Frank Elavsky

Frank is a PhD candidate and researcher at the Human-Computer Interaction Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. His work explores the intersection of technical tools, interactive data visualization, and accessibility. Frank has been visualizing data professionally for over a decade and has collaborated with companies such as Apple's Human-Centered Machine Intelligence research group, Adobe, Microsoft, Visa, Quansight, and Highcharts. Frank’s contributions, which are used by over 15 policy and governance organizations and over 110 companies worldwide, focus on enabling people with and without disabilities to find insights, make decisions, and live better lives using data.

His research projects include Chartability, a framework for helping practitioners evaluate inaccessible visualizations, Data Navigator, a tool that helps developers make interactive visualizations more accessible for users of assistive technologies, and Softerware, a system-design approach that helps guide architects and ecosystem engineers towards personalization and end-user agency in software systems.