Hi, I'm an Assistant Professor in the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Oregon State University, where I lead the Data Interaction and Visualization (DIV) Lab.
My research focuses on building novel data visualization tools for people to easily explore, interpret, and interact with machine learning (ML) systems and many different types of large datasets. To do this, my work combines data-driven scalable techniques and human-centered interactive approaches, by utilizing methods from multiple areas, including data visualization, visual analytics, interpretable ML, human-computer interaction (HCI), and databases.
I earned a PhD in computer science at Georgia Tech and received the College of Computing Dissertation Award. I was fortunate to work with amazing people at Google Brain and Facebook Research, resulting in deployed systems (e.g., deep learning visualization for Facebook) and open-sourced tools (e.g., GAN education with Google Brain). My research has been supported by NSF, DARPA, Google, and Facebook.
I'm looking for students interested in human-AI interaction, data visualization, explainable AI, etc.
If you are a current OSU student, please email me with your CV and transcipt; a short summary of your experience; and a brief explanation of why you want to work with me. I may not be able to respond to your email if we don't have available positions for you.
News
- Apr 2021 Honored to receive the Georgia Tech College of Computing Dissertation Award.
- Mar 2021 Our DARPA Explainable (XAI) grant is extended.
- Dec 2020 Our research will be supported by the NSF IUCRC PPI Center.
- Sept 2020 New paper on evaluting GAN Lab, accepted for IEEE VIS'20.
- Aug 2020 New paper, CNN Explainer, accepted for IEEE VIS'20 (TVCG track).
- May 2020 I'll be teaching a new grad-level course on "Data Visualization for ML (CS 539)". OSU students are welcome to take it!
- Feb 2020 Our Chronodes paper nominated for the 2018 ACM TiiS Best Paper.
- July 2019 New paper, FairVis, on visual analysis of ML bias accepted to IEEE VIS'19.
Research Highlights
Education
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Ph.D. in Computer Science,
Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
2013-2019
Thesis: Human-Centered AI through Scalable Visual Data Analytics
Committee: Polo Chau, Sham Navathe, Alex Endert, Martin Wattenberg, Fernanda Viégas -
M.S. in Computer Science and Engineering,
Seoul National University, South Korea
2009-2011
Thesis: Context-Aware Recommendation using Learning-to-Rank - B.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, Seoul National University, South Korea 2005-2009
Industry Research Experience
- Google, Software Engineering Intern at Google Brain's People+AI Research Group Summer 2017
- Facebook, Research Intern at Applied ML Research Group Summer 2016
- Facebook, Research Intern at Applied ML Research Group Summer 2015
Awards (selected)
- ACM Trans. Interactive Intelligent Systems (TiiS) 2018 Best Paper, Honorable Mention 2020
- Google PhD Fellowship, Google AI 2018-2019
- Graduate TA of the Year in School of Computer Science, Georgia Tech Apr 2018
- NSF Graduate Research Fellowship, National Science Foundation 2014-2017
- Best Paper Award, PhD Workshop at CIKM Oct 2011
- National Scholarship for Science and Engineering, Korea Student Aid Foundation 2005-2009
Teaching
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CS 565. Human-Computer Interaction
Spring 2022, Spring 2021, and Spring 2020
This course will provide students with basic principles of and research methods in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI). Students will learn how to design and prototype user interfaces and interactive systems, based on the needs of users, and how to evaluate such interfaces and systems rigorously. -
CS 499/599. Visual Analytics (tentative)
Winter 2022
TBD -
CS 539. Special / AI: Data Visualization for ML
Fall 2020
This course will introduce advanced state-of-the-art research on interactive data visualization for machine learning. Students will learn how to design and develop interactive data visualization methods and tools that are interpretable to complex ML models (e.g., deep learning models), scalable to large data, and usable to a variety of users (e.g., ML researchers, practitioners like ML engineers and data scientists, non-expert learners).
Student Advising
Graduate Students
- Montaser Hamid, CS PhD, Spring 2021 - present Advisor
- Delyar Tabatabai, CS MS, Winter 2021 - present
- Roli Khanna, CS MS, Spring 2020 - present
- Dayeon Oh, CS MS, Spring 2020 - present
- Kin-Ho Lam, CS MS (Advisor: Alan Fern), Fall 2020 - present Co-advisor
- Matthew Olson, CS MS/PhD (Advisor: Weng-Keen Wong), Winter 2020 - present Collaborator
Undergraduate Students
- Donny Bertucci, CS, Winter 2020 - present
- Mark Ser, CS, Fall 2020 - present
- Kristina Lee, CS, Fall 2020 - present
- Anita Ruangrotsakun, CS BS/MS (AMP), Summer 2020 - present
- Thuy-Vy Nguyen, CS, Summer 2020 - present
- Junhyeok Jeong, CS, Winter 2020 - Fall 2020
Publications (Latest & Greatest) Full list (h-index: 17)
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CNN Explainer: Learning Convolutional Neural Networks with Interactive Visualization
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 26(2) (VIS'20), 2021.
DOI PDF Demo Video Code -
How Does Visualization Help People Learn Deep Learning? Evaluation of GAN Lab with Observational Study and Log Analysis
IEEE Visualization Conference (VIS'20), 2020.
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FairVis: Visual Analytics for Discovering Intersectional Bias in Machine Learning
IEEE Conference on Visual Analytics Science and Technology (VIS'19), 2019.
DOI PDF arXiv Blog Code -
GAN Lab: Understanding Complex Deep Generative Models using Interactive Visual Experimentation
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 25(1) (VIS'18), 2019.
Open sourced with Google AI
DOI PDF Slides Code Website -
Visual Analytics in Deep Learning: An Interrogative Survey for the Next Frontiers
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 25(8), 2019.
DOI PDF Website Medium -
ActiVis: Visual Exploration of Industry-Scale Deep Neural Network Models
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 24(1) (VIS'17), 2018.
Deployed on Facebook ML Platform; Invited to present at SIGGRAPH'18 as a top VIS paper (4 total)
DOI PDF Video Slides Website -
Chronodes: Interactive Multifocus Exploration of Event Sequences
ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems (TiiS), 8(1), 2018.
Best Paper, Honorable Mention
DOI PDF -
Interactive Browsing and Navigation in Relational Databases
Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment, 9(12) (VLDB'16), 2016.
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Visual Exploration of Machine Learning Results using Data Cube Analysis
Workshop on Human-In-the-Loop Data Analytics (HILDA at SIGMOD'16), 2016.
Deployed on Facebook ML Platform
DOI PDF Slides