Hilson Shrestha

Hilson Shrestha

Graduate Student @ WPI

Hi, I am Hilson. I am a 4th-year Ph.D. Student at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. I work at the VIEW lab under the supervision of Dr. Lane Harrison and Dr. Elke Rundensteiner.

My research interests are Data Visualization, Human-Computer Interaction, and Fairness.

Previously, I was a senior software engineer at Innovate Tech, leading two major projects within an online learning platform, My Second Teacher.

Publications

Balancing act
2024 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (FAccT '24)

Balancing Act: Evaluating People’s Perceptions of Fair Ranking Metrics

Mallak Alkhathlan, Kathleen Cachel, Hilson Shrestha, Lane Harrison, Elke Rundensteiner
reVISit
Journal of Chemical Education

FlowAR: A Mixed Reality Program to Introduce Continuous Flow Concepts

Max Chen, Yichen Li, Hilson Shrestha, Noëlle Rakotondravony, Andrew Teixeira, Lane Harrison, and Robert E. Dempski
reVISit
2023 IEEE Visualization and Visual Analytics (VIS)

reVISit: Supporting Scalable Evaluation of Interactive Visualizations

Yiren Ding, Jack Wilburn, Hilson Shrestha, Akim Ndlovu, Kiran Gadhave, Carolina Nobre, Alexander Lex, and Lane Harrison
surprise
2023 IEEE Visualization and Visual Analytics (VIS)

Taken By Surprise? Evaluating how Bayesian Surprise & Suppression Influences Peoples' Takeaways in Map Visualizations

Akim Ndlovu, Hilson Shrestha, and Lane Harrison
Help or Hinder
2023 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (FAccT '23)

Help or Hinder? Evaluating the Impact of Fairness Metrics and Algorithms in Visualizations for Consensus Ranking

Hilson Shrestha, Kathleen Cachel, Mallak Alkhathlan, Elke Rundensteiner, Lane Harrison
FairFuse
2022 IEEE Visualization and Visual Analytics (VIS)

FairFuse: Interactive Visual Support for Fair Consensus Ranking

Hilson Shrestha, Kathleen Cachel, Mallak Alkhathlan, Elke Rundensteiner, Lane Harrison

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