Hi, I'm Max!

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Email: maxim [dot] lisnic [at] utah [dot] edu
Github: @mlisnic
Twitter: @maxlisnic
LinkedIn: @mlisnic My name is Maxim Lisnic and I am a Ph.D. student in Human-Centered Computing at the University of Utah's Kahlert School of Computing. I am advised by Marina Kogan and Alexander Lex.

I conduct research on data visualizations found online and how they are interpreted or mis-interpreted.

You can access my CV here.

Peer-reviewed publications

Misleading Beyond Visual Tricks: How People Actually Lie With Charts
Maxim Lisnic, Cole Polychronis, Alexander Lex, Marina Kogan
Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '23)
Paper doi: 10.1145/3544548.3580910
Website: hashtag-misleading.netlify.app

Preprints

Here’s what you need to know about my data: Exploring Expert Knowledge’s Role in Data Analysis
Haihan Lin, Maxim Lisnic, Derya Akbaba, Miriah Meyer, Alexander Lex
Preprint doi: 10.31219/osf.io/dn32z

Presentations

Misleading Beyond Visual Tricks: How People Actually Lie With Charts
CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Hamburg, Germany (April 24, 2023)

Vulnerable Visualizations: How Data Visualizations Are Used to Promote Misinformation Online
Computation+Journalism Conference, New York, NY (June 10, 2022)

Teaching

Teaching assistant & guest lecture for COMP5960: Applied Data Visualization (Fall '23)

Guest lecture for CS6630: Visualization for Data Science (Fall '22)

Teaching assistant & guest lecture for DS2500: Data Wrangling (Spring '22)