Daniel A. Keim

Daniel A. Keim is a German computer scientist well known for his work on information visualization, interactive data analysis and visual analytics. Since 2000 he has been a full professor of computer science at the University of Konstanz in Germany, where he directs the Data Analysis and Visualization Research Lab (DBVIS). He received his PhD in computer science from LMU Munich in 1994, was assistant professor at LMU Munich and associate professor at the Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg, and worked as a senior researcher at AT&T Shannon Research Labs. Keim pioneered the field of visual data mining and co-created the field of visual analytics in the early 2000s; in 2008, with Jim Thomas, he conceptually defined its scope and challenges in an influential book. He received the 2011 Visualization Technical Achievement Award and the 2024 IEEE VIS Test of Time Award, and was inducted into the IEEE VGTC Visualization Academy in 2019.