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After hours spent with computers, her hard work has paid off.
Miriah Meyer, a computer scientist and assistant professor at the University of Utah, has been selected as one of seven Microsoft Research Faculty Fellows for 2012.
The award recognizes innovative new faculty members from research institutions around the world for their advancements in computing research.
Meyer has been working on visualization programs that support complex data. Using her programs, researchers can see their data presented graphically and can pick out errors much earlier than they have been able to do in the past.
"Dr. Meyer has an amazing breadth of research talents," Chris Johnson, director of the Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute, said in a news release. "Her expertise in computer science coupled with her strong science background, allows her to work closely with scientists on important research problems, finding solutions that neither computer scientists nor application scientists could have found working in isolation."
Meyer said she feels honored to receive the recognition and the funding for her project.
"My work has the potential to really make an impact in computer science, biology, and how we think about dealing with the avalanche of data," Meyer said in the release. "I'm absolutely thrilled!"
Meyer received a doctorate in computing from the University of Utah in 2008. She holds a bachelor's degree in astronomy and astrophysics from Pennsylvania State University.
Prior to joining the U. faculty in 2011, Meyer served as a postdoctoral research fellow at Harvard University, and as a visiting scientist at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard.