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Alyssa Peña

Big Data Engineer

L3Harris

Biography

I have a B.S. in Civil Engineering and a M.S. in Visualization from Texas A&M. Outside of work, I am participating in Georgia Tech's Online Master of Science Computer Science program to further my knowledge in Explainable AI and computer science fundamentals. In my free time I create traditional artwork, run, bike ride, and explore new places.

Interests

  • Machine Learning
  • Explainable AI
  • Electronic Warfare

Education

  • M.S. in Computer Science, Current

    Georgia Tech

  • M.S. in Visualization, 2017

    Texas A&M University

  • B.S. in Civil Engineering, 2014

    Texas A&M University

Projects

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All Interactive Sensemaking

Memorability of Enhanced Informational Graphics

We aim to extend research regarding memorability of infographic embellishments by providing empirical results over how the type of …

Contextualizing Construction Incident Reports

In this research, we study the design of virtual environments to represent construction accident reports provided by the Occupational …

Visual Media

A compilation of prior visualization media projects

Interaction Provenance

Exploring how users use visualizations and switch between contexts.

Recent Publications

Designing Educational Virtual Environments for Construction Safety: A Case Study in Contextualizing Incident Reports and Engaging Learners. Virtual, Augmented and Mixed Reality

In this research, we conducted a case study in system design to understand how to effectively contextualize raw incident reports into a …
Alyssa Peña, Eric D. Ragan, Julian Kang
PDF Project

Detecting Changes in User Behavior to Understand Interaction Provenance during Visual Data Analysis

In this research, we aim to understand how data-driven techniques can automatically identify changes in user behavior (inflection …
PDF Project

Results and Challenges in Visualizing Analytic Provenance of TextAnalysis Tasks Using Interaction Logs

This paper explores the use of interaction logs to generate LDA based summaries of an analyst’s interest based on interactions with …
Rhema Linder, Alyssa Peña, S. Jayarathna, Eric D. Ragan
PDF Project

ProvThreads: Analytic Provenance Visualization and Segmentation

We introduce ProvThreads, a visual analytics approach that incorporates interactive topic modeling outcomes to illustrate relationships …
Sina Mohseni, Alyssa Peña, Eric D. Ragan
PDF Project

Contextualizing Construction Accident Reports in Virtual Environments for Safety Education

In this research, we study the design of virtual environments to represent construction accident reports provided by the Occupational …
Alyssa Peña, Eric D. Ragan
PDF Project

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