Christopher Collins
BSc, MSc, PhD

Background

Dr. Christopher Collins is a Research Science Manager at Meta Reality Labs Research in Toronto, where he leads wearables interaction research. He is a Professor of Computer Science at Ontario Tech University and former Canada Research Chair (2013-2023) in Linguistic Information Visualization.  His research focus is interdisciplinary, combining human-computer interaction, machine learning, natural language processing, and information visualization to create contextually adaptive ways to interact with the world and the wealth of data within it. Dr. Collins has published over 80 peer-reviewed contributions which have been cited over 5000 times. His work has appeared in top-tier venues such as ACM CHI and IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, and has been awarded honorable mention awards at ACM CHI and IEEE VIS. He has received over $3 million in research funding. The impact of Dr. Collins’ research garnered media attention from outlets including the New York Times and CBS Sunday Morning. He has given invited lectures and keynotes at academic and industry labs in Canada, the US, and Europe. Dr. Collins served on the Board of Governors of Ontario Tech University, the IEEE VIS Conference Executive Committee and as an Associate Editor of ACM TiiS and IEEE CG&A. He received his PhD in Computer Science from the University of Toronto.