Jose Tapia is a Ph. D. candidate in the High-Performance Visualization Group (HPV) under the supervision of Professor Markus Hadwiger at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST). 

Education and Early Career

He obtained his bachelor degree Genomic Sciences from National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) in Mexico. After that, he received his master degree Integrative Biology from Instituto Politécnico Nacional (IPN) in Mexico. Later on, he joined KAUST and obtained a master degree.

Research Interest

Jose is focusing on his research on the visualization of large biological datasets.

Selected Publications

His master thesis was titled “Measuring Visual Closeness of 3-D Models”.

Education Profile

  • ​Master in Integrative Biology, IPN, México
  • Undergraduate in Genomic Sciences, UNAM, México