"I believe in intuition and inspiration. Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution. It is, strictly speaking, a real factor in scientific research.”
― Albert Einstein 1929, quoted by Dr. Boris Kovalerchuk in Visual Knowledge Discovery and Machine Learning 2018.
Double Bachelor's of Science senior student majoring in Computer Science and Applied Mathematics. Active research assistant at the Visual Knowledge Discovery and Imaging Lab of Central Washington University. Former system administrator, full-stack software developer, and web-developer. Next, graduate studies in Computational Science focusing on visual machine learning. With a goal of building trusted expert artificial intelligence systems.
Solving problems at the intersection of machine learning and data visualization by blending machine computation with human cognition. Computing with data visualizations directly, instead of just making visuals. While integrating visual approaches with conventional machine learning methods.
Oxford Dictionary, "Intelligence", noun, 1. the ability to acquire and apply knowledge and skills. Research goals: Aquire knowledge by visual knowledge discovery with multidimensional lossless visualizations, then apply aquired knowledge to build skills that solve difficult tasks more interpretably and accurately.
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In no preferential order.
Research Interest | Description |
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Visual Machine Learning | Building machine learning models with visual representations for better interpretability. |
Visual Knowledge Discovery | Extracting patterns visually from multidimensional data to solve a task like machine learning. |
Data Mining | Extracting valuable information from large sample count and dimensionality of data. |
Multidimensional Data Visualization | Representing multidimensional data in representations advantageous for the task to solve. |
Natural Language Processing | Analyzing and generating human language for human-computer interaction or computation. |
Automated Decision-Making | Developing and analyzing automated decision-making systems for limited human interaction. |
Human-Computer Interaction | Designing effective human-computer interaction using visually interactive interfaces. |
Chronologically ordered from current at top to first at bottom.
- "Synthetic Data Generation with Visual Knowledge Discovery"
- Authors: Alice Williams and Dr. Boris Kovalerchuk.
- Status: Actively researching at the CWU Visual Knowledge Discvery and Imaging Lab.
- Contributions: Expanding on synthetic data generation methods with interactive algorithms paired with Generative Adversarial Networks (GANS). Expanding software with relabeling and GAN data synthesization, in support of theorized algorithms. Exploring GAN deficiencies and seeking ways to integrate visual improvements.
- Topics: Synthetic Tabular Data Generation, Image to tabular data preprocessing, General Line Coordinates, Hyperblock Model Representation, Generative Adversarial Networks, Multi-Row Parallel Coordinates, Imagery Visualization
- Developed software: Dynamic_Coordinates_Vis_System, ML_Classifier_Comparison_Tool, DCGAN_Custom_Architecture_Builder_and_Image_Synthesizer
- "Interpretable Computational Visual Knowledge Discovery and Boosting Classification Models with Human-in-the-Loop"
- Authors: Alice Williams & Dr. Boris Kovalerchuk.
- Status: Preparing camera ready version, accepted for presentation at AI Human Computer Interfaces 2025 in thematic area of Artificial Intelligence in HCI.
- Contributions: Visual solution to the 2003 Gödel Prize problem of AdaBoost classifier by visual observation of options for different classifiers before selecting them for boosting allowing alternative ways to build stronger classifiers, including directly building classifiers in a lossless visualization space and visualizing classifier uncertainty, applying visual knowledge discovery methods to extract data representational rules and improve classification models by rebuilding them with interpretable hyperblock representations.
- Topics: Human-Centered AI, Machine Learning, Multi-Class Classification, Feature Engineering, Explainable AI, AI Risk Mitigation, Human-in-the-Loop, Multi-Dimensional Distributions, General Line Coordinates, Concentric Coordinates.
- Developed software: Java_Tabular_Vis_Toolkit, HyperblockParser, InLineCoordinatesCoefficientSolver
- Authors: Alice Williams & Dr. Boris Kovalerchuk.
- Status: Published in IEEE proceedings and presented at IV2024 in track of Artificial Intelligence and Visual Knowledge Discovery, earned the 'Best Paper Award'.
- Contributions: Proposed an algorithm and implemented interactive software for labeled synthetic data generation using former General Line Coordinate methods and newly developed Circular Coordinates both Static and Dynamic with multi-class visualization and parameterized class discrimination. Addressed data balancing, demonstrated deficiencies of popular SMOTE (Synthetic Minority Oversampling Technique), and showed improvements to classifier performance across 14 standard machine learning classifiers.
- Topics: Synthetic Data Generation, Automated Data Labeling, General Line Coordinates, Circular Coordinates, Parallel Coordinates, Shifted Paired Coordinates, Tabular AI/ML Data, Multidimensional Data Visualization, Visual Knowledge Discovery.
- Developed software: Dynamic_Coordinates_Vis_System
Role | Organization | Focus/Description |
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Startup Founder and Consultant (Active) | AI Education Technology Stealth Startup LLCs | Small business founding, startup product development, market research, and additionally, I provide AI and ML consulting. |
Research Assistant (Active) | CWU Visual Knowledge Discovery and Imaging Lab | Researching Visual Knowledge Discovery and Machine Learning data classification, synthesization, and model interpretability. |
Teaching Assistant | CWU Computer Science and Mathematics Departments | Assisted in Computer Architecture, Algorithm Analysis, Mathematical Computing, and as an undergraduate CS Tutor. |
Web Developer | Freelance Sole-Proprietor Business | Supported individuals and small businesses in developing, updating, and maintaining web applications and websites. |
Full-Stack Software Developer | Contract Projects and Freelance Business | Delivered data processing automation and business solutions for individuals, small businesses, and an enterprise contract. |
Linux Game Server Administrator | Game Server Distributor and Management LLCs | Responsible for server sharding, setup, protection, updates, backup solutions, user registration, and software support. |
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