Experience

December 2020 - present

Senior Full-Stack Engineer

Adobe, San Jose, CA
July 2019 - December 2020

Research Scientist II

Adobe Research, San Jose, CA
August 2016 - July 2019

Research Scientist I

Adobe Research, San Jose, CA
August 2013 - May 2016

Research Assistant

University of Maryland, College Park, MD
June 2013 - August 2013

Software Engineer Intern

Foursquare, New York, NY
Implement features to encourage user conversion and growth; ran A/B testing and reported on results.
September 2011 - May 2013

Teaching Assistant

Department of Computer Science, University of Maryland
Conduct discussion and review sessions; grade papers and projects; hold office hours.
August 2008 - May 2010

Teaching Assistant

Department of Computer Science, University of Delaware
Conduct lab and review sessions; grade papers and projects; hold office hours
May 2008 - May 2010

Computer Lab Assistant

Departments of Computer Science and Computer & Electrical Engineering, University of Delaware
Maintain department machines (Mac, Windows, Linux); set up, wire, and maintain networks; provide computer assistance for graduate students and professors.

Education

September 2011 - May 2016

Ph.D in Computer Science

University of Maryland, College Park, MD
Thesis: A Visual Analytics Approach to Comparing Cohorts of Event Sequences
September 2011 - May 2014

M.S. in Computer Science

University of Maryland, College Park, MD
Courses: view
September 2007 - May 2011

B.S. in Computer Science

University of Delaware, Newark, DE
Degree with Distinction.
Senior Thesis: "Parsing Java Method Names for Improved Software Analysis"
Minor: Math
Courses: view

Projects

January 2014 - May 2016

CoCo: A Visual Analytics Approach to Comparing Cohorts of Event Sequences

Human-Computer Interaction Lab, University of Maryland, College Park
Co-advisors: Ben Shneiderman and Catherine Plaisant
Designing, developing, and evaluating a visual analytics tool for performing comparison of two cohorts of event sequence data.
More information: website
August 2013 - May 2016

EventFlow

Human-Computer Interaction Lab, University of Maryland, College Park
Co-advisors: Ben Shneiderman and Catherine Plaisant
Develop and maintain visual analytics tool for displaying and modifying event sequence data.
More information: website
May 2012 - January 2013

"Punctuation Input on Touchscreen Keyboards: Analyzing Frequency of Use and Mode-switching Costs"

Human-Computer Interaction Lab, University of Maryland, College Park
Advisor: Leah Findlater
Updating and evaluating a 10-finger QWERTY touchscreen keyboard for the Microsoft Pixelsense. Running a user study with ten participants to evaluate performance of the keyboard against the status quo.
More information: view
September - December 2012

TopicFlow

Designed and developed a novel visualization tool for analyzing tweets over time. Implemented live search, filtering, and brushing and linking interactions.
More information: view
January 2010 - May 2011

"Parsing Java Method Names for Improved Software Analysis"

Software Analysis and Compilation Lab, University of Delaware
Co-advisors: Lori L. Pollock, Vijay K. Shanker
Developing, implementing, and evaluating a tool to automatically identify the parts-of-speech in multiword Java method names and chunk these words into meaningful phrases based on lexical relationships for improved software analysis.
More information: view
June - August 2009

"Extending and Evaluating a Software Word Usage Model for C++"

Software Analysis and Compilation Lab, University of Delaware
Graduate Mentor: Emily Hill
Examine differences of Java & C++ and apply a Software Word Usage Model (SWUM) to C++.
More information: view

Publications

November 2021

“Just Follow the Lights”: A Ubiquitous Framework for Low-Cost, Mixed Fidelity Navigation in Indoor Built Environments

Philip Dasler, Sana Malik, Matthew Louis Mauriello
in Proceedings of the IEEE VIS 2021
October 2021

An Evaluation-Focused Framework for Visualization Recommendation Algorithms

Zehua Zeng, Phoebe Moh, Fan Du, Jane Hoffswell, Tak Yeon Lee, Sana Malik, Eunyee Koh, Leilani Battle
in Proceedings of the IEEE VIS 2021 Best Paper Honorable Mention
August 2021

Learning to Recommend Visualizations from Data

Xin Qian, Ryan A Rossi, Fan Du, Sungchul Kim, Eunyee Koh, Sana Malik, Tak Yeon Lee, Joel Chan
in Proceedings of the KDD '21: Proceedings of the 27th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery & Data Mining
April 2021

Generating Accurate Caption Units for Figure Captioning

Xin Qian, Eunyee Koh, Fan Du, Sungchul Kim, Joel Chan, Ryan A Rossi, Sana Malik, Tak Yeon Lee
in Proceedings of the WWW '21: Proceedings of the Web Conference 2021
April 2020

Interactive Event Sequence Prediction for Marketing Analysts

Fan Du, Shunan Guo, Sana Malik, Eunyee Koh, Sungchul Kim, Zhicheng Liu
in Proceedings of the Extended Abstracts of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2020)
April 2020

Designing Tools for Semi-Automated Detection of Machine Learning Biases: An Interview Study

Po-Ming Law, Sana Malik, Fan Du, Moumita Sinha
in Proceedings of the CHI 2020 Workshop on Detection and Design for Cognitive Biases in People and Computing Systems
April 2020

The Impact of Presentation Style on Human-In-The-Loop Detection of Algorithmic Bias

Po-Ming Law, Sana Malik, Fan Du, Moumita Sinha
in Proceedings of Graphics Interface 2020 (GI 2020)
April 2020

Designing Tools for Semi-Automated Detection of Machine Learning Biases: An Interview Study

Po-Ming Law, Sana Malik, Fan Du, Moumita Sinha
in Proceedings of the CHI 2020 Workshop on Detection and Design for Cognitive Biases in People and Computing Systems
May 2019

DeepCompare: Visual and Interactive Comparison of Deep Learning Models

Sugeerth Murugesan, Sana Malik, Fan Du, Eunyee Koh, and Tuan Manh Lai
in Proceedings of the IEEE computer graphics and applications (CG&A) 39 (5), 47-59
April 2019

Visualizing uncertainty and alternatives in event sequence predictions

Shunan Guo, Fan Du, Sana Malik, Eunyee Koh, Sungchul Kim, Zhicheng Liu, Donghyun Kim, Hongyuan Zha, Nan Cao
in Proceedings of the CHI 2019
October 2018

MAQUI: Interweaving Queries and Pattern Mining for Recursive Event Sequence Exploration

Po-Ming Law, Zhicheng Liu, Sana Malik, Rahul C Basole
in IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG).
October 2018

Perceptual Similarity Ranking of Temporal Heatmaps Using Convolutional Neural Networks

Sana Malik, Sungchul Kim, and Eunyee Koh
in Proceedings of the 2018 Workshop on Understanding Subjective Attributes of Data, with the Focus on Evoked Emotions. South Korea, p. 25-31.
April 2018

Interactive Campaign Planning for Marketing Analysts

Fan Du, Sana Malik, Georgios Theocharous, and Eunyee Koh
in Proceedings of the 2018 CHI Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA ’18). Montreal, CAN (2018).
April 2018

Personalizable and Interactive Sequence Recommender System

Fan Du, Sana Malik, Georgios Theocharous, and Eunyee Koh
in Proceedings of the 2018 CHI Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA ’18). Montreal, CAN (2018).
February 2018

An Approach to Identify Delivery of Palliative Radiation Therapy Using Health Care Claims Data: A Proof-of-Concept Application of a Visual Analytics Tool

Eberechukwu Onukwugha, Jinani Jayasekera, James Gardner, Sana Malik, C Daniel Mullins, Arif Hussain, Jay P Ciezki, Chandana A Reddy, Brian Seal, Adriana Valderrama, and Young Kwok
in Journal of Clinical Oncology: Clinical Cancer Informatics (JCO CCI). Vol. 2, p. 1-12.
June 2017

Coping with Volume and Variety in Temporal Event Sequences: Strategies for Sharpening Analytic Focus

Fan Du, Ben Shneiderman, Catherine Plaisant, Sana Malik, and Adam Perer
in IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG). Vol. 3, Iss. 6. p. 1636-1649.
May 2017

popHistory: Animated Visualization of Personal Web Browsing History

Matthew Carrasco, Eunyee Koh, and Sana Malik
in Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA ’17). Denver, CO, USA (2016). p. 2429-2436.
April 2017

WimNet: Vision Search for Web Logs

Sungchul Kim, Sana Malik, and Eunyee Koh
in Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on World Wide Web Companion (WWW '17). Perth, AUS (2017). p. 803-804.
May 2016

Simplifying Overviews of Temporal Event Sequences

Matthew Louis Mauriello, Ben Shneiderman, Fan Du, Sana Malik, and Catherine Plaisant
in Proceedings of the 2016 CHI Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA ’16). San Jose, CA, USA (2016). p. 2217-2224. Best Paper Honorable Mention
May 2016

High-Volume Hypothesis Testing for Large-Scale Web Log Analysis

Sana Malik, Eunyee Koh
in Proceedings of the 2016 CHI Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA ’16). San Jose, CA, USA (2016). p. 1583-1590
May 2016

HIGH-VOLUME HYPOTHESIS TESTING: SYSTEMATIC EXPLORATION OF EVENT SEQUENCE COMPARISONS

Sana Malik, Ben Shneiderman, Fan Du, Catherine Plaisant and Margret Bjarnadottir
in ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems (TiiS), Volume 6 Issue 1, May 2016, Article No. 9 ACM New York, NY, USA
March 2016

Coping with Volume and Variety in Temporal Event Sequences: Strategies for Sharpening Analytic Focus

Fan Du, Ben Shneiderman, Catherine Plaisant, Sana Malik, Adam Perer
in IEEE Transactions on Vision and Computer Graphics, 2016 Mar 9.
December 2015

UNDERSTANDING ADHERENCE AND PRESCRIPTION PATTERNS USING LARGE SCALE CLAIMS DATA

Margret Bjarnadottir, Sana Malik, Eberechukwu Onukwugha, Tanisha Gooden, Cather- ine Plaisant in PharmacoEconomics 2016 Feb; 34(2):169-79.
March 2015

Cohort Comparison of Event Sequences with Balanced Integration of Visual Analytics and Statistics

Sana Malik, Fan Du, Megan Monroe, Eberechukwu Onukwugha, Catherine Plaisant and Ben Shneiderman
in Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI '15). p. 38-49.
November 2014

An Evaluation of Visual Analytics Approaches to Comparing Cohorts of Event Sequences

Sana Malik, Fan Du, Megan Monroe, Eberechukwu Onukwugha, Catherine Plaisant and Ben Shneiderman
in IEEE VIS Workshop on Visualizing Electronic Health Record Data
August 2014

Visual Analysis of Topical Evolution in Unstructured Text: Design and Evaluation of TopicFlow

Alison Smith, Sana Malik, and Ben Shneiderman
Lecture Notes on Social Network Analysis, Springer (to appear)
August 2013

TopicFlow: Visualizing Topic Alignment of Twitter Data over Time

Sana Malik, Alison Smith, Timothy Hawes, Panagis Papadatos, Jianyu Li, Cody Dunne, Ben Shneiderman
in Proceedings of 2013 IEEE/ACM ASONAM, ACM
May 2013

Part-of-Speech Tagging of Program Identifiers for Improved Text-based Software Engineering Tools

Samir Gupta, Sana Malik, Lori Pollock and K. Vijay-Shanker
in Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Program Comprehension (ICPC). Best paper award.

Patents

August 2021

"GENERATING DIGITAL EVENT SEQUENCES UTILIZING A DYNAMIC USER PREFERENCE INTERFACE TO MODIFY RECOMMENDATION MODEL REWARD FUNCTIONS"

US Patent No. 11,085,777