Hi, I’m BC, a research scientist at IBM Research passionate about making AI and data work for people. I build and evaluate AI models, visual analytics systems, and agentic workflows, applying them to unlock deeper insights, address healthcare and life sciences challenges, tell compelling data-driven stories, and advance data visualization literacy.
Experience
- Research Scientist — IBM Research, Cambridge, MA 2016–present
- Adjunct Professor — Columbia University · UPenn · UC Berkeley 2017–present
- Postdoctoral Researcher — Universität Konstanz, Germany 2013–2015
Education
- PhD, Industrial Engineering — Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 2008–2013
- MS, Industrial Engineering — Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 2008–2010
- BS, Systems Engineering — University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 2004–2008
- Civil Engineering — Seoul National University, Seoul, Republic of Korea 2002–2004
Research Keywords
Data Visualization
Visual Analytics
Human-AI Interaction
Agentic Workflows
AI for Biology, Healthcare, Medicine, and Science
Publications
(2026).
Multi-view biomedical foundation models for molecule-target and property prediction.
Advanced Science.
(2026).
An Autoethnography on Visualization Literacy: A Wicked Measurement Problem.
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG).
(2025).
A Critical Analysis of the Usage of Dimensionality Reduction in Four Domains.
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG).
(2025).
PromptAid: Visual Prompt Exploration, Perturbation, Testing and Iteration for Large Language Models.
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG).
(2024).
DG Comics: Semi-Automatically Authoring Graph Comics for Dynamic Graphs.
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG).
(2024).
SPARK: Harnessing Human-Centered Workflows with Biomedical Foundation Models for Drug Discovery.
International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence.
(2024).
MiMICRI: Towards Domain-centered Counterfactual Explanations of Cardiovascular Image Classification Models.
ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (ACM FAccT).
(2023).
Finspector: A Human-Centered Visual Inspection Tool for Exploring and Comparing Biases among Foundation Models.
The 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL): System Demonstrations.
(2023).
Towards Visualization Thumbnail Designs that Entice Reading Data-driven Articles.
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG).
(2023).
Causalvis: Visualizations for Causal Inference.
ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI).
(2023).
ConceptExplainer: Interactive Explanation for Deep Neural Networks from a Concept Perspective.
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG).
(2022).
Islet Autoantibody Levels Differentiate Progression Trajectories in Individuals With Presymptomatic Type 1 Diabetes.
Diabetes.
(2022).
RMExplorer: A Visual Analytics Approach to Explore the Performance and the Fairness of Disease Risk Models on Population Subgroups.
Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Visualization (IEEE VIS) Short Papers.
(2022).
Prediction Performance And Fairness Heterogeneity In Cardiovascular Risk Models.
Scientific Reports.
(2022).
Human-Centered Explainability For Life Sciences, Healthcare, And Medical Informatics.
Patterns.
(2022).
DASH: Visual Analytics for Debiasing Image Classification via User-Driven Synthetic Data Augmentation.
Eurographics Conference on Visualization (EuroVis) Short Papers.
(2022).
Progression Of Type 1 Diabetes From Latency To Symptomatic Disease Is Predicted By Distinct Autoimmune Trajectories.
Nature Communications.
(2022).
Roslingifier: Semi-Automated Storytelling for Animated Scatterplots.
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG).
(2021).
Design And User Experience Testing Of A Polygenic Score Report: A Qualitative Study Of Prospective Users.
BMC Medical Genomics.
(2021).
VATUN: Visual Analytics for Testing and Understanding Convolutional Neural Networks.
Eurographics Conference on Visualization (EuroVis) Short Papers.
(2021).
Wait, Let's Think about Your Purchase Again: A Study on Interventions for Supporting Self-Controlled Online Purchases.
The Web Conference (WWW).
(2020).
Improving Heart Disease Risk Through Quality-Focused Diet Logging: Pre-Post Study of a Diet Quality Tracking App.
JMIR mHealth and uHealth.
(2020).
Modeling Disease Progression Trajectories from Longitudinal Observational Data.
AMIA Annual Symposium (AMIA).
(2020).
Geono-Cluster: Interactive Visual Cluster Analysis for Biologists.
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG).
(2020).
DPVis: Visual Analytics with Hidden Markov Models for Disease Progression Pathways.
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG).
(2020).
GUIComp: A GUI Design Assistant with Real-Time, Multi-Faceted Feedback.
ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI).
(2019).
SANVis: Visual Analytics for Understanding Self-Attention Networks.
Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Visualization (IEEE VIS) Short Papers.
(2019).
Thumbnails for Data Stories: A Survey of Current Practices.
Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Visualization (IEEE VIS) Short Papers.
(2019).
The Correlation between Users' Cognitive Characteristics and Visualization Literacy.
Applied Sciences.
(2019).
RetainVis: Visual Analytics with Interpretable and Interactive Recurrent Neural Networks on Electronic Medical Records.
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG).
(2018).
Clustervision: Visual Supervision of Unsupervised Clustering.
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG).
(2017).
Toward Predicting Social Support Needs in Online Health Social Networks.
Journal of Medical Internet Research.
(2017).
AxiSketcher: Interactive Nonlinear Axis Mapping of Visualizations through User Drawings.
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG).
(2017).
VisExpress: Visual exploration of differential gene expression data.
Information Visualization.
(2017).
VLAT: Development of a Visualization Literacy Assessment Test.
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG).
(2016).
Off-Screen Visualization Perspectives: Tasks and Challenges.
Symposium on Visualization in Data Science (VDS) at IEEE VIS.
(2016).
ReVACNN: Real-Time Visual Analytics for Convolutional Neural Network.
Future of Interactive Learning Machines Workshop at Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS).
(2016).
Towards a Taxonomy for Evaluating User Engagement in Information Visualization.
Personal Visualization: Exploring Data in Everyday Life at IEEE VIS.
(2016).
Peekquence: Visual Analytics for Event Sequence Data.
KDD Workshop on Interactive Data Exploration and Analytics (IDEA).
(2016).
A Comparative Evaluation on Online Learning Approaches using Parallel Coordinate Visualization.
ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI).
(2016).
Spherical similarity explorer for comparative case analysis.
Electronic Imaging, Visualization and Data Analysis (VDA).
(2016).
Guidelines for Effective Usage of Text Highlighting Techniques.
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG).
(2016).
The Role of Uncertainty, Awareness, and Trust in Visual Analytics.
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG).
(2016).
VisOHC: Designing Visual Analytics for Online Health Communities.
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG).
(2015).
Do People Really Experience Information Overload While Reading Online Reviews?.
International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction.
(2015).
Opinion Marks: A Human-Based Computation Approach to Instill Structure into Unstructured Text on the Web.
KDD Workshop on Interactive Data Exploration and Analytics (IDEA).
(2015).
What Are the Causes of Noncompliance Behaviors in Bar Code Medication Administration System Processes?.
International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction.
(2015).
Ambient Grids: Maintain Context-Awareness via Aggregated Off-Screen Visualization.
Eurographics Conference on Visualization (EuroVis) Short Papers.
(2015).
State-of-the-art Report Of Visual Analysis For Event Detection In Text Data Streams.
Eurographics Conference on Visualization (EuroVis) State-of-the-Art Report.
(2014).
Knowledge Generation Model for Visual Analytics.
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG).
(2014).
VisJockey: Enriching Data Stories through Orchestrated Interactive Visualization.
Computation+Journalism Symposium.
(2014).
A Review Of Web‐based Dietary Interventions: From The Human–Computer Interaction Practitioners' Perspective.
Human Factors and Ergonomics in Manufacturing & Service Industries.
(2013).
Visual Analytics for Multimodal Social Network Analysis: A Design Study with Social Scientists.
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG).
(2013).
ReadingMate: The Effect of the Content Stabilizing Technique, Font Size, and Interline Spacing on the Letter-Counting Task Performance of Treadmill Runners.
Human Factors.
(2012).
Evaluating the Role of Time in Investigative Analysis of Document Collections.
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG).
(2012).
Food for the Heart: Lessons Learned while Designing a Visual Decision Support System for Patients with Coronary Heart Disease.
Advances in Human Aspects of Healthcare.
(2011).
Investigating the Efficacy of Crowdsourcing on Evaluating Visual Decision Supporting System.
Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting.
(2011).
Direct Manipulation Through Surrogate Objects.
ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI).
(2011).
Visual Analytic Roadblocks for Novice Investigators.
Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Visual Analytics Science and Technology (VAST).