Lace Padilla
l.padilla [at] northeastern.edu
Teaching
- DS 4200 Information Presentation & Visualization (Summer 25)
- CS 7250 Info Viz Theory and Application (Spring 25, Fall 23)
- PSYC 3466 Cognition (Spring 25)
- CS 7295 Visualization and HCI as decision-making aids (Fall 24)
- CS 5340 Human-Computer Interaction (Spring 24)
Lace Padilla joined Northeastern University in 2023 as an Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Psychology where she is a member of the Data Visualization Lab @Khoury. Her interests lie in the intersection between Information Visualization, Behavioral Decision Making, and Data Science. Her research on uncertainty communication explores how to align data visualizations of future events with human decision-making capabilities. She has received the best paper award at IEEE VIS, honorable mentions [1, 2], an APA Early Career Award, and a NSF CAREER Award. She is the PI and Co-PI on several other grants funded by NSF (#2122174, #2028374, #1810498, #2400471), NIH (#1R01AI188576-01), and DOE.