Role at Tom Sawyer Software
Wendy Feng joined Tom Sawyer Software in 1997 as one of the world’s leading experts in the graph drawing community. Her experience with graph drawing algorithms has been instrumental in the development of graph visualization and graph layout technologies at Tom Sawyer Software. She played a key role in the development of Tom Sawyer Visualization on various platforms, and later in the design and implementation of Tom Sawyer Perspectives, the company’s flagship product, for both the web and desktop environments. With her deep technical knowledge and insights, Wendy has been a leader of the design and development of Tom Sawyer Perspectives through all releases, with a focus on the rendering technologies. She recently started leading the User Experience modernization effort at Tom Sawyer Software.
During a brief hiatus from her work at Tom Sawyer Software in 2003, Wendy was a lecturer in the School of Information Technologies at the University of Sydney in Australia, where she taught algorithms and data structures and researched the use of graph visualization technologies in bioinformatics.
Education
Wendy holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Newcastle, Australia. The Computing Research and Education Association of Australia, then known as the Computer Science Association, lauded her thesis as the national Best Thesis of the Year. She has published a number of peer-reviewed international articles on planarity and planar drawing of clustered graphs, as well as the multi-level visualization of clustered graphs.