Faculty Experts

Chaz Evans

School of Communication

Assistant Professor of Instruction, Media Arts and Game Design

Focus Areas: Art History, Art Theory and Practice, Data Visualization, Digital Media, Gaming, Performing Arts, Visual Arts

Steven Franconeri

Kellogg School of Management, McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science, The Garage at Northwestern, The Graduate School, Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences

Professor of Psychology

Field: Education, Psychology

Focus Areas: Behavioral Economics, Data Science, Data Visualization, Decision Making, Design Thinking, Influence and Persuasion, Misinformation and Fake News, STEM Education

Jessica Hullman

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McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science, Medill School of Journalism, Media, Integrated Marketing Communications

Associate Professor of Computer Science

Field: Computer Science, Journalism

Focus Areas: Artificial Intelligence, Data Science, Data Visualization, Decision Making, Design Thinking

Raffaella Margutti

Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences

Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Physics & Astronomy

Field: Physics and Astronomy

Focus Areas: Astronomy, Astrophysics, Black Holes, Data Science, Data Visualization

David Rapp

School of Education and Social Policy, Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences

Professor of psychology and of learning sciences

Field: Education, Psychology

Focus Areas: Data Visualization, Memory, Misinformation and Fake News

Melville Ulmer

Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences

Professor in the Department of Physics & Astronomy

Field: Physics and Astronomy

Focus Areas: Astronomy, Astrophysics, Black Holes, Dark Matter, Data Science, Data Visualization

Leah J. Welty

Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine

Professor, Department of Preventive Medicine - Biostatistics

Field: Data Science, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences

Focus Areas: Adolescent Health and Psychology, Data Bias, Data Science, Data Visualization, Health Disparities, Juvenile Justice and Delinquency, Statistics and probability