Join the ATLAS Colloquium April 27, 2021 on Zoom to hear Narges Mahyar’s talk, “Building Equitable Social Computing and Visualization Tools for Democratizing Public Participation.” In this talk, Mayhar will present examples of her recent work using social computing and visualization technologies to democratize public participation. She will describe a vision for expanding her research on building novel tools towards advanced stages of the decision-making process, such as collaborative sensemaking of complex civic data and consensus-building.

Narges Mahyar is an Assistant Professor in the College of Information and Computer Sciences at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Victoria, an MS in Information Technology from the University of Malaya, and a BS in Electrical Engineering from Tehran Azad University. She was a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Computer Science at the University of British Columbia from 2014-2016. Prior to joining UMass, she completed a second postdoctoral fellowship in the Design Lab at the University of California San Diego from 2016-2018. Her research papers have received numerous awards, including the best paper award from CSCW 2020, the outstanding paper award from the Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture 2017, the honorable mention award from Interactive Surfaces and Spaces conference in 2016 and the best paper award from IEEE VAST 2014. 

The Brown Bag series meets Tuesdays at 11:30 am -12:30pm on Zoom. The seminar is also the 1 credit ATLAS Seminar ATLS-7000 course.

Schedule and more information

Email ellen.do@colorado.edu for any questions!