Portrait of Ameya Patil
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I am a Ph.D. student in Computer Science advised by Dr. Leilani Battle, and member of the Interactive Data Lab and the UWDB Group at the University of Washington, Seattle.

My research lies in the intersection of Databases, Data Visualization and Human Computer Interaction, with a focus on building interactive data visualization and analysis systems for socio-environmental data science contexts. I am also interested in visualization perception research, and literacy through data visualizations.

Outside of my academic life, I pursue digital photography as a hobby. Browse my photography profile here and on Instagram @ameyabp. I am crazy about the game of cricket, love adventure activities and travelling, often writing down my experiences via blogs.

News


  • October 2024 - Presented my work - "Interactive Visualization of Ensemble Data Assimilation Forecasts for Freshwater Floods" virtually at IEEE VIS 2024 Viz 4 Climate + Sustainability workshop, St.Pete Beach, Florida, USA - link
  • October 2024 - Presented virtually at the IEEE VIS 2024 Doctoral Colloquium, St. Pete Beach, Florida USA
  • October 2024 - Paper accepted at ACM CSCW 2025 - "Behavior Matters: An Alternative Perspective on Promoting Responsible Data Science" - link
  • September 2024 - Demo accepted at IEEE VIS 2024 Viz 4 Climate + Sustainability workshop - "Interactive Visualization of Ensemble Data Assimilation Forecasts for Freshwater Floods" - link
  • July 2024 - Participated in Research to Impact Collaborative at ACM Compass 2024, New Delhi, India.

Publications


  • Behavior Matters: An Alternative Perspective on Promoting Responsible Data Science
    ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing, 2025
    Z. Dong, A. Patil, Y. Shoda, L. Battle, E. Wall
    Paper Bibtex
  • Interactive Visualization of Ensemble Data Assimilation Forecasts for Freshwater Floods
    IEEE VIS Viz 4 Climate + Sustainability Workshop Demo, 2024
    A. Patil, M. Smith, H. Kershaw, M. El Gharamti
    Paper Video Presentation Bibtex
  • WhaleVis: Visualizing the History of Commercial Whaling
    IEEE VIS Short, 2024
    A. Patil, Z. Rand, T. Branch, L. Battle
    DOI Paper Video News Bibtex
  • WhaleVis: A New Visualization Tool for the IWC Catch Database
    International Whaling Commission, SC/69A/GDR/04, 2023
    A. Patil, Z. Rand, T. Branch, L. Battle
    DOI Paper Video News Bibtex
  • Studying Early Decision Making with Progressive Bar Charts
    IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 2023
    A. Patil, G. Richer, C. Jermaine, D. Moritz, J.-D. Fekete
    DOI Paper Video Presentation Data Bibtex

Selected Projects


HydroVis
Snapshot of the HydroVis interface
Visualization Dashboard for Ensemble Data Assimilation Forecasting using WRF-Hydro

Designed and implemented an interactive dashboard for analyzing ensemble data assimilation forecasts of freshwater floods in river systems. The forecasts are made using the WRF-Hydro hydrology model. This was an internship project in the Data Assimilation Research Section (DAReS) team at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR).

Details Code 
WhaleVis
Visualization Tool for the IWC Catch Database

Created an interactive dashboard for visual analysis of historical commercial whale hunting. The dashboard is aimed to facilitate inferring spatial distribution of whale populations from the catch numbers and the whale search effort, eventually helping in whale conservation efforts.

Dashboard Paper 
Lumos! - Board and Video Game
Course Project for Game Design - INST728E

Designed a board game and a video game based on the theme of propagating light in a 2D space.

Details 
Natural Calamities Visualization Tool
Course Project for Interactive Data Analytics - CMSC828D

Implemented a geo data analysis/visualization tool with interactions to understand the natural calamities that happened in the US over 20 years from 1950 to 2022. Front end was designed using d3, server was setup using python Flask and Postgres was used for backend.

Details Code 

Blogs


Photography


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Contact


E-mail: ameyap2[at]cs<dot>washington[dawt]edu

Linkedin: linkedin.com/ameya-patil

Location: CSE291, Paul G. Allen Center, 185 E Stevens Way NE, Seattle, WA 98195-2350