Human Data Interaction Lab

What are we about?

HuDa in arabic means "guidance". Our research lives at the intersection of data management and interactive systems. We study how we, humans, interact with data and we build tools that help us derive us value and insights from data more effectively.

Our areas of focus change as researchers join or graduate from our lab. Currently, we are working on these three areas:

• Decision-making
  We are building scalable systems for prescriptive analytics with uncertain data. We are also designing tools to support group decision-making.
• Powering-up Users
  We are working on tools that can fully automate data analysis pipelines, use examples to synthesize queries or scripts for specific data analysis tasks, or aid with the distillation of unstructured data such as documents. We dive into specific domains such as healthcare, education, finance, etc.
• Mitigating Disinformation
  We are studying how disinformers spread their narratives especially in the absence of data and how we can help mitigators detect and assess the threat of a disinformation campaign, and effectively respond to it.

Researchers

Recent Papers

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Want to a be Research Assistant, post-doc, graduate or undergraduate researcher at the HuDa Interaction Lab. Apply here.