Cognition and Visualization (CAV) Lab

About CAV Lab

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.

Recent News

Incoming student!

August 2023. Thomas Davidson will join Emory as a Ph.D. student this Fall, transferring from the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems in Germany.

Upcoming Paper @ EuroVIS 2023

May 2023. Belief Decay or Persistence? A Mixed-Method Study on Belief Movement Over Time will be presented at EuroVIS 2023 after being accepted to the Computer Graphics Forum. Congratulations to Emory student Shrey Gupta on this collaboration with Alireza Karduni

Summer Internships

May 2023. Good luck to Yanan Da (National Renewable Energy Lab) and Ziwei Dong (Amazon) on their internships over the summer.

Graduating Undergraduates!

May 2023. Congratulations to graduating students Ben Altschuler, Randy Truong, and Zhongzheng Xu.

Upcoming Paper @ VIS 2023

March 2023. A Qualitative Interview Study of Distributed Tracing Visualisation: A Characterisation of Challenges and Opportunities will be presented at VIS 2023 by incoming Emory PhD Student and current visiting researcher Thomas Davidson after acceptance of this paper with his previous supervisor Jonathan Mace to TVCG.

Incoming student!

August 2022. Mengyu (Bonnie) Chen will join Emory as a Ph.D. student this Fall.

People

Emily Wall, Ph.D.

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

Thomas Davidson

Visiting Scholar
personal data vis; info vis; distributed tracing; running; ch ess;
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

Bella Li

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

Yijun Liu

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

Julietta Zhu

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

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

Yiping (Jessie) Liang

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

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

Pets

This is Alvin! You can always find me near my food or on my way to food 😎

Alvin

Hello from Amiens! My human name me after a French city name, Amiens, where they met and fell in love. My birthday is July 14th which is also French National Day. I'm a gentleman, never lost my temper even if I found cattish Juven stolen my food!

Amiens

Bagel

Hi! My name is Shan Cai but I go by Cai mostly. I am a full moon betta fish and just a few month old in human years. Unlike my sister Coffee, I am a picky eater who only chew on smaller pellets and rather stay hungry than eating anything larger than my mouth.

Cai

Cat

Hi this is coffee! I am a betta fish who was mistaken as a boy as a fry but grow into a strong girl now. I love to interact with human whenever they pass my tank and I will nibble on any food that is floating on the surface. I am younger than my brother Cai but I eat two times more daily. I believe I'll out grow him soon >_•

Coffee

Ellarie

Hi, I'm Juven (June-eleven, the date my human got married). I'm a big fan of parkour and food. You can always find me near my brother Amiens's food bowl. I swear I didn't steal his food!

Juven

Kakashi Sensei

Moon

Niki

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