My primary research interests are Visualization and Perception, and I'm especially interested in the use of algorithm and data structure visualizations as teaching and learning tools.

My current research focus is on perceptibility and discriminability of shapes and glyphs such as those commonly used in visualization displays. So far, my studies have explored the variation between shapes bounding a region (closed shapes) and shapes comprised of line segments (open shapes). We have used a Flanker paradigm and a Same-Different task to show a significant effect of the aforementioned dimensions on participants' ability to identify targets or discriminate between shapes. I am in the process of writing up these results, connecting them to the literature in visual perception, and motivating their importance to the field of visualization.



Skills, Languages, and Frameworks

In no particular order, here are some of the languages and tools I regularly use in teaching, research, and personal projects:

Graduate Research Projects



Undergraduate Research