Hannah K. Bako

I'm a PhD student advised by Dr. Zhicheng (Leo) Liu at the Computer Science Department at the University of Maryland, College Park. My research lies at the intersection of Data visualization,and Human Computer Interaction where I take a human-centered approach to understanding how designers create data visualizations and using that knowledge to support the development of novel visualization authoring tools. I previously worked with Dr. Leilani Battle in the BAttle Data (BAD) Lab where I worked on building tools to support visualization programming and design in D3.

I have a Masters in Software engineering from Stevens institute of Technology and a Bachelors degree in Computer Information Systems from Babcock University.

Publications

User-Driven Support for Visualization Prototyping in D3

ACM IUI 2023 |

Hannah K. Bako, Alisha Varma, Anuoluwapo Faboro, Mahreen Haider, Favour Nerrise, Bissaka Kenah, John Dickerson, & Leilani Battle

Understanding how Designers Find and Use Data Visualization Examples

IEEE VIS 2022 |

Hannah K. Bako, Xinyi Liu, Leilani Battle, & Zhicheng Liu

Streamlining Visualization Authoring in D3 Through User-Driven Templates

IEEE VIS 2022 Short Paper |

Hannah K. Bako, Alisha Varma, Anuoluwapo Faboro, Mahreen Haider, Favour Nerrise, Bissaka Kenah, & Leilani Battle

Tweets and Social Network Data for Twitter

SBP-BRiMS 2021t |

Jennifer Golbeck, Niloofarsadat Alavi, Hannah K. Bako, Saptarashmi Bandyopadhyay, Calvin Bao, Matthew Barzola, Corie Brown, Kristen M. Byers, [et.al].

Professional

Expericence

Industry

User Research Intern

Tableau | Summer 2022

Conduct studies improve the user experience through understanding the content consumption behaviour of users. Used results to profile active users and understand the analytical needs of business users in the Tableau ecosystem.
Mentor: Bruce Phillips

Design & Visualization Intern

Apple Inc. | Summer 2021

Collaborate with broader teams across Apple to research and develop innovative ML strategies for challenging problems that will affect future Apple products
Mentor: Donghao Ren

Graduate Assistant

Systems Engineering Research Center | Sep 2017 - May 2019

Developed a web-based data collection and processing tool for the World Wide Directory, a public a resource for the industrial and systems engineering community as a joint effort of the SERC and INCOSE council.

Android UX Developer

NHub Nigeria | Jan 2017 - Jul 2017

Involved in the implementation of scalable software systems for clients. Collaborated with domain experts to research, design and implement applications that solve real-world problems

Teaching

Teaching Assistant

Department of Computer Science, University of Maryland | 2019 - Present

Teach students core CS and HCI content related to courses. Manage projects on various programming and data science concepts e.g Hadoop and statistical analysis.

CMSC 433 - Programming Languages and Paradigms
CMSC 320 - Introduction to Data Science
CMSC 471 - Introduction to Data Visualization