I am an Associate Professor of Information Science at University of Colorado Boulder, Associate Chair for Undergraduate Studies, and director of the CU Information Visions Lab (under construction!).
- đź“Š My research group focuses on the opportunities and barriers of public data communication, believing that our engagement, trust, and understanding of data is a critical societal challenge. My work is situated within the fields of Human-Computer Interaction and Information Visualization.
- 🧑‍💻 As an advocate for undergraduate computing education, I also publish pedagogical interventions that integrate social responsibility into core computing curriculum, and serve on the Computer Research Association’s Education (CRA-E) Board of Directors. See my teaching page for a broader perspective on my educational involvement.
Before CU, I was an Associate Professor of Computer Science at Bucknell University, I received my Ph.D. in Computer Science from Tufts University with Robert Jacob, and worked (during a recent sabbatical) as a Visiting Scientist at MIT with Arvind Satyanarayan.
đź“Ł Prospective Ph.D. Students: I do not plan on offering new funded positions in my lab for the Fall 2026 application cycle. I encourage you to look at my wonderful colleagues for other potential opportunities.
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Recent News (see older news)
- July (Upcoming): Invited talk + participant at Gordon Research Conference: Visualization in Science and Education
- June: Attending Board of Directors Meeting for CRA-E
- May: Awarded a Stage 2 grant from Mozilla’s Responsible Computing Initiative.
- May: Attended 4-Corners Vis PI meeting: A gathering for visualization researchers in the 4-corner states (Utah, Colorado, Arizona, New Mexico)
- Mar: 🎉 Co-authored paper led by Akim Ndlovu (WPI) accepted to EuroVis 2025, and will be presented in Luxembourg in June - SurpriseExplora: Tuning and Contextualizing Model-derived Maps with Interactive Visualizations.
- Feb: Co-authored 2024 CRA (Computer Research Association) Quadrennial Paper - Empowering the Future Workforce: Prioritizing Education for the AI-Accelerated Job Market
- Feb: 🎉 Co-authored paper led by Jen Rogers (Tufts University) was accepted to ACM CHI Late-Breaking Work: House Advantage or House of Cards? Stacking the Deck for Data Videos Leads to Null Results
- Dec: Featured on the Changing Academic Life podcast: Evan Peck on considered choices and career moves: from liberal arts to a research uni
- Dec: Served on the selection committee for CRA’s Outstanding Undergraduate Research Awards
- Nov: Gave a guest talk at the Colorado School of Mines CS Seminar: Good for Scientists, Bad for Society: Why won’t data change our minds?
- Oct: Travelled to Salt Lake City to join the University of Utah for IEEE VIS, and host a virtual Visualization for Social Good meetup.
- Sep: A quick trip to Washington, DC where I participated in the keynote panel about AI + Ethics + Engineering Education for the 2024 NSF EEC Grantees Conference.
- Aug: Big welcome to the first graduate students in the Information Visions Lab, my new research group - Frida Mudsam (Ph.D.) and Adam Illig (MS). More detail soon!
- Aug: Started a new role as Associate Chair of Undergraduate Studies in CU Boulder’s Information Science Department.
- Jul: 🎉 Co-authored paper led by Dylan Wootton (MIT) was accepted to IEEE VIS. Charting EDA: Characterizing Interactive Visualization Use in Computational Notebooks with a Mixed-Methods Formalism. Co-authors: Dylan Wootton (MIT), Amy Rae Fox (MIT), and Arvind Satyanarayan (MIT)
- Jul: 🎉 Co-authored poster led by Akim Ndlovu (WPI) was accepted to IEEE VIS. SurpiseSync: Visual Exploration for De-biased Choropleth Maps. Co-authors: Akim Ndlovu (WPI), Hilson Shrestha (WPI), and Lane Harrison (WPI)