About me
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My name is Mengdie Hu. I am a PhD student in the Human-Centered Computing program at Georgia Institute of Technology. I am a member of the Information Interfaces research group. My advisor is Dr. John Stasko.
Before joining Georgia Tech in 2009, I did my Bachelor's in Peking University, Beijing, China. As an undergraduate student, I worked with Dr. Xiaoru Yuan in Peking University's Visualization and Visual Analytics Group.
Research
I identify myself as a researcher in the Human Computer Interaction community with special interests in information visualization and visual analytics. My research focuses on text and network visualization, especially when applied to the business domain and social media analysis. Over the past couple of years, I have been developing dotlink360, a visual analytics system that helps analysts making sense of converging business ecosystems. More recently, in collaboration with researchers from Microsoft Research Asia, I have been working on using visual analytics for understanding public opinion and influence in social media.
News
- May 2012: My CHI paper on Twitter's role in breaking the news of Osama Bin Laden's death has been covered by Georgia Tech News Room, ReadWriteWeb, MSNBC, LA Times, Washington Times, American Public Media, Poynter Institute, and a number of other media outlets.
- Dec 2011: The short paper that I coauthored with colleagues from MSRA during my summer internship has been accepted by CHI2012. An author's copy of the paper could be obtained here.
- Oct 2011: I attended IEEE Visweek2011 in Providence, RI.
- Aug 2011: I spent a wonderful summer in Beijing interning with Microsoft Research Asia.