I study how people engage and make decisions with data
I design new interfaces and visualizations to interact with data
I assist impactful domains drowning in data.

Much of my work also deals with the ubiquity of AI, where I help interpret data masked by complex AI techniques and facilitate human-AI collaboration.

I co-direct the Data Interaction Group, whose mission is to empower everyone to analyze and communicate data with interactive systems.

Adam Perer is an Assistant Professor at Carnegie Mellon University, where he is a member of the Human-Computer Interaction Institute and he is Co-Director of the Data Interaction Group. 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. He has published over 50 peer-reviewed papers at premier venues in visualization, human-computer interaction, and medical informatics. He is currently an Area Papers Chair at IEEE VIS and a Visualization Subcommittee Papers Chair at ACM CHI. He was previously a Research Scientist at IBM Research. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Maryland, College Park.

Selected Publications (View all publications)

Tempo: Helping Data Scientists and Domain Experts Collaboratively Specify Predictive Modeling Tasks

Tempo: Helping Data Scientists and Domain Experts Collaboratively Specify Predictive Modeling Tasks

Venkat Sivaraman , Anika Vaishampayan , Xiaotong Li , Brian R Buck , Ziyong Ma , Richard D Boyce , Adam Perer
CHI 2025
Static Algorithm, Evolving Epidemic: Understanding the Potential of Human-AI Risk Assessment to Support Regional Overdose Prevention

Static Algorithm, Evolving Epidemic: Understanding the Potential of Human-AI Risk Assessment to Support Regional Overdose Prevention

Venkat Sivaraman , Yejun Kwak , Courtney Kuza , Qingnan Yang , Kayleigh Adamson , Katie Suda , Lu Tang , Walid Gellad , Adam Perer
CSCW 2025
Divisi: Interactive Search and Visualization for Scalable Exploratory Subgroup Analysis

Divisi: Interactive Search and Visualization for Scalable Exploratory Subgroup Analysis

Venkat Sivaraman , Zexuan (Zx) Li , Adam Perer
CHI 2025
Transparency in the Wild: Navigating Transparency in a Deployed AI System to Broaden Need-Finding Approaches

Transparency in the Wild: Navigating Transparency in a Deployed AI System to Broaden Need-Finding Approaches

Violet Turri , Katelyn Morrison , Katie Robinson , Collin Abidi , Adam Perer , Jodi Forlizzi , Rachel Dzombak
FAccT 2024
The Impact of Imperfect XAI on Human-AI Decision-Making

The Impact of Imperfect XAI on Human-AI Decision-Making

Katelyn Morrison , Philipp Spitzer , Violet Turri , Michelle Feng , Niklas Kühl , Adam Perer
CSCW 2024
Zeno: An Interactive Framework for Behavioral Evaluation of Machine Learning

Zeno: An Interactive Framework for Behavioral Evaluation of Machine Learning

Ángel Alexander Cabrera , Erica Fu , Donald Bertucci , Kenneth Holstein , Ameet Talwalkar , Jason I. Hong , Adam Perer
CHI 2023
Ignore, Trust, or Negotiate: Understanding Clinician Acceptance of AI-Based Treatment Recommendations in Health Care

Ignore, Trust, or Negotiate: Understanding Clinician Acceptance of AI-Based Treatment Recommendations in Health Care

Venkat Sivaraman , Leigh A. Bukowski , Joel Levin , Jeremy M. Kahn , Adam Perer
CHI 2023
Evaluating the Impact of Human Explanation Strategies on Human-AI Visual Decision-Making

Evaluating the Impact of Human Explanation Strategies on Human-AI Visual Decision-Making

Katelyn Morrison , Donghoon Shin , Kenneth Holstein , Adam Perer
CSCW 2023
Eye into AI: Evaluating the Interpretability of Explainable AI Techniques through a Game With a Purpose

Eye into AI: Evaluating the Interpretability of Explainable AI Techniques through a Game With a Purpose

Katelyn Morrison , Mayank Jain , Jessica Hammer , Adam Perer
CSCW 2023
Improving Human-AI Collaboration with Descriptions of AI Behavior

Improving Human-AI Collaboration with Descriptions of AI Behavior

Ángel Alexander Cabrera , Adam Perer , Jason I. Hong
CSCW 2023
Dead or Alive: Continuous Data Profiling for Interactive Data Science

Dead or Alive: Continuous Data Profiling for Interactive Data Science

Will Epperson , Vaishnavi Gorantla , Dominik Moritz , Adam Perer
VIS 2023
Leveraging Analysis History for Improved In Situ Visualization Recommendation

Leveraging Analysis History for Improved In Situ Visualization Recommendation

Will Epperson , Doris Jung-Lin Lee , Leijie Wang , Kunal Agarwal , Aditya Parameswaran , Dominik Moritz , Adam Perer
EuroVis 2022
Emblaze: Illuminating Machine Learning Representations through Interactive Comparison of Embedding Spaces

Emblaze: Illuminating Machine Learning Representations through Interactive Comparison of Embedding Spaces

Venkat Sivaraman , Yiwei Wu , Adam Perer
IUI 2022
Improving Human-AI Partnerships in Child Welfare: Understanding Worker Practices, Challenges, and Desires for Algorithmic Decision Support

Improving Human-AI Partnerships in Child Welfare: Understanding Worker Practices, Challenges, and Desires for Algorithmic Decision Support

Anna Kawakami , Venkat Sivaraman , Hao-Fei Cheng , Logan Stapleton , Yanghuidi Cheng , Diana Qing , Adam Perer , Zhiwei Steven Wu , Haiyi Zhu , Kenneth Holstein
CHI 2022
Discovering and Validating AI Errors With Crowdsourced Failure Reports

Discovering and Validating AI Errors With Crowdsourced Failure Reports

Ángel Alexander Cabrera , Abraham Druck , Jason I. Hong , Adam Perer
CSCW 2021
Designing Alternative Representations of Confusion Matrices to Support Non-Expert Public Understanding of Algorithm Performance

Designing Alternative Representations of Confusion Matrices to Support Non-Expert Public Understanding of Algorithm Performance

Hong Shen , Haojian Jin , Ángel Alexander Cabrera , Adam Perer , Haiyi Zhu , Jason I. Hong
CSCW 2020
Getting Playful with Explainable AI: Games with a Purpose to Improve Human Understanding of AI

Getting Playful with Explainable AI: Games with a Purpose to Improve Human Understanding of AI

Laura Beth Fulton , Ja Young Lee , Qian Wang , Zhendong Yuan , Jessica Hammer , Adam Perer
CHI 2020
SearchLens: Composing and Capturing Complex User Interests for Exploratory Search

SearchLens: Composing and Capturing Complex User Interests for Exploratory Search

Joseph Chee Chang , Nathan Hahn , Adam Perer , Aniket Kittur
IUI 2019
Ablate, Variate, and Contemplate: Visual Analytics for Discovering Neural Architectures

Ablate, Variate, and Contemplate: Visual Analytics for Discovering Neural Architectures

Dylan Cashman , Adam Perer , Remco Chang , Hendrik Strobelt
VAST 2019
Seq2Seq-VIS : A Visual Debugging Tool for Sequence-to-Sequence Models

Seq2Seq-VIS : A Visual Debugging Tool for Sequence-to-Sequence Models

Hendrik Strobelt , Sebastian Gehrmann , Michael Behrisch , Adam Perer , Hanspeter Pfister , Alexander Rush
VAST 2018
Coping with Volume and Variety in Temporal Event Sequences: Strategies for Sharpening Analytic Focus

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

Fan Du , Ben Shneiderman , Catherine Plaisant , Sana Malik , Adam Perer
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics 2017
Clustervision: Visual Supervision of Unsupervised Clustering

Clustervision: Visual Supervision of Unsupervised Clustering

Bum Chul Kwon , Ben Eysenbach , Janu Verma , Kenney Ng , Christopher deFilippi , Walter Stewart , Adam Perer
VAST 2017
Interacting with Predictions: Visual Inspection of Black-box Machine Learning Models

Interacting with Predictions: Visual Inspection of Black-box Machine Learning Models

Josua Krause , Adam Perer , Kenney Ng
CHI 2016
Supporting Iterative Cohort Construction with Visual Temporal Queries

Supporting Iterative Cohort Construction with Visual Temporal Queries

Josua Krause , Adam Perer , Harry Stavropoulos
VAST 2015
Progressive Visual Analytics: User-Driven Visual Exploration of In-Progress Analytics

Progressive Visual Analytics: User-Driven Visual Exploration of In-Progress Analytics

Charles Stolper , Adam Perer , David Gotz
VAST 2014
INFUSE: Interactive Feature Selection for Predictive Modeling of High Dimensional Data

INFUSE: Interactive Feature Selection for Predictive Modeling of High Dimensional Data

Josua Krause , Adam Perer , Enrico Bertini
VAST 2014
Frequence: Interactive Mining and Visualization of Temporal Frequent Event Sequences

Frequence: Interactive Mining and Visualization of Temporal Frequent Event Sequences

Adam Perer , Fei Wang
IUI 2014
The Longitudinal Use of SaNDVis: Visual Social Network Analytics in the Enterprise

The Longitudinal Use of SaNDVis: Visual Social Network Analytics in the Enterprise

Adam Perer , Ido Guy , Erel Uziel , Inbal Ronen , Michal Jacovi
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics 2013
Data-Driven Exploration of Care Plans for Patients

Data-Driven Exploration of Care Plans for Patients

Adam Perer , David Gotz
CHI 2013
Orion: A System for Modeling, Transformation and Visualization of Multi-dimensional Heterogeneous Networks

Orion: A System for Modeling, Transformation and Visualization of Multi-dimensional Heterogeneous Networks

Jeffrey Heer , Adam Perer
VAST 2011
Search, Show Context, Expand on Demand: Supporting Large Graph Exploration with Degree-of-Interest

Search, Show Context, Expand on Demand: Supporting Large Graph Exploration with Degree-of-Interest

Frank van Ham , Adam Perer
IEEE InfoVis 2009
Systematic Yet Flexible Discovery: Guiding Domain Experts Through Exploratory Data Analysis

Systematic Yet Flexible Discovery: Guiding Domain Experts Through Exploratory Data Analysis

Adam Perer , Ben Shneiderman
International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces 2008
Integrating Statistics and Visualization: Case Studies of Gaining Clarity During Exploratory Data Analysis

Integrating Statistics and Visualization: Case Studies of Gaining Clarity During Exploratory Data Analysis

Adam Perer , Ben Shneiderman
ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2008
Balancing Systematic and Flexible Exploration of Social Networks

Balancing Systematic and Flexible Exploration of Social Networks

Adam Perer , Ben Shneiderman
IEEE InfoVis 2006

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