I am an Assistant Professor in the School of Data Science at the University of Virginia where I lead the ViDAR Lab. My research sits at the intersection of data visualization, human-computer interaction, and design, with a focus on understanding how to inspire and support creativity in data visualization and design. This allows me to empircally explore how people conceptualize design ideas, and develop tools that empower people to bring their ideas to life.
Recent News
Dec 2025: Gave an invited talk at the UVA LLM Workshop
Nov 2025: Gave an invited talk at Data Palooza
Aug 2025: Invited to serve as a PC member for IUI'26!
Aug 2025: I started my new role as an Assistant Professor at UVA SDS!
Aug 2025: Invited to serve as a PC member for VISCOMM and the Short Papers track at VIS'25!
July 2025: Two papers presenting an SVG corpus with semantic labels and D3 decomposition strategies accepted at IEEE VIS'25!
May 2025: I have sucessfully defended my dissertation!