Prospective students: I am recruiting ONE Ph.D. student for Fall 2026.
I'll be at the 2025 IEEE VIS Conference if you would like to chat in person. 

We conduct experiments to understand how humans interpret data and make decisions using visualizations, generating guidelines for visualization tools that help people more effectively explore and communicate data to make decisions. Some questions we are interested in answering include...

1. How can we design natural language visualization tools to support visual analysis?
2. How are people biased when interpreting data? Why do these biases happen? How can we design information systems that mitigate them?
3. How do we design trustworthy visualizations and analytic tools in the era of AI?

Some nice people recorded a talk I recently gave at Stanford University below...