Anamaria Crisan

Dr. Anamaria Crisan is an Assistant Professor at the Cheriton School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo. She completed her PhD in Computer Science at the University of British Columbia, where she was jointly advised by Tamara Munzner and Jennifer Gardy (2019). Prior to her PhD, she was a research scientist at the British Columbia Centre for Disease Control and Decipher Biosciences, where she conducted research machine learning and data visualization research toward applications in infectious disease and cancer genomics. Her research has appeared in publications of the ACM (CHI), IEEE (TVCG, CG&A), Oxford Bioinformatics, and Nature, and has over 3,7000 citations.

Broadly, Dr. Crisan conducts interdisciplinary research at the intersection of Human-Computer Interaction, Data Visualization, and Applied AI/ML.