About


Jason Leigh, PhD
Electronic Visualization Laboratory
University of Illinois at Chicago

Office Address: 842 W Taylor St, Room 2032,
Engineering Research Facility Bldg

Mailing Address: 851 S. Morgan St., Room 1120
Chicago, IL 60607

Phone: (312) 996 3002
Fax: (312) 413 7585
Email: spiff at uic.edu


Dec 1998 PhD Computer Science
University of Illinois at Chicago

Aug 1990 MS Computer Science
Wayne State University

June 1988 BS Magna Cum Laude, Computer Science
University of Utah

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.