athalie is a researcher at Microsoft Research in the VIBE group since december 2008. Her interests lie in social networks, network visualization, information visualization and human-computer interaction in general.

After a master's in computer graphics, nathalie earned a cotutelle Ph. D., sharing her time working with Pr. Jean-Daniel Fekete and the AVIZ team at INRIA/Université Paris-Sud in France and Pr. Peter Eades and graph drawing folks at the University of Sydney in Australia. Her Ph.D. research focused on the visualization of social networks using matrix-based representations.

Recent publications

• Petra Isenberg, Anastasia Bezerianos, Nathalie Henry, Sheelagh Carpendale and Jean-Daniel Fekete. CoCoNutTrix: A Study in Collaborative Retrofitting for Information Visualization. In Special Issue on Collaborative Infovis, IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications journal, conditionnaly accepted.
• Tomer Moscovich, Fanny Chevalier, Nathalie Henry, Emmanuel Pietriga and Jean-Daniel Fekete. Topology-Aware Navigation in Large Networks. In CHI'09: Proceedings of the twenty-seventh annual SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems, to appear.
• Nathalie Henry and Jean-Daniel Fekete. Représentations alternatives pour les réseaux sociaux. In Réseaux - Communication, Technologie, Société, special issue on online social networks, 26(152), pp59--92, to appear.
• Nathalie Henry. Exploring Large Social Networks with Matrix-Based Representations. Ph. D. Thesis, cotutelle INRIA/Université Paris-Sud, France and University of Sydney, Australia, July 2008. Written in english, 20p abstract in french. [pdf]
• Nathalie Henry, Anastasia Bezerianos and Jean-Daniel Fekete. Improving the Readability of Clustered Social Networks by Node Duplication. In IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (Proceedings of Visualization/Information Visualization 2008), 14(6), pages 1317-1324, November/December 2008. IEEE Press. Acceptance rate: 26% [pdf]