University of Maryland, College Park, which he previously visited to develop "Excentric Labeling" along with Catherine Plaisant as an efficient technique to display hight density of labels on maps.