Alvitta Ottley

Associate Professor of Computer Science and Engineering | Washington University in St. Louis

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I am an Associate Professor in the Computer Science & Engineering Department at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, USA. I am also the director of the Visual Interface and Behavior Exploration (VIBE) Lab and hold a courtesy appointment in the Psychological and Brain Sciences Department.

My research uses interdisciplinary approaches to solve problems such as how best to display information for effective decision-making and how to design human-in-the-loop visual analytics interfaces that are more attuned to how people think.

I am deeply honored to have received the NSF CRII Award in 2018 for using visualization to support medical decision-making, the NSF Career Award in 2022 for creating context-aware visual analytics systems, and the 2022 EuroVis Early Career Award. My work has also appeared in leading conferences and journals such as CHI, VIS, and TVCG, where it has received the best paper and honorable mention awards.

Supervised by Dr. Remco Chang, I received my Master’s and Ph.D. in Computer Science from Tufts University in 2013 and 2016, respectively. I completed my Bachelor’s in Computer Science from the State University of New York at Plattsburgh in 2010.

news

May 27, 2024 Attending EuroVis and giving a keynote presentation.
Feb 27, 2024 Attending IVAPP and giving a keynote presentation.
Jan 31, 2024 Giving a talk at the University of California, Berkeley School of Information.
Dec 1, 2023 Giving a talk at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, PA.
Nov 14, 2023 Giving a talk at Wellesley College in Massachusetts.

selected publications

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    Guided By AI: Navigating Trust, Bias, and Data Exploration in AI-Guided Visual Analytics
    Sunwoo HaShayan Monadjemi, and Alvitta Ottley
    In Computer Graphics Forum, 2024
    :trophy: HONORABLE MENTION
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    ConFides: A Visual Analytics Solution for Automated Speech Recognition Analysis and Exploration
    Sunwoo Ha, Chaehun Lim, R Jordan Crouser, and 1 more author
    IEEE VIS, 2024
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    What Do We Mean When We Say “Insight”? A Formal Synthesis of Existing Theory
    Leilani Battle, and Alvitta Ottley
    IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 2023
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    Mini-VLAT: A Short and Effective Measure of Visualization Literacy
    Saugat Pandey, and Alvitta Ottley
    Computer Graphics Forum, In Proceedings of the 25th EG Conference on Visualization (EuroVis), 2023
    :trophy: BEST PAPER AWARD
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    Human-Computer Collaboration for Visual Analytics: an Agent-based Framework
    Shayan MonadjemiMengtian GuoDavid Gotz, and 2 more authors
    Computer Graphics Forum, In Proceedings of the 25th EG Conference on Visualization (EuroVis), 2023