Neal Audenaert, Ph.D.
I’m a veteran of the software development industry with a Ph.D. in Computer Science and a history of helping customers find practical, human-centered solutions. My experience blends a passion for designing products that are driven by deep understanding of users’ goals with hands-on experience leading software development teams.
Professional Experience
Texas Center for Applied Technology
Assistant Research Engineer May 2012-Present
Spearhead software engineering for technological research center, work with customers to create intuitive, innovative solutions to real-life problems worldwide.
- Co-authored $2.5M grant, directed engineering team, coordinated outsourced visual design and collaborated with multi-disciplinary, international team
- Led design and development of laboratory information management system, deployed to 8 provincial-level veterinary diagnostic laboratories in Pakistan
- Designed information triage interface to train emergency response personnel
- Developed mobile application to monitor and control zoonotic diseases in Kenya
Institute for Digital Christian Heritage
Founder May 2009-Present
Founded 501(c)3 to support digital humanities research at underserved colleges
- Worked with board members to develop strategic plan to support underserved technological communities
- Reached out to educational institutions to facilitate digital humanities research that may have been infeasible otherwise
Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station
Research Assistant, Center for the Study of Digital Libraries July 2003-August 2011
Conducted original research focused on how people find, explore, organize and internalize information and on how to design interactive systems to support their needs
- Collaborated on 4 major research projects
- Published 14 peer-reviewed papers
- Developed advanced course for high-achieving middle school students through Duke TIP
Education
Ph.D., Computer Science · Texas A&M University Dissertation: CritSpace, an interactive, web-based program designed for critical engagement with cultural heritage materials
M.S., Computer Science · Texas A&M University
B.S., Computer Science; Linguistics Minor · Texas A&M University
Publications
Refereed Journal Publications
- N Audenaert, R Furuta. “Annotated Facsimile Editions: Defining Macro-level Structure for Image-Based Electronic Editions.” In Literary and Linguistic Computing, 2009.
- E Urbina, R Furuta, SE Smith, N Audenaert, J Deng, and C Monroy. “Visual Knowledge: Textual Iconography of the Quixote, a Hypertextual Archive.” In Literary and Linguistic Computing, 2006.
Conference Proceedings
- N Audenaert, M Barry, P Bilnoski. “vWise: Visual Workspace for Information Seeking and Exploration” In Digital Humanities, 2016, Krakow, Poland (July 11-16, 2016).
- N Audenaert, N Houston. “VisualPage: towards large scale analysis of nineteenth-century print culture” In IEEE Big Data 2013, Workshop on Big Data and the Humanities, Santa Clara, CA (October 6-9, 2013).
- N Houston, N Audenaert. “Reading the visual page of Victorian poetry.” In Digital Humanities 2013, Lincoln, NE (July 16-19, 2013).
- N Audenaert, G Luchesse, R Furuta. “CritSpace: a workspace for critical engagement within cultural heritage digital libraries.” ECDL 2010, Glasgow, UK (September 6 – 10, 2010).
- N Audenaert, R Furuta. “What humanists want: how scholars use primary source documents.” JCDL 2010, Gold Coast, Australia (June 21-25, 2010).
- N Audenaert, R Furuta. “BiblioMS: supporting the creation of academic bibliographies.” In Digital Humanities 2009, College Park, MD (June 22-25, 2009).
- N Audenaert, R Furuta. “Annotated facsimile editions: defining macro-level structure for image-based electronic editions.” In Digital Humanities 2008, Oulu, Finland (June 25-29, 2008).
- N Audenaert, G Luchesse, R Furuta. “CritSpace: using spatial hypertext to model visually complex documents.” In Digital Humanities 2008, Oulu, Finland (June 25-29, 2008).
- N Audenaert, U Karadkar, E Mallen, R Furuta, S Tonner. “Viewing texts: an art-centered representation of Picasso’s writings.” In Digital Humanities 2007, Urbana-Champain, IL (June 4 – 7, 2007).
- M Singh, R Furuta, E Urbina, N Audenaert, J Deng, C Monroy. “Expanding a humanities digital library: musical references in Cervantes’ works.” In ECDL 2006, Alicante, Spain (September 2006).
- U Karadkar, N Audenaert, A Mikeal, S Phillips, A Maslov, E Mallen, R Furuta, M Nordt. “Relationship mapping for art education and research.” In Digital Humanities 2007, Urbana-Champaign, IL (June 4 – 7, 2007).
- N Audenaert, R Furuta, E Urbina. “A general framework for feature identification.” In Digital Humanities 2006, Paris, France (July 5 – 9, 2006).
- E Urbina, R Furuta, J Deng, N Audenaert, F González Moreno, M Singh, C Monroy. “Textual iconography of the Quixote: a data model for extending the single-faceted pictorial space into a poly-faceted semantic web.” In Digital Humanities 2006, Paris, France (July 5 – 9, 2006).
- N Audenaert, R Furuta, E Urbina, J Deng, C Monroy, R Sáenz, and D Careaga. “Integrating diverse research in a digital library focused on a single author.” In ECDL 2005, Vienna, Austria, (September 2005)
- N Audenaert, R Furuta, E Urbina, J Deng, C Monroy, R Sáenz, and D Careaga. “Integrating collections at the Cervantes project.” In JCDL 2005, Denver CO (June 2005).
Book Chapters and Other Papers
- N Audenaert, Natalie Houston. “VisualPage: A Prototype Framework for Understanding Visually Constructed Meaning in Books” HTRC UnCamp 2015. Ann Arbor, MI: March 30-31, 2015.
- N Audenaert, Christopher Kocmoud, Timothy J. McGrew. “Influences and Provocation: Understanding Relationships within a Thematic Research Collection.” Poster Presentation at the 77th ASIS&T Annual Meeting. Seattle, WA: October 31 – November 5, 2014.
- N. Audenaert, N. Houston. “Towards Large Scale Analysis of Visual Features” The Texas Digital Humanities Consortium. Houston, TX: April 10-12, 2014.
- N Audenaert, R Furuta. “Visual editing tools to support the formative stages of humanities research.” Poster presentation at the 2009 Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanities and Computer Science. Chicago, IL: November. 14-16, 2009.
- N Audenaert, G Luchesse, R Furuta. “CritSpace: a workspace for scholarly analysis.” Symposium on Interactive Visual Information Collections and Activity (IVICA 2009), Austin, TX: June 2009.
- N Audenaert. “Patterns of analysis: supporting exploratory analysis and understanding of visually complex documents.” In Bulletin of IEEE Technical Committee on Digital Libraries. Nelson, M. Henry, G. (eds.). Fall 2008: 4(2).
- R Furuta, J Deng, C Monroy, and N Audenaert. “Imaging the Quixote: A digital iconography.” In Eduardo Urbina and Jesús Maestro, editors, Don Quixote Illustrated: Textual Images and Visual Readings (Biblioteca Cervantes 2), Pontevedra: Mirabel Editorial, 2005
Skills
Expertise | User research, interaction design, information seeking, RESTful APIs |
Technologies | Java, Javascript, Angular, SQL, Solr |
Interests | Machine learning, AWS, entrepreneurship, product management |
Highlighted Projects
vWise
Make sense of infromation from different sources
Special Divine Action
Explore 300 years of philosophy, science and theology
KABS
Monitor and control the spread of zoonotic diseases
ELITE
Manage lab information and understand disease outbreaks
Proyecto Cervantes
Trace the visual and textual history of a Quixotic quest
Picasso Project
See relationships among works of art within a digital collection