Dr. Kay Robbins is a Professor at the University of Texas at San Antonio in the Department of Computer Science. Her research focuses on visualization, analysis and management of multimedia data sets, particularly those generated from scientific experiments and empirical studies of computer systems. Her work emphasizes time-critical visualization and the comparison of multimedia data sets. She collaborates with experimental scientists in the life and physical sciences to use visualization tools on real data. She holds a PhD in Mathematices from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.