I'm currently visiting the data systems group at MIT, following a similar visit at Columbia. Until recently I was with IBM Research. Between 2012-2014, I was a postdoctoral scholar at Stanford and member of IDL at the University of Washington. I obtained my PhD from Brown University. I also co-founded Fitnescity, the precision wellness startup based in NYC.
My current research focuses around two themes: 1) Automating visual data exploration for scalable guided data analysis and 2) developing interactive data science tools for iterative visual data and model experimentation. The goal underlying both themes is to help people rapidly explore, understand and reason about their data and models. I have extensive experience in building visualization systems and applying machine learning and crowdsourcing to solve data visualization and visual analysis problems in domains.