News Archive

2022

Sept. 2022: I began working as a full time Lecturer in Computer Science at my alma mater, Mount Holyoke College.
Aug. 2022: I successfully defended my dissertation titled “Communicative Information Visualizations: How to make data more understandable by the general public”!
Jul. 2022: I served as a committee member for the 2022 Visualization for Social Good workshop (held in conjunction with VIS 2022).

Oct. 2021: I presented my short paper “Making the Invisible Visible: Risks and benefits of disclosing metadata in visualization” at the Visualization for Social Good workshop! If you missed it, here’s a summary of what I talked about.
Aug. 2021: My short paper “Making the Invisible Visible: Risks and benefits of disclosing metadata in visualization” was accepted for presentation at the Visualization for Social Good workshop at IEEE VIS 2021.
Aug. 2021: Last summer, I worked with colleagues from Mount Holyoke College and Microsoft to develop curriculum for educators about building resiliency through mentorship. You can now find the toolkit linked in Microsoft’s article “How can you build your tech resilience?”
Jul. 2021: My paper “Designing with Pictographs: Envision Topics without Sacrificing Understanding” was accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics.
May 2021: I attended ACM CHI for the first time!

Oct. 2020: I presented my paper “How to evaluate data visualizations across different levels of understanding” at BELIV during my first VIS conference.
Aug. 2020: My paper “How to evaluate data visualizations across different levels of understanding” was accepted for presentation at the BELIV 2020 workshop.
Feb. 2020: I finished my Masters degree.
Jan. 2020: I joined the HCI-VIS lab under the guidance of Dr. Narges Mahyar.
Aug. 2019: CICS wrote a news article about the summer classes that ran this summer, including my class “Circuits, Robotics, and Arduino.”