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.
Apr 2023: Awarded the UMD'23 Summer Research Fellowship
Feb 2023: Recieved NSF Travel Grant Award to attend IUI'23
Feb 2023: Paper on user-driven support for visualization prototyping accepted at IUI'23
Oct 2022: Presenting 2 papers at IEEE VIS 2022
Aug 2022: Completed internship with Tableau User Research
Hannah K. Bako, Alisha Varma, Anuoluwapo Faboro, Mahreen Haider, Favour Nerrise, Bissaka Kenah, John Dickerson, & Leilani Battle
Hannah K. Bako, Xinyi Liu, Leilani Battle, & Zhicheng Liu
Hannah K. Bako, Alisha Varma, Anuoluwapo Faboro, Mahreen Haider, Favour Nerrise, Bissaka Kenah, & Leilani Battle
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
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
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.
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
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.