Geoffrey M. Draper - Curriculum Vitae

Education

• PhD in Computer Science. University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah (2009).
• MS in Computer Science. Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah (2002).
• BS with University Honors in Computer Science. Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah (2000).

Peer-Reviewed Publications

• Geoffrey M. Draper, Aaron M. Curtis. Pixelated Prophets: A History and Analysis of Book of Mormon-Themed Video Games. Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship, Volume 59 (2023), pages 303-354.
• Yu-Hsien Jen, Geoffrey M. Draper. Talk Sketch: A Pen and Voice Interface for Free-form Drawing. Proceedings of Graphics Interface 2022.
• Litian Zhang, Geoffrey M. Draper. Visualizing Temples Through Time. BYU Studies Quarterly, vol. 60, no. 4 (October 2021), pages 65–74.
• Litian Zhang, Tsz Chin Lam, Geoffrey M. Draper. Interactive Spiral: A Radial Visualization for Mobile Devices. Proceedings of IEEE Pacific Visualization 2021.
• Geoffrey M. Draper, Aaron M. Curtis. Data Visualization as a Proving Ground for Graduate Studies. ACM Inroads, Vol. 10, Issue 3 (September 2019). Pages 33–38.
• Iliesa S. K. Delai, Meilan Jin, Geoffrey M. Draper. Visualizing Time-Variant Sets on a Handheld Device. Proceedings of the 9th International Symposium on Visual Information Communication and Interaction (VINCI 2016), pages 140–141.
• Meilan Jin, Iliesa S. K. Delai, Geoffrey M. Draper. Visualizing Apostolic Succession. BYU Studies Quarterly, vol. 55, no. 2 (May 2016), pages 115–126.
• Minwook Kim, Geoffrey M. Draper. Radial vs. Cartesian Revisited: A Comparison of Space-Filling Visualizations. Proceedings of the 7th International Symposium on Visual Information Communication and Interaction (VINCI 2014), pages 196–199.
• Hiroaki Nakano, Matthew G. Styles, Geoffrey M. Draper. A Call for Champions: Why some History of Computing courses are more successful than others. ACM Inroads, March 2013; Vol. 4, No. 1; pages 26–28.
• Matthew G. Styles, S. Jung, C. Eto, Geoffrey M. Draper. An Approach to Hypertext Fiction for Mobile Devices. Proceedings of the 2nd Annual Narrative and Hypertext Workshop, pages 1–5. Co-located with the 23rd ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media (HT 2012).
• Geoffrey M. Draper, Matthew G. Styles, Richard F. Riesenfeld. Radial Visualizations for Comparative Data Analysis. Proceedings of the SPIE 2012 Conference on Visualization and Data Analysis (VDA 2012).
• Geoffrey M. Draper, B. Liu, Richard F. Riesenfeld. Integrating Statistical Visualization Research into the Political Science Classroom. Information Systems Education Journal, Vol. 9, No. 3 (Aug 2011), pages 83–94.
• Tae Woo Kim and Geoffrey M. Draper. Know Your Ancestors Better: Demographic Visualization for Large Genealogical Data Sets. Proceedings of the 10th Annual Workshop on Technology for Family History and Genealogical Research (FHTW 2010).
• Geoffrey M. Draper, Yarden Livnat, Richard F. Riesenfeld. A Survey of Radial Methods for Information Visualization. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, Vol. 15, No. 5 (Sep/Oct 2009), pages 759–776.
• Geoffrey M. Draper, Robert Kessler, Richard F. Riesenfeld. A History of Computing Course with a Technical Focus. Proceedings of the 40th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE 2009), pages 458–462. (Acceptance rate: 33%)
• Geoffrey M. Draper, Richard F. Riesenfeld. Who Votes For What? A Visual Query Language for Opinion Data. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (Proceedings of Visualization 2008), Vol. 14, No. 6 (Nov/Dec 2008), pages 1197–1204. (Acceptance rate: 26%)
• Geoffrey M. Draper, Yarden Livnat, Richard F. Riesenfeld. A Visual Query Language for Correlation Discovery and Management. Proceedings of the 2nd Annual Visual and Iconic Language Conference (VaIL 2008).
• Geoffrey M. Draper, Richard F. Riesenfeld. Interactive Fan Charts: A Space-saving Technique for Genealogical Graph Exploration. Proceedings of the 8th Annual Workshop on Technology for Family History and Genealogical Research (FHTW 2008).
• Geoffrey M. Draper, Parris K. Egbert. A Gestural Interface to Free-Form Deformation. Proceedings of Graphics Interface 2003, pages 113–120. (Acceptance rate: 33%)

Peer-Reviewed Presentations

• Meilan Jin, Iliesa S. K. Delai, Geoffrey M. Draper. Visualizing Apostolic Succession. Presented at the 2016 Mormon Media Studies Symposium, 3 November 2016. Laie, Hawaii, USA.
• Joohan Lee, Geoffrey M. Draper. Timeline-Enhanced Portrait Charts. Presented at the 15th Annual Family History Technology Workshop (FHTW 2015). Provo, Utah, USA.

Other Publications

• Created 3 cartoon illustrations (including the back cover artwork) for the textbook Automata and Computability: A Programmer's Perspective by Ganesh Gopalakrishnan. CRC Press, 2019.
• Created 11 cartoon illustrations (including the cover artwork) for the textbook Computation Engineering: Applied Automata Theory and Logic by Ganesh Gopalakrishnan. Springer, 2005.
• Published an article entitled The Art of Rewriting Old Games in the magazine Linux Journal, October 2003.

Professional Experience

• Professor, Brigham Young University–Hawaii, Faculty of Math & Computing (2020 – present)
• Associate Professor, Brigham Young University–Hawaii, Department of Computer and Information Sciences (2014 – 2020)
• Assistant Professor, Brigham Young University–Hawaii, Department of Computer and Information Sciences (2009 – 2014)
• Research Assistant, University of Utah Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute (2008)
• Graduate Instructor, University of Utah School of Computing (2007 – 2008)
• Research Assistant, University of Utah Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute (2005 – 2007)
• Teaching Assistant, University of Utah School of Computing (2004 – 2005)
• Systems Programmer, Wal-Mart, Inc. Information Systems Division (Bentonville, Arkansas) (2002 – 2004)
• Research Assistant, Brigham Young University Department of Computer Science (1998 – 2002)
• Intern Field Technician, Silicon Graphics, Inc. (summer 1999)

Professional Certifications

• Oracle Certified Professional: Java SE 11 Developer (2021)

Teaching Experience

• Human-Computer Interaction. Brigham Young University–Hawaii (2016 – present)
• Introduction to Information Visualization. Brigham Young University–Hawaii (2013 – present)
• Beginning Programming. Brigham Young University–Hawaii (2013, 2016 – present)
• Algorithms and Complexity. Brigham Young University–Hawaii (2010 – present)
• Object Oriented Programming I. Brigham Young University–Hawaii (2009– present)
• Object Oriented Programming II. Brigham Young University–Hawaii (2009– present)
• Discrete Mathematics I. Brigham Young University–Hawaii (2009– present)
• Discrete Mathematics II. Brigham Young University–Hawaii (2009– present)
• Introduction to Computer Graphics. Brigham Young University–Hawaii (2011)
• Programming Languages. Brigham Young University–Hawaii (2009)
• Fundamentals of Web Design & Technology. Brigham Young University–Hawaii (2009–2012)
• History of Electronic Computing. University of Utah (2008)
• Introduction to Programming in C++. University of Utah (2007)
• Introduction to Programming in Java. University of Utah (2007)

Honors

• Received Faculty Award for Teaching at BYUH in 2022 (only two were awarded that year)

Thesis Work

• Interactive Radial Visualizations for Information Retrieval and Management.
  Doctoral Dissertation, University of Utah, 2009
  Advisor: Richard F. Riesenfeld
• A Gestural Interface to Free-Form Deformation.
  Master of Science Thesis, Brigham Young University, 2002
  Advisor: Parris K. Egbert
• Automatic Extrusion of Three-Dimensional Buildings From Overhead Terrain Photography.
  Bachelor of Science Honors Thesis, Brigham Young University, 2000
  Advisor: Parris K. Egbert

Service

• Executive Council Member, Upsilon Pi Epsilon (2023 – present)
• Paper Reviewer, BMC Health Services Research (2022)
• Paper Reviewer, ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (2020)
• Chair, BYU–Hawaii Promotion and Review Committee (2017 — 2019)
• Faculty Advisor, BYU–Hawaii chapter of Upsilon Pi Epsilon honor society (2012 — present)
• Site organizer, International Collegiate Programming Contest (2009 – present).
• Program Committee Member, Narrative and Hypertext Workshop (2013, 2015 – 2019)
• Paper Reviewer and Session Chair, 9th International Symposium on Visual Information Communication and Interaction (VINCI 2016)
• Paper Reviewer, ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media (2016)
• Paper Reviewer, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (2013)
• Paper Reviewer, IEEE Information Visualization Conference (2010, 2013)
• Paper Reviewer, IEEE Visual Analytics Science and Technology Conference (2013)
• Paper Reviewer, IEEE Visualization for Cyber Security Conference (2013)
• Paper Reviewer, Social Behavior and Personality Journal (2012).
• Paper Reviewer and Session Chair, Information Systems Educators Conference (2010).
• Paper Reviewer, Journal of Visual Languages and Computing (2009, 2010, 2013).
• Program Committee Member, Workshop on Technology for Family History and Genealogical Research (2009, 2010).
• Paper Reviewer, IEEE Visualization Conference (2006, 2007).
• Student Volunteer, IEEE Visualization Conference (2000, 2008).

Professional Societies

• Member, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).
• Member, ACM Special Interest Group for Computer Science Education (SIGCSE).
• Member, IEEE Computer Society.
• Member, Upsilon Pi Epsilon.

Creative Works (Mobile Apps)

• Outfox (for Android)
• Temples Timeline (for iOS and Android)
• Latter-day Apostles (for iOS and Android)
• U.S. Supreme Court (for Android)
• Tubular! (for Android)
• Jarnaby Reader (for Android)
• Frozen Cubes (for Android)
• Sea Strike (for Android)
• Thirsty Nellan (for Android)
• Hawaii Five in a Row (for iOS, Android, Windows)