DIV-Lab @ OU
School of Computer Science
Gallogy College of Enginnering
University of Oklahoma
Norman, OK, 73019
Email: quadri@ou.edu
I am an Assistant Professor in School of Computer Science at the Gallogy College of Engineering, University of Oklahoma and direct the DIV-Lab. Previously, I was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow and CRA/CCC/NSF Computing Innovation Fellow and worked with Dr. Danielle Albers Szafir in the Department of Computer Science at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. I received my Ph.D. in Computer Science & Engineering, advised by Dr. Paul Rosen at the University of South Florida in 2021. I hold an M.S. in Computer Science from the University of South Florida and a Bachelor in Computer Engineering from the University of Mumbai. My research interests lies at the intersection of Information Visualization, HCI, ML Models, and perception & cognition. His primary goal is to create a perceptual and human-centered framework to optimize visualization design, improving decision-making quality and confidence, while providing objective guidance for designers.
My primary goal is to create a perceptual and human-centered framework to optimize visualization design, improving decision-making quality and confidence, while providing objective guidance for designers. In my work, I borrow approaches from InfoVis and perception & cognitive science and apply human-centered evaluation to measure, model, and theorize human perception of data and visual design. My dissertation research work in this space received the IEEE VGTC Best Dissertation award for contributing new ways to measure, model, and construct task-optimized visualizations. My postdoc research is supported by NSF-CRA Computing Innovation 2021 Fellowship . My research collaborations span various applications, including design-oriented perceptual research projects to create robust design choices model, perceptual variability, design optimization, and information accessibility. My recent work on perceptual variability received Best Paper Honorable Mention Award for CLAMS at IEEE VIS 2023
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We have a panel discussion proposal (Yet Another) Evaluation Needed? A Panel Discussion on Evaluation Trends in Visualization accepted at IEEE VIS 2024
We have one BELIV workshop paper Striking the Right Balance: Systematic Assessment of Evaluation Method Distribution Across Contribution Types accepted at IEEE VIS 2024
We have two full paper (1) A Qualitative Analysis of Common Practices in Annotations: A Taxonomy and Design Space and (2) Shape It Up: An Empirically Grounded Approach for Designing Shape Palettesaccepted at IEEE VIS 2024
We have one full paper Our Stories, Our Data: Co-designing Visualizations with People with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities accepted at ACM ASSETS 2024
I spent the summer at Seoul National University, South Korea as BK21 Global Visiting Fellow in Summer 2024.
Our EuroVis short paper "Revisiting Categorical Color Perception in Scatterplots: Sequential, Diverging, and Categorical Palettes" received Best Short Paper Award at 2024 EG/VGTC Conference on Visualization (EuroVis). Odense, Denmark.
Two papers accepted. Do You See What I See? A Qualitative Study Eliciting High-Level Visualization Comprehension accepted at ACM CHI 2024. Revisiting Categorical Color Perception in Scatterplots: Sequential, Diverging, and Categorical Palettes at IEEE EuroVis 2024.
Invited research talk at VIS Seminar at Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute (SCI) , University of Utah.
I will join University of Oklahoma as a tenure track Assistant Professor in the School of Computer Science at Gallogy College of Engineeirng in 2024.
Honored to receive Best Paper Honorable Mention Award for CLAMS paper from IEEE VIS 2023!