Dominik Moritz

Advised by Jeffrey Heer and Bill Howe.
Thesis: “Interactive Systems for Scalable Visual 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.

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.

Mentor: Danyel Fisher
In collaboration with the PowerBI team, we developed visualization alternatives that scale to large numbers of records. So far, we have submitted a paper and a patent on part of this project but there is more to come. As a side project, I worked on visualization recommendation using constraints. [Scalable Visualization, PowerBI, Visualization Recommendation]

Mentors: Danyel Fisher, Bolin Ding, Chi Wang
Developed and user tested a UI for an approximate query processing system. Published a CHI paper, two workshop papers, and filed three patents. [Approximate Query Processing, Visualization, UX]

Mentors: Sudip Roy, Alon Halevy, Alkis Polyzotis, Natasha Noy, Xiao Yu, Chris Olston, Sitaram Iyer
Improved the user experience of an internal search engine and designed a summarization algorithm for search results. Also worked with the Knowledge Graph team on exploring a new graph infrastructure that enables integrated applications. [UX, Algorithm design, Large-scale systems, Angular, C++]

Mentors: Ben Atkins, Shishi Chen, John Banning
Developed new algorithms to support complex queries in large-scale production monitoring system. [Algorithm design, Large-scale software development, Profiling, C++]

Mentors: David Raznick, Rufus Pollock, Adrià Mercader, Sean Hammond, Stefan Wehrmeyer
Two-month summer internship and subsequent one-year involvement in development and training for CKAN, the most deployed open data portal in the world. I developed the new data store, a plugin API for CKAN, and a service to automatically ingest data. I also consulted state governments on open data strategies. [Distributed teams, Agile development, Large legacy systems, Python, JavaScript]

In a team of four students developed a tool to visualize software evolution with 3D Voronoi Treemaps. I focused on the theory and implementation of layout algorithms. [Legacy code, Visualization, Complex algorithms, C++]

Mentors: Benjamin Kaufmann, Torsten Schaub, Martin Gebser
Worked on theory and implementation of an extension of the Clasp Answer Set Programming solver for pseudo-boolean constraints. [Research, Benchmarking, Logic programs, C++]

Extend open data platform for information about people. [Open source development, JavaScript]

Visualization for People + Systems

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

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.

One day workshop for scientists as part of Software Carpentry workshop series.

Prepared course material for class on VHSIC Hardware Description Language.

University of Washington

University of Potsdam

Hasso Plattner Institute