Frank Elavsky

Advised by Dominik Moritz and Patrick Carrington.
Thesis: (In progress) Tool-making as an Intervention on the Accessibility of Interactive Data Representations.
Current GPA: 4.04 / 4.0
Member of the Data Interaction Group and AXLE Lab.

GPA: 3.88 / 4.0, Magna Cum Laude
Advanced coursework on data visualization, video game physics, digital humanities archives, and software interfaces.

GPA: 3.88 / 4.0, Magna Cum Laude
Advanced coursework on post-colonialism, trauma theory, feminist semiotics, secularism, and the philosophy of play.

($200,000) In partnership with Quansight Labs, I am listed as key personnel on a 2-year CZI EOSS 6 grant for making the Bokeh python visualization library more accessible. I am the leading consultant, advisor, auditor, and architect for the accessibility efforts of this grant.

($5,000) The Open Visualization Academy (OVA) provided me funding to prepare course materials for a free and open course on accessibility and visualization, to be offered as part of OVA's flagship curriculum on visualization.

($40,000) In partnership with internal individuals and teams at Adobe, we were awarded an internal grant for our work to make Adobe's data visualization tooling and analytical products and services more accessible for blind and low vision data workers.

($40,000) In partnership with Highsoft, we were awarded an internal grant for our work to investigate and research customization and personalization of data visualizations by individuals with disabilities.

(top 3 out of 31,000) I was recognized on the shortlist for my work with the Data Visualization Society's community, fostering a space for folks to learn and connect regarding accessibility.

I was given awards for my outstanding review contributions to CHI 2022, 2023, and 2024 (a hat trick!).

My Masses in the Stellar Graveyard interactive data experience won NASA's High Energy Astrophysics Archive Research Center (HEASARC) Image of the Week Award.

My Masses in the Stellar Graveyard interactive data experience won Kantar's longlist.

My Quantifying Career Hot Streaks interactive data experience won Kantar's longlist.

Barry Barish's lecture prominently featured my figure on electromagnetic and gravitational wave detections of compact stellar objects.

($132,000, top 12) Recurring, 60% scholarship over 5 years awarded to a select group of 12 students who participate in a seminar with the Academic Dean on a semesterly graduate-level humanities topic.

($33,000) Scholarship awarded to the top 10% performing students each year.

($10,000) Scholarship and training expenses provided for students, scholars, and practitioners involved in organizing efforts in their communities.

($3,000) Grant awarded to active community organizers with promising projects.

Data Visualization and Accessibility

Tool-making, Data Science, and Accessibility

Software Structures of Assistive Technologies

Softerware: Accessibility and Malleable Interfaces

Knowledge, Prediction, and Hope

Workshop on Web Frameworks

Accessibility and Play

Disability and Data Equity

Human-centered Machine Learning

Advanced Data Visualization with D3

Data Navigator

Philosophy of Design

Accessible Research

Chartability

Inclusive Data Experiences

Fireside Chat: Charts in Context

Fireside Chat: Accessibility in Data Visualization

Data Science Best Practices: Accessibility

Are Your Data Visualizations Excluding People?

Advanced Data Visualization and Accessibility on the Web

Visualizations for Multi-Dimensional Data

High-Density Model Visualization

Introduction to JavaScript

Introduction to Web Technology

Introduction to Visualization

How to Make Scientific Figures