Manager, Development
Vidya Setlur
About
Vidya Setlur is a manager on the Natural Language Team at Tableau Software, and works out of the Palo Alto office. Previously, she was a staff research scientist on the research team and prior to joining Tableau, worked as a principal research scientist at the Nokia Research Center for 7 years. She earned her doctorate in Computer Graphics in 2005 at Northwestern University. Her research interests lie at the intersection of natural language processing (NLP) and computer graphics, around semantics and visual interfaces. At Tableau, Vidya works on natural language interfaces to help enable analytical conversations with data. A full list of her publications can be found here.
Focus
- Computer Graphics
- Natural Language Processing
- HCI
- Mobile Computing
- Content Retargeting
- Iconography
- Maps
Papers
IEEE Conference on Visual Analytics Science and Technology (VAST), Phoenix, Arizona, USA, October 1-6, 2017
AAAI Spring Symposium on Designing the User Experience of Machine Learning Systems
Proceedings of the 2016 ACM Companion on Interactive Surfaces and Spaces
ACM User Interfaces and Software Technology (UIST) 2016
The IEEE Information Visualization Conference (Chicago, October 25-30, 2015)
MobileHCI 2015 Conference (Copenhagen, August 25 - 28, 2015)
22nd IS&T Color and Imaging Conference (Boston, November 3-7, 2014)
Proceedings ACM CHI’14, April 2014, p.541-550.