Cathryn Ploehn
Assistant Professor at National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
United States
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Top SchoolCathryn Ploehn is an assistant professor and designer with 11 years of experience translating complex data into clear, research-informed visualizations and interactive tools. She blends academic rigor from Carnegie Mellon with hands-on government and industry practice—having led visualization and usability work at NIST, designed data-driven tools for Visionist, and created visual artifacts for the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute. At UT Austin she teaches and builds synthesis-driven projects that bridge developers, domain experts, and end users through interviews, prototypes, and data analysis. Known for distillation and curiosity, she often treats visualization as both research output and design material, turning scraped data and text analysis into communicative artifacts. An organizer of multidisciplinary teams, she has a track record of rapidly expanding project scope and delivering demonstrable impact, from award-winning newsroom interactions to automated usability scoring tools.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Emerging Media and Communication, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Emerging Media and Communication at The University of Texas at DallasDesign for Interactions, Design, Design for Interactions, Design at Carnegie Mellon University
Github Skills (2)
security4
usability3
Github contributions (5)
cathrynploehn-NIST/Visualizationintroduction
Jun 2015 - Dec 2015
Contributions:30 commits, 2 PRs, 29 pushes in 6 months
usnistgov/DataVis
Jan 2015 - Dec 2015
Contributions:54 commits, 2 PRs, 51 pushes in 11 months
usabilitysecurityvisualizingpasswordmetrics
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