Dr. Stefan Kerpedjiev

Stephan Kerpedjiev, Carnegie Mellon University, USA

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Stefan is responsible for the development of CoMotion's information-centric visualization infrastructure.

Prior to joining MAYA Viz, Stefan worked on the SAGE project at Carnegie Mellon University, where he explored visualization and interaction techniques, as well as task-sensitive visualization design.
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Stefan has a Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from Sofia University in Bulgaria.His Ph.D. thesis dealt with the problem of extracting facts from loosely formalized texts such as weather forecasts and encyclopedia entries.Experiments in visualizing facts extracted from such texts triggered his interest in information visualization and multimedia presentations, which he continues to pursue.

Stefan has published more than 30 papers in scientific journals and conference proceedings.

Selected publications: Kerpedjiev, S. and Roth, S. F. Mapping Communicative Goals into Conceptual Tasks to Generate Graphics in Discourse.Knowledge-Based Systems, Volume 14, 2001, 93-102.
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Roth, S. F., Chuah, M. C., Kerpedjiev, S., Kolojejchick, J. A., and Lucas, P. Towards an Information Visualization Workspace: Combining Multiple Means of Expression.Human-Computer Interaction Journal, Volume 12, Numbers 1 & 2, 1997, 131-185.

S. Kerpedjiev.Model-driven Assertion Based Generation of Multimedia Weather Information.Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, Vol.76, No. 10, October 1995, 1791-1800.

S. Kerpedjiev.Transformation of Weather Forecasts from Textual to Cartographic Form, Computer Physics Communications , Vol.61, 1990, 246-256.

Stefan Kerpedjiev

Stefan Kerpedjiev, MAYA Viz