Jasmine Y. Shih

Jasmine Y. Shih

PhD Student in Information Science and HCI

I am a second-year PhD student at UC Berkeley School of Information, advised by Professor Marti Hearst. I completed my master's degree in computer science at Stanford University and bachelor's degree in computer sicnece at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Before my master's studies, I worked at Yahoo! as a web developer for 2 years.

Interests: Human-Computer Interaction, Information Visualization, Natural Language Processing, Social Computing

Projects

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AnnoDiver: Applying visual analytics on social annotations to facilitate balanced research paper discourse Spring 2022

A prototype social annotation tool with integrated visualization features for research paper discussion

Research Poster Web Visualization Education Technology User Study

Balloonaire Pop Spring 2022

A data graphic in the style of a balloon pop game showing how the top U.S. billionaires' net worths changed in the first two years of the covid pandemic

Static Visualization

Personalized Analogy Generator for Large Prices Winter 2022

A prototype tool for generating personalized analogies for large amounts of money based on user's profile

Web Visualization

Viral Hashtag Progression Visualizer Fall 2021

A tool for visualizing how a viral hashtag spreads across Twitter users

Web Visualization Social Media Data

Visualizing the Blackout Tuesday Phenomenon Fall 2020

I gathered a set of #blackouttuesday posts by users I was following on Instagram and created visualizations to show the progression of the social media collective action and analyze patterns in the data.

Web Visualization Social Media Data

Building Interactive Cinematic Scientific Visualization with Unity Spring 2019

I built an interactive cinematic scientific visualization of the moon formation using the Unity game engine, and conducted a user study to examine its effects on school-age viewers.

Research Poster Scientific Visualization Education Technology User Study

Visualizing Usage Patterns in Emoji Expressions Spring 2019

Three interactive visualizations of emoji data obtained from an emoji-only location check-in mobile app Opico

Research Poster Web Visualization Social Media Data

Remodeling Advanced Visualization Lab's Website Spring 2018

I worked alongside a design intern to give a new look to the website for the Advanced Visualization Lab at NCSA.

Web Development