Stephen Kobourov is a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Arizona, where he also serves as Associate Director of the Data Science Institute (Data7). He completed BS degrees in Mathematics and Computer Science, with a minor in Greek and Roman Studies, at Dartmouth College in 1995, MS degree in Computer Science at Johns Hopkins University in 1997 and PhD in Computer Science at Johns Hopkins University in 2000. He has worked as Fulbright Scholar at the University of Botswana, as a Research Scientist at AT&T Research Labs, a Hulmboldt Fellow at the University of Tübingen in Germany, and a Distinguished Fulbright Chair at Charles University in Prague. His research interests are in the design and implementation of efficient algorithms with applications in graph drawing, computational geometry, information visualization, and human-computer interaction.