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Upcoming Doctoral Colloquium @ VIS 2024

October 2024. Shiyao Li will participate the Doctoral Colloquium at IEEE VIS 2024! He will present his proposed dissertation work "Understanding and Mitigating Confirmation Bias in Visual Data Interpretation".

Graduating Undergraduates!

May 2024. Congratulations to graduating student Yijun Liu. Yijun will join UIUC as a Ph.D. student.

People

Emily Wall, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor
visual analytics; decision making; cat lady; puzzle connoisseur;
Scholar

Keke Wu, Ph.D.

Post Doc
storytelling; cognitively accessible data visualizations;
Scholar

Thomas Davidson

Ph.D. Student
personal data vis; info vis; distributed tracing; running; chess;
Scholar

Yanan Da

Ph.D. Candidate
info vis; human bias; decision making; lego; puzzle; restaurants; workout;
Scholar

Ziwei Dong

Ph.D. Candidate
data visualization; machine learning interpretability; board gamer; badminton fan;

Shrey Gupta

Ph.D. Candidate
(co-advised by Avani Wildani)
data viz; decision making; transfer/meta-learning; amateur runner; self-proclaimed humorist;
Scholar

Mengyu (Bonnie) Chen

Ph.D. Student
visual analytics; human behavior; bookworm; dog person;

Shiyao Li

Ph.D. Student
decision making; bias detection; Hearthstone; cat food researcher;
Scholar

Audrey Bu

Undergraduate Student
Mathematics and Data Science; Data Vis; Cooking; Travel; Coffee

Molly Han

Undergraduate Student
data science; cognitive psyc & nbb; multilingual; matcha enthusiast; pup lover

Ethan Lee

Undergraduate Student
computer science & psychology; web development; guitarist; basketball

Aiden Min

Undergraduate Student
visual analytics; violinist; dried mango lover; 76ers fan; comp sci & business

Daisy Wang

Undergraduate Student
computer science; software development; dancing; traveling

Daiwei Wang

Undergraduate Student
quantitative science; econ & anthro; film & photography

Andrew Yang

Undergraduate Student
psychology; decision making; startup; travel; cafe-hopping

Alumni

Ben Altschuler

social nlp; info vis; human bias; avid surfer; pro smoothie maker;

Zhou (Serena) Fang

topic modeling visualizations for literature review
Now: M.S. Biomedical Informatics @ Harvard

Bella Li

computing & critical design theories; phil & lit; random spotify playlists generation; weightlifting; sarcasm overload

Yiping (Jessie) Liang

data visualization; design & psychology lover; super fan of massage; used to go to gym everyday;

Yijun Liu

Sociology and Computing; UI Design; Professional baker for friends' birthdays

Randy Truong

interaction design; info vis; bridging subjectivity & objectivity; visual artist; friend;
Now: Pacific Northwest National Lab in Seattle, WA

Zhongzheng Xu

UX-design; psychology & sociology lover; vimer; owner of two cats; barista

Julietta Zhu

Psychology and Economics; UI/UX Design; Entrepreneurship; Visual Art

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Alvin

Amiens

Bagel

Cai

Cat

Coffee

Ellarie

Juven

Kakashi Sensei

Moon

Niki

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