Remco Chang

Professor
Tufts University
Computer Science

Joyce Cummings Hall
Room #365
177 College Avenue
Medford, MA 02155
(Office) 617-627-3681
remco_at_cs.tufts.edu

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Graduated PhD Students and Postdocs

Professor Cashman

Congratulations to Dylan Cashman who is now an Assistant Professor at Brandeis University.

Professor Mosca

Congratulations to Ab Mosca who is now a Visiting Assistant Professor at Smith College.

Professor Behrisch

Congratulations to Michael Behrisch who is now an Associate Professor at Utrecht University (Netherlands)

Professor Humayoun

Congratulations to Shah Rukh Humayoun who is now an Associate Professor at the San Francisco State University

Professor Battle

Congratulations to Leilani Battle (MIT, primary advisor: Mike Stonebraker), who is now an Associate Professor at the University of Washington

Professor Yuksel

Congratulations to Beste Yuksel (Tufts, primary advisor: Rob Jacob), who is now an Associate Professor at the University of San Francisco

Professor Ottley

Congratulations to Alvitta Ottley who is now an Associate Professor at the Washington University in St. Louis (WashU)

Professor Crouser

Congratulations to Jordan Crouser who is now a Full Professor at Kenyon College

Professor Brown

Congratulations to Eli Brown who is now an Associate Professor at DePaul University

Professor Harrison

Congratulations to Lane Harrison who is now an Associate Professor at WPI

 

Professor Peck

Congratulations to Evan Peck (Tufts, primary advisor: Rob Jacob), who is now an Associate professor at the University of Colorado Boulder

Dr Curry

Congratulations to Mike Curry (MIT, primary advisor: Dan Hastings), who is now a Senior Engineer at Amazon Robotics

Dr Afergan

Congratulations to Dan Afergan (Tufts, primary advisor: Rob Jacob), who is now a Staff Software Engineer at Google (YouTube)

Dr Tao

Congratulations to Wenbo Tao (MIT, primary advisor: Mike Stonebraker), who is now a Research Scientist at Facebook

Dr Procopio

Congratulations to Marianne Procopio who is now a Technical Staff at MIT Lincoln Lab

Dr Suh

Congratulations to Ashley Suh who is now a Technical Staff at MIT Lincoln Lab

Dr Appleby

Congratulations to Gabriel Appleby who is now an AI and Visualization Researcher at the National Lab of the Rockies (former NREL)

Dr Rogers

Congratulations to Jen Rogers who is now a Visualization Researcher at the Idaho National Lab

Dr Montambault

Congratulations to Brian Montambault who is now an independent contractor working on a starup

Recent Publications

Grammar and Foramlism

Devloping grammars and formalisms towards a theoretical foundation for visual analytics

(HypothesisGrammar) (Design-Specific Transformations) (Inferential Tasks)

Interactive Dimensionality Reduction

Techniques for interactive explanation and exploration of high-dimensional data visualizations

(DimBridge) (UnProjection) (HyperNP)

Decision Making Typology

A typology for formally describing decision-making tasks with interactive systems

(Decision-Making)

Dashboard Eye-Tracking

An eye-tracking study on dashboards that led to the development of a new AI-based saliency model that predict viewer behaviors

(Dashboard Vision)

Estimation vs. Validation

A series of perceptual studies that compare how viewers estimate versus validate a visualized regression model in scatterplots

(Validation) (Estimation)

Knowledge Graphs

A study on knowledge graphs used in practice and a system that performs tabular data augmentation using WikiData

(Knowledge Graph Study) (CAVA)

Visual Communication

Studies on how to effective communicate data, analysis results, and story to different audiences with different visualization techniques

(Statistical Model) (Data Video)

NeuralCubes

NeuralCube uses a deep learning model to replace databases for interactive visualizations with minimum loss in accuracy

(BigData)

Nutrition Study

Collaboration with the Friedman School of Nutrition to design and analyze dietary adherence and online shopping behaviors

(Online Grocery) (Gamification)

Material Science

Collaboration with Material Scientists using visualization for material discovery

(Photoswitches) (Alloys)

Startups

GraphPolaris

Co-founded with Michael Behrisch. Our mission is to make graph data analysis accessible, transparent, and easy with user-friendly applications that link and simplify complex datasets. GraphPolaris strives to help people across different industries use advanced analytics effortlessly, ensuring that everyone can make informed decisions with clarity and ease.


Hopara.io

Co-founded with Mike Stonebraker (MIT) based on the PhD thesis of Wenbo Tao. Hopara originated from Wenbo's Kyrix project (Kyrix, Kyrix-S, Kyrix-J), a scalable visualization technology designed to handle billions of records. Hopara visualizes operations from connected machines and environments that generate a tsunami of underused information.

Recent Talks

(10-20-2025) Colorado School of Mines
(10-06-2025) University of Wisconsin Madison
(07-17-2025) Zhejiang University
(04-23-2025) PacificVis Keynote
(01-31-2025) Northeastern University
(01-08-2025) University of Utah
(11-27-2024) Utrecht University
(11-21-2024) NYU Abu Dhabi
(10-08-2024) MIT
(03-15-0204) Shonan Seminar
(09-28-2023) Hong Kong University Science and Technology
(08-31-2023) National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University
(01-30-2023) Northeastern University
(11-01-2022) Tufts Data Intensive Study Center
(10-16-2022) VDS Keynote
(09-15-2022) Shandong University
(11-19-2021) Peking University
(03-10-2021) NSF Center for Science and Engineering Statistics
(01-21-2021) Fudan University
(09-24-2020) Tufts Human Factors Seminar