We are pleased to announce that Dr. Alon Friedman, Associate Professor in the School of Information, has recently been elevated to the grade of IEEE Senior Member, an honor bestowed upon individuals who have made significant contributions to the profession.
His achievements are highlighted on the USF Faculty Honors website, which notes that "His research integrates visualization education, data science, semiotics, and learning analytics to investigate how individuals interpret, evaluate, and communicate information through visual representations. Trained in information studies, mass media, and statistics, he combines computational modeling with Peircean semiotics to examine how sign structures support meaning-making across contexts. His scholarship advances understanding of how humans and AI systems construct meaning from visual information. He is a leading researcher in visual peer review and directs the development of the Visual Peer Review Dashboard - an NSF-funded interactive platform designed to study rubric-guided critique, sentiment patterns, and behavioral nudges in visualization learning."
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