Research Interests

In theory there is no difference between theory and practice, but in practice there is. That's why Stephen Kobourov works on both theoretical and practical aspects of algorithms: from the design, analysis and implementation of efficient algorithms, to applications in information visualization, computational geometry and graph drawing. Prof. Kobourov is the author of more than 250 publications  and his work is well funded through research grants, including multiple grants from the National Science Foundation, the Office of Naval Research, and the United States Department of Agriculture.

Short CV

2024 - today	Professor, Chair of Efficient Algorithms, Computer Science Technical University of Munich
2024 - today	Emeritus Professor, Computer Science University of Arizona
2012 - 2024	Professor, Computer Science University of Arizona
2006 - 2012	Associate Professor, Computer Science University of Arizona
2000 - 2006	Assistant Professor, Computer Science Computer Science, University of Arizona
2000	PhD Computer Science Johns Hopkins University
1997	MS Computer Science Johns Hopkins University
1995	BS Computer Science and Mathematics (double major); Classics (minor) Dartmouth College • Summa Cum Laude

Publications

Please refer to the list on DBLP.

Awards

• Best Paper Award, 17th IEEE Pacific Visualization Symposium (PACIFICVIS) (2024)
• Most Influential Paper Award, IEEE VISSOFT (2019)
• Fulbright Distinguished Chair, US Department of State (2015-2016)
• Humboldt Research Fellow, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Germany (2011-2014)
• National Science Foundation Career Award, “Embedding, Morphing, & Visualizing Dynamic Graphs” (2006-2011)

Committees and Other Services to the Community

• Steering Committee Chair, International Symposium on Graph Drawing and Network Visualization (GD)
• Steering Committee Member, German Computer Graphics and Visualization Society (GI FB GDV)
• Editorial Board, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG)
• Editorial Board, Journal of Computational Geometry, Theory and Applications (CGTA)
• Editorial Board, Journal of Graph Algorithms and Applications (JGAA)
• Co-chair, Dagstuhl Seminar 250105, “Perception-Informed Network Visualization”, Germany, 2026
• PC member, 27th IEEE Eurographics Conference on Visualization (EuroVis), Luxembourg, 2025
• PC member, 37th ACM/IEEE Supercomputing Conference (SC), St. Louis, MO, USA, 2025
• PC member, 19th IEEE Pacific Visualization Symposium (PacificVis), Taipei, Taiwan, 2025
• PC member, 33rd International Symposium on Graph Drawing (GD), Norrköping, Sweden, 2025
• PC member, 27th Conference on Algorithm Engineering and Experiments (ALENEX), New Orleans, 2025

Teaching