PhD Student
University of Chicago
krisha at uchicago dot edu

Bio

Welcome!

I am Krisha Mehta, a PhD student at the Computer Science department at the University of Chicago. I am advised by Prof. Alex Kale at the Data Cognition Lab. I am interested in studying how visualizations can help people reason about uncertainty and drive their decision-making.

Apart from that, I love to buy and read books (yes, those are two separate hobbies) and can cook a mean daal makhani. Occasionally, I summarize research papers on a blog called Computers, Papers and Everything.

My CV is available here.

News

  • [Oct 2025] TAing DATA 23700: Visualization for Data Science this fall.
  • [Aug 2025] Our paper “Designing for Disclosure in Data Visualizations” got accepted at IEEE VIS!
  • [July 2025] Presnted a Poster at the Gordon Research Conferences
  • [Sept 2023] Awarded the Liew Family Graduate Fellowship.
  • [Sept 2023] Joined the PhD in CS program at the University of Chicago!
  • [Oct 2022] Got promoted to Programmer writer II.
  • [June 2022] Worked on Ground Truth Plus and Ground Truth Synthetic.
  • [June 2021] Started working full-time at Amazon SageMaker as a programmer writer.
  • [May 2021] Graduated from Arizona State University with a Masters in Computer Science
  • [Aug 2020] Interned at Weights & Biases as a machine learning engineer.
  • [May 2020] Interned as a technical writer intern at Amazon this summer.
  • [Aug 2019] Joined the MS in CS program at Arizona State University.
  • [Nov 2018] Selected for the Summer Research Program by the University of Auckland, New Zealand.

Publications

Designing for Disclosure in Data Visualizations

Krisha Mehta, Gordon Kindlmann, Alex Kale
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics 2025
Paper