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Cindy Xiong is an Assistant Professor in the School of Interactive Computing at Georgia Tech. She holds a Ph.D. in Cognitive Psychology from Northwestern University and undergraduate degrees in Applied Mathematics and Psychology from UCLA. Her research focuses on the intersection of visual perception, cognition, and data visualization, aiming to understand how humans interpret and make decisions from visualized data. She has pioneered work on mitigating confirmation bias, perceptual illusions in charts, and the impact of visualization design on decision-making.
Her research has been recognized with an NSF CAREER Award (2023) and an NSF Medium Award (2024), as well as best paper awards at IEEE PacificVis (2024) and ACM CHI (2022). She co-founded VISxVISION, an initiative bridging visualization researchers and perceptual psychologists. She also serves on the Human Factors Task Group at NIST to evaluate forensic lab standards.
Teaching: She designed a UX Research course at UMass Amherst, emphasizing user-centered design, experimental methods, statistical analysis, and effective communication of research findings. The course involves group projects analyzing UX challenges and presenting data-driven solutions.
Grants/Awards: NSF funding totaling $1.2M supports her work on visual analytic decision-making and mitigating confirmation bias. Her honors include VGTC Dissertation Award recognition (2022) and IEEE CG&A Best Paper Runner-Up (2022).
Research Labs/Teams: Active in NIST's Human Factors Task Group and leading the VISxVISION collaboration. Her work often involves interdisciplinary teams combining psychology and computational methods.
