Adam Coscia

My lab's mission is to help people make sense of complex data. We combine methods from AI, data science, and human-computer interaction to develop new interactive systems for data visualization and analysis. We engage in iterative co-design and longitudinal field deployments with domain experts across intelligence analysis, education, and robotics to study how such systems impact data-driven decision-making. Our work contributes open-source software, empirical research, and design guidelines to visualization, HCI, and AI communities.

Some of our research themes include:
- Visualizations for Traceable and Defensible Human-AI Collaboration: How can we verify and steer AI reasoning against underlying data using interactive visualizations? Examples include: goal tracking in LLM conversations (OnGoal) and traceable document analysis with LLMs and knowledge graphs (VisPile).
- Making AI Trustworthy in Education Through Interactive Visualization: How can visualizations help us develop, integrate, and evaluate AI in the learning process? Examples include: debugging AI essay scoring (iScore), provenance analytics for intelligent tutors (VisTA), and in-text traces of AI assistance in writing (DraftMarks).
- Visual Analytics for Expert-Driven Scientific Discovery: Co-designing interactive systems with scientists to help them explore sparse, multidimensional scientific data using AI (DeepSee).
- Bias-Aware Visual Analytics Using Interaction Traces: Studying how showing analysts a live record of their own interactions and interactions with AI can make them aware of unconscious bias and help them adjust how they analyze data (Lumos; Left, Right, and Gender).

Visit our lab web page for the latest details on our work: https://stevensvislab.github.io/

Adam Coscia is a Tenure-Track Assistant Professor in the School of Computing at Stevens Institute of Technology, where he directs the Stevens Visualization Lab. His research helps people make sense of complex data through the design of interactive systems for data visualization and analysis. He has designed and deployed his tools for intelligence analysis, robotics, healthcare, and education, in collaboration with engineers, analysts, educators, and scientists at the NSF AI ALOE Institute, NSA, MIT Lincoln Lab, NASA JPL, Adobe Research, the NC State Laboratory for Analytic Sciences, and the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute. His work appears at premier HCI and visualization venues, including ACM CHI, UIST, IUI, and IEEE VIS and TVCG, and has received a best paper award and three best poster awards. He was also a finalist for the Foley Scholars Award and a recipient of Georgia Tech's President's Fellowship. He received his Ph.D. in Human-Centered Computing from the Georgia Institute of Technology and holds a B.S. in Physics from Stevens.

Research Assistant
Graduate Research Assistant, Visual Analytics Lab, School of Interactive Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, 2020-2026
Undergraduate Research Assistant, School of Information Systems and Architecture, Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, NJ, 2018-2020

Internships
Artificial Intelligence Group, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Lexington, MA, 2025
AI Experiences Lab, Adobe Research, San Jose, CA, 2024
Human-Interfaces Group, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, 2023
Data to Discovery Program, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, 2021
Center for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence, New York Life Insurance Company, New York, NY, 2020
Center for Data Science and Analytics, New York Life Insurance Company, New York, NY, 2019
Department of Physics and Astronomy, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium, 2017

Somethings, Technical Advisor, 2026-present

Assistant Professor, School of Computing, Stevens Institute of Technology, 2026-present

Research
Best Paper Honorable Mention, VAST Challenge @ IEEE VIS, 2026
Best Poster Award, CRIDC, 2025
Foley Scholar Award Finalist, GVU:IPAT, Georgia Tech, 2024
Best Poster Award, CRIDC, 2023
Best Poster Award, CRIDC, 2021

Fellowships
President's Fellowship, Georgia Tech, 2020
Presidential Scholarship, Stevens Institute of Technology, 2016

Teaching and Merit
Alfred M. Mayer Prize, Stevens Institute of Technology, 2020
Distinguished Teaching Assistant Award, Stevens Institute of Technology, 2018

Honor Societies
Sigma Xi Scientific Research Honor Society, Sigma Xi, lifetime member, inducted 2025
Sigma Pi Sigma Physics Honor Society, American Institute of Physics, lifetime member, inducted 2019

CS 538 Data Visualization, Spring 2027