Miriah takes a collaborative and theory-driven approach to research, relying on methodologies and epistemologies from computer science, design, social science, and humanities. The practice of designing visualizations allows her to learn about how visualizations work in the world, how people relate to data, and how we can design technologies for the futures we want.
Miriah obtained her bachelors degree in astronomy and astrophysics at Penn State University, earned a PhD in computer science from the University of Utah, and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Harvard University. Prior to joining the faculty at LiU she was an associate professor in the School of Computing at the University of Utah and a member of the Scientific Computing & Imaging Institute.
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