Narges Mahyar

Narges Mahyar is an influential scholar in the fields of information visualization, human-computer interaction, social computing, and design. She is currently a Senior Lecturer at City St George's, University of London, while continuing to support academic activities at UMass Amherst. Her research focuses on designing and evaluating innovative social computing and visualization tools to help both experts and non-experts address complex problems, with emphasis on scaling and diversifying civic technology and public engagement. Her academic contributions include multiple Best Paper Awards from top-tier conferences and journals, along with active involvement in academic service, such as serving as an organizing committee member and reviewer for conferences in her field.

• 2023–Present·City St George's, University of London·Senior Lecturer
  • Focused on teaching and researching social computing and information visualization technologies.
• 2018–2023·University of Massachusetts Amherst·Associate Professor
  • Led multiple research projects on civic technology and public engagement, specializing in social computing and design.
• 2016–2018·University of California, San Diego·Postdoctoral Scholar
  • Conducted research at the Design Lab, exploring digital civic technologies.
• 2014–2016·University of British Columbia·Postdoctoral Fellow
  • Focused on research in architectural design coordination and information visualization.

• 2010–2014·University of Victoria·PhD
  • Specialization: Computer Science, with research on collaborative visual analytics techniques.
• 2007–2009·University of Malaya·Master's
  • Specialization: Information Technology.
• 2003–2007·Tehran Azad University·Bachelor's
  • Specialization: Electrical Engineering.