In 2011-12, I am a third-year computer science Ph.D student at Brown University under the supervision of David Laidlaw. We are working human-computer interaction and evaluation tools for information visualization (infovis) and scientific visualization (scivis). Thanks to our collaborators in brain science, we spend a lot of time looking at diffusion imaging and circuit diagrams of the human brain.

Before coming to Brown, I was a software engineer in New Hampshire not far from my undergraduate alma mater.

My non-science interests include sketching, photography, and playing music.

Research

Modeling Task Performance for a Crowd of Users from Interaction Histories
[conditionally accepted] ACM CHI, 2012
Steven R. Gomez and David H. Laidlaw
Analysis Within and Between Graphs: Observed User Strategies in Immunobiology Visualization
[conditionally accepted] ACM CHI, 2012
Caroline Ziemkiewicz, Steven R. Gomez, and David H. Laidlaw
Modeling Human Performance from Visualization Interaction Histories
IEEE InfoVis (Poster session), Honorable Mention, 2011
Steven R. Gomez and David H. Laidlaw
A Fiducial-Based Tangible User Interface for White Matter Tractography
ISVC'10, 2010
Steven R. Gomez, Radu Jianu, and David H. Laidlaw
Interacting with Live Preview Frames: In-Picture Cues for a Digital Camera Interface
ACM UIST (Poster Session), 2010
Steven R. Gomez
Blues for Gary: Design Abstractions for a Jazz Improvisation Assistant
Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science, 193 (Nov. 2007), 47-60
Bob Keller, Martin Hunt, Stephen Jones, David Morrison, Aaron Wolin, and Steven Gomez

Coursework at Brown

F11 cs2950-j Cognition, Human-Computer Interaction, and Visual Analysis
S11 cs1460 Computational Linguistics
F10 cs2370 Interdisciplinary Scientific Visualization
F10 cs2950-c Topics in Computational Biology
S10 cs1950-g Computational Photography
S10 cs2750 Topics in Parallel and Distributed Computing
F09 cs1230 Computer Graphics
F09 cs1430 Computer Vision
F09 cs2950-u Special Topics on Networking and Distributed Systems

Resources for Young Scientists

  • How to Give a Great SIGGRAPH Talk. (pdf)
  • Manuel Blum, Advice to a Beginning Grad Student. (html).
  • Mark Leone, Advice on Research and Writing (mostly aimed at computer scientists). (html).
  • John Woodwark, How to Run a Paper Mill. (pdf).

Contact

steveg@cs (you can figure out the rest)
423 CIT

Box 1910, Computer Science Department
Brown University
Providence, RI 02912