I am a Ph.D. candidate at Carnegie Mellon University, School of Computer Science, advised by Ken Koedinger and Joshua Sunshine. Prior to joining CMU, I graduated from Columbia University, where I studied Computer Science.
I am interested in human-computer interaction, programming languages, and visualization. I am fascinated by how well-designed languages enable people to succinctly express abstract ideas in various domains, and how visual representations help people understand and reason about them. I aspire to help people understand the abstract world by designing and building powerful, useable languages and tools.
In the past few years, I have been studying how people make conceptual diagrams and building Penrose, a language-based platform for math diagramming.
Ph.D. in Software Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University
B.S. in Computer Science, Columbia University, Magna cum laude
B.S. in Computer Science, Dickinson College, Summa cum laude
(*indicates equal contributions)
Wode Ni, Joshua Sunshine, Vu Le, Sumit Gulwani, and Titus Barik.
In Proceedings of the 34th ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST’21).
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Katherine Ye, Wode Ni, Max Krieger, Dor Ma’ayan, Joshua Sunshine, Jonathan Aldrich, and Keenan Crane.
ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH’20).
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Dor Ma’ayan*, Wode Ni*, Katherine Ye, Chinmay Kulkarni, and Joshua Sunshine.
Best Paper Honourable Mention
In Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI’20).
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Max Krieger, Wode Ni, and Joshua Sunshine.
Evaluation and Usability of Programming Languages and Tools (PLATEAU 2019), co-located with UIST.
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Anael Kuperwajs Cohen, Wode Ni, and Joshua Sunshine.
Evaluation and Usability of Programming Languages and Tools (PLATEAU 2019), co-located with UIST.
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Wode Ni*, Katherine Ye*, Joshua Sunshine, Jonathan Aldrich, and Keenan Crane.
Domain-Specific Language Design and Implementation (DSLDI 2017), co-located with SPLASH.
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Wode Ni.
Dickinson College Honors Theses. Paper 221.
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Animate++ is a C++ library that lets you rapidly compose beautiful vector graphics animation. We built the library in a course with Bjarne Stroustrup. [Slides]
My name is 倪沃德 ( ní wò dé) in Chinese. “Nimo” has been my alias since my street dancing days. My first name, often written as “Wode”, looks like a single word in English and people often pronounce it that way. If you find it hard to pronounce ( ní wò dé), try “Nimo”.
If I’m not working, I play billiards. I am a member of the CMU Pool Team and play in ACUI tournaments, BCA 8-ball league and USAPL 9-ball league.
I also enjoy playing Yo-yo. Here are 4 different ways to form a Green Triangle:
