Alexander Bendeck


Data Scientist
Capital One
alexanderbendeck at gmail dot com

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About

I am a data scientist at Capital One, based in McLean, VA. I am working to support integration of credit risk models and analytical processes following Capital One’s acquisition of Discover.

In 2026, I completed my Ph.D. in Computer Science at Georgia Tech, advised by Prof. John Stasko. My research centered on how large language models can support data science, particularly visual data analysis.

For a more extensive bio, see here.

Recent Updates

More coming soon!

June 2026: I started a new role as a Data Scientist at Capital One.

June 2026: I presented my MIT Lincoln Laboratory internship project, DataForager, at AVI 2026.

May 2026: I defended my PhD Dissertation, “Exploring the Potential of Large Language Models as Computational Engines and Virtual Domain Experts for Visual Data Analysis”. You can read it here.

March 2026: My summer work at MIT Lincoln Laboratory was accepted for publication at AVI 2026!

December 2025: I was invited to publish an extended reflection on LLM visualization literacy in IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications.

November 2025: I presented a follow-up workshop paper on my work visualizing U.S. migration patterns at the IEEE VIS EduVis Workshop.

May 2025: I will be spending the summer interning at MIT Lincoln Laboratory in the AI Technology & Systems Group.

January 2025: I presented my work on visualizing U.S. migration patterns, Robin, at HICSS 2025.

October 2024: I presented my work on evaluating GPT-4V’s visualization literacy at VIS 2024.

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.