Curriculum Vitae

Research Interests
Funding
Education
Awards and Honors
Employment
Publications
Teaching
Students
Program Service and Outreach
Contact Info
Affiliations and Projects

Research Interests

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  • human-centered data science
    • human-centered artificial intelligence
    • human-centered machine learning
    • human-computer interaction (HCI)
    • computer-supported cooperative work (CSCW)
    • visual analytics
    • aviation and astronautics sociotechnical systems
    • emotion in informal text communication (sentiment analysis in social media)

Funding

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Aragon has been principal investigator or co-PI for over $28M in grants awarded by government agencies, private foundations, and industry, including the National Science Foundation (NSF), the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), the Department of Energy (DOE), the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the Washington Research Foundation, the UW Center for Commercialization, Microsoft, and Intel.

Education

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Ph.D., Computer Science, University of California, Berkeley, 2004;  Advisor: Prof. Marti Hearst
M.S., Computer Science, University of California, Berkeley;  Advisor: Prof. Eugene Lawler
B.S. with Honors, Mathematics, California Institute of Technology

Awards and Honors

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  • Fulbright Scholar, 2017-18
  • HCDE Faculty Innovator in Research Award, University of Washington, 2015
  • Top 5% Rated Class in UW College of Engineering, Autumn 2014
  • Senior Data Science Fellow, eScience Institute, UW, 2014-2018
  • Distinguished Alumni Award, Computer Science, University of California, Berkeley, 2013
  • HCDE Faculty Innovator in Teaching and Learning Award, University of Washington, 2013
  • Best Training, Education & Outreach Paper Award, Conference of the Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment, 2013
  • Best Paper Award, IEEE/IAPR International Conference on Biometrics, 2012
  • Top 25 Women of the Year, Hispanic Business Magazine, 2009
  • Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), 2008
  • Best Paper Award Nominee, ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, 2008
  • Best Poster Award, IEEE Symposium on Visual Analytics Science and Technology, 2007
  • Most Highly Rated Presentation, Grace Hopper Conference, 2007
  • Best Application Paper Award, 5th International Conference of Machine Learning Applications, 2006
  • Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Spot Awards, multiple years
  • Best Student Paper Award, 23rd IEEE Digital Avionics Systems Conference, 2004
  • Eugene L. Lawler Award, 2004
  • U.S. patent pending for video image stabilization system (UnshakerTM)
  • NASA Space Act Award (twice)
  • Bell Laboratories Graduate Fellowship
  • National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship (awarded)
  • Tau Beta Pi Engineering Honor Society
  • United States Aerobatic Team (twice)

Employment

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2016 - present: Professor; 2010 - 2016: Associate Professor, Department of Human Centered Design & Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington.

2005 - 2011: Staff Scientist, Computational Research Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California. Research in visualization, analytics, and human-computer interaction with applications to scientific collaborations and large scientific data sets, including supernova image data and other astrophysics data. Software group lead and architect, Sunfall project for the Nearby Supernova Factory, Deep Sky, and PDG Workspace for the Particle Data Group.

1996 - 2005: Computer Scientist, Computational Sciences Division, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, California. (1996 - 2000: employed by Caelum Research Corp.) Research in human-computer interaction and information and scientific visualization with applications to aerospace. Group lead, Domain Exploration for the Information Design project. Data visualization, 2D/3D graphics and user interface software design and implementation for remote access and scientific collaboration software over very large heterogeneous databases of aeronautical and aerospace data.

1987 - 1996: Software Consultant, Aragon Consulting, Berkeley, California. Software development in 2D and 3D graphics, user interface design, image processing and aerodynamic modeling.

1991 - 1994: Founder and CEO, Top Flight Aviation, Inc., Livermore, California. Founded professional aerobatic flight school. Managed staff of 24, developed aviation curriculum and provided flight instruction at all levels, supervised design and building of aircraft, test flew completed aircraft, performed at airshows and competitions in the U.S. and Europe.

Selected Publications

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Refereed Conference Publications (Full Papers)

Refereed Journal Publications

  • "Bump morphology of the CMAGIC diagram," Lauren Aldoroty, Lifan Wang, Peter Hoeflich, Jiawen Yang, Nicholas Suntzeff, Greg Aldering, Pierre Antilogus, Cecilia Aragon, Stephen Bailey, Charles Baltay, Sebastien Bongard, Kyle Boone, Clement Buton, Yannick Copin, Samantha Dixon, Dominique Fouchez, Emmanuel Gangler, Ravi Gupta, Brian Hayden, Mitchell Karmen, AG Kim, Marek Kowalski, D Küsters, P-F Léget, Florian Mondon, Jakob Nordin, Reynald Pain, Emmanuel Pecontal, Rui Pereira, Saul Perlmutter, KA Ponder, David Rabinowitz, Mickael Rigault, David Rubin, Karl Runge, Clare Saunders, Gerard Smadja, Nao Suzuki, Charling Tao, RC Thomas, Maria Vincenzi. The Astrophysical Journal, 948:1, 10 pages (2023).
  • "The Persistence of Safety Silence: How Flight Deck Microcultures Influence the Efficacy of Crew Resource Management," Kimberly Perkins, Sourojit Ghosh, Julie Vera, Cecilia Aragon, Adam Hyland. International Journal of Aviation, Aeronautics, and Aerospace, 9:3, 15 pages (2022).
  • "A Probabilistic Autoencoder for Type Ia Supernova Spectral Time Series," George Stein, Uro. Seljak, Vanessa Böhm, G Aldering, P Antilogus, C Aragon, S Bailey, C Baltay, S Bongard, K Boone, C Buton, Y Copin, S Dixon, D Fouchez, E Gangler, R Gupta, B Hayden, W Hillebrandt, M Karmen, AG Kim, Marek Kowalski, D Küsters, P-F Léget, F Mondon, Jakob Nordin, R Pain, E Pecontal, R Pereira, S Perlmutter, KA Ponder, D Rabinowitz, M Rigault, D Rubin, K Runge, C Saunders, G Smadja, N Suzuki, C Tao, Stefan Taubenberger, RC Thomas, M Vincenzi. The Astrophysical Journal, 935:1, 5 pages (2022).
  • "Regional Differences in Information Privacy Concerns After the Facebook-Cambridge Analytica Data Scandal," F González-Pizarro, A Figueroa, C López, C Aragon. J Computer Supported Cooperative Work (JCSCW), (2022).
  • "SUGAR: An improved empirical model of Type Ia Supernovae based on spectral features," P-F Leget, E Gangler, F Mondon, G Aldering, P Antilogus, C Aragon, S Bailey, C Baltay, K Barbary, S Bongard, K Boone, C Buton, N Chotard, Y Copin, S Dixon, P Fagrelius, U Feindt, D Fouchez, B Hayden, W Hillebrandt, A Kim, M Kowalski, D Kuesters, S Lombardo, Q Lin, J Nordin, R Pain, E Pecontal, R Pereira, S Perlmutter, MV Pruzhinskaya, D Rabinowitz, M Rigault, K Runge, D Rubin, C Saunders, L-P Says, G Smadja, C Sofiatti, N Suzuki, S Taubenberger, C Tao, RC Thomas. arXiv preprint arXiv: 1909.11239 (2019).
  • "Strong Dependence of Type Ia Supernova Standardization on the Local Specific Star Formation Rate," M Rigault, V Brinnel, G Aldering, P Antilogus, C Aragon, S Bailey, C Baltay, S Bongard, C Buton, A Canto, F Cellier-Holzem, M Childress, N Chotard, HK Fakhouri, U Feindt, M Fleury, E Gangler, P Greskovic, J Guy, AG Kim, M Kowalski, S Lombardo, J Nordin, P Nugent, R Pain, E Pecontal, R Pereira, S Perlmutter, D Rabinowitz, K Runge, C Saunders, R Scalzo, G Smadja, C Tao, RC Thomas, BA Weaver. arXiv preprint arXiv:1806.03849 (2018).
  • "Evidence of environmental dependencies of Type Ia supernovae from the Nearby Supernova Factory indicated by local H-alpha," M Rigault, Y Copin, G Aldering, P Antilogus, C Aragon, S Bailey, C Baltay, S Bongard, C Buton, A Canto, F Cellier-Holzem, M Childress, N Chotard, HK Fakhouri, U Feindt, M Fleury, E Gangler, P Greskovic, J Guy, AG Kim, M Kowalski, S Lombardo, J Nordin, P Nugent, R Pain, E Pecontal, R Pereira, S Perlmutter, D Rabinowitz, K Runge, C Saunders, R Scalzo, G Smadja, C Tao, RC Thomas, BA Weaver. Journal of Astronomy & Astrophysics, 612, C1 (April 1, 2018).
  • "Using Machine Learning to Support Qualitative Coding in Social Science: Shifting The Focus to Ambiguity," Nan-Chen Chen, Margaret Drouhard, Rafal Kocielnik, Jina Suh, Cecilia R. Aragon, ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems, Vol. 9, No. 4, Article 39, 21 pages (March 2018).
  • "Correcting for peculiar velocities of Type Ia Supernovae in clusters of galaxies," PF Leget, MV Pruzhinskaya, A Ciulli, E Gangler, G Aldering, P Antilogus, C Aragon, S Bailey, C Baltay, K Barbary, S Bongard, K Boone, C Buton, M Childress, N Chotard, Y Copin, S Dixon, P Fagrelius, U Feindt, D Fouchez, P Gris, B Hayden, W Hillebrandt, DA Howell, A Kim, M Kowalski, D Kuesters, S Lombardo, Q Lin, J Nordin, R Pain, E Pecontal, R Pereira, S Perlmutter, D Rabinowitz, M Rigault, K Runge, D Rubin, C Saunders, LP Says, G Smadja, C Sofiatti, N Suzuki, S Taubenberger, C Tao, RC Thomas. Journal of Astronomy & Astrophysics, 12 pages (2018).
  • "Deliberate Individual Change Framework for Understanding Programming Practices in Four Oceanography Groups," Kateryna Kuksenok, Cecilia Aragon, James Fogarty, Charlotte Lee, Gina Neff, Journal of Computer Supported Cooperative Work, 26 (4-6), pp. 663-691 (Dec. 2017).
  • "Engineering Academic Software (Dagstuhl Perspectives Workshop 16252)," Alice Allen, Cecilia Aragon, Christoph Becker, Jeffrey Carver, Andrei Chis, Benoit Combemale, Mike Croucher, Kevin Crowston, Daniel Garijo, Ashish Gehani, Carole Goble, Robert Haines, Robert Hirschfeld, James Howison, Kathryn Huff, Caroline Jay, Daniel S Katz, Claude Kirchner, Kit Kuksenok, Ralf Lammel, Oscar Nierstrasz, Matt Turk, Rob van Nieuwpoort, Matthew Vaughn, Jurgen J Vinju. Dagstuhl Manifestos 6 (1), 20 pages (2017).
  • "Toward the Operationalization of Visual Metaphor," Alexis Hiniker, Sungsoo (Ray) Hong, Yeaseul Kim, Nan-chen Chen, Jevin West, Cecilia Aragon, Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, Vol 68, Issue 10, pp. 2338-2349 (Oct. 2017).
  • "Impediment to insight to innovation: understanding data assemblages through the breakdown-repair process." (PDF) Anissa Tanweer, Brittany Fiore-Gartland, Cecilia Aragon. Information, Communication & Society, March 2016, 17 pages, doi: 10.1080/1369118X.2016.1153125 (2016).
  • "Energy efficiency and the misuse of programmable thermostats: The effectiveness of crowdsourcing for understanding household behavior." Marco Pritoni, Alan K. Meier, Cecilia Aragon, Daniel Perry, Therese Peffer. Journal of Energy Research & Social Science, Volume 8, July 2015, pp. 190-197. doi:10.1016/j.erss.2015.06.002 (2015).
  • "A metric space for Type Ia supernova spectra," Michele Sasdelli, W. Hillebrandt, G. Aldering, P. Antilogus, C. Aragon, S. Bailey, C. Baltay, S. Benitez-Herrera, S. Bongard, C. Buton, A. Canto, F. Cellier-Holzem, J. Chen, M. Childress, N. Chotard, Y. Copin, H. K. Fakhouri, U. Feindt, M. Fink, M. Fleury, D. Fouchez, E. Gangler, J. Guy, E. E. O. Ishida, A. G. Kim, M. Kowalski, M. Kromer, S. Lombardo, P. A. Mazzali, J. Nordin, R. Pain, E. Pecontal, R. Pereira, S. Perlmutter, D. Rabinowitz, M. Rigault, K. Runge, C. Saunders, R. Scalzo, G. Smadja, N. Suzuki, C. Tao, S. Taubenberger, R. C. Thomas, A. Tilquin, and B. A. Weaver. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, MNRAS (February 21, 2015) Vol. 447, 1247-1266. doi:10.1093/mnras/stu2416 (2015).
  • "Type Ia supernova bolometric light curves and ejected mass estimates from the Nearby Supernova Factory," R Scalzo, G Aldering, P Antilogus, C Aragon, S Bailey, C Baltay, S Bongard, C Buton, F Cellier-Holzem, M Childress, N Chotard, Y Copin, HK Fakhouri, E Gangler, J Guy, AG Kim, M Kowalski, M Kromer, J Nordin, P Nugent, K Paech, R Pain, E Pecontal, R Pereira, S Perlmutter, D Rabinowitz, M Rigault, K Runge, C Saunders, SA Sim, G Smadja, C Tao, S Taubenberger, RC Thomas, BA Weaver. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 20 pages (2014).
  • "Game Design for Bioinformatics & Cyberinfrastructure Learning: A Parallel Computing Case Study," Perry, D., Robinson, J., Cruz, S., Aragon, C., Chowning, J., Peters, M. Journal of Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, (2014).
  • "Crowd-Sourced Assessment of Technical Skills (C-SATS): A Novel Method to Evaluate Surgical Performance," Chen, Carolyn; White, Lee; Kowalewski, Timothy; Aggarwal, Rajesh; Lintott, Chris; Comstock, Bryan; Kuksenok, Katie; Aragon, Cecilia; Holst, Daniel; Lendvay, Thomas S.; Journal of Surgical Research (2013).
  • "Standardizing Type Ia Supernova Absolute Magnitudes Using Gaussian Process Data Regression," A. G. Kim, R. C. Thomas, G. Aldering, P. Antilogus, C. Aragon, S. Bailey, C. Baltay, S. Bongard, C. Buton, A. Canto, F. Cellier-Holzem, M. Childress, N. Chotard, Y. Copin, H. K. Fakhouri, E. Gangler, J. Guy, M. Kerschhaggl, M. Kowalski, J. Nordin, P. Nugent, K. Paech, R. Pain, E. Pécontal, R. Pereira, S. Perlmutter, D. Rabinowitz, M. Rigault, K. Runge, C. Saunders, R. Scalzo, G. Smadja, C. Tao, B. A. Weaver, C. Wu; http://arxiv.org/abs/arXiv:1302.2925; Astrophysical Journal, 47 pages (2013).
  • "Atmospheric extinction properties above Mauna Kea from the Nearby Supernova Factory spectro-photometric data set," C. Buton, Y. Copin, G. Aldering, P. Antilogus, C. Aragon, S. Bailey, C. Baltay, S. Bongard, A. Canto, F. Cellier-Holzem, M. Childress, N. Chotard, H. K. Fakhouri, E. Gangler, J. Guy, E. Y. Hsiao, M. Kerschhaggl, M. Kowalski, S. Loken, P. Nugent K. Paech, R. Pain, E. Pécontal, R. Pereira, S. Perlmutter, D. Rabinowitz, M. Rigault, K. Runge, R. Scalzo, G. Smadja, C. Tao, R. C. Thomas, B. A. Weaver, C. Wu; http://arxiv.org/abs/arXiv:1210.2619; 22 pages (2012).
  • "A Search for New Candidate Super-Chandrasekhar-mass Type Ia Supernovae in the Nearby Supernova Data Set," R. Scalzo, G. Aldering, P. Antilogus, C. Aragon, C. Baltay, S. Bailey, S. Bongard, C. Buton, A. Canto, F. Cellier-Holzem, M. Childress, N. Chotard, Y. Copin, H. Fakhouri, E. Gangler, J. Guy, E. Hsaio, M. Kerschhaggi, M. Kowalski, P. Nugent, K. Paech, R. Pain, E. Pecontal, R. Pereira, S. Perlmutter, D. Rabinowitz, M. Rigault, K. Runge, G. Smadja, C. Tao, R. C. Thomas, B. A. Weaver, C. Wu, Astrophysical Journal, 757 (12), http://iopscience.iop.org/0004-637X/757/1/12 (2012).
  • "Facilitating energy savings with programmable thermostats: evaluation and guidelines for the thermostat user interface." (PDF) Peffer, T., Pritoni, M., Perry, D., Aragon, C. & Meier, A. Ergonomics, DOI:10.1080/00140139.2012.718370 (2012).
  • "How people use thermostats in homes: A review." Peffer, T., Pritoni, M., Meier, A.K., Aragon, C. & Perry, D. Building and Environment, 46 (12), 2529-2541 (2011).
  • "Making energy savings easier: Usability metrics for thermostats" (PDF), Perry, D., Aragon, C., Meier, A., Peffer, T. & Pritoni, M. Journal of Usability Studies, 6 (4), 226-244 (2011).
  • "Usability of residential thermostats: Preliminary investigations." Meier, A., Aragon, C., Peffer, T., Perry, D., Pritoni, M. Building and Environment, doi:10.1016/j.buildenv.2011.03.009 (2011).
  • "Type Ia Supernova Carbon Footprints," R. C. Thomas, G. Aldering, P. Antilogus, C. Aragon, S. Bailey, C. Baltay, S. Bongard, C. Buton, A. Canto, M. Childress, N. Chotard, Y. Copin, H. K. Fakhouri, E. Gangler, E. Y. Hsiao, M. Kerschhaggl, M. Kowalski, S. Loken, P. Nugent, K. Paech, R. Pain, E. Pecontal, R. Pereira, S. Perlmutter, D. Rabinowitz, M. Rigault, D. Rubin, K. Runge, R. Scalzo, G. Smadja, C. Tao, B. A. Weaver, C. Wu; Astrophys.J. 743:27 http://arxiv.org/abs/arXiv:1109.1312 (2011).
  • "The reddening law of type Ia supernovae: separating intrinsic variability from dust using equivalent widths," Chotard, N.; Gangler, E.; Aldering, G.; Antilogus, P.; Aragon, C.; Bailey, S.; Baltay, C.; Bongard, S.; Buton, C.; Canto, A.; Childress, M.; Copin, Y.; Fakhouri, H. K.; Hsiao, E. Y.; Kerschhaggl, M.; Kowalski, M.; Loken, S.; Nugent, P.; Paech, K.; Pain, R.; Pecontal, E.; Pereira, R.; Perlmutter, S.; Rabinowitz, D.; Runge, K.; Scalzo, R.; Smadja, G.; Tao, C.; Thomas, R. C.; Weaver, B. A.; Wu, C., Astronomy & Astrophysics, Volume 529, id.L4 http://arxiv.org/abs/arXiv:1103.5300 (2011).
  • "Keck Observations of the Young Metal-poor Host Galaxy of the Super-Chandrasekhar-mass Type Ia Supernova SN 2007if," Childress, M.; Aldering, G.; Aragon, C.; Antilogus, P.; Bailey, S.; Baltay, C.; Bongard, S.; Buton, C.; Canto, A.; Chotard, N.; Copin, Y.; Fakhouri, H. K.; Gangler, E.; Kerschhaggl, M.; Kowalski, M.; Hsiao, E. Y.; Loken, S.; Nugent, P.; Paech, K.; Pain, R.; Pecontal, E.; Pereira, R.; Perlmutter, S.; Rabinowitz, D.; Runge, K.; Scalzo, R.; Thomas, R. C.; Smadja, G.; Tao, C.; Weaver, B. A.; Wu, C., The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 733, Issue 1, article id 3 http://arxiv.org/abs/arXiv:1103.2324 (2011).
  • "Cosmology with the Nearby Supernova Factory," Kerschhaggl, M.; Aldering, G.; Antilogus, P.; Aragon, C.; Bailey, S.; Baltay, C.; Bongard, S.; Buton, C.; Canto, A.; Childress, M.; Chotard, N.; Copin, Y.; Fakhouri, H. K.; Gangler, E.; Hsiao, E. Y.; Kowalski, M.; Loken, S.; Nugent, P.; Paech, K.; Pain, R.; Pecontal, E.; Pereira, R.; Perlmutter, S.; Rabinowitz, D.; Runge, K.; Scalzo, R.; Smadja, G.; Tao, C.; Thomas, R. C.; Wu, C., Progress in Particle and Nuclear Physics, Volume 66, Issue 2, p. 335-339 (2011).
  • "Nearby Supernova Factory Observations of SN 2007if: First Total Mass Measurement of a Super-Chandrasekhar-Mass Progenitor," R. Scalzo, G. Aldering, P. Antilogus, C. Aragon, C. Baltay, S. Bailey, S. Bongard, C. Buton, M. Childress, N. Chotard, Y. Copin, E. Gangler, S. Loken, P. Nugent, R. Pain, E. Pecontal, R. Pereira, S. Perlmutter, D. Rabinowitz, G. Rigaudier, K. Runge, G. Smadja, H. Swift, C. Tao, R. C. Thomas, C. Wu, Astrophysical Journal, http://arxiv.org/abs/1003.2217 (2010).
  • "Using Visual Analytics to Develop Situation Awareness in Astrophysics", Cecilia Aragon, Sarah Poon, Gregory Aldering, Rollin Thomas, Robert Quimby, J. Information Visualization, Vol. 8, Issue 1, pp. 30-41 (2009).
  • "Using Spectral Flux Ratios to Standardize SN Ia Luminosities," S. Bailey, G. Aldering, P. Antilogus, C. Aragon, C. Baltay, S. Bongard, C. Buton, M. Childress, N. Chotard, Y. Copin, E. Gangler, S. Loken, P. Nugent, R. Pain, E. Pecontal, R. Pereira, S. Perlmutter, D. Rabinowitz, G. Rigaudier, K. Runge, R. Scalzo, G. Smadja, H. Swift, C. Tao, R. C. Thomas, C. Wu, Astronomy & Astrophysics Letters, http://arxiv.org/abs/0905.0340v2 (2009).
  • "Sunfall: A Collaborative Visual Analytics System for Astrophysics" (PDF), C. Aragon, S. Bailey, S. Poon, K. Runge, R. Thomas, J. Phys.: Conf. Ser. 125 012091, (2008).
  • "Object classification at the Nearby Supernova Factory"   (PDF), S. Bailey, C. Aragon, R. Romano, R. C. Thomas, B. A. Weaver and D. Wong, Astronomische Nachrichten Vol. 329, Issue 3, pp. 292-294 (2008).
  • "How to Find More Supernovae with Less Work: Object Classification Techniques for Difference Imaging," S. Bailey, C. Aragon, R. Romano, R. C. Thomas, B. A. Weaver and D. Wong, Astrophysical Journal 665:1246T (2007).
  • "Nearby Supernova Factory Observations of SN 2006D: On Sporadic Carbon Signatures in Early Type Ia Supernova Spectra," The Nearby Supernova Factory: R. C. Thomas, G. Aldering, P. Antilogus, C. Aragon, S. Bailey, C. Baltay, E. Baron, A. Bauer, C. Buton, S. Bongard, Y. Copin, E. Gangler, S. Gilles, R. Kessler, S. Loken, P. Nugent, R. Pain, J. Parrent, E. Pecontal, R. Pereira, S. Perlmutter, D. Rabinowitz, G. Rigaudier, K. Runge, R. Scalzo, G. Smadja, L. Wang, B. A. Weaver, Astrophysical Journal 654:L53-L56 (2007).
  • "Randomized Search Trees," R. Seidel and C. Aragon, Algorithmica 16 (1996) 464-497.
  • "Optimization by Simulated Annealing: An Experimental Evaluation; Part II, Graph Coloring and Number Partitioning," D. S. Johnson, C. R. Aragon, L. A. McGeoch and C. Schevon, Operations Research, 39:3 (1991), 378-406.
  • "Optimization by Simulated Annealing: An Experimental Evaluation; Part I, Graph Partitioning," D. S. Johnson, C. R. Aragon, L. A. McGeoch and C. Schevon, Operations Research, 37:6 (1989), 865-892.

Books

Refereed Book Chapters

  • "Collaborative analytics for astrophysics exploration," Cecilia R. Aragon, Handbook of Automation, Shimon Y. Nof (ed.), Springer-Verlag (2009).
  • "The impact of usability on large science projects," Cecilia R. Aragon and Sarah S. Poon, Usability and User-Centered Design in Software Development: Case Studies and Real Life Applications, Ann Blandford, Timo Jokela, Tobias Uldall-Espersen, and Erik Erik Frøkjær (eds.), IGI Global (2009).

Refereed Short Papers and Posters

  • "Game Development as Speculative Design: Teaching Data Science Ethics Using Decentralized Research Groups," Mimi Byun, Sarah Evans, Bernease Herman, Cecilia Aragon, Diana Rojas-Ponce. Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology. 59:1, pp. 630-632 (2022).
  • "Supporting Faculty and Students with Disabilities," Cali Anicha, Cecilia Aragon, Canan Bilen-Green, Brianna Blaser, Sheryl Burgstahler, Teresa Shume. ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition (2022).
  • "Giving and Receiving: Reciprocal Review Exchange in Online Fanfiction Communities," Ruoxi Shang, Zile Xiao, Jenna Frens, Cecilia Aragon. Companion Publication of the 2021 Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing, pp. 171-174 (2021).
  • "Ways of Qualitative Coding: A Case Study of Four Strategies for Resolving Disagreements," Bonnie Chinh, Himanshu Zade, Abbas Ganji, and Cecilia Aragon. CHI 2019: ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. 6 pages (Note). (2019).
  • "Where No One Has Gone Before: A Meta-Dataset of the World's Largest Fanfiction Repository," Kodlee Yin, Cecilia Aragon, Sarah Evans, Katie Davis. CHI 2017: ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. 5 pages (Note). (2017).
  • "Challenges of Applying Machine Learning to Qualitative Coding," Nan-Chen Chen, Rafal Kocielnik, Margaret Drouhard, Vanessa Pena-Araya, Jina Suh, Keting Cen, Xiangyi Zheng and Cecilia R. Aragon. CHI 2016 Workshop on Human Centered Machine Learning (2016).
  • "Building an Urban Data Science Summer Program at the University of Washington eScience Institute," Ariel Rokem, Cecilia Aragon, Anthony Arendt, Brittany Fiore-Gartland, Bryna Hazelton, Joseph Hellerstein, Bernease Herman, Bill Howe, Ed Lazowska, Micaela Parker, Valentina Staneva, Sarah Stone, Anissa Tanweer, Jacob Vanderplas. Bloomberg Data for Good Exchange (2015).
  • "Interactions of emoticon valence and text processing," Laurie Beth Feldman, Kit W. Cho, Cecilia R. Aragon, Judith F. Kroll. 37th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Pasadena, CA (2015).
  • "Analysis and Visualization of Sentiment and Emotion on Crisis Tweets," Megan Torkildson, Kate Starbird, Cecilia Aragon. International Conference on Cooperative Design, Visualization, & Engineering (CDVE 2014).
  • "Emoticons and Linguistic Alignment: How Visual Analytics Can Elicit Storytelling," Nan-Chen Chen, Laurie Beth Feldman, Judith F. Kroll, Cecilia R. Aragon. 2014. In Poster Session of the 2014 IEEE Conference on Visualization (VIS 2014).
  • "Affect Analysis in Large-Scale Online Text Communication Datasets," Nan-Chen Chen, Cecilia R. Aragon, Laurie Beth Feldman, Judith F. Kroll. 2014. In Poster Session of the Workshop on Algorithms for Modern Massive Data Sets (MMDS 2014).
  • "Establishing common ground in informal text communication: Emoticon use in first and second languages," Nan-Chen Chen, Laurie Beth Feldman, Judith F. Kroll, Cecilia R. Aragon. In Poster Session of the Conference on Finding Common Ground: Social, Ecological, and Cognitive Perspectives on Language Use (2014).
  • "Emoticon and Text Production in First and Second Languages in Informal Text Communication," Cecilia R. Aragon, Nan-Chen Chen, Judith F. Kroll, Laurie Beth Feldman. W.G. Kennedy, N. Agarwal, and S.J. Yang (Eds.): SBP 2014, LNCS 8393, pp. 217-222 (2014).
  • "Developing Collaborative Gaming for Bioinformatics Education." Perry, D., Aragon, C, Chowning, J., Cruz, S., Glanz, B. and Peters, M. 1st Conference of the Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment, XSEDE '12, poster, Chicago, Illinois, USA (2012).
  • "Folk Labeling: Insights on Improving Usability and Saving Energy Gleaned from After-Market Graffiti on Common Appliances," M. Pritoni, T. Peffer, J. Granderson, G. Kloss, A. Meier, C. Aragon. ACEEE 2012 Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2012).
  • "Measuring Distributed Affect in Collaborative Games," D. Perry, C. Aragon, CSCW 2012 Posters.
  • "VizDeck: Self-Organizing Dashboards for Visual Analytics," A. Key, B. Howe, D. Perry, C. Aragon, SIGMOD 2012 Demos. [42% acceptance rate]
  • "VizDeck: A Card Game Metaphor for Fast Visual Data Exploration," D. Perry, A. Key, B. Howe, C. Aragon, CHI 2012 Works-in-Progress, Austin, TX (2012). [48% acceptance rate]
  • "Gaze Prints: User Centered Design and Evaluation of an Eye Movement-based Biometric Authentication System," M. Brooks, C. Aragon, O. Komogortsev, Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security (2011).
  • "Quantifying Usability in Programmable Thermostats," A. Meier, C. Aragon, T. Peffer, D. Perry, M. Pritoni, Behavior, Energy & Climate Change Conference, Sacramento, CA (Nov. 2010).
  • "Geospatial Validation Assessment," Cecilia Aragon, Allen Bakel, Lawrence Chilton, Ming Jiang, Paul Pope, Randy Roberts, Tim Trucano, Tom Wei. Poster for NA-22 Simulations, Algorithms, and Modeling Program Review, Brookhaven, NY (2010).
  • "Biometric Identification via an Oculomotor Plant Mathematical Model," O. Komogortsev, S. Jayarathna, C. Aragon, M. Mahmoud. Eye Tracking Research and Applications (ETRA), Austin, TX (2010).
  • Oculomotor Plant Biometrics: Person-Specific Features in Eye Movements," S. Jayarathna, O. Komogortsev, C. Aragon, M. Mahmoud. Sigma Xi Annual Meeting and International Research Conference, Houston, TX (2009).
  • "Automated Analysis for Detecting Beams in Laser Wakefield Simulations," Daniela Ushizima, Oliver Ruebel, Prabhat, Gunther Weber, E. Wes Bethel, Cecilia Aragon, Cameron Geddes, Estelle Cormier-Michel, Bernd Hamann, Peter Messmer, Hans Hagen. Seventh International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications, Proceedings of IEEE ICMLA'08, 2008. [50% acceptance rate]
  • "Sunfall: A Collaborative Visual Analytics System for Astrophysics," C. Aragon, S. Bailey, S. Poon, K. Runge, R. Thomas, IEEE VAST poster, Sacramento, CA (2007) (2-page abstract). Winner of Best Poster Award. [42% acceptance rate]

Refereed Workshop Publications

  • "Interrogating human-centered data science: Taking stock of opportunities and limitations," Anissa Tanweer, Cecilia R Aragon, Michael Muller, Shion Guha, Samir Passi, Gina Neff, Marina Kogan. CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Extended Abstracts, pp. 1-6 (2022).
  • "Revealing Differences in Data Privacy Perspectives using Inter-Language Social Media Data," Felipe Gonzalez, Claudia Lopez, Yihan Yu, Cecilia Aragon. CSCW 2018 Workshop (2018).
  • "Developing a Research Agenda for Human-Centered Data Science," Cecilia R. Aragon, Joseph Bayer, Andy Echenique, Brittany Fiore-Gartland, Yun Huang, Clayton Hutto, Jinyoung Kim, Gina Neff, Wanli Xing. Workshop, CSCW 2016: ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, San Francisco, CA (2016).
  • "Text-Based Methods for Measuring Dynamic Affect in Learning Games," Daniel Perry, Cecilia Aragon, Workshop on Engagement in Information Seeking Contexts, iConference 2015, Newport Beach, CA (2015).
  • "Automating Large-Scale Annotation for Analysis of Social Media Content," Kit Kuksenok, Michael Brooks, John J. Robinson, Daniel Perry, Megan K. Torkildson, Cecilia Aragon, Workshop on Interactive Visual Text Analytics, VisWeek 2012, Seattle, WA (2012).
  • "Supporting Data-Intensive Collaboration via Campus eScience Centers," Bill Howe, Cecilia Aragon, David Beck, Jeffrey P. Gardner, Ed Lazowska, Tanya McEwen, CSCW 2012 Workshop on Data-Intensive Collaboration in Science and Engineering, Seattle, WA (2012).
  • "No Sense of Distance: Improving Cross-Cultural Communication with Context-Linked Software Tools," Cecilia R. Aragon, Sarah S. Poon, Changing Dynamics of Scientific Collaborations Workshop, CSCW 2010: ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, Savannah, GA (2010).
  • "Context-Linked Intelligent User Interfaces," Sarah S. Poon, Rollin C. Thomas, Cecilia R. Aragon, Brian Lee, Workshop on Human Interaction with Intelligent and Networked Systems, IUI 2009: International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, Sanibel Island, FL (2009).
  • "Designing Scientific Workflow Management Systems for Data-Intensive Astrophysics Projects", Cecilia R. Aragon and Sarah S. Poon, Designing Cyberinfrastructure to Support Science Workshop, CSCW 2008: ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, San Diego, CA (2008).
  • "Towards Virtual Radical Collocation in Science Projects", Sarah S. Poon and Cecilia R. Aragon, Supporting Distributed Team Work Workshop, CSCW 2008: ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, San Diego, CA (2008)
  • "The Impact of Usability on Supernova Discovery," C. Aragon and S. Poon, Workshop on Increasing the Impact of Usability Work in Software Development, CHI 2007: ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, San Jose, CA (2007).

Dissertation and Refereed Doctoral Consortia

Technical Reports

  • "A Cross-Cultural Survey of Emoticon Research Before 2015." Nan-Chen Chen, Daniel Perry, Hidekazu Saegusa, Cecilia Aragon. HCDE Technical Report, University of Washington (2020).
  • "Usable Data Abstractions for Next-Generation Scientific Workflows." Cecilia Aragon. Berkeley, California: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (2019).
  • "How people actually use thermostats." Meier, A., Aragon, C., Peffer, T., Pritoni, M. Berkeley, California: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (2010).
  • "Thermostat interface and usability: a survey." Meier, A., Aragon, C., Peffer, T., Pritoni, M. Berkeley, California: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (2010).
  • "Biometric Identification via an Oculomotor Plant Mathematical Model," O. Komogortsev, S. Jayarathna, C. Aragon, M. Mahmoud. Texas State University Technical Report TXSTATE-CS-TR-2009-17 (2009).

Other Publications

  • "What I learned from studying billions of words of online fan fiction," by Cecilia Aragon, MIT Technology Review, Dec 27, 2019.
  • "A higher purpose for fan fiction? Yes! It's helping teach young and marginalized people to write," by Cecilia Aragon, Seattle Times Education Lab, Oct 5, 2019.
  • "How Fanfiction Mentors Can Change Lives," Sarah Evans, David Randall, Julie Campbell, Katie Davis, Cecilia Aragon, and Abigail Evans. School Library Journal (13 May 2016).
  • "Hubble Residuals and Host Galaxies of SNe Ia from the Nearby Supernova Factory," Childress, Michael; Aldering, G. S.; Antilogus, P.; Aragon, C.; Bailey, S. J.; Charles, B.; Bongard, S.; Buton, C.; Canto, A.; Cellier-Holzem, F.; Chotard, N.; Copin, Y.; Fakhouri, H.; Gangler, E.; Guy, J.; Hsiao, E.; Kerschhaggl, M.; Kim, A. G.; Kowalski, M.; Loken, S.; Nugent, P. E.; Paech, K.; Pain, R.; Pecontal, E.; Pereira, R.; Perlmutter, S.; Rabinowitz, D. L.; Rigault, M.; Runge, K.; Scalzo, R.; Smadja, G.; Tao, C.; Thomas, R.; Weaver, B.; Wu, C., American Astronomical Society, AAS Meeting #221, #136.03 (2013).
  • "Twin Supernova Studies with SNe Ia from SNfactory," Fakhouri, H.; Aldering, G.; Aragon, C.; Hsiao, E.; Loken, S.; Nugent, P.; Perlmutter, S.; Runge, K.; Thomas, R. C.; Antilogous, P.; Bongard, S.; Canto, A.; Pain, R.; Wu, C.; Chotard, N.; Copin, Y.; Gangler, E.; Pereira, R.; Smadja, G.; Pecontal, E.; Baltay, C.; Rabinowitz, D.; Scalzo, R.; Buton, C.; Kerschhaggl, M.; Kowalski, M.; Paech, K.; Tao, C., American Astronomical Society, AAS Meeting #217, #337.13; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 43 (2011).
  • "Host Galaxies of Type Ia Supernovae from the Nearby Supernova Factory," Childress, M.; Aldering, G.; Antilogus, P.; Aragon, C.; Bailey, S.; Baltay, C.; Bongard, S.; Buton, C.; Chotard, N.; Copin, Y.; Gangler, E.; Jerke, J.; Loken, S.; Nugent, P.; Pain, R.; Pecontal, E.; Periera, R.; Perlmutter, S.; Rabinowitz, D.; Rigaudier, G.; Ripoche, P.; Runge, K.; Scalzo, R.; Smadja, G.; Swift, H.; Tao, C.; Thomas, R. C.; Wu, C., American Astronomical Society, AAS Meeting #213, #489.06; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 41 (2009).
  • "Multi-Wavelength, Multi-Epoch Integral Field Spectrograph Extraction for the Nearby Supernova Factory," Bongard, S.; Thiebaut, E.; Pecontal, E.; Rigaudier, G.; Soulez, F.; Buton, C.; Chotard, N.; Copin, Y.; Gangler, E.; Smadja, G.; Tao, C.; Antilogus, P.; Bailey, S.; Pain, R.; Pereira, R.; Ripoche, P.; Wu, C.; Aldering, G.; Aragon, C.; Childress, M.; Loken, S.; Nugent, P.; Perlmutter, S.; Runge, K.; Swift, H.; Thomas, R. C.; Baltay, C.; Jerke, J.; Rabinowitz, D.; Scalzo, R., American Astronomical Society, AAS Meeting #213, #489.05; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 41 (2009).
  • "Flux Calibration and Extinction Properties from the Nearby Supernova Factory," Buton, C.; Aldering, G.; Antilogus, P.; Aragon, C.; Bailey, S.; Baltay, C.; Bongard, S.; Childress, M.; Copin, Y.; Gangler, E.; Jerke, J.; Loken, S.; Nugent, P.; Pain, R.; Pecontal, E.; Pereira, R.; Perlmutter, S.; Rabinovitz, D.; Rigaudier, G.; Ripoche, P.; Runge, K.; Scalzo, R.; Smadja, G.; Swift, H.; Tao, C.; Thomas, R. C.; Wu, C., American Astronomical Society, AAS Meeting #213, #489.04; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 41 (2009).
  • "Classical Type Ia Spectral Indicators from the Nearby Supernova Factory," Chotard, N.; Aldering, G.; Antilogus, P.; Aragon, C.; Bailey, S.; Baltay, C.; Bongard, S.; Buton, C.; Childress, M.; Copin, Y.; Gangler, E.; Jerke, J.; Loken, S.; Nugent, P.; Pain, R.; Pecontal, E.; Pereira, R.; Perlmutter, S.; Rabinowitz, D.; Rigaudier, G.; Ripoche, P.; Runge, K.; Scalzo, R.; Smadja, G.; Swift, H.; Tao, C.; Thomas, R.; Wu, C., American Astronomical Society, AAS Meeting #213, #489.03; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 41 (2009).
  • "Direct Analysis of Type Ia Supernovae Observed by The Nearby Supernova Factory," Thomas, R.; Aldering, G.; Antilogus, P.; Aragon, C.; Bailey, S.; Baltay, C.; Bongard, S.; Buton, C.; Childress, M.; Copin, Y.; Gangler, E.; Jerke, J.; Loken, S.; Nugent, P.; Pain, R.; Pecontal, E.; Pereira, R.; Perlmutter, S.; Rabinowitz, D.; Rigaudier, G.; Ripoche, P.; Runge, K.; Scalzo, R.; Smadja, G.; Swift, H.; Tao, C.; Wu, C., American Astronomical Society, AAS Meeting #213, #489.02; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 41 (2009).
  • "The Power of Spectrophotometry: K-correction-free Type Ia Supernova Light Curves from the Nearby Supernova Factory," Pereira, R.; Aldering, G.; Antilogus, P.; Aragon, C.; Bailey, S.; Baltay, C.; Bongard, S.; Buton, C.; Childress, M.; Copin, Y.; Gangler, E.; Jerke, J.; Loken, S.; Nugent, P.; Pain, R.; Pecontal, E.; Perlmutter, S.; Rabinowitz, D.; Rigaudier, G.; Ripoche, P.; Runge, K.; Scalzo, R.; Smadja, G.; Swift, H.; Tao, C.; Thomas, R. C.; Wu, C., American Astronomical Society, AAS Meeting #213, #489.01; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 41 (2009).
  • "SNe Ia From The Nearby Supernova Factory: The Reign Of The Normals And The Revolution Of The Rare," Aldering, G.; Antilogus, P.; Aragon, C.; Bailey, S.; Baltay, C.; Bongard, S.; Buton, C.; Childress, M.; Chotard, N.; Copin, Y.; Gangler, E.; Nugent, P.; Pain, R.; Pecontal, E.; Pereira, R.; Perlmutter, S.; Rigaudier, G.; Ripoche, P.; Runge, K.; Scalzo, R.; Smadja, G.; Swift, H.; Tao, C.; Thomas, R. C.; Rabinowitz, D.; Wu, C., American Astronomical Society, AAS Meeting #213, #338.08; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 41 (2009).
  • "Generalized Spectral Correlations of Type Ia Supernovae from the Nearby Supernova Factory," Bailey, S.; Aldering, G.; Antilogus, P.; Aragon, C.; Baltay, C.; Bongard, S.; Buton, C.; Childress, M.; Chotard, N.; Copin, Y.; Gangler, E.; Loken, S.; Nugent, P.; Pain, R.; Pecontal, E.; Pereira, R.; Perlmutter, S.; Rabinowitz, D.; Rigaudier, G.; Ripoche, P.; Runge, K.; Scalzo, R.; Smadja, G.; Tao, C.; Thomas, R.; Wu, C., American Astronomical Society, AAS Meeting #213, #321.05; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 41 (2009).
  • "The Nearby Supernova Factory: First Results," Copin, Y.; Aldering, G.; Antilogus, P.; Aragon, C.; Bailey, S.; Baltay, C.; Bongard, S.; Buton, C.; Childress, M.; Gangler, É.; Jerke, J.; Loken, S.; Nugent, P.; Pain, R.; Pécontal, É.; Pereira, R.; Perlmutter, S.; Rabinovitz, D.; Rigaudier, G.; Ripoche, P.; Runge, K.; Scalzo, R.; Smadja, G.; Swift, H.; Tao, C.; Thomas, R. C.; Wu, C., EAS Publications Series, Volume 36, 2009, pp.11-15 (2009).
  • "Seeing the Unseeable," E. Wes Bethel, Chris Johnson, Charles Hansen, Claudio Silva, Steven Parker, Allen Sanderson, Lee Myers, Martin Cole, Xavier Tricoche, Sean Ahern, George Ostrouchov, Dave Pugmire, Jamison Daniel, Jeremy Meredith, Valerio Pascucci, Hank Childs, Peer-Timo Bremer, Ajith Mascarenhas, Ken Joy, Bernd Hamann, Christoph Garth, Cecilia Aragon, Gunther Weber, and Prabhat. SciDAC Review, Number 8, pp. 24-33. Summer 2008.
  • "DOE SciDAC Visualization and Analytics Center for Enabling Technologies," E. Wes Bethel, C.R. Johnson, C. Aragon, Prabhat, O. Rübel, G.Weber, V. Pascucci, H. Childs, P.-T. Bremer, A. Mascarenhas, B. Whitlock, S. Ahern, J. Meredith, G. Ostrouchov, K. Joy, B. Hamann, C. Garth, M. Cole, C. Hansen, S. Parker, A. Sanderson, C.T. Silva, and X. Tricoche. In 2008 DOE ASCR CS PI Meeting, Denver, CO, USA, April 2008.
  • "Data Taking in a Virtual Control Room: the SNfactory Example," Antilogus, P.; Thomas, R. C.; Aldering, G.; Aragon, C.; Copin, Y.; Gangler, E.; Hornero, E.; Pecontal, A.; Poon, S.; Runge, K.; Scalzo, R.; Bailey, S.; Baltay, C.; Buton, C.; Bongard, S.; Childress, M.; Loken, S.; Nugent, P.; Pain, R.; Pecontal, E.; Pereira, R.; Perlmutter, S.; Rabinowitz, D.; Rigaudier, G.; Smadja, G.; Tao, C.; Wu, C. Observatory Operations: Strategies, Processes, and Systems II. Edited by Brissenden, Roger J.; Silva, David R. Proceedings of the SPIE, Volume 7016, pp. 70161L-70161L-12 (2008).
  • "The Nearby Supernova Factory: toward a high-precision spectro-photometry"   (PDF), Copin, Y.; Buton, C.; Gangler, E.; Smadja, G.; Pecontal, E.; Rigaudier, G.; Antilogus, P.; Bailey, S.; Pain, R.; Pereira, R.; Wu, C.; Aldering, G.; Aragon, C.; Bongard, S.; Childress, M.; Loken, S.; Nugent, P.; Perlmutter, S.; Runge, K.; Thomas, R. C.; Weaver, B. A.; Baltay, C.; Bauer, A.; Rabinowitz, D.; Scalzo, R. Proc. of the French Society of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Grenoble, France (July 2007).
  • "The Supernova Integral Field Spectrograph: keys to high-precision spectro-photometry"   (PDF), Buton, C.; Copin, Y.; Gangler, E.; Smadja, G.; Pecontal, E.; Rigaudier, G.; Antilogus, P.; Bailey, S.; Pain, R.; Pereira, R.; Wu, C.; Aldering, G.; Aragon, C.; Bongard, S.; Childress, M.; Loken, S.; Nugent, P.; Perlmutter, S.; Runge, K.; Thomas, R. C.; Weaver, B. A.; Baltay, C.; Bauer, A.; Rabinowitz, D.; Scalzo, R. Proc. of the French Society of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Grenoble, France (July 2007).
  • "DOE's SciDAC Visualization and Analytics Center for Enabling Technologies - Strategy for Petascale Visual Data Analysis Success," Bethel, E. W., Johnson, C., Aragon, C., Prabhat, Ruebel, O., Weber, G., Pascucci, V., Childs, H., Bremer, P.-T., Whitlock, B., Ahern, S., Meredith, J., Ostrouchov, G., Joy, K., Hamann, B., Garth, C., Cole, M., Hansen, C., Parker, S., Sanderson, A., Silva, C., Tricoche, X. CTWatch Quarterly, Volume 3, Number 4, November 2007.
  • List of all astrophysics publications from ADS, the Astrophysics Data System.

Teaching

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Autumn 2020:   HCDE 496/596, Human Centered Natural Language Processing

Spring 2020:     HCDE 496/596, Human Centered Natural Language Processing
Winter 2020:     HCDE 511, Information Visualization
Winter 2020:     HCDE 496/596, Human Centered Natural Language Processing
Autumn 2019:   HCDE 496/596, Human Centered Natural Language Processing

Spring 2019:     HCDE 496/596, Visual Analytics of Social Media Data
Spring 2019:     HCDE 496/596, Distributed Mentoring and Fanfiction Data Analytics
Spring 2019:     HCDE 496/596, Games for Good: Data Science Ethics Game Design
Winter 2019:     HCDE 548, Advanced Topics in Information Visualization
Winter 2019:     HCDE 496/596, Visual Analytics of Social Media Data
Winter 2019:     HCDE 496/596, Distributed Mentoring and Fanfiction Data Analytics
Winter 2019:     HCDE 496/596, Games for Good: Data Science Ethics Game Design
Autumn 2018:   HCDE 496/596, Visual Analytics of Social Media Data
Autumn 2018:   HCDE 496/596, Distributed Mentoring and Fanfiction Data Analytics

Spring 2018:     INF 363, Data Visualization (at Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria, Valparaiso, Chile)

Spring 2017:     HCDE 496/596, Visualization of Large Text Data Sets
Winter 2017:     HCDE 496/596, Visualization of Large Text Data Sets
Autumn 2016:   HCDE/DATA 511, Information Visualization/Data Visualization and Exploratory Analytics
Autumn 2016:   HCDE 496/596, Visualization of Large Text Data Sets

Spring 2016:     HCDE 496/596, Visualization of Large Text Data Sets
Spring 2016:     HCDE 496/596, Data Science Ethnography
Winter 2016:     HCDE 496/596, Visualization of Large Text Data Sets
Winter 2016:     HCDE 496/596, Data Science Ethnography
Autumn 2015:   HCDE 411, Information Visualization
Autumn 2015:   HCDE 496/596, Visualization of Large Text Data Sets
Autumn 2015:   HCDE 496/596, Data Science Ethnography

Spring 2015:     HCDE 496/596, Visualization of Large Text Data Sets
Spring 2015:     HCDE 496/596, Data Science Ethnography
Winter 2015:     HCDE 496/596, Visualization of Large Text Data Sets
Winter 2015:     HCDE 496/596, Data Science Ethnography
Autumn 2014:   HCDE 511, Information Visualization
Autumn 2014:   HCDE 496/596, Visualization of Large Text Data Sets
Autumn 2014:   HCDE 496/596, Data Science Ethnography

Spring 2014:     HCDE 511, Information Visualization
Winter 2014:     HCDE 548, Advanced Topics in Information Visualization
Winter 2014:     HCDE 496/596, Remixing User Research Methods
Autumn 2013:   HCDE 496/596, Emotion in Text Communication
Autumn 2013:   HCDE 496/596, Informal Learning in Online Fan Communities
Autumn 2013:   HCDE 496/596, Social Media Qualitative Analysis: Methods and Practice

Spring 2013:     HCDE 496/596, Emotion in Text Communication
Spring 2013:     HCDE 496/596, Games for Good
Winter 2013:     HCDE 411, Information Visualization
Winter 2013:     HCDE 496/596, Emotion in Text Communication
Winter 2013:     HCDE 496/596, Games for Good
Autumn 2012:   HCDE 496/596, Emotion in Text Communication
Autumn 2012:   HCDE 496/596, Games for Good

Spring 2012:     HCDE 511, Information Visualization
Spring 2012:     HCDE 496/596, Emotion in Text Communication
Winter 2012:     HCDE 511, Information Visualization
Winter 2012:     HCDE 496/596, Emotion in Text Communication
Autumn 2011:   HCDE 496/596, Emotion in Text Communication

Spring 2010: Info 247, Information Visualization and Presentation (graduate course), School of Information, University of California, Berkeley.

Sept. 2007 - June 2008: Instructor, 8th Grade Honors Algebra, Berkeley, CA.

Spring 2006: Co-Instructor, IEOR 170, Industrial Design and Human Factors, (upper division engineering course with enrollment of 60 juniors and seniors), University of California, Berkeley.

Certificated Flight Instructor, Oakland, Livermore, and Tracy Airports, over 2400 hours of flight instruction given, over 3000 hours of ground instruction given, 1987 - 2008.

Students

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PhD Students:

Sourojit (G) Ghosh (2020-)
Ruoxi (Anna) Shang (2020-)
Andrea Figueroa (2019-)
Jenna Frens (2016-)
Nan-Chen Chen (2013-2019, PhD, 2019)
Anissa Tanweer (2014-2018, PhD, 2018)
Sungsoo (Ray) Hong (2013-2018, PhD, 2018)
Taylor Scott (2011-2017, PhD, 2017)
Kit Kuksenok (2012-2016, PhD, 2016)
Daniel Perry (2011-2015, PhD, 2015)
Michael Brooks (2010-2015, PhD, 2015)
Margaret Drouhard (2015-2019)

PhD Committee for:

Himanshu Zade, HCDE (2017- )
Alexis Hiniker, HCDE (2013-2017, PhD, 2017)
Thai Le, Biomedical and Health Informatics (2013-15, PhD, 2015)
Melissa Clarkson, Medical Education and Biomedical Informatics (2011-14, PhD, 2014)
Jonathan Morgan, HCDE (2011-13, PhD, 2013)
Kathleen Tuite, CSE (2012-19, PhD, 2019)
Alex Jaffe, CSE (PhD, 2013)
Alex Thayer, HCDE (PhD, 2012)
Rahul Garg, CSE (PhD, 2012)

Research Lab members:

Jenna Frens (2016-)
Andrea Figueroa (2019-)
Ruby Davis (2017-2020)
Michael Brooks (2010-2015)
Daniel Perry (2011-2015)
Kit Kuksenok (2011-2016)
Taylor Scott (2011-2017)
John Robinson (2011-2018)
Sungsoo (Ray) Hong (2012-2018)
Nan-Chen Chen (2013-2019)
Anissa Tanweer (2014-2018)
Sarah Evans (2014-2017)
Brittany Fiore-Gartland (2014-2017)
Margaret Drouhard (2015-2019)

Ona Anicello (2011-13, MS, 2013)
Megan Torkildson (2012-2014, BS, 2014)
Dian Hartono (2012-2014, BS, 2014)
Andrew Berry (2012-2013)
Sean Mitchell (2012-2013)
Jihyun Lee (2017-2018, MS, 2018)

Summer and academic year student research interns at LBNL (2005-2011):

Daniel Perry
Ukwatta Jayarathna
Jacob Andreas
Wayne Ryan
Elena Caraba
Sarah Poon
Adarsh Uppula
Daniel Wong

Program Service and Outreach

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  • Workshop organizer:
    • Mapping Out Human-Centered Data Science: Methods, Approaches, and Best Practices, ACM GROUP 2020.
    • Latin America as a Place for CSCW Research, CSCW 2018.
    • Discovery Jam Workshop, IEEE Vis 2017, Phoenix, AZ, October 2017.
    • Discovery Jam Workshop, IEEE Vis 2016, Baltimore, MD, October 23-27, 2016.
    • Culture Analytics and User Experience Design (with Katy Börner, Peter Leonard, Timothy Tangherlini). http://www.ipam.ucla.edu/programs/workshops/workshop-ii-culture-analytics-and-user-experience-design/. Workshop II, Culture Analytics Long Program, Institute for Pure & Applied Mathematics, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, April 11-15, 2016.
    • Developing a Research Agenda for Human-Centered Data Science (with Joseph Bayer, Andy Echenique, Yun Huang, Clayton Hutto, Jinyoung Kim, Gina Neff, Wanli Xing). https://cscw2016hcds.wordpress.com/. Workshop, CSCW 2016: ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, San Francisco, CA, Feb. 2016.
    • Social Media Research: Tools and Methods / Results from Analyses of Social Media Data (with Robert Mason, Jason Thatcher, Shawn Walker, Anatoliy Gruzd), HICSS 2016, Jan 2016.
    • Social Media Research: Tools and Methods / Results from Analyses of Social Media Data (with Robert Mason, Jason Thatcher, Shawn Walker, Anatoliy Gruzd), HICSS 2015, Jan 2015.
    • Data-Intensive Collaboration in Science and Engineering (with M. Bietz, A. Wiggins, and M. Handel), CSCW 2012, Feb 2012.
    • Design, Influence, and Social Technologies: Techniques, Impacts and Ethics (with J. Introne, K. Levy, S. Goggins, S. Munson, R. Wash), CSCW 2012, Feb 2012.
    • The Changing Dynamics of Scientific Collaborations (with J. Heer, C. Lee, and C. Silva), CSCW 2010, Feb. 2010.
    • Numerical Modeling with Large 3D Data Sets, Advanced Light Source Users. Meeting (with A. MacDowell, J. Ajo-Franklin, P. Nico, and D. Silin), Oct. 2009.
  • Workshop organizer (with S. Poon and C. Silva), The Changing Face of Digital Science: New Practices in Scientific Collaborations, CHI 09, ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2009.
  • Chair, IEEE Computer Society Entrepreneur and Pioneer Awards Committee, 2008-2011.
  • Computing Research Association's Committee on the Status of Women in Computing Research (CRA-W), board member, 2008-2011.
  • Latinas in Computing, founding member, 2007-present.
  • Program committee member: IFIP Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (INTERACT), International Conference on Knowledge Capture (K-CAP), 2008-2010.
  • Paper reviewer: ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), IEEE Visualization (Vis), IEEE Information Visualization (InfoVis), IEEE Visual Analytics Science and Technology (VAST), Conference on Advancing Hispanics/Chicanos and Native Americans in Science (SACNAS), IFIP Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (INTERACT), International Conference on Knowledge Capture (K-CAP), ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW), ACM Conference on Creativity and Cognition (C&C), 2005-present.
  • Proposal reviewer: U.S. Department of Energy Office of Advanced Scientific Computing Research (DOE ASCR), U.S. Department of Energy Small Business Innovation Research/Small Business Technology Transfer (SBIR/STTR), U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science Innovative and Novel Computational Impact on Theory and Experiment (INCITE), NWO Free Competition (European computer science funding agency), National Science Foundation, 2005-present.
  • LBNL Women in Science Council, founding member. Objectives include: recruitment, retention, and development of women scientists throughout the Lab, 2008-2011.
  • LBNL Computing Sciences Diversity Working Group, founding member. Objectives include: increase diversity in the two computing divisions, perform outreach and increase the Lab's and Directorate's visibility as a workplace committed to diversity, 2008-2011.
  • LBNL Computing Sciences Mentoring Program, steering committee member. Objectives include: establishment of formal staff mentoring program in computing sciences, ongoing management and evaluation. 2009-2011.
  • LBNL Alvarez Fellowship Selection Committee, member. Screening, interviewing, ranking and selection of candidates for highly competitive postdoctoral fellowship in Computational Research Division. 2008-2009.
  • MentorNet mentor. E-mail mentoring of computing graduate students. 2008-2011.
  • Technical Advisory Board for Environmental and Spatial Technology team at Eureka Springs High School, Eureka Springs, Arkansas, board member. Duties include: advising high school students on computer science and robotics projects. 2006-2011.
  • Volunteer speaker at numerous programs supporting diversity in computer science, including: Women in College of Engineering Leadership Retreat, Fresno State University; Berkeley Edge Program; Computing Alliance of Hispanic Serving Institutions; Supercomputing Broader Engagement; Anita Borg Institute for Women in Technology; Expanding Your Horizons, UC Berkeley Summer Undergraduate Program in Engineering Research (SUPERB), 1996-present.
  • President of WICSE (Women in Computer Science and Engineering - UC Berkeley EECS Department Ph.D. student group), 1987 and 2004.

Contact Info

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Cecilia R. Aragon
Department of Human Centered Design & Engineering
University of Washington
407A Sieg Hall, Box 352315
Seattle, WA 98195
(206) 543-2567 (tel)
(206) 543-8858 (fax)
email

Affiliations and Projects

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