# jeffrey michael heer

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**Parent**: https://homes.cs.washington.edu/~jheer/

# [about](https://homes.cs.washington.edu/~jheer/)     [bio](https://homes.cs.washington.edu/~jheer/bio)     students     [vita](https://homes.cs.washington.edu/~jheer/cv)

The best part of being a professor is working with talented and engaging students!

## PhD Students and Post-Doctoral Scholars

*Current*\

- **[Matt Conlen](http://www.mathisonian.com)** (CS) — Authoring interactive documents.
- **[Jane Hoffswell](https://homes.cs.washington.edu/~jhoffs/#Home)** (CS) — Visual debugging tools.
- **[Eunice Jun](https://homes.cs.washington.edu/~emjun/)** (CS) — Languages and tools for statistical analysis.
- **[Younghoon Kim](https://yhoonkim.github.io/)** (CS) — Visualization perception, models and automated design.
- **[Yang Liu](http://yangliu.life/)** (CS) — Data visualization & multiverse analysis.
- **[Tongshuang (Sherry) Wu](https://homes.cs.washington.edu/~wtshuang/)** (CS) — Interactive machine learning, error analysis (co-advised with Dan Weld).

*Former*\

- **[Leilani Battle](http://cs.umd.edu/~leilani/bio.html)** (CS Post-Doc) — Databases and scalable interactive visualization. Now faculty at UMD.
- **[Mike Bostock](http://bost.ocks.org/mike/)** (CS) — [Protovis](http://protovis.org) & [D3](http://mbostock.github.com/d3/) visualization languages. Formerly at New York Times, now Founder at Observable.
- **[Jason Chuang](http://jason.chuang.ca/research/)** (CS) — Text analysis and visualization (co-advised with [Chris Manning](http://nlp.stanford.edu/~manning/)).
- **[Michael Correll](http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~mcorrell/)** (CS Post-Doc) — Uncertainty visualization and perception. Now at Tableau Research.
- **[Çağatay Demiralp](http://hci.stanford.edu/~cagatay/)** (CS Post-Doc) — Visual analysis of genomic data; automated visualization design. Now at IBM Research.
- [**Spence Green**](http://www.spencegreen.com/) (CS) — Mixed-initiative language translation (primary advisor Chris Manning). Founder at Lilt.
- **[Sanjay Kairam](http://www.sanjaykairam.com/)** (CS) — Selective sharing in social media. Now at Twitch.
- **[Sean Kandel](http://skandel.us)** (CS) — Wrangler: visual data diagnostics, cleaning, and transformation. Founder at [Trifacta](http://trifacta.com).
- **[Zhicheng Liu](http://www.zcliu.org/)** (CS Post-Doc) — Interactive visualization of big data. Now at [Adobe Research](http://www.adobe.com/technology.html).
- **[Diana MacLean](http://web.stanford.edu/~malcdi/)** (CS) — Algorithms and interfaces for medical informatics. Now at Facebook Research.
- **[Dominik Moritz](http://domoritz.de/)** (CS) — Integrating scalable databases and visualization (co-advised with Bill Howe). Now faculty at CMU.
- **[Jorge Poco](https://vgc.poly.edu/~jpocom/)** (CS Post-Doc) — Computational visualization interpretation. Now faculty at Getulio Vargas Foundation, Brazil.
- **[Arvind Satyanarayan](http://arvindsatya.com/)** (CS) — Languages & tools for interactive visualization. Now faculty at MIT.
- **[K. Allison Smith](http://www.kallisonsmith.us/)** (eScience Post-Doc) — Computational marine biology.
- **[Jeff Snyder](http://homes.cs.washington.edu/~jasnyder/)** (CS) — coLaboratory. Now at Google.
- **[Kanit (Ham) Wongsuphasawat](http://kanitw.yellowpigz.com/)** (CS) — Visualization recommendation. Now at Apple.

## Masters and Undergraduate Students

*Recent*\

- **Chanwut (Mick) Kittivorawong** (BS CS) — Labeling algorithms for Vega.
- **Halden Lin** (MS CS) — Automated visualization design tools.
- **Akshat Shrivastava** (MS CS) — Interactive ML for sequence labeling.

*Former*\

- **Rio Akasaka** (MS CS) — New interfaces for media browsing. Now at Google.
- **Elliot Babchick** (MS CS) — New interfaces for media browsing; Visual analysis of news stories.
- **Anant Bhardwaj** (MS CS) — Data Wrangler and Profiler. Went to MIT EECS, now Founder at Instabase.
- **Dan Chang** (MS EE) — Multi-lingual color naming experiments. Now at Pixar.
- **Arti Chhajta** (MS CS) — ReVision: computational visualization interpretation.
- **Matthew Chun** (BS CS) — Vega Project.
- **Julie Fortuna** (BS SymSys) — Categorical color perception.
- **Emily Gu** (BS CS) — Styling Vega visualizations.
- **Sira Horradarn** (BS CS) — Vega Project.
- **Amy Jang** (MS CS) — Visualizing and communicating physical pain. Now at Goole.
- **Ashley Jin** (MS CS) — Termite: topic model visualization.
- **Nam Wook Kim** (MS CS) — Visualizing genealogies with [TimeNets](http://hci.stanford.edu/jheer/files/2010-TimeNets-AVI.pdf). Now at Harvard.
- **Swojit Mohapatra** (BS CS) — Vega Project.
- **[Vadim Ogievetsky](http://vadim.ogievetsky.com/)** (MS CS) — [Protovis](http://vis.stanford.edu/protovis) and [D3](http://vis.stanford.edu/d3). Founder at Imply.
- [**Ravi Parikh**](http://www.ravi.io/) (MS CS) — Data Wrangler and Profiler. Founder at Heap.
- **Ryan Russell** (BS CS) — Vega & Lyra visualization design environment. Now at Microsoft.
- **Nathan Sakunkoo** (MS CS) — Keyword programming of data visualizations. Now at Google.
- **Edward Segel** (MS SymSys) — Narrative visualization. Now at Stanford Business School.
- **Will Strimling** (BS CS) — Vega-Lite cartographic visualization.
- **Lingyue Zhang** (BS CS) — Vega Project.
- **Andrea Zvinakis** (MS SymSys) — New interfaces for media browsing. Now at Google.

## Thesis Committees, Rotation Students & Collaborators

- **Jacob Bank** (CS) — The effects of latency on visual analysis.
- **Matthew Can** (CS) — Data Wrangler transform search.
- [**Morgan Dixon**](http://morgandixon.net/) (CS) — Pixel-based UI reverse engineering. Now at Adobe Research.
- [**Philip Guo**](http://www.pgbovine.net/) (CS) — Proactive Wrangler. Now faculty at Rochester.
- [**Sonal Gupta**](http://www.cs.stanford.edu/people/sonal/) (CS) — Distantly supervised information extraction using bootstrapped patterns.
- **Sudheendra Hangal** (CS) — Social Flows; MUSE.
- **Brandon Heller** (CS) — Directed edge bundling; visualizing open source collaborations.
- **Lahiru Jayatilaka** (CS) — The effects of latency on visual analysis.
- **Joy Kim** (CS) — Data sonification experiments.
- **Yea-Seul Kim** (iSchool) — Bayesian cognitive models for visual analysis.
- **Chinmay Kulkarni** (CS) — Automated categorical color palette design.
- **Sharon Lin** (CS) — Data-driven color design tools.
- **Eli Marschner** (CS) — Visualizing open source collaborations. Now at Trifacta.
- **Will McGrath** (CS) — Visualization design tools.
- **Neema Moraveji** (Ed) — Peripheral-paced respiration.
- **Gregory Nelson** (CS) — Computer science education.
- **Manolis Savva** (CS) — ReVision: computational visualization interpretation.
- **David Selassie** (Chem) — Divided edge bundling.
- **Justin Talbot** (CS) — Accelerating R. Now at Tableau.
- **Chenglong Wang** (CS) — Program synthesis for visualization.
- **Douglas Woos** (CS) — Debugging distributed systems.