Associate Teaching Professor, Khoury College of Computer Sciences
Biography
Dr. John Alexis Guerra Gómez joined the faculty of Northeastern University in Silicon Valley in 2020. He has also taught at Los Andes University in Colombia, and at UC Berkeley where he was a lecturer and contributed to curriculum design for the MS in Data Science program.
Dr. Guerra Gómez has also held positions at PARC, a Xerox company, where he helped catch fraud and abuse in the medical system through network visualization; and as an information visualization research scientist at Yahoo Labs, where he worked closely with Flickr to provide better interfaces for navigating photo repositories and presenting photo statistics. He has a background in entrepreneurship, having cofounded a startup called DUTO as an undergraduate. Their system, which was implemented in three schools, helped blind students to “see” shapes with their hands.
Guerra Gómez was a 2008 recipient of the Fulbright Science and Technology Scholarship, which allowed him to achieve his dream of becoming a scientist by completing his doctorate at the University of Maryland. He joined UMD’s Human-Computer Interaction Lab, working under Catherine Plaisant and Ben Shneiderman – both pioneers of the information visualization and user interface design fields.
Education
- PhD in Computer Science, University of Maryland
- MS in Mathematical Computing, Universidad Tecnológica de Pereira
- BS in Computer Science, Universidad Tecnológica de Pereira
Publications
Research Interests
Visual analytics, data visualization, accessibility, big data, human-computer interaction, web development
