Hari Prasath Palani, Ph.D.

Hari Palani is an Associate Research Scientist in the Data Visualization team at the Roux Institute. He also serves as the CEO & Principal Research Engineer of UNAR Labs, a Maine-based startup focused on empowering people with visual impairments by enabling information access in digital media. Leveraging his expertise in Spatial information science and Assistive Technology, he leads the R&D efforts at the Roux. He earned his Ph.D. degree in Spatial informatics in 2018 and has 10+ years of extensive professional and academic expertise across several domains such as Spatial Informatics, Geo-Spatial analysis and reasoning, Assistive Technology, Data Science, Human-Computer Interaction, User Experience research, and software product development.