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

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.
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May 10, 2023 |
Paper titled “Mini-VLAT: A Short and Effective Measure of Visualization Literacy” recieved the EuroVis 2023 best paper award! ![]() ![]() |
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Mar 31, 2023 | Paper titled “Mini-VLAT: A Short and Effective Measure of Visualization Literacy” was accepted to EuroVis and Computer Graphics Forum! |
Mar 31, 2023 | Paper titled “Human-Computer Collaboration for Visual Analytics: an Agent-based Framework.” was accepted to EuroVis and Computer Graphics Forum! |
Jan 16, 2023 | Paper titled “Why Combining Text and Visualization Could Improve Bayesian Reasoning: A Cognitive Load Perspective” was accepted to ACM CHI 2023! |