Nicole Sultanum

Nicole Sultanum is a Senior Researcher at Tableau Research specializing in Human-Computer Interaction and Data Visualization. Her research focuses on text visualization, aiming to develop innovative visual strategies to help people understand and navigate large-scale textual data. Dr. Sultanum's work has been widely applied across healthcare, engineering, journalism, and the arts, with a notable contribution being "Doccurate," a clinical text visualization system designed to support healthcare professionals in analyzing complex patient records. Prior to joining Tableau, she earned her PhD in Computer Science from the University of Toronto and worked as a Research Software Engineer at IBM Research, accumulating extensive experience in both academia and industry research.

• 2022–Present·Tableau Research·Senior Researcher
  • Conducting research in text visualization, visualization comprehension, and human data interaction, with applications spanning healthcare, engineering, journalism, and the arts.
• 2012–2015·IBM Research - Brazil·Research Software Engineer
  • Conducted research as part of the Natural Resources team under the guidance of Renato Cerqueira.

• 2016–2022·University of Toronto·PhD
  • Computer Science (Research focus: Text Visualization, Human-Computer Interaction)
• 2009–2011·University of Calgary·Master's Degree
  • Computer Science (Supervisors: Mario Costa Sousa and Ehud Sharlin)