Austin P. Wright

ML + HCI researcher

I’m an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo. I received my Ph.D. at [Georgia Tech][gt] and was advised by Professor [Polo Chau][poloclub].

My research in Scientific Human-Centered Machine Learning aims to solve problems intersecting machine learning, human-computer interaction, and scientific computing, by using a strong principled basis in both mathematical and human centered principles to actualize the potential of new technologies by deep collaboration with scientists to develop tools with usability, interpretability, and real scientific impact.


Education

Fall 2019 — Spring 2025Ph.D. in Machine Learning
Spring 2025Georgia Institute of Technology
Advisor: Duen Horng (Polo) Chau

Fall 2018 —Fall 2019Msc. in Computing with Specialism in Machine Learning
Fall 2019Imperial College London
Thesis: Comparison of Syntactic and Semantic Representations of Programs in Neural Embeddings
Degree Class: Merit

Fall 2014 — Spring 2018B.A. in Physics and Computer Science
Spring 2018University of California, Berkeley
Overall GPA: 3.63 Physics GPA: 3.59 CS GPA: 3.87


Publications

Nested Fusion: A Method for Learning High Resolution Latent Structure of Multi-Scale Measurement Data on Mars
Austin P. Wright, Scott Davidoff, Duen Horng (Polo) Chau
Proceedings of the 30th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining. 2024.
Project BibTeX Best Paper Runner-Up (Applied Data Science Track)

In-situ mapping of monocrystalline regions on Mars
Brendan J Orenstein, Michael WM Jones, David T Flannery, Austin P Wright, Scott Davidoff, Michael M Tice, Luke Nothdurft, Abigail C Allwood
Icarus. 2024.
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Interactive Visual Learning for Stable Diffusion
Seongmin Lee, Benjamin Hoover, Hendrik Strobelt, Zijie J Wang, ShengYun Peng, Austin P. Wright, Kevin Li, Haekyu Park, Haoyang Yang, Duen Horng (Polo) Chau
arXiv preprint. 2024.
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Concept Evolution in Deep Learning Training: A Unified Interpretation Framework and Discoveries
Haekyu Park, Seongmin Lee, Benjamin Hoover, Austin P Wright, Omar Shaikh, Rahul Duggal, Nilaksh Das, Kevin Li, Judy Hoffman, Duen Horng Chau
Proceedings of the 32nd ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management. 2023.
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Diffusion explainer: Visual explanation for text-to-image stable diffusion
Seongmin Lee, Benjamin Hoover, Hendrik Strobelt, Zijie J Wang, ShengYun Peng, Austin P. Wright, Kevin Li, Haekyu Park, Haoyang Yang, Duen Horng (Polo) Chau
arXiv preprint. 2023.
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Lessons from the Development of an Anomaly Detection Interface on the Mars Perseverance Rover using the ISHMAP Framework
Austin P. Wright, Peter Nemere, Adrian Galvin, Duen Horng (Polo) Chau, Scott Davidoff
Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces. 2023.
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Alteration history of Séítah formation rocks inferred by PIXL x-ray fluorescence, x-ray diffraction, and multispectral imaging on Mars
Michael M Tice, Joel A Hurowitz, Abigail C Allwood, Michael WM Jones, Brendan J Orenstein, Scott Davidoff, Austin P. Wright, et. al
Science Advances. 2022.
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Neurocartography: Scalable automatic visual summarization of concepts in deep neural networks
Haekyu Park, Nilaksh Das, Rahul Duggal, Austin P Wright, Omar Shaikh, Fred Hohman, Duen Horng (Polo) Chau
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics. 2021.
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Detection of emerging drugs involved in overdose via diachronic word embeddings of substances discussed on social media
Austin P. Wright, Christopher M Jones, Duen Horng (Polo) Chau, R Matthew Gladden, Steven A Sumner
Journal of Biomedical Informatics. 2021.
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RECAST: Enabling User Recourse and Interpretability of Toxicity Detection Models with Interactive Visualization
Austin P. Wright, Omar Shaikh, Haekyu Park, Will Epperson, Muhammed Ahmed, Stephane Pinel, Diyi Yang, Duen Horng (Polo) Chau
24th ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work & Social Computing. 2021.
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A Comparative Analysis of Industry Human-AI Interaction Guidelines
Austin P. Wright, Zijie J. Wang, Haekyu Park, Grace Guo, Fabian Sperrle, Mennatallah El-Assady, Alex Endert, Daniel Keim, Duen Horng Chau
IEEE VIS, Workshop on TRust and EXpertise in Visual Analytics. 2020.
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Mapping Researchers with PeopleMap
Jon Saad-Falcon, Omar Shaikh, Zijie J. Wang, Austin P. Wright, Sasha Richardson, Duen Horng (Polo) Chau
IEEE Visualization 2020. 2020.
PDF BibTeX Honorable Mention Best Poster Research

RECAST: Interactive Auditing of Automatic Toxicity Detection Models
Austin P. Wright, Omar Shaikh, Haekyu Park, Will Epperson, Muhammed Ahmed, Stephane Pinel, Diyi Yang, Duen Horng (Polo) Chau
The eighth International Workshop of Chinese CHI. 2020.
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The nuclear network: multiplex network analysis for interconnected systems
Bethany L. Goldblum, Andrew W. Reddie, Thomas C. Hickey, James E. Bevins, Sarah Laderman, Nathaniel Mahowald, Austin P. Wright, Elie Katzenson, Yara Mubarak
Applied Network Science volume 4, Article number: 36 (2019). 2019.
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Smart Monitoring of Nuclear Facilities: Implementation Concepts and Development Status
Paul Michael Mendoza, Karen Ann Miller, Emily Michele Casleton, Janette Rose Frigo, Rosalyn Cherie Rael, Kendra Lu Van Buren, Jonathan Lee Woodring, Vlad Henzl, Austin P. Wright
LA-UR-19-26663. 2019.
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Disparate Data Integration for Advanced Facility Monitoring
Karen Ann Miller, Kendra Lu Van Buren, Janette Rose Frigo, Max Zeyen, Joshua P. Sackos, Paul Michael Mendoza, Austin P. Wright
IAEA Symposium on International Safeguards. 2018.
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Contact

Austin P. Wright awrigh20@calpoly.edu