Atlas

Lab & Culture

A quick snapshot of the spaces, artifacts, and practices around the people: where multimodal data, whiteboards, and prototypes live.

Visual Analytics
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Visual Analytics

Designing interactive systems that help people explore and make sense of large, high-dimensional data.

Urban Computing
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Urban Computing

Connecting lab work to the city: urban data, soundscapes, mobility patterns, and infrastructure.

Reproducibility
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Reproducibility

Building tools and systems that enable computational reproducibility across scientific domains.

People & Labs

Lab Atlas

A snapshot of the people and lab clusters that make up this space. The collage for each lab gives a quick visual sense of who is there.

VIDA

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Faculty

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Rumi ChunaraAssociate ProfessorNYU Tandon School of EngineeringVIDA

Rumi Chunara is an Associate Professor at NYU with appointments in Computer Science and Engineering and Biostatistics. Her research focuses on developing computational and statistical approaches for acquiring, integrating and using data to improve population-level public health. She received an NSF CAREER Award in 2019.

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Juliana FreireProfessor, Institute ProfessorNYU Tandon School of EngineeringVIDA

Juliana Freire is a Professor of Computer Science and Engineering and Data Science at New York University. She is an Institute Professor and one of the co-directors of the VIDA Center. Her research interests are in large-scale data analysis, web data management, and computational reproducibility. She was elected an AAAS Fellow in 2022.

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Guido GerigInstitute ProfessorNYU Tandon School of EngineeringVIDA

Guido Gerig is an Institute Professor at NYU Tandon School of Engineering. His research focuses on development of novel imaging analysis methodologies related to segmentation, shape analysis, and image statistics. His work is multidisciplinary, primarily collaborating with experts in clinical imaging on research in areas including schizophrenia, autism, and multiple sclerosis.

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Chinmay HegdeAssociate ProfessorNYU Tandon School of EngineeringVIDA

Chinmay Hegde is an Associate Professor at NYU Tandon School of Engineering. His research interests span machine learning, signal processing, and high-dimensional statistics.

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Robert KruegerAssistant ProfessorNYU Tandon School of EngineeringVIDA

Robert Krueger is an Assistant Professor at NYU Tandon School of Engineering. His research focuses on visualization and visual analytics.

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Christopher MuscoAssistant ProfessorNYU Tandon School of EngineeringVIDA

Christopher Musco is an Assistant Professor at NYU Tandon School of Engineering. His research focuses on algorithms for machine learning and data science, with emphasis on randomized numerical linear algebra.

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Claudio SilvaInstitute ProfessorNYU Tandon School of EngineeringVIDA

Claudio Silva is an Institute Professor of Computer Science and Engineering and Data Science at New York University. He is one of the co-directors of the VIDA Center. His research focuses on visualization, graphics, and urban computing. He was named an ACM Fellow in 2023 for contributions to visualization, geometry processing, and urban computing.

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Julia StoyanovichInstitute Associate ProfessorNYU Tandon School of EngineeringVIDA

Julia Stoyanovich is an Institute Associate Professor at NYU. Her research focuses on responsible data science, including fairness, accountability, and transparency in data-driven decision making. She leads research on algorithmic fairness and responsible data management.

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Enrico Bertini

Enrico BertiniNYU Tandon School of Engineering

Enrico Bertini is an Associate Professor at NYU Tandon School of Engineering. His research focuses on visual analytics, information visualization, and human-computer interaction. He is particularly interested in developing visualization methods that help people make sense of complex data and make better decisions.

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Erdem VarolAssistant ProfessorNYU Tandon School of EngineeringVIDA

Erdem Varol is an Assistant Professor at NYU Tandon School of Engineering. His research focuses on machine learning and its applications to neuroimaging and biomedical data analysis.

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Research Associates

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Juliana BarbosaResearch ScientistNYU Tandon School of EngineeringVIDA

Juliana Barbosa is a Research Scientist at the VIDA Center, working on data analysis and management projects.

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Sonia Castelo QuispeResearch EngineerNYU Tandon School of EngineeringVIDA

Sonia Castelo Quispe is a Research Engineer at the VIDA Center. Her research focuses on automated machine learning (AutoML) and data discovery systems.

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Tyler ChenPostdoctoral ResearcherNYU Tandon School of EngineeringVIDA

Tyler Chen is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the VIDA Center.

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Niv CohenResearch ScientistNYU Tandon School of EngineeringVIDA

Niv Cohen is a Research Scientist at the VIDA Center.

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Fábio FelixPostdoctoral AssociateNYU Tandon School of EngineeringVIDA

Fábio Felix is a Postdoctoral Associate at the VIDA Center.

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Roque LopezResearch EngineerNYU Tandon School of EngineeringVIDA

Roque Lopez is a Research Engineer at the VIDA Center. His research focuses on automated machine learning and the D3M project for data-driven discovery of models.

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Eduardo PenaResearch ScientistNYU Tandon School of EngineeringVIDA

Eduardo Pena is a Research Scientist at the VIDA Center.

data-science
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Jing QianResearch Assistant ProfessorNYU Tandon School of EngineeringVIDA

Jing Qian is a Research Assistant Professor at the VIDA Center.

data-science
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Rémi RampinResearch EngineerNYU Tandon School of EngineeringVIDA

Rémi Rampin is a Research Engineer at the VIDA Center. He is a core developer of ReproZip, a tool for computational reproducibility, and ReproServer. His work focuses on making scientific experiments reproducible and accessible.

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Aécio SantosResearch EngineerNYU Tandon School of EngineeringVIDA

Aécio Santos is a Research Engineer at the VIDA Center. His research focuses on data discovery, web crawling, and sketching methods for correlated dataset search. He received the Deborah Rosenthal, MD Award in 2022 for outstanding performance on the PhD qualifying examination.

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Vicky SteevesResearch Data Management and Reproducibility LibrarianNYU LibrariesVIDA

Vicky Steeves is a Research Data Management and Reproducibility Librarian at NYU. She works on computational reproducibility and open science initiatives in collaboration with the VIDA Center.

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Eden WuResearch EngineerNYU Tandon School of EngineeringVIDA

Eden Wu is a Research Engineer at the VIDA Center.

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Collaborators & Associated Faculty

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Harish DoraiswamyVisiting Research ScholarMicrosoft Research IndiaVIDA

Harish Doraiswamy is a Visiting Research Scholar at the VIDA Center. His research focuses on visual analytics, urban data analysis, and spatial query processing. He is a co-author of numerous papers on urban computing and the SONYC project.

visualizationurban-dataspatial-queries
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Jennifer JacquetVisiting Research ScholarNYUVIDA

Jennifer Jacquet is a Visiting Research Scholar collaborating with the VIDA Center.

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Flip KornVisiting Research ScholarGoogleVIDA

Flip Korn is a Visiting Research Scholar collaborating with the VIDA Center.

data-management

Students

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Andrew Loren BellPh.D. StudentNYU Tandon School of EngineeringVIDA

Andrew Loren Bell is a Ph.D. Student at the VIDA Center. He received an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship in 2022.

machine-learning
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João RulffPh.D. StudentNYU Tandon School of EngineeringVIDA

João Rulff is a Ph.D. Student at the VIDA Center. His research focuses on visualization and urban soundscape analysis. He is a co-author of the Urban Rhapsody paper accepted at EuroVis 2022.

visualizationurban-soundscapes
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Guande WuPh.D. StudentNYU Tandon School of EngineeringVIDA

Guande Wu is a Ph.D. Student at the VIDA Center. His paper "IntentVizor: Towards Generic Query Guided Interactive Video Summarization" was accepted to CVPR 2022.

visualizationvideo-summarization
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Haoyue PingPh.D. CandidateNYU Tandon School of EngineeringVIDA

Haoyue Ping is a Ph.D. Candidate at the VIDA Center. His first-author paper "Most Expected Winner: An Interpretation of Winners over Uncertain Voter Preferences" was accepted to SIGMOD 2022.

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Noam AmselPh.D. StudentNYU Tandon School of EngineeringVIDA

Noam Amsel is a Ph.D. Student at the VIDA Center.

algorithms
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Lucius BynumPh.D. StudentNYU Tandon School of EngineeringVIDA

Lucius Bynum is a Ph.D. Student at the VIDA Center.

machine-learning
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Lucas RosenblattPh.D. StudentNYU Tandon School of EngineeringVIDA

Lucas Rosenblatt is a Ph.D. Student at the VIDA Center.

fairnessmachine-learning
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Xiaoting ChenPh.D. StudentNYU Tandon School of EngineeringVIDA

Xiaoting Chen is a Ph.D. Student at the VIDA Center.

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Majid DaliriPh.D. StudentNYU Tandon School of EngineeringVIDA

Majid Daliri is a Ph.D. Student at the VIDA Center.

machine-learning
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Jizheng DongPh.D. StudentNYU Tandon School of EngineeringVIDA

Jizheng Dong is a Ph.D. Student at the VIDA Center.

data-science
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Feyza Duman KelesPh.D. StudentNYU Tandon School of EngineeringVIDA

Feyza Duman Keles is a Ph.D. Student at the VIDA Center.

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Maren EberlePh.D. StudentNYU Tandon School of EngineeringVIDA

Maren Eberle is a Ph.D. Student at the VIDA Center.

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Benjamin FeuerPh.D. StudentNYU Tandon School of EngineeringVIDA

Benjamin Feuer is a Ph.D. Student at the VIDA Center.

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Aarshvi GajjarPh.D. StudentNYU Tandon School of EngineeringVIDA

Aarshvi Gajjar is a Ph.D. Student at the VIDA Center.

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Tianxiao HePh.D. StudentNYU Tandon School of EngineeringVIDA

Tianxiao He is a Ph.D. Student at the VIDA Center.

machine-learning
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Stella HolbrookPh.D. StudentNYU Tandon School of EngineeringVIDA

Stella Holbrook is a Ph.D. Student at the VIDA Center.

data-science
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Felipe Inagaki de OliveiraPh.D. StudentNYU Tandon School of EngineeringVIDA

Felipe Inagaki de Oliveira is a Ph.D. Student at the VIDA Center.

visualization
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Suemy InagakiPh.D. StudentNYU Tandon School of EngineeringVIDA

Suemy Inagaki is a Ph.D. Student at the VIDA Center.

data-science
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Yurong LiuPh.D. StudentNYU Tandon School of EngineeringVIDA

Yurong Liu is a Ph.D. Student at the VIDA Center.

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Kelly MarshallPh.D. StudentNYU Tandon School of EngineeringVIDA

Kelly Marshall is a Ph.D. Student at the VIDA Center.

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Erin McGowanPh.D. StudentNYU Tandon School of EngineeringVIDA

Erin McGowan is a Ph.D. Student at the VIDA Center.

data-science
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Giancarlo PereiraPh.D. StudentNYU Tandon School of EngineeringVIDA

Giancarlo Pereira is a Ph.D. Student at the VIDA Center.

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Minh PhamPh.D. StudentNYU Tandon School of EngineeringVIDA

Minh Pham is a Ph.D. Student at the VIDA Center.

data-science
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Daniela Pinto VeizagaPh.D. StudentNYU Tandon School of EngineeringVIDA

Daniela Pinto Veizaga is a Ph.D. Student at the VIDA Center.

data-science
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Venetia PliatsikaPh.D. StudentNYU Tandon School of EngineeringVIDA

Venetia Pliatsika is a Ph.D. Student at the VIDA Center.

data-science
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Eduarda Ramos Bezerra de AlencarPh.D. StudentNYU Tandon School of EngineeringVIDA

Eduarda Ramos Bezerra de Alencar is a Ph.D. Student at the VIDA Center.

data-science
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Alexander RatzanPh.D. StudentNYU Tandon School of EngineeringVIDA

Alexander Ratzan is a Ph.D. Student at the VIDA Center.

machine-learning
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Yuancheng ShenPh.D. StudentNYU Tandon School of EngineeringVIDA

Yuancheng Shen is a Ph.D. Student at the VIDA Center.

data-science
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Apoorv Vikram SinghPh.D. StudentNYU Tandon School of EngineeringVIDA

Apoorv Vikram Singh is a Ph.D. Student at the VIDA Center.

machine-learning
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Parikshit SolunkePh.D. StudentNYU Tandon School of EngineeringVIDA

Parikshit Solunke is a Ph.D. Student at the VIDA Center.

visualization
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Teal WitterPh.D. StudentNYU Tandon School of EngineeringVIDA

Teal Witter is a Ph.D. Student at the VIDA Center.

algorithms
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Patrick YubeatonPh.D. StudentNYU Tandon School of EngineeringVIDA

Patrick Yubeaton is a Ph.D. Student at the VIDA Center.

data-science
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Haoxiang ZhangPh.D. StudentNYU Tandon School of EngineeringVIDA

Haoxiang Zhang is a Ph.D. Student at the VIDA Center.

machine-learning
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Miao ZhangPh.D. StudentNYU Tandon School of EngineeringVIDA

Miao Zhang is a Ph.D. Student at the VIDA Center.

data-science

Alumni

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Fabio MirandaPostdoctoral Research AssociateUniversity of Illinois ChicagoVIDA

Fabio Miranda was a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the VIDA Center. His research focused on urban visualization and visual analytics. He is now an Assistant Professor at the University of Illinois Chicago. He is a co-author of Urban Pulse, Shadow Accrual Maps, Urban Mosaic, and Urban Rhapsody.

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Yeuk Yin (Gromit) ChanPh.D. Graduate, 2021NYU Tandon School of EngineeringVIDA

Gromit Chan completed his Ph.D. at the VIDA Center in 2021. His research focused on visual analytics for machine learning explainability. He is a co-author of SUBPLEX, GALE, and Melody papers on understanding black-box model explanations.

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Peter XenopoulosPh.D. Graduate, 2022NYU Tandon School of EngineeringVIDA

Peter Xenopoulos completed his Ph.D. at the VIDA Center in 2022. His research focused on esports analytics and visualization. He is a co-author of papers on Counter-Strike analysis, Calibrate, and ggViz for esports game analysis.

esportsvisualizationmachine-learning
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Jorge Henrique Piazentin OnoPh.D. Graduate, 2021NYU Tandon School of EngineeringVIDA

Jorge Piazentin Ono completed his Ph.D. at the VIDA Center in 2021. His research focused on visual analytics for AutoML pipelines and sports analytics. He is a co-author of PipelineProfiler and HistoryTracker papers.

visual-analyticsautomlsports-analytics
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Neel DeyPh.D. Graduate, 2022NYU Tandon School of EngineeringVIDA

Neel Dey completed his Ph.D. at the VIDA Center in 2022. He received the Pearl Brownstein Doctoral Research Award and the Deborah Rosenthal Award. His research focused on medical image analysis and deep learning, with papers at NeurIPS and MICCAI.

medical-imagingdeep-learning
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Batool AbbasPh.D. CandidateNYU Tandon School of EngineeringVIDA

Batool Abbas was a Ph.D. Candidate at the VIDA Center working on medical imaging analysis.

medical-imaging
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Amir Pouya AghasadeghiPh.D. Graduate, 2022NYU Tandon School of EngineeringVIDA

Amir Pouya Aghasadeghi completed his Ph.D. at the VIDA Center in 2022.

data-science
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Aline BessaPostdoctoral AssociateNYU Tandon School of EngineeringVIDA

Aline Bessa was a Postdoctoral Associate at the VIDA Center. Her research focused on data management and urban data analysis.

data-managementurban-data
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Shaoyu ChenPh.D. Graduate, 2024NYU Tandon School of EngineeringVIDA

Shaoyu Chen completed his Ph.D. at the VIDA Center in 2024.

visualization
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Axel ElaldiPh.D. Graduate, 2024NYU Tandon School of EngineeringVIDA

Axel Elaldi completed his Ph.D. at the VIDA Center in 2024.

medical-imaging
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Vitoria GuardieiroResearch ScientistNYU Tandon School of EngineeringVIDA

Vitoria Guardieiro was a Research Scientist at the VIDA Center.

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Maryam HosseiniResearch AssociateNYU Tandon School of EngineeringVIDA

Maryam Hosseini was a Research Associate at the VIDA Center. She is a co-author of Urban Rhapsody and Urban Mosaic papers.

urban-datavisualization
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Heejong KimPh.D. Graduate, 2021NYU Tandon School of EngineeringVIDA

Heejong Kim completed her Ph.D. at the VIDA Center in 2021. Her research focused on longitudinal analysis of brain imaging data.

medical-imagingneuroimaging
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Shijie LiPh.D. Graduate, 2024NYU Tandon School of EngineeringVIDA

Shijie Li completed his Ph.D. at the VIDA Center in 2024.

machine-learning
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Raoni LourençoPostdoctoral Research AssociateNYU Tandon School of EngineeringVIDA

Raoni Lourenço was a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the VIDA Center. His research focused on debugging computational pipelines and automated machine learning. He is a co-author of BugDoc and AlphaD3M papers.

data-managementdebuggingautoml
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Raphael A. MeyerPh.D. Graduate, 2024NYU Tandon School of EngineeringVIDA

Raphael A. Meyer completed his Ph.D. at the VIDA Center in 2024.

algorithms
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Vishwali MhasawadePh.D. Graduate, 2024NYU Tandon School of EngineeringVIDA

Vishwali Mhasawade completed her Ph.D. at the VIDA Center in 2024. Her research focused on machine learning for public health and fairness.

machine-learningfairnesspublic-health
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Yurii PiadykPh.D. Graduate, 2022NYU Tandon School of EngineeringVIDA

Yurii Piadyk completed his Ph.D. at the VIDA Center in 2022 and continued as a Postdoctoral Research Associate.

data-science
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Kunal ReliaPh.D. CandidateNYU Tandon School of EngineeringVIDA

Kunal Relia was a Ph.D. Candidate at the VIDA Center. His research focused on social media analysis and public health.

social-mediapublic-health
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Mengwei RenPh.D. Graduate, 2024NYU Tandon School of EngineeringVIDA

Mengwei Ren completed her Ph.D. at the VIDA Center in 2024. Her paper on spatiotemporal representation learning for neuroimage analysis was accepted to NeurIPS 2022.

neuroimagingdeep-learning
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Harvineet SinghPh.D. Graduate, 2023NYU Tandon School of EngineeringVIDA

Harvineet Singh completed his Ph.D. at the VIDA Center in 2023. His research focused on fair machine learning.

fairnessmachine-learning
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Ke YangPh.D. Graduate, 2021NYU Tandon School of EngineeringVIDA

Ke Yang completed her Ph.D. at the VIDA Center in 2021. Her research focused on fair ranking and responsible AI.

fairnessranking
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Jun YuanPh.D. Graduate, 2022NYU Tandon School of EngineeringVIDA

Jun Yuan completed his Ph.D. at the VIDA Center in 2022. He is a co-author of the SUBPLEX and ViCE papers on visual analytics for machine learning explainability.

visual-analyticsexplainability
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Shuya ZhaoPh.D. Graduate, 2024NYU Tandon School of EngineeringVIDA

Shuya Zhao completed her Ph.D. at the VIDA Center in 2024.

data-science
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Yuan ZhaoPh.D. Graduate, 2024NYU Tandon School of EngineeringVIDA

Yuan Zhao completed her Ph.D. at the VIDA Center in 2024. Her research focused on machine learning for public health applications.

machine-learningpublic-health
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Francis WilliamsPh.D. GraduateNYU Tandon School of EngineeringVIDA

Francis Williams completed his Ph.D. at the VIDA Center. His research focused on deep learning and geometry processing. He has papers at NeurIPS, CVPR, and CHI including "Gradient Dynamics of Shallow Univariate ReLU Networks" and "Deep Geometric Prior for Surface Reconstruction".

deep-learninggeometry
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Bowen YuPh.D. GraduateNYU Tandon School of EngineeringVIDA

Bowen Yu completed his Ph.D. at the VIDA Center. He is the author of FlowSense, which received the Best Paper Award at VAST 2019, and VisFlow, a web-based dataflow framework for visual data exploration.

visualizationnatural-language
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Fernando ChirigatiPh.D. GraduateNYU Tandon School of EngineeringVIDA

Fernando Chirigati completed his Ph.D. at the VIDA Center. He is a core developer of ReproZip and author of papers on computational reproducibility and data management including "ReproZip: Computational Reproducibility With Ease" and "Data Polygamy".

reproducibilitydata-management

Staff

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Sarah LawsonVIDA ManagerNYU Tandon School of EngineeringVIDA

Sarah Lawson is the VIDA Manager, overseeing the operations and administration of the VIDA Center.

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