About me

My research interests are in the fields of Human-Computer Interaction and Visual Analytics, with a focus on human computation and human-computer teams. In particular, I’m curious how individual differences in personality and other features affect how people use interactive systems, as well as how insights from social cognition can help us to understand how to build trustworthy systems.

I also love transdisciplinary collaboration: current projects include working with mental healthcare practitioners at the Justice Resource Institute to explore how computational tools might help provide more equitable access to services, as well with historians at Stanford to use visualization to support digital paleography on ancient Syriac manuscripts.

I am currently an Associate Professor of Computer Science, and Chair of the Arts and Technology Program at Smith College. I also hold an affiliation with the Statistical and Data Sciences Program, and served as the Founding Director of the Interdisciplinary program in Computing at Kenyon College during the 2025-2026 academic year.

I completed my doctorate in 2013 as part of the initial graduate cohort at the Visual Analytics Laboratory @ Tufts under the supervision of Remco Chang. I then spent two years as a member of the technical staff at MIT Lincoln Laboratory, where I worked in Cyber Security and Information Sciences. Before that, I earned my Master’s degree under the joint supervision of Rob Jacob and Marina Bers, where I worked on the Tangible Kindergarten Project as part of the Developmental Technologies Research Group.

Some of my favorite things to do include cycling, cooking, jigsaw puzzles, and traveling (especially by train). I live with my spouse, our two children, two pet rats, and one very enthusiastic terrier.