Student Advising and Mentoring

PhD Students

current
Adam Coscia (HCC) - visualizing language models; sensemaking; visual text analytics

former
Subhajit Das (CS) - usable ML model building; Senior Analyst at Amazon
Julia Deeb-Swihart (CS, co-advised w/Amy Bruckman) - AI and visualization to combat human trafficking; Research Scientist at Parsons
Grace Guo (HCC) - visualization recommendation; annotations for visual charts; explainable AI; Postdoc at Harvard
Fred Hohman (CSE, co-advise w/Polo Chau) - graph visual analytics; interpretable deep learning; Research Scientist at Apple
Hannah Kim (CSE, co-advised w/Haesun Park) - visual analytics and topic modeling; Research Scientist at Megagon Labs
Po Ming "Terrance" Law (CS, co-advised w/John Stasko) - visualization for comparison; Software Engineer at Google
Arpit Narechania (CS) - guidance in visual analytics; natural language toolkits; visual analytics for automotive engineering; Assistant Professor at HKUST
Bahador Saket (CS) - visualization by demonstration; studying interaction in visualization; Product Manager at Suki AI
Emily Wall (CS) - mitigating cognitive bias during data analysis and exploration; Assistant Professor at Emory University

Masters and Undergraduate Students

Matt Britton (MS-CS) - visual analytics and topic modeling for browsing Reddit;
Ravish Chawla (MS-CS) - visual analytic technique for ranking;
Rachel Chen (MS-HCI) - visualization in computational journalism;
Meghan Galanif (MS-HCI) - visualizing uncertainty in state-reported vaccination rates;
Sonal Jain (MS-CS) - text visual analytics for legal domains;
Steve Jones (MS-HCI) - baseball visual analytics;
Hannah Kim (MS-CS) - InterAxis;
Vaishnavi Kulkarni (MS-CS) - visualizing temporal trends on Reddit threads;
Aishwarya Mudgal Sunil Kumar (MS-CS) - visualizing student performance for online course;
Kaustubh Odak (MS-CS) - analytic provenance; ProvenanceWidgets;
Jamal Paden (CS undergrad) - haptic feedback to communicate cognitive bias;
Sakshi Pratap (MS-CS) - streaming visual analytics for finance;
Aishwariya Rajagopal (MS-CS) - user-driven topic models;
Bhargav Rajendra (MS-HCI) - interactive analytics library;
Pranav Ram (MS-CS) - structured analytical reasoning for visual analytics;
Pradeep Rajendran Vairamani (MS-CS) - text visual analytics;
Jianling "Kelly" Wang (MS-CS) - visualization recommendation systems;
Shenyu Xu (MS-CS) - data-driven storytelling;