I am a computer scientist, software engineer, and cartographer based in Berkeley, CA. My passions lie at the intersection of programming languages (PL), human-computer interaction (HCI), data visualization, and geospatial technologies. I currently spend a lot of my time researching and working on programming tools for data journalists, Earth and climate scientists, and social scientists.
I also believe place shapes every part of who we are. These are the places that have shaped me.
What I'm Up To
I'm currently a Ph.D. student in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science department at UC Berkeley, advised by Professor Sarah Chasins. My research focuses on using novel techniques from programming languages and human-computer interaction research to build useful and usable programming tools for data journalists, climate researchers, and social scientists. Previously, I worked with the wonderful and talented folks at Formidable, where I contributed to their open source work. Check out some of my recent contributions.
- Apr 2023
I won an Honorable Mention in the 2023 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program comptetion for my research on programming languages and interfaces for working with geospatial data.
- Mar 2023
I was awarded the Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award for my teaching in CS164: Programming Languages and Compilers at UC Berkeley!
- Jan 2023
Our paper, A Need-Finding Study with Users of Geospatial Data, was accepted to the 2023 ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems!
parkerziegler/cartokit
fix: address issues with BasemapPicker position due to maplibregl.css conflict
parkerziegler/cartokit
fix: address issues with BasemapPicker position due to maplibregl.css conflict
parkerziegler/cartokit
#22: Resolve #21. Support sorting in DataTable.
parkerziegler/cartokit
#21: feat: Support sorting by column in DataTable.
Tools I Work With
I love everything about the Web and spend most of my days working with these lovely languages and tools.