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Email: [My last name] at gmail.com
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My research focuses on ways technology can create connection, narrative, and insight. A particular interest is inventing visual tools to illuminate systems based on machine learning and artificial intelligence. My work is in daily use by millions of people, and has been shown in museums worldwide.


Brief bio
At Google DeepMind, I'm working to help highly capable AI systems be useful and beneficial. I believe that managing the emerging power of AI is one of the most urgent challenges we all face. With my longtime collaborator, Fernanda Viégas I co-lead a research team which takes a participatory, human-centered approach to AI.

From 2021-2026 I was a tenured professor at Harvard, where Fernanda and I co-led the Insight + Interaction Lab. Before my time in academia, I worked at Google, where I co-founded the People+AI Research team. I also helped create end-user visualizations for products such as Search, YouTube, and Google Analytics.

Prior to joining Google, Fernanda and I founded Flowing Media, Inc., a visualization studio focused on media and consumer-oriented projects. Before that, we led IBM’s Visual Communication Lab, which created the ground-breaking public visualization platform Many Eyes. I came to IBM from Dow Jones, where I was the Director of Research and Development at SmartMoney.com. My work there included some of the earliest pieces of interactive journalism.

I'm known for visualization-based artwork, which has been exhibited in venues such as the London Institute of Contemporary Arts, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the New York Museum of Modern Art.

I have a Ph.D. in mathematics from U.C. Berkeley, focusing on dynamical systems.