Naimul Hoque

Assistant Professor of Computer Science

University of Iowa

nhoque@uiowa.edu

A brown man in a white t-shirt smiling in front of some trees.

Recent News

  • Jan 2025: Started faculty life at University of Iowa.
  • April 2024: We are organizing a workshop on accessible visualization at IEEE VIS. Consider attending!
  • Jan 2024: Two first-authored papers and a large collaboration got accepted at ACM CHI 2024
  • Nov 2023: Paper led by Shahreen is accepted at ACM CSCW 2024!

My research interest sits at the intersection of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), Information Visualization, and Artificial Intelligence (AI). I study how data visualization can help us to address key human concerns (e.g., fairness, transparency, and provenance) in AI-assisted applications. Please see my CV, research statement, and publications for more details.

I obtained a PhD in Information Studies from the University of Maryland, College Park. Before that, I obtained a Master's in Computer Science from Stony Brook University and a BSc in Computer Science from the University of Dhaka, Bangladesh. My official first name is Md Naimul, but you can call me Naimul (pronunciation: na-ei-mul). Md stands for Mohammod, a common name in Bangladesh. It is so common that at some point, we started using the short form!

Research and Publications

Interactive visualization for human-centered AI
Arxiv

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HaLLMark: Provenance and transparency in AI-assisted writing
ACM CHI'24

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News Audience Engagement: Question-answering with chatbots
ACM CHI'24

PDF | Dataset

A design space for intelligent writing tools
ACM CHI'24

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Belief Miner: Crowdsourcing causal networks
ACM CSCW'24

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Dataopsy: Scalable and fluid visual exploration
IEEE VIS'23

PDF | Try it out! | Github

Portrayal: Visualizing fictional characters
ACM DIS'23

PDF | Try it out! | Video | Github

Accessible data representation with natural sound
ACM CHI'23

PDF| Video | Github

Visual Concept Programming: Labeling large-scale image datasets with concept programming
IEEE VIS'22

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Outcome-Explorer: Interpretable and interactive AI decision-making
IEEE VIS'22

PDF | Video | Github

DramatVis-Personae: Helping writers mitigate social biases
ACM DIS'22

PDF | Try it out! | Video | Github

WordBias: Detecting social biases in word embeddings
ACM CHI EA'21

PDF | Try it out! | Video | Github

Screen-Balancer: Balancing Gender and Skin-tone Presence in Live Telecast
ACM CSCW'20

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Gender Portrayal: Evaluating Gender Portrayal in Bangladeshi TV
ML for the Developing World'17

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