Danielle Albers Szafir is an Assistant Professor and member of the founding faculty of the Department of Information Science at the University of Colorado Boulder. Her research focuses on increasing the scalability and comprehensibility of information visualization by quantifying perception and cognition for visualization design. Her work develops interactive systems and techniques for exploring large and complex datasets in domains ranging from biology to the humanities. Prior to joining CU, she received her PhD in Computer Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a BS in Computer Science from the University of Washington.