Matt Brehmer joined the Cheriton School of Computer Science as a tenure-track Assistant Professor in August 2024.
Previously, he was a lead researcher at Tableau Research in Seattle, where he specialized in new experiences for communication and collaboration around data. Before joining Tableau, he was a postdoctoral researcher with the Extended Perception, Interaction & Cognition (EPIC) and Human-Computer Interaction groups at Microsoft Research. He completed his PhD and an MSc at the University of British Columbia, where he was a member of the InfoVis group and the Multimodal User Experience lab. He also holds an undergraduate degree in cognitive science from Queen’s University.
As of February 2025, Professor Brehmer’s research has been cited more than 2,900 times with an h-index of 24 according to Google Scholar.
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