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Adam Perer

Assistant Professor

Human-Computer Interaction Institute

Adam Perer

Email

Campus Address

Newell-Simon Hall 2504B

Links

Website 

DIG Lab 

Google Scholar 

Research Areas

Applied Machine Learning

Artificial Intelligence (AI)

Data Visualization

Healthcare

Social Good

Advisees

Angel (Alex) Cabrera

William Epperson

Katelyn Morrison

Venkatesh Sivaraman

Administrative Staff

Julia Chadwick


 
Adam Perer is an Assistant Professor at Carnegie Mellon University, where he is a member of the Human-Computer Interaction Institute.  His research integrates data visualization and machine learning techniques to create visual interactive systems to help users make sense out of big data.  Lately, his research focuses on human-centered data science and extracting insights from clinical data to support data-driven medicine.  This work has been published at premier venues in visualization, human-computer interaction, and medical informatics. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Maryland, College Park.  More information about his research is available at http://perer.org.

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