Fritz is a Founding Research Engineer at Ridge AI, where he is building AI-native tools that let users intelligently create and explore visualization dashboards.
Fritz's work sits at the intersection of visualization, AI/ML, and human-computer interaction. Prior to Ridge, he was Head of Visualization Research at Ozette, where he led R&D of interactive visualization systems. He has authored more than 20 publications in top venues (Nature, IEEE VIS, ACM CHI) with 4000+ citations, won multiple awards, and given an invited keynote. He is also the creator of widely used open-source visualization tools including Jupyter Scatter and regl-scatterplot, and co-creator of HiGlass.
Fritz holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Harvard University and Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Bioinformatics from Freie Universität Berlin.
