We are the Cognition & Visualization Lab at Emory. We aim to facilitate effective data exploration and decision making by quantifying potential human or algorithmic biases and designing interfaces that will promote user reflection. Current and prospective students in the CAV Lab can check out the lab manual for information on lab culture and expectations.
If you are interested in working with our lab, please contact us.
November 2026. Thomas Davidson will present his paper Charting the Immersive Self: A Scoping Review of Immersive Personal Visualisation; Mengyu Chen will present her paper Less Is More Reflective: Intervention Intensity and Metacognitive Disruption in Visual Analytics; and Shiyao Li will present his paper Confirmation Bias Shapes Outlier Identification and Removal in Data Cleaning with Scatterplots at VIS 2026!
Sep 2026. Join us in celebrating our newest lab alum, Dr. Shiyao Li! It has been a joy working alongside him, and we wish him the absolute best as he takes on his new role as a Data Scientist at Home Depot. Congratulations, Shiyao!
August 2026. We are excited to welcome Sung Oh to CAV-Lab as an incoming Ph.D. student! Sung Oh joins us from Virginia Tech and will be researching visual analytics and human-computer interaction. Welcome to the team, Sung!
Sep 2026. Mengyu Chen passed her dissertation prospectus, detailing her ongoing thesis work on integrating metacognition with visualization. Congratulations on this major milestone, Mengyu!
Assistant Professor
visual analytics; decision making; cat lady; puzzle connoisseur;
Scholar
Ph.D. Candidate
personal data vis; info vis; distributed tracing; running; chess;
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Ph.D. Candidate
visual analytics; human behavior; bookworm; dog person;
Scholar
Undergraduate Student
Mathematics and Data Science; Data Vis; Cooking; Travel; Coffee
Undergraduate Student
Mathematics and Data Science; Data Vis; Cooking; Travel; Coffee
Undergraduate Student
data science; cognitive psyc & nbb; multilingual; matcha enthusiast; pup lover
Undergraduate Student
Computer Science & Business; Student Ambassador; Outdoor Emory Exec Member & Trip Leader
Undergraduate Student
computer science & psychology; web development; guitarist; basketball
Undergraduate Student
computer science; software development; dancing; traveling
Undergraduate Student
quantitative science; econ & anthro; film & photography
decision making; bias detection; Hearthstone; cat food researcher;
Now: Data Scientist @ Home Depot
info vis; human bias; decision making; lego; puzzle; restaurants; workout;
Now: Founding Engineer @ Akify
data visualization; machine learning interpretability; board gamer; badminton fan; Now: Applied Scientist @ Amazon
storytelling; cognitively accessible data visualizations;
Now: Assistant Professor @ University of Maryland, College Park
social nlp; info vis; human bias; avid surfer; pro smoothie maker;
topic modeling visualizations for literature review
Now: M.S. Biomedical Informatics @ Harvard
(co-advised by Avani Wildani)
data viz; decision making; transfer/meta-learning; amateur runner; self-proclaimed humorist;
Undergraduate Student
psychology; decision making; startup; travel; cafe-hopping
Undergraduate Student
visual analytics; violinist; dried mango lover; 76ers fan; comp sci & business
computing & critical design theories; phil & lit; random spotify playlists generation; weightlifting; sarcasm overload
data visualization; design & psychology lover; super fan of massage; used to go to gym everyday;
Sociology and Computing; UI Design; Professional baker for friends' birthdays
interaction design; info vis; bridging subjectivity & objectivity; visual artist; friend;
Now: Pacific Northwest National Lab in Seattle, WA
UX-design; psychology & sociology lover; vimer; owner of two cats; barista
Psychology and Economics; UI/UX Design; Entrepreneurship; Visual Art
