Visual Analytics -Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Richland, Washington, United States

Dr. Dustin Arendt is a Senior Research Scientist and Team Lead in the Visual Analytics Group at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, joining the lab in October 2014. He received his Ph.D. from Virginia Tech in 2012 and completed a postdoc at the Air Force Research Laboratory from 2012 to 2014 where he researched graph visualization and applied machine learning. Since joining PNNL he has worked in several domains including visualization for cybersecurity, streaming data visual analytics, visual abstraction, dynamic graph visualization, visualization for natural language processing, interactive machine learning, explainable machine learning, and visualization for machine learning model validation and comparison. Currently, his interests are at the intersection of human-computer interaction, data science, and visual analytics, with a focus on validating machine learning models through explanations and exploratory data analysis. His research involves rapid prototyping and empirical evaluation of tools that blend machine learning, data science, and visualization.