Chalklabs, LLC

Gavin has over 12 years of experience in both industry and academic sectors as a senior developer, technical lead, and OpenSource systems integration expert. He holds M.Sc. from Indiana University with a focus on large-scale information retrieval, network science, and natural language processing in East Asian languages. Mr. LaRowe is also a former SIAS advanced studies fellow.

Bruce W. Herr II is the Technical Lead at ChalkLabs, LLC. Bruce enjoys making beautiful, extensible, usable, and maintainable software. His research interests encompass information visualization, human-computer interaction, cognitive processing, software design, aesthetics in visualization, and extensible software. Some of the major software projects he has led and/or worked on include InfoVis Cyberinfrastructure, CIShell: Cyberinfrastructure Shell, and Network Workbench. He has worked on many large-scale and interactive visualizations including NIH Map, Movies&Actors, Wikipedia Visualization, Neurovis, and the US Patent Hierarchy Vis.