A picture of Chase Stokes. He is wearing a gray sweater, dark green plastic-rimmed glasses, and is grinning at the camera. Behind him is a blurred greenery.

Hello and welcome!

I am a PhD Candidate at the University of California Berkeley, working with Professor Marti Hearst on advancing research at the intersection of information visualization and language. My work centers on data communication, specifically exploring how best to combine written and visual information. Through rigorous, mixed-methods research, I develop actionable insights to empower designers and researchers to effectively incorporate language into visualization design.

I am currently applying for jobs in academia and industry, with an expected graduation date as early as August 2025.

I am a recipient of of the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship and a coordinator of the UC Berkeley School of Information's PhD Applicant Feedback Program. Previously, I received my B.A. in Psychology & Gender Studies from Northwestern University, advised by Steve Franconeri and Cindy Xiong Bearfield.

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Recent News

October 2024: My coauthor and I were interviewed by the College of Computing at Georgia Tech about recent work examining how visualizations persuade and communicate bias. Read more here!

October 2024: I presented four talks at this year's IEEE VIS conference, including How Speech, Text, and Visualizations Influence Decisions with Data Uncertainty, The Role of Text in Visualizations, Grouping Cues Guide Viewer Comparisons and Conclusions in Bar Charts, and Writing 'Rudders' in the Initial Stages of Visualization Design. Videos of presentations will be added to the Research page when available!

September 2024: I passed my Qualifying Exam! Thanks to my committee: Marti Hearst, Vidya Setlur, Aditya Paremeswaran, and David Bammman (chair).

August 2024: Completed summer internship with the Khoury Vis Lab at Northeastern University, working with Lace Padilla and Anjana Arunkumar on the functions of text in visualization design.

May 2024: Presented full paper on different modes of information for decision making with uncertain data at EuroVIS. Read the full paper here and the related short paper here!

April 2024: Received Outstanding GSI Award from the UC Berkeley School of Information for work in INFO 247: Information Visualization and Presentation in Spring 2023.

March 2024: Presented at the School of Information's PhD Research Reception. Watch the presentation here!

September 2023: Finished summer internship at Tableau Research, working with Vidya Setlur, Chelsea Sanker, and Bridget Cogley on multimodal data uncertainty communication.