Arvind Satyanarayan
Hi, I'm Arvind Satyanarayan.

I'm a Computer Science PhD candidate at Stanford University, working with Jeff Heer and the Interactive Data Lab. My research seeks to lower the threshold for design, with a focus on data visualization. I'm also an advisor for Apropose, Inc., a Bay Area startup I co-founded to build data-driven web design tools.

I graduated from UC San Diego, where I worked with Jim Hollan to study interactions with wall-sized displays. At UCSD's Revelle College, I helped create an internship program and served as Senator, Resident Advisor, and Orientation Leader.

Years ago, I wrote plugins and tutorials for Movable Type, and helped fork Melody.


Featured Projects

Reactive Vega: Declarative Interaction Design

New interaction primitives backed by a streaming+reactive dataflow architecture to manipulate data and encodings declaratively.

Lyra: A Visualization Design Environment

Lyra enables constructing D3-calibre visualizations through direct manipulation, no programming required! Try it »

Webzeitgeist: Design Mining the Web

A platform for scaleable design mining to understand design demographics, and support data-driven design tools.


Other Projects

Ellipsis: Authoring Narrative Visualizations

A model of storytelling abstractions, and a graphical interface for authoring narrative visualizations. Try it »

CHI 2013 Interactive Schedule

Large display screens and mobile applications to help attendees browse CHI 2013 video previews and personalize the schedule.

An Overlay Interface for Large Displays

A superimposed interface to constrain interaction, focus attention, and facilitate multiple users with wall-sized displays.

Publications

Travel

July 18–21Intel (Big Data ISTC), Cambridge, MA
July 8–10DataViz Camp, United Nations
June 6–10EuroVis, Groningen, Netherlands
May 16–Jun 4ExSitu, INRIA, Saclay, France
Apr 24–26OpenVis Conf, Boston, MA

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