C.V.

Some stuff I've done

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Education

Tufts University Medford, MA
MS, Computer Science (Thesis with Highest Honors) 2022-2024
Advisor: Gregory Crane
Data-Driven Decision-Making Fellow (NSF Research Trainee)
Bowdoin College Brunswick, ME
AB, History, Minor in Mathematics (cum laude with departmental honors) 2016-2020

Professional and Research Experience

Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (OpsAnalytics) Boston, MA
Data Analyst 2024-Present
The Perseus Project Medford, MA
Research Assistant 2023-2024
Tufts Data Intensive Studies Center Medford, MA
Research Intern 2022-2023
Eckerson Group Hingham, MA (Remote)
Senior Research Analyst 2022
Research Analyst 2020-2021
Osher Map Library Portland, ME
Digital Humanities Intern 2021-2022

Publications

Facilitating Language Hacking with Digital Tools: A Study of Translation Alignment
Master's Thesis in Computer Science, 2024
Committee Members: Gregory Crane, Remco Chang, Chiara Palladino
Highest Honors
Traders and Troublemakers: Sovereignty in Southern Morocco at the End of the 19th Century
Undergraduate Honors Thesis in History, 2020
Committee Members: David Gordon (Chair), Pamela Klasova, Leah Zuo, Salar Mohandesi
Sherman David Spector of the Class of 1950 Award

Presentations

Fare Engagement Mobile Check-ins
Joseph Hilleary, Juan Rivera, Stacia Hunter, Todd Glowac, Luke Beato
Poster, MBTA Innovation Expo 2025
Increasing the Accessibility of the Autobiography of Omar ibn Said through Translation Alignment
Joseph Hilleary
Poster, Greater Boston Digital Research and Pedagogy Symposium 2024
A Roadmap for the Automated Production of Enriched Reading Environments for Historical Arabic Texts
Joseph Hilleary
Talk and Poster, Tufts University Graduate Research Symposium 2024
Best Poster, Runner-up Best Talk
The Tricks of the Trade: Number-Narrative Mismatch in Data Journalism
Harpreet Auby*, Adam Eichenwald*, Kyle Heuton*, Joseph Hilleary*, Bridget Moynihan*, Nick Rabb*, Ghazal Shabestanipour*, Shafiqul Islam, Remco Chang
Talk, Data Intensive Studies Center & Tufts Institute for AI Symposium 2023
*Equal contribution
Suspicious Behavior at the Lekagul Preserve: 2017 VAST Mini-Challenge
Joseph Hilleary*, Nirmiti Naik*, Gabriel Sessions*
Talk, Tufts University CS 178 Visual Analytics Final Project Spring 2023
Best Presentation (Peer Award)
*Equal contribution

Teaching

Tufts CS 150-DPS Data and Power: Surveillance
Teaching Assistant Fall 2023
Professor: Nicholas Rabb
Tufts UEP 239 Geospatial Programming with Python
Teaching Assistant Spring 2023
Professor: Aggeliki Barberopoulou
Portland Adult Education
English Tutor Fall 2020-Summer 2021
Classroom Aide Fall 2019
Bowdoin Writing Project
Head Writing Assistant Fall 2019 - Spring 2020
Writing Assistant Fall 2017 - Spring 2019
Bowdoin Center for Teaching and Learning
Arabic Tutor Fall 2019 - Spring 2020

Academic Awards and Grants

  • National Science Foundation Research Traineeship
  • Sherman David Spector of the Class of 1950 Award
  • Large Paul Nyhus Travel Grant
  • Critical Language Scholar
  • Boren Scholar
  • Bowdoin Book Award
  • Sarah and James Bowdoin Scholar
  • Bowdoin Faculty Scholar
  • Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
  • National Merit Scholar

Service

EAAMO Urban Data Science & Equitable Cities Working Group
Contributor 2025
Information+ Conference
Program Committee 2025
Interdisciplinary Research in Technology & Society Symposium
Conference Co-Chair 2024