Jason Leigh is an
Associate Professor of Computer Science and director of the Electronic
Visualization Laboratory (EVL) at the University of Illinois at
Chicago. Leigh is a co-founder of VRCO, the GeoWall Consortium and the
Global Lambda Visualization Facility. Leigh currently leads the
visualization and collaboration research on the National Science
Foundation's OptIPuter project, and has led EVL's Tele-Immersion
research agenda since 1995. His main area of interest is in developing
collaboration technologies and techniques for supporting a wide range
of applications ranging from the remote exploration of large-scale
data, education and entertainment.