Alexander Bendeck


Third-year Ph.D. student
Georgia Tech
abendeck3 at gatech dot edu

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About

I am a third-year Ph.D. student in the School of Interactive Computing at Georgia Tech, advised by Prof. John Stasko. I have broad interests in data visualization and visual analytics, especially for geographic data, and I am currently studying how to support user interaction with data using text and large language models. I am also working on building visualization tools to support electric grid operators (in collaboration with Sandia National Labs).

I completed my undergrad at Duke University. I worked with professors Jun Yang and Sudeepa Roy on database projects such as HNRQ. I was also engaged in interdisciplinary research through the Bass Connections program at Duke. I worked in the MCAB Lab under the supervision of professor Gregory Samanez-Larkin.

Recent Updates

More coming soon!

March 2024: I presented my Tableau internship project, SlopeSeeker, at IUI 2024.

December 2023: My summer work at Tableau Research was accepted for publication at IUI 2024!

August 2023: I am honored to receive a Georgia Tech Goizueta Foundation Fellowship.

May 2023: I will be spending the summer interning at Tableau Research.

October 2022: I was interviewed about my recent work on visualizing U.S. migration patterns for a FiveThirtyEight article.

July 2022: My work on Yelp review text mining and visualization has been accepted to UrbComp 2022! Check out the paper and interactive map tool.

January 2022: Joined the GT VIS Lab.

August 2021: Started my PhD at Georgia Tech.