Bridger Herman (he/they) is a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Computer Science department at Carleton College. He earned his Ph.D. in the University of Minnesota’s Interactive Visualization Lab, working with Daniel F. Keefe. Bridger is an enthusiastic computer science educator with a keen interest in helping people navigate their first computer science experiences to become thoughtful and critical contributors to a rapidly evolving field with worldwide impacts. Their research evolves at the intersection of extended reality visualization, data physicalization, and creativity support tools, to facilitate more useful, deliberately designed interactions between humans, computers, and data.
At Carleton since 2024.
