Alessandro Febretti received a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Chicago, a Master’s Degree in Computer Engineering from Politecnico di Milano, as well as a Master’s Degree in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Chicago. As a Senior Interactive Visualization Specialist at Northwestern University, Febretti’s main interests are scientific visualization design, large-scale immersive displays and human-computer interaction. Febretti works on streaming techniques for visualization, which allows researchers to interact in real time with a visualization running on a remote rendering cluster. He also works on visualization of astrophysics and chemistry datasets.