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  1. Curriculum Vitae(2022)Yanni Alexander Loukissas, Ph.D.Associate ProfessorSchool of Literature, Media,and CommunicationGeorgia Institute of TechnologyTechnology Square Research Building85 Fifth Street NW, Room 318AAtlanta, Georgia 30308, USAPhone: 1.617.699.5487Email: yloukissas7@gatech.eduURL:http://loukissas.lmc.gatech.edu
  2. I. Earned Degrees......................................................................................................................................4II. Employment History.............................................................................................................................4III. Honors and Awards.............................................................................................................................5IV. Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activities..................................................................................5A. Published Books, Book Chapters, and Edited Volumes..................................................................5B. Refereed Publications and Submitted Articles.................................................................................6C. Other Publications and Creative Products........................................................................................8D. Presentations...................................................................................................................................11E. Grants and Contracts.......................................................................................................................15F. Other Scholarly and Creative Accomplishments............................................................................21G. Societal and Policy Impacts...........................................................................................................21H. Other Professional Activities..........................................................................................................21V. Education............................................................................................................................................22A. Courses Taught...............................................................................................................................22B. Individual Student Guidance..........................................................................................................23C. Educational Innovations and Other Contributions.........................................................................24VI. Service...............................................................................................................................................25A. Professional Contributions.............................................................................................................25B. Public and Community Service......................................................................................................26C. Institute Contributions....................................................................................................................26
  3. 4Curriculum VitaeYanni Alexander Loukissas, Ph.D.AssociateProfessorSchool of Literature, Media and CommunicationGeorgia Institute of Technology753 Gresham Ave SEAtlanta GA 30316 USAPhone: 1.617.699.5487Email: yloukissas@gmail.comURL: http://loukissas.lmc.gatech.eduI.Earned DegreesDoctor of Philosophy, Design and ComputationCommittee: William Porter(chair),Sherry Turkle, William MitchellDepartment of Architecture, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, 2008.Master of Science, Architecture Studies (Design and Computation)Advisors: William Porter, LarrySassDepartment of Architecture, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge 2003.Bachelor of ArchitectureDepartment of Architecture, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 1999.II.Employment HistoryAssociateProfessor,Digital Media,School of Literature, Media and CommunicationGeorgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta. 2020-present.Assistant Professor,Digital Media,School of Literature, Media and CommunicationGeorgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta. 2014-present.Lecturer, Program in Art, Design and the Public Domain (Co-coordinator)Department of Architecture, Harvard University, Cambridge. 2013-2014.Media Arts Fellow, metaLAB, Berkman Klein Center for Internet and SocietyHarvard University, Cambridge. 2012-2014.Postdoctoral Associate, Program in Science, Technology and SocietyAdvisor: David Mindell, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge. 2010-2012.Visiting Lecturer, Department of ArchitectureCornell University, Ithaca. 2008-2010.Visiting Scholar, Martin Centre, Cambridge University, Cambridge. 2006.
  4. 5Interaction Designer, Small Design Firm, Cambridge. 2006-2009.Faculty, Program in Sculpture, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. 2004-2006.Research Assistant, Design and Computation, Department of Architecture, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge. 2002-2003.Teaching Associate, Department of Architecture, Cornell University, Ithaca. 2000-2001.Project Designer, Sage and Coombe Architects, New York. 1999-2000.Project Assistant, Eisenman Architects, New York. 1999.III.Honors and AwardsDigitalSTS: A Field Guide for Science and Technology Studies. Edited by Janet Vertesi & David Ribes Co-edited by Carl DiSalvo, Laura Forlano, Steven J. Jackson, Yanni Loukissas, Daniela K. Rosner, and Hanna Rose Shell. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2019 was the winner of the OlgaAmsterdamskaAward, European Association for the Study of Science and Technology.Finalist, Information is Beautiful Awards, 2012.Presidential Fellowship, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2003-2008.M.S.Thesis Award, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Architecture, 2003.IV.Research, Scholarship, and Creative ActivitiesA.Published Books, BookChapters, and Edited VolumesA1.BooksLoukissas, Yanni A. All Data Are Local: Thinking Critically in a Data-Driven Society.Cambridge: MIT Press, 2019.Loukissas, Yanni A. Co-Designers: Cultures of Computer Simulation in Architecture. London: Routledge, 2012.A2.Refereed Book ChaptersLoukissas, Yanni A.“The Life and Death of Data.” In The DigitalSTS Handbook,edited by Vertesi, Janet, David Ribes, Carl DiSalvo, Laura Forlano,Steve Jackson, Yanni A. Loukissas, Daniela Rosner, Hanna Rose Shell. Princeton: Princeton Press, 2019. Loukissas, Yanni A.“Visualizing the Social.” In The DigitalSTS Handbook, edited byVertesi, Janet, David Ribes, Carl DiSalvo, Laura Forlano, Steve Jackson, Yanni A. Loukissas, Daniela Rosner, Hanna Rose Shell.Princeton: Princeton Press, 2019.
  5. 6Vertesi, Janet, David Ribes, Laura Forlano, Yanni A. Loukissas, and Marisa Cohn. “Engaging, Critiquing, and Making Digital Systems: Crossings between STS and Design,” InThe Handbook of Science and Technology Studies, edited by Clark Miller, Laurel Smith-Doerr, Ulrike Felt, and Rayvon Fouche. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2016. (Contribution 20%)Loukissas, Yanni A."Keepers of the Geometry," in Simulation and its Discontents, edited by Sherry Turkle. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2009.A3.Edited VolumesVertesi, Janet, David Ribes, Carl DiSalvo, Laura Forlano, Steve Jackson, Yanni A. Loukissas, Daniela Rosner, Hanna Rose Shell,eds. The DigitalSTS Handbook. Princeton: Princeton Press, 2019.(Contribution 10%)B.Refereed Publicationsand Submitted ArticlesB1.Published and Accepted Journal ArticlesLoukissas, Yanni A. “Let’s Change the Way Big Data Present the Places We Live.” Big Data & Society, Essays and Provocations, August 15, 2019. http://bigdatasoc.blogspot.com/p/essays-and-provocations.htmlLoukissas, Yanni A. and Anne Pollack.“After Big Data Failed: The Enduring Allure ofNumbers in the Wake of the 2016 US Election.”EngagingScience, Technology, and Society3(2016): 16-20. https://doi.org/10.17351/ests2017.150.(Contribution 50%)Loukissas, Yanni A.“TakingBig Data Apart: Local Readings of Composite Media Collections.” Information, Communication and Society20, no. 5 (2016):651-664.https://doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.2016.1211722.Loukissas, Yanni A.“A Place for Big Data: Close and Distant Readings of the Arnold Arboretum.” Big Data & Society3, no. 2 (2016).https://doi.org/10.1177/2053951716661365.Loukissas, Yanni A., and David Mindell,“Visual Apollo: A Graphical Exploration of Human-Machine Relationships.” Design Issues30, no. 2(April 2014): 4-16.(Contribution 75%)B2.Conference Presentation with Proceedings (Refereed)Loukissas, Yanni A. and Jude M.Ntabathia. “Open Data Settings: A Conceptual Framework Explored Through the Map Room Project.”Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, CSCW. 2021. (Contribution 80%).Corbett, Ericand Yanni A. Loukissas. “Engaging Gentrification as a Social Justice Issue in HCI.” ACM SIGCHI Conference Proceedings. Glasgow, UK. 2019.(Contribution 30%)Loukissas, Yanni A. “All the Homes: Zillow and the Operational Context of data.”iConference Proceedings. Sheffield, UK.2018.
  6. 7Battles, Matthew and Yanni A. Loukissas. "Data Artifacts: Visualizing Orders of Knowledge in Mega-Meta Collections." Proceedings of the UDC Seminar in Classification and Visualization. The Hague, Netherlands.2013.Loukissas, Yanni A., and David Mindell, 2012. "A Visual Display of Socio-Technical Data." Extended Abstract, ACM SIGCHI Conference Proceedings. Austin.2012.(Contribution 75%)Loukissas, Yanni A., Jason Maron, Marco Zenati, and David Mindell. "Redesigning Postoperative Review." IEEE Healthcare Technology Conference Proceedings. Houston.2012.(Contribution 65%)Loukissas, Yanni A."Keepers of the Geometry." Digital Critical Conference Proceedings. Cambridge.2008.Loukissas, Yanni A., and Larry Sass. "A Generative Approach to Modeling Architectural Designs Using a 3-D Printer." ACADIA and AIA Fabrication Conference Proceedings. Toronto, Canada.2004.(Contribution 75%)B3.Other Refereed MaterialConference Presentations with Refereed AbstractsLoukissas, Yanni A. “Inside Intrenchment Creek: A Domestic Assemblage of Water Data,” Video/Installation, Annual Meeting of the Society for Social Studies of Science, 2021.Loukissas, Yanni A. “Re-Valuing Homes: Countering the Culture of Real Estate on Zillow,” Annual Meeting of the Society for the Social Study of Science. New Orleans, September, 2019.Loukissas, Yanni A. “All the Homes: Zillow and the Operational Context of data.”Data Power. Ottawa, Canada. June, 2017.Loukissas, Yanni A.“All the Homes: Zillow and the Hegemony of Context in Information Design,” Annual Meeting of the American Association of Geographers, Boston. April, 2017.Loukissas, Yanni A., and Lorina Navarro. “All News is Local,” Annual Meeting of the Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts, Atlanta. November, 2016.(Contribution: 60%)Resch, Gabby, Yanni A. Loukissas, and Matt Ratto. “Critical Information Practice,” Annual Meeting of the Society for the Social Studies of Science, Barcelona, Spain. August, 2016.(Contribution: 20%)Loukissas, Yanni A.“Local Data,” Information+,Vancouver, Canada. June, 2016.Loukissas, Yanni A., 2015. “Life and Death of Data,”Annual Meeting of the Society for the Social Studies of Science, Denver.November, 2016.
  7. 8Loukissas, Yanni A., and Laura Forlano. “Codesigning Technoscience: Reflections on a digitalSTS Workshop,”Annual Meeting of the Society for the Social Studies of Science, San Diego, November, 2013.Loukissas, Yanni A. “Data meets Design,”Annual Meeting of the Society for the Social Studies of Science. Copenhagen, Denmark, August, 2012.Loukissas, Yanni A.“The Visual Display of Sociotechnical Data,” Annual Meeting of the Society for the Social Studies of Science. Cleveland.November, 2011.Loukissas, Yanni A.“Surface Cities,” Annual Meeting of the Society for the Social Studies of Science. Tokyo, Japan, August, 2010.Loukissas, Yanni A.“Spaces of Simulation,” Annual Meeting of the Society for the Social Studies of Science, Washington, D.C., October, 2009.Loukissas, Yanni A.“Building Simulation through a Socio-technical Lens,” Annual Meeting of the Society for the Social Studies of Science. Pasadena, October, 2005.Loukissas, Yanni A.“Representations ofthe User in Geometric Modeling,” Annual Meeting of the Society for the Social Studies of Science. Paris, France, August, 2004.Workshop Presentations and Organization with Refereed Proposals and AbstractsCardoso, Daniel, and Yanni A. Loukissas. “Visualizing Design Ecologies,” Design Research Society. Brighton, UK, 2016. (Contribution: 50%)Battles, Matthew, and Yanni A. Loukissas. “Data Artifacts Workshop,” Digital Humanities: The Next Generation, Simmons College. Boston, 2013.Battles, Matthew, and Yanni A. Loukissas. “Exquisite Corpora,” Digital Book Summit, Olin College, Needham, 2012.C.Other Publicationsand Creative ProductsC1.Non-refereed Writing Kim M. Cobb, Russell Clark, Randall Mathews, Nick Deffley, Emanuele Di Lorenzo, Ivan Federico, Nadia Pinardi, Kyungmin Park, Allen Hyde, Yanni Loukissas, Dawud Shabaka, Mildred McClain, Akhil Chavan, Lalith Polepeddi, Tim Cone, and Jayma Koval. “Smart Sea Level Sensors for coastal climate resilience” 2020. Variations.Domingues, R. (Ed.)18,3.Loukissas, Yanni A. “The Map Room: A Place for Thinking Critically about Data” In Humanistic Perspectives in a Technological World (Second Edition), edited by Richard Utz. Atlanta: Georgia Tech, Forthcoming.Loukissas, Yanni A.,Christopher Polack, Muniba Khan, and Annabel Rothschild. “The Atlanta Map Room: Documenting the Connections and Disjunctions Between Civic Data and Lived Experiences in the City,”2018.Atlanta Studies Blog Post.(Contribution: 70%)
  8. 9Loukissas, Yanni A.“Data Walks Workshop.”Density Design Blog Post, 2017.Loukissas, Yanni A.“The Life and Death of Data.”InThe Word for the World is Still Forrest, edited by Anna-Sophie Springer & Etienne Turpin. Berlin: Springer Verlag, 2017.Loukissas, Yanni A. and Firaz Peer.“Big Data, Local Data, Counter Data: A Contested Outlook for Housing.” Center for Urban Innovation Blog, 2016. https://gtcui.wordpress.com(Contribution: 80%)Loukissas, Yanni A.Review ofSoftware Takes Command,by Lev Manovich.Journal of DesignHistory, 2014.Ervin, Stephen, Yanni Loukissas, Jessica Yurkofsky, and Mikhail Grinwald. The Gund 522 Experiment: A Space for Design Learning and Teaching.Technical Report for the Harvard Graduate School of Design, 2014.Loukissas, Yanni A., 2012. "Knowledge Under Fire." Candide Journal for Architectural Knowledge5(2014).Turkle, Sherry Joseph Dumit, Hugh Gusterson, David Mindell, Susan Silbey, Yanni A. Loukissas, Natasha Myers. Information technologies and professional identity: A comparative study of the effects of virtuality. Report to the National Science Foundation,2005. (Contribution: 20%)Loukissas, Yanni A. Conceptions of Design in a Culture of Simulation. Ph.D.Thesis. Cambridge: MIT, 2008.Loukissas, Yanni A.Rulebuilding.SM Thesis. Cambridge: MIT, 2003.Loukissas, Yanni A."Utica A-Z." The Cornell Journal Of Architecture 7. Ithaca: Cornell University, 2000.Loukissas, Yanni A.Utica A-Z.BArch Thesis. Ithaca: Cornell University, 1999.C2.Software Loukissas, Yanni A., Nicholas Boshart, Raya Ward, “Map Spot.” Mobile participatory mapping table, 2020.Loukissas, Yanni A., Christopher Polack, Muniba Khan, Annabel Rothschild. “Atlanta Map Room.” Participatory mapping table, 2018.C3.Creative Products Expressive MediaLoukissas, Yanni A. “Inside Intrenchment Creek: A Domestic Assemblage of Water Data,” Video/Installation. Atlanta, GA. 2021.
  9. 10Loukissas, Yanni A., Christopher Polack, and Peter Polack. “Beltline for All?,” Online interactive visualization, 2017. http://loukissas.lmc.gatech.edu/beltline (Contribution: 40%)Loukissas, Yanni A. and Peter Polack. “DPLA V1” Interactive visualization for All Data Are Local, 2017. (Contribution: 60%)Loukissas, Yanni A. and Peter Polack. “DPLA V2” Interactive visualization for All Data Are Local, 2017. (Contribution: 60%)Loukissas, Yanni A. and Peter Polack. “NewsScape V1” Interactive visualization for All Data Are Local, 2017. (Contribution: 60%)Loukissas, Yanni A. and Peter Polack. “Zillow” Interactive visualization for All Data Are Local, 2017. (Contribution: 60%)Loukissas, Yanni A. and Krystelle Denis “The Life and Death of Data.” Online interactive publication, 2014. www.lifeanddeathofdata.org. (Contribution: 60%)Schnapp, Jeffrey, Yanni A. Loukissas, Matthew Battles, Sneha Khullar, Jessica Yurkofsky, and Pablo Barria. “Teaching with Things,” Graphical software for collections-based teaching. Cambridge, 2013.Loukissas, Yanni A., Matthew Battles,and Jessica Yurkofsky. “Library Observatory,” Data visualization. Cambridge, 2012. Loukissas, Yanni A., David Mindell, and Francisco Alonso. "The Apollo 11 Lunar Landing Visualization," Data visualization. Cambridge, 2011. Loukissas, Yanni, and John Zissovici. "Angel Dust," Original film for Violence and the Cinematic City, Film Studies symposium at Cornell University. Ithaca, 2009.Loukissas, Yanni A., and John Zissovici. “HartellGallery Moving Wall,” Original film, Cornell University. Ithaca, 2001.Loukissas, Yanni, and John Zissovici, “Hartell Gallery Moving Wall.” Flipbook, Cornell University. Ithaca, 2001.Exhibitions (Juried)Loukissas, Yanni A., Jude Ntabathia, Jihan Sherman, and Jer Thorp. “Map Room,” Making and Doing. Annual Meeting of the Society for the Social Study of Science.New Orleans, 2019.(Contribution: 70%)Loukissas, Yanni A. “Life and Death of Data,” Making and Doing. Annual Meeting of the Society for the Social Study of Science. Denver, 2015.Loukissas, Yanni A. “The Life and Death of Data,” Screening Scholarship, Philadelphia, March, 2015.
  10. 11Loukissas, Yanni A.“The Life and Death of Data,” Thinking with your Eyes Exhibition. Harvard University, Cambridge, 2013.Exhibitions (Not Juried)Loukissas, Yanni A. GVU Demo Day. Georgia Tech, Atlanta, 2014-2019.Loukissas, Yanni A.“Visual Apollo,” Digital Media Show. Eyedrum Gallery,Atlanta. 2016.Loukissas, Yanni, and Krystelle Denis. “The Life and Death of Data. OpenLab, Harvard University, Cambridge.2014.Loukissas, Yanni, David Mindell, and Francisco Alonso. "The Apollo 11 Lunar Landing Visualization," 150th Anniversary Exhibit on Exploration. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge.2011.Zissovici, John,and Yanni A. Loukissas. “Hartell Gallery Moving Wall,” Exhibition in Hartell Gallery. Cornell University, Ithaca.2001.Vinson, Macksi, and Yanni A. Loukissas. “The Absence of Hartell,” Exhibition in Hartell Gallery. Cornell University, Ithaca. 1999.D.PresentationsD1.Invited Presentations“Open Data Settings” Keynote. Viz4DH. IEE VIZ. Oct, 24, 2021“Atlanta Map Room + ATL Maps” Atlanta Studies Symposium. Atlanta, May 26, 2021“Atlanta Map Room” Public Data Lab, Utrecht University (cancelled)“All Data Are Local” History of Science. Université Laval. Québec, April 20, 2021“Open Data Settings” University of California, Los Angeles. Feb 28, 2021“All Data Are Local,”Harvard University. March, 3, 2020__,New York University. January 23, 2020__,University of Wisconsin, Madison. February 9, 2020__,University of Southern California, January 29, 2020__,Malmö University. June 3, 2020__,GT Symposium on Privacy and Autonomy. August 27, 2020__,Book Launch, iPaT Georgia Tech. 2019.
  11. 12__,Data inthe ATL, Georgia State University Library.2019.__,Information Studies Colloquium. UCLA, LosAngeles. 2019.__,Thinking Through Art and Design: ResponsibleDesign from Bits to Buildings Lecture Series. UC, Berkeley. 2019__,Fordham. New York. 2019__,GVU Talk, Georgia Tech. 2019__,Rutgers Information School. Camden, NJ. 2019__,Civic Data Science, Georgia Tech. 2019__,Data in the ATL, Georgia State University Library. 2019.“Atlanta Map Room,” Atlanta Studies.Atlanta. 2018.“Simulation and its Discontents,” Sherry Turkle’s Festschrift. Boston.2018.“Life and Death of Data,” Interview,Digital Humanities. Umea, Sweden. 2017.“Local Data,” Critical Visualization.CUNY, New York.2016.“Local Data,” Ignite Talk, EYEO Festival.Minneapolis.2015.“Local Data,” The Data Made Me Do It.UC Berkeley, Berkeley.2015.“Local Data,” Museum Studies, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore. 2015.“NewsScape Workshop,” UCLA, Los Angeles.2015.“The Life and Death of Metadata,” Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection. Harvard University,Washington, D.C. 2014.“Life and Death of Data,” Archives as Instigator. Museum of Modern Art,New York.2014.Loukissas, Yanni, and Matthew Battles. “The Mixed Reality City” Urban Humanities Symposium, Harvard University, Cambridge.2014.“Data Artifacts at the Arnold Arboretum,” Thinking with your Eyes Symposium, Harvard University. Cambridge.2014.Moderator, Futures Past Symposium.MIT, Cambridge.2013.“Data Narratives,” Digital Humanities, Wentworth Institute of Technology. Boston.2013.
  12. 13“Data Narratives of the Arnold Arboretum,” STS Circle, Harvard University. Cambridge. 2013.“Drawing Data Work,” Conversations in the Digital Humanities.Cornell University, Ithaca. 2013.“Co-Designers,” Department ofArchitecture.Princeton University,Princeton. 2013.“Teaching with Things,” Take Note Symposium.Harvard University,Cambridge.2012.“A Visual Display of Socio-Technical Data,” School of Informatics and Computing.Indiana University, Bloomington. 2012.“Communication in Situ,” Communication Department, University of California. San Diego. 2012.“Visualizing Human Presence,” Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society.Harvard Univeristy,Cambridge. 2011.“Translate, Rotate, Reflect,” Graduate School of Design.Harvard University,Cambridge. 2011.Respondent, Beyond the Author. History, Theory + Criticism of Art and Architecture. MIT.Cambridge.2011.Keynote “Translate, Rotate, Transform,” TEDx Athens Youth Day. Athens, Greece. 2010.Keynote “Moonscapes and City Scrapes,” INPUT_OUTPUT Symposium. Temple University,Philadelphia.2010.“Design as Computation,” Cornell University.Information Science Colloquium,Ithaca.2009.“Material Feedback,” Panel Discussion. TheStorefront for Art and Architecture,New York.2009.“Keepers of the Geometry,” Autodesk Headquarters, Boston.2009.Inaugural Lecture “Conceptions of Design in a Culture of Simulation,” Emerging Voices Lecture Series, Planning + Architecture Research Group, University of Michigan. Ann Arbor. 2009.Zissovici, John, and Yanni A. Loukissas, “Angel Dust,” Violence and the Cinematic City. Cornell University,Ithaca.2009.“Conceptions of Design in a Culture of Simulation,” MIT Department of Architecture.Computation Lectures,Cambridge.2009.“Performance Discourse at Arup,” Manchester University, Department of Architecture. Manchester, UK. 2007.
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