Previously, he was a professor in the College of Information Studies,[4] an affiliate professor in the Computer Science Department, and an affiliate member of UMIACS (University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies), all at the University of Maryland, College Park.
[5] Prior to joining UMD, he was a faculty member in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue University from 2008 to 2014.
[8] Niklas Elmqvist completed his Doctor of Philosophy in computer science in 2006 at Chalmers University of Technology.
His contributions are diverse and focused on innovative human-data interaction and open data infrastructures.
He has championed the design of open and standardized infrastructures that support meshing those devices into a coherent whole, with a series of prototypes such as Munin, PolyChrome, and, more recently, the promising Vistrates framework,[13] that supports easily building cross-device and distributed visualization applications.