Dominik Moritz
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Professor at CMU HCII and Research Scientist at Apple
Research Area
To enhance people's ability to understand and communicate large and complex data, I develop methods that richly integrate the capabilities of both people and machines. I combine methods from visualization, data management, programming languages, and human-computer interaction to enable effective methods for data analysis and communication. My systems have won awards at premier academic venues, and are used by journalists, data enthusiasts, developers, educators, and the data science community.
Positions
Education
Advised by Jeffrey Heer and Bill Howe.
Thesis: “Interactive Systems for Scalable Visualization & Analysis”.
Member of the Interactive Data Lab and Database Group.
Advised by Bill Howe and Jeffrey Heer.
Thesis: “Algorithms for the Visualization of Software System Evolution”.
GPA: 4.0 (1.0 in German system), highest distinction, rank 1/74
Advanced classes on database implementation, computational geometry, architecture, and logic.
Notable Awards
For my thesis on "Interactive Systems for Scalable Visualization and Analysis".
For "Formalizing Visualization Design Knowledge as Constraints: Actionable and Extensible Models in Draco".
For "Vega-Lite: A Grammar of Interactive Graphics".
Highly competitive, merit-based grant for international educational exchange for students, scholars, teachers and scientists.
Scholarship to study at a North American university for one academic year, covering tuition and living expenses.
The German National Academic Foundation grants prestigious scholarships to students with outstanding academic achievements. Merit-based grant for B.S. and M.S. studies.
One-year scholarship awarded to the highest performing graduates of each year.
Publications [Interactive Version]
Conference
Journal
Book Chapter
Demo
Workshop
Thesis
Patents
Database query for histograms
Bolin Ding, Chi Wang, Danyel Fisher, Dominik Moritz
Bolin Ding, Chi Wang, Danyel Fisher, Dominik Moritz
Bolin Ding, Chi Wang, Danyel Fisher, Dominik Moritz
Mentoring
PhD Students
CMUPhD Students I am (co-)advising at CMU.
Mentored:
- Will Epperson
- Carol Xinyi Zheng
Thesis Commitee
CMU
Mentored:
- Mary Beth Kery
- Katherine Ye
Research Assistants
CMU
Mentored:
- Harshil Rastogi
- Leila Huang
- Sujun Cheng
- Shreya Manjunath
- Shreya Bahl
- Lukas Hermann
Apple Summer Internship
AppleSummer interns in my group at Apple.
Mentored:
- Aspen Hopkins
- Jochen Görtler
- Stephon Fonrose
Vega Ecosystem
Vega OrganizationHung worked with me on a renderer service for Vega-Lite and Vega visualizations. He integrated the renderer into the popular Vega online editor.
Mentored:
- Hung Ngo
Google Summer of Code
University of WashingtonThe IDL was selected as a mentoring organization for the Google Summer of Code 2019. I mentored two students from India to work on the Vega editor.
Mentored:
- Aman Sharma
- Siddhant Manchanda
Google Summer of Code
University of WashingtonThe IDL was selected as a mentoring organization for the Google Summer of Code 2018. Together with Kanit "Ham" Wongsuphasawat I mentored two students from India to work on Vega-Lite.
Mentored:
- Yash Dev Lamba
- Souvik Sen
CSE Mentoring Program
University of WashingtonTogether with Sarah Chasins, I mentored a group of first-year students for over a year. Sarah and I gave advice on finding classes, research projects, collaborators, and advisors, as well as managing conferences.
Mentored:
- Yasaman Sefidgar
- Rashmi Mudduluru
- Qisheng Li
Mentor Undergraduate Researchers
University of WashingtonMentor students for working on Vega-Lite, Voyager, Polestar, and related projects.
Mentored:
- Zening Qu (now Ph.D. student at UW iSchool)
- Youying Lin (now at Google)
- Ayush Saraf
- Zoe "Zoe" Lu (now at Facebook)
- Will Strimling (now PM at Twitter)
- Swojit Mohapatra
- Lingyue "Cynthia" Zhang
- Tianyi Lin
- Matthew Chun
- Felix Ouk
- Sira Horradarn
- Chanwut "Mick" Kittivorawong
- Ishan Saksena
- Akshat Shrivastava
- Halden Lin
- Melissa Diamond
- Saba Noorassa
Talks [Interactive Version]
Declarative and Scalable Visualization Design
Visualization for People + Systems
Declarative Visualization Design with Vega-Lite and Altair
Altair: Declarative Visualization in Python
Raising the Abstraction of Data Visualization
Data Visualization with Vega-Lite and Altair for Machine Learning
Formalizing Visualization Design Knowledge as Constraints: Actionable and Extensible Models in Draco
Automated Visualization Design with Draco
Declarative Visualization with Vega-Lite and Altair
Vega-Lite: A Grammar of Interactive Graphics
Declarative Visualization Design with Vega-Lite
Visualization Grammars
Trust, but Verify: Optimistic Visualizations of Approximate Queries for Exploring Big Data
What Users Don't Expect about Exploratory Data Analysis on AQP Systems
Vega-Lite: A Declarative Format for Visualization
Voyager: Exploratory Analysis via Faceted Browsing of Visualization Recommendations
Perfopticon: Visual Query Analysis for Distributed Databases
Teaching
Instructor,
75 students
Prepared and taught lectures. Prepared and graded assignments. Co-taught with Adam Perer.
Prepared and presented 3.5 hour tutorial at OpenVis Conf in Paris.
Teaching Assistant for Jeffrey Heer,
30 students
Presented sesssions, updated assignments, graded, held office hours.
Teaching Assistant for Jeffrey Heer,
80 students
Developed and presented tutorials on visualization tools, CSS, and D3. Graded assignments, held office hours.
Instructor,
20 participants
One day workshop for scientists as part of Software Carpentry workshop series.
Prepared course material for class on VHSIC Hardware Description Language.
Service
Reviewer for ACM CHI, IEEE VIS, TVCG, EuroVis, PacificVis, Computers & Graphics, HILDA, and DSIA. Program committee for HILDA 2018, HILDA 2019, and HILDA 2020 at SIGMOD. Organizer of DSIA 2018 and DSIA 2019 at VIS. Session chair at CHI 2019, VIS 2019, VIS 2020. Program committee at VIS 2020 and 2021.
References
Jeffrey Heer
Professor of Computer Science & Engineering
University of Washington
homes.cs.washington.edu/~jheer/
Bill Howe
Professor at the Information School
University of Washington
faculty.washington.edu/billhowe/
Danyel Fisher
Principal Design Researcher
Honeycomb
Former Senior Researcher at Microsoft Research
danyelfisher.info/
Tim Kraska
Professor of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
people.csail.mit.edu/kraska/
Steven Franconeri
Professor of Psychology
Northwestern University
psychology.northwestern.edu/people/faculty/core/profiles/steven-franconeri.html