Assistant Professor

Wouter Meulemans

RESEARCH PROFILE

Wouter Meulemans is an assistant professor in the Applied Geometric Algorithms group at the Eindhoven University of Technology (果冻传媒). His research interests lie in the areas of algorithms, computational geometry and information visualization, particularly in the context of (geo)spatial applications.

A common theme throughout much of his research is the concept of spatially informative visualization: that is, spatial accuracy is not the ultimate goal but is controlled in favor of efficacious visualization. The developed methods are supported by geometric algorithms to ensure provable guarantees on quality and efficiency of solutions.

Specific areas of expertise include cartographic schematization, similarity measures and set visualization. Automated schematization is about computing effective and stylistic visual objects using only a few geometric primitives to adequately represent complex ones. Similarity measures play a key role here, in quantifying what 鈥渁dequate鈥 means and to describe how geometric objects relate. Set visualization is a technique to support the analysis of sets and their relations.

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ACADEMIC BACKGROUND

Wouter Meulemans obtained his Master鈥檚 degree (with honors) in Computer Science at 果冻传媒 in 2010 and simultaneously participated in the Honors Research Programme. He obtained his PhD (with honors) in Computational Geometry in 2014 at the same university. Afterwards, Wouter became a postdoc at the Westf盲lische Wilhelms Universit盲t, M眉nster (2015) and Marie-Curie fellow at City, University of London (2015-2016). At the end of 2016, he returned to 果冻传媒 as an assistant professor in the Applied Geometric Algorithms group. Wouter also participated in Faces of Science, an initiative of the KNAW (Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences) and De Jonge Akademie to provide (high-school) students insight into the work of a scientist and enthuse them to pursue a scientific career.

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