Nathalie Henry Riche

Nathalie Henry Riche is a Senior Principal Research Manager at Microsoft Research and leads the EPIC (Extended Perception, Interaction & Cognition) group. Her research explores how emerging AI technologies can change the way people work with information, ideas, and one another. Her areas include Human-AI Experiences, multi-device interaction, digital inking, information visualization, and data storytelling. Her public research projects include multi-device experiences, thinking with data, and data and visualization literacy; across these projects she seeks to amplify people’s ability to create, think, and communicate.

• Current | Microsoft Research | Senior Principal Research Manager
  • Leads the EPIC (Extended Perception, Interaction & Cognition) research group.

• ActiveInk: (Th)inking with Data: A pen-and-touch system for moving between data exploration and externalizing thoughts; the Microsoft Research page records the 2019 CHI paper as a Best Paper Honorable Mention.
• Data and Visualization Literacy: Research on helping people critically interpret data, create accurate visualizations, and build literacy through educational prototypes.
• 2022·IEEE VGTC Visualization Academy | Listed in the 2022 class.

• Ph.D. | University of Paris XI and Inria, France, and the University of Sydney, Australia | Computer science (human-computer interaction)

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