Public Speaking

* denotes teaching experience

“Conversational Interfaces for Visualization Dashboard Exploration” (Internal) | 15 August 2024
Ozette Technologies, Seattle WA / Remote

“Data Visualization for Systems Genetics” (Best talk: 3rd place winner!) | 14 November 2023
Boston Computational Biology & Bioinformatics Meetup, Boston, MA

alt.VIS Workshop Session Chair / Steering Committee | October 2023
IEEE VIS Conference, Melbourne, Australia

Presenting First Author: “AR for Scholarly Publication of 3D Visualizations in Astronomy” | October 2023
IEEE VIS Conference, Melbourne, Australia

Presenting First Author: “DevOps for DataVis: A Survey and Provocation for Teaching Deployment of Data Visualizations” | October 2023
IEEE VIS Conference, Melbourne, Australia

Exhibiting Artist: “Latent Prism” Sculpture | October 2023
VISAP, the Arts Program at IEEE VIS 2023, Melbourne, Australia

Exhibiting Co-Artist: “Eco-Mending” | October 2023
VISAP, the Arts Program at IEEE VIS 2023, Melbourne, Australia

“Gameification of Agent-Based Modeling for Urban Planning” | October 6th, 2023
The Edgelands Institute, Online

“Creating Fabric Prints with A.I.” | September 30th, 2023
Cambridge Science Festival, The Foundry in Cambridge MA

“Systemic Challenges of Visualization Software Engineering in Genetics Research” | September 26th, 2023
Northeastern University Software Day, Boston MA

* Guest Speaker: Creative A.I. Technologies | July 27th, 2023
Sandbox Team @ Champlain College Emergent Media Center, Burlington VT

Visualizing Complex Systems Attendee & Poster Presenter | July 16-20th, 2023
Gordon Research Conference (GRC), Bates College, Lewiston, ME

Lightning Talk: Interactive Visualizations for Systems Genetics | June 6th, 2023
Computational Community Retreat @ The Jackson Laboratory, Remote

Aerial View: Reflections on Processing Images, from Code to Artifact | Saturday April 15th, 2023
Artist Talk, Creativity and AI Symposium at Hula, Burlington VT

Beyond Text-to-Image: How can I make my own A.I. art with custom data? | Saturday April 15th, 2023
Workshop, Creativity and AI Symposium at Hula, Burlington VT

Hackathon: Modular Visualization Components for Systems Biology | March 30-31st, 2023
glue-con/bio+, The Flatiron Institute Center for Computational Biology, New York NY

PhD Panel Discussion: Human Centered Computing Group | 3-4pm, March 17th, 2023
Northeastern University Khoury College of Computer Sciences, Boston MA

SXSW Panelist: Data Art: Processes and Perspectives | March 11th, 2023
South by Southwest (SXSW) Austin Convention Center, Austin TX

Interactive Visualization of Systems Genetics | March 10th, 2023
The Jackson Laboratory (JAX) Genetics Interest Group (GIG), Bar Harbor ME

Visualization of Conditional Inference Trees for Computational Biology | February 14th, 2023
University of Vermont Complex Systems Center, Burlington VT

Lightning Talk: How to Make Six Figures an Hour | December 15th, 2022
NormConf: The Normcore Tech Conference – Slides here

“Ready Player Viz: Player-Created Visualizations for Video Games” | October 16th, 2022
alt.VIS Workshop at IEEE VIS 2022, Oklahoma City, OK / Virtual

Panelist: Enabling Unconventional Applications using AI | September 20th, 2022
NVIDIA Global Technology Conference (GTC), San Jose CA / Virtual

Panelist: Collaborative Development in Immersive XR | June 20th, 2022
Governor’s Institute of Vermont (GIV), Champlain College, Burlington VT

SXSW Panelist: How Open AI Models Enable Artists to Innovate | March 16, 2022
South by Southwest (SXSW) Austin Convention Center, Austin TX

Featured Speaker: Leveraging Machine Learning in Artistic Workflows | March 23rd, 2022
NVIDIA Global Technology Conference (GTC), San Jose CA / Virtual – 235 Session Views

Guest Lecturer | November 19th, 2021
Data Visualization Lisboa, Virtual / Lisbon, Portugal

Artist Talk and Film Screening: Voyager EP | June 2021
Burlington City Arts presents ‘Flicks in the Park’, Burlington, Vermont

Featured Speaker: Storywrangler: A journey in visualizing 100 billion tweets in 100 languages | May 2021
Data Stories @ CEU (Central European University), Virtual / Vienna, Austria

FailFest Workshop Organizer & Moderator | October 2020
IEEE VIS 2020, Virtual / Salt Lake City, UT

* Data Visualization for Network Scientists Workshop Instructor | April 2020
Northeast Regional Conference on Complex Systems (NERCCS) Pre-Conference School, Virtual / NY

* CS-395 Advanced Special Topics: Data Lab Guest Lecturer (Data Visualization) | March 2020
University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont

* DAT-430: Data Visualization Guest Lecturer | December 2019
Champlain College, Burlington, Vermont

* Visualizing Complexity: Network Graphs of High-Dimensional Data, Instructor | Oct. 2019
Open Data Science Conference, San Francisco, California

Data Art: Seeing the Future of Data Science: Speaker | April 2019
Open Data Science Conference, Boston, Massachusetts

* Data Visualization Workshop Facilitator | March 2019
Women in Data Science Conference, Stanford University, Palo Alto, California

What’s a Data Artist? Featured Speaker | February 2019
AIGA Vermont: WTF is Design Anyway?, Burlington, Vermont

Visualizing Complexity Featured Speaker | November 2018
The Emergent Landscape Speaker Series, Champlain College, Burlington, Vermont

Visual Storytelling Featured Speaker | November 2018
Gund Institute Tea, University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont

Complexity, Mutualism, and Ecopolitics Panelist | October 2018
Feverish World Symposium, University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont

TEDx Springfield Featured Speaker | October 2018
MassMutual, Springfield, Massachusetts

2018 GeoDataSci Conference Featured Speaker | June 2018
Generator Maker Space, Burlington, Vermont

The Emergent Mindset Featured Speaker | November 2016
Shelburne Museum, PechaKucha Night Vol. 22, Shelburne, Vermont

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