📣 I am recruiting PhD students for Fall 2025 (deadline is in December 2024). While I am updating material for this admissions cycle, you can view my lab philosophy in this past year’s call.
I am an Associate Professor of Information Science at University of Colorado Boulder, and (starting in July 2024) Associate Chair for Undergraduate Studies. My research draws on the fields of Human-Computer Interaction and Information Visualization. I believe that improving the public’s engagement, trust, and understanding of data is a critical societal challenge. My research focuses on the opportunities and barriers of both data representations and data tools when they are embedded within our public sphere.
Before CU, I was an Associate Professor of Computer Science at Bucknell University, I received my Ph.D. in Computer Science from Tufts University with Robert Jacob, and worked (during a recent sabbatical) as a Visiting Scientist at MIT with Arvind Satyanarayan.
Students: In Fall 2024, I will be teaching INFO 4602: Information Visualization. We will meet MWF at 10:10am in Eaton 1B90.
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Recent News (see older news)
- May: Joined the Board of Directors for CRA-E (Computing Research Association - Education).
- Apr: Joined the Journal of Visualization and Interaction (JoVI) as an Associate Editor.
- Apr: Visited Harvey Mudd College and Pomona College to give a seminar talk on public data visualization and commmunication.
- Mar: CU’s CMCI Now Magazine wrote a feature on my work: #TechEthics
- Jan: Launched the Just Tech Fellows program at CU for SP24 - a multi-disciplinary + mult-institution collection of undergraduate students + faculty that work at the intersection of tech + society.
- Dec: Our ACM CHI 2024 workshop proposal Toward a More Comprehensive Understanding of Visualization Literacy was accepted! I’m excited to co-organize with an outstanding group of faculty.
- Nov: Along with colleagues at Bucknell University, I am a co-PI for a new grant via Mozilla’s Responsible Computing Challenge. In this interdisciplinary, multi-institution collaboration, we’ll create a Just Computing Fellows program and look to reimagine data visualization education at CU Boulder.
- Oct: 📣 I am planning to accept 1 or more PhD students for Fall 2024 - click this link for more info
- Oct: Attending Mozilla’s Responsible Computing Summit at Harvard University.
- Oct: Gave talk at NCAR (National Center for Atmospheric Research): Good for Scientists, Bad for Society: What happens when our charts don’t change minds?
- Oct: Gave guest lecture at Colorado College on thinking about the sociopolitical role of visualization.
- Aug: After completing my move to CU Boulder, I was officially awarded tenure in the department of Information Science. And they give us a tenure medal!