
Professor, Department of Machine Learning, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
My research helps people make sense of complex data. Today I focus on human–AI collaborative analytics: how people and AI can analyze data together. This builds on two decades of work on visual analytics techniques for many kinds of data, including multidimensional, time-oriented, network and hierarchical, text, trajectory, image and video data, and on core visualization questions such as interaction, insight management, clustering-based approaches, animation and LLM-assisted visualization. With my collaborators and students, I have also conducted design studies in sports, bioinformatics, finance, network security, health and education.
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My research has been supported by the National Science Foundation, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Google, Bank of America and UNC Charlotte, including the College of Computing and Informatics and Student Affairs.