About the Author
Vidya Setlur

Vidya Setlur

Vidya Setlur is the director of Tableau Research. She leads an interdisciplinary team of research scientists in areas such as data visualization, multimodal interaction, statistics, applied machine learning, and natural language processing (NLP). Setlur earned her Ph.D. in computer graphics from Northwestern University in 2005. Her personal research interests lie at the intersection of NLP and computer graphics.