Rebecca Faust

Assistant Professor

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School of Science & Engineering
Becca Faust photo

Education & Affiliations

Ph.D., 2021, University of Arizona

Biography

About Professor Faust
Rebeca Faust is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Tulane University. Prior to joining Tulane, she was Computing Innovations Fellow and postdoctoral researcher at Virginia Tech. She completed her Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Arizona in 2021. Her research interests lie at the intersection of visualization, human-computer interaction, and data science with a focus on creating interactive visualization methods that facilitate deeper understanding of and interaction with data science programs. Examples of her specific interests include extracting and visualizing explanatory information in dimension reductions, visual interactions for model tailoring, and automatic visualization of data science scripts.

Research Interests
Visualization; Data Science; Human-AI Interaction/Collaboration/Sensemaking; HCI

Courses Taught
CMPS 3160/6160 Introduction to Data Science
CMPS 3360/6360 Data Visualization