Melanie Tory — SPARQNOW

At-a-Glance

Professor of the Practice at Northeastern University Oakland
Research focuses on empowering people to ask and answer questions with data, visualization, and human-AI interaction
Previously worked at Tableau Software
Served as a Human-Computer Interaction Researcher at Agilent Technologies

Biography

Melanie Tory is a computer scientist and Professor of the Practice at Northeastern University Oakland. Her academic work and research span the boundary between applied and academic research.

At Northeastern University, Tory's research focuses on empowering people to ask and answer questions with data. She is particularly interested in visualization and human-AI interaction for a variety of applications.