Melanie Bancilhon, PhD


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I am a DEVCOM Army Research Laboratory Postdoctoral Fellow collaborating with the Visual Cognition Lab at George Washington University. My current research is at the intersection of human-computer interaction, data visualization and AI-assisted decision-making.

I received my PhD in Computer Science from Washington University in St. Louis. My thesis focused on evaluating how individual differences and contextual factors impact decision-making with visualizations.



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Recipient of Inclusivity and Diversity Scholarship to attend IEEE VIS 2022

NSF Smart Health & AI Student Awardee 2020

Sigma Xi Awardee 2019

Grace Hopper Scholar 2018
Conference Organizing

Student Committee Member, IEEE Visualization for Communication (VisComm), 2022

Student Committee Member, IEEE Visualization for Communication (VisComm), 2021


Conference Reviewing

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG), 2023

ACM SIGCHI Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work & Social Computing (CSCW), 2023

ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2023

IEEE Visualization for Communication (VisComm), 2022

IEEE Visualization Conference, 2022

IEEE Visualization for Communication (VisComm), 2020

European Creative Industry Summit (ECIS), 2020


Guest Lectures

Visualization Design Studio @ Columbia School of Nursing, 2022

Visualization for Decision-Making @ WPI, 2021


Mentorship & University Service

Student Mentor for the WashU First Gen Program, 2021 - 2023

Graduate Student Senator, 2020 - 2023

WashU representative and mentor at the Tapia Conference, 2022

DataKind Reviewer for the data.org Inclusive Growth and Recovery Challenge, 2020


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