Welcome! We are the home for visualization research at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Our mission is to empower everyone to analyze and communicate data with interactive systems.
The team is made up of six groups that lead visualization research in Information Visualization, Visual Analytics, Geographic Information Systems, Visual Perception, Immersive Visualization, and Visual Data Science.
II Group and family celebrating John's ACM Fellow Award in the Bay Area.
GT VIS family catching up at ACM CHI Conference 2023 in Hamburg, Germany.
Having fun conversations over lunch at the Collective Food Hall in the CODA building.
GT VIS family and friends get together for the annual VISGiving celebration!
The annual IEEE VIS Open: Beginning of a new Mini Golf tradition at VIS 2022 in Oklahoma City, OK.
Annual meet-up of the Visualization Lab current students and alumni at IEEE VIS Conference 2022 in Oklahoma City, OK.
The Visualization Lab in the Technology Square Research Building.
The Technology Square Research Building in Midtown Atlanta.
The Technology Square area in Midtown Atlanta.
August 11, 2023: Cindy Xiong Bearfield joined the VIS group bringing her expertise in perception, cognition, and visualization.
Assistant Professor Cindy Xiong Bearfield is joining the School of Interactive Computing at Georgia Tech. She received her Ph.D. in Cognitive Psychology and her MS in Statistics from Northwestern University. Her research at the intersection of human perception, cognition, and data visualization has been recognized with an NSF CAREER award and has received awards at premier venues in psychology and data visualization, including Psychonomics, ACM CHI, and IEEE VIS. She is also one of the founding leaders of VISxVISION, an initiative dedicated to increasing collaboration between visualization researchers and perceptual + cognitive psychologists.
August 01, 2023: Yalong Yang joined the VIS group bringing his expertise in virtual and augmented reality (VR/AR).
Assitant Professor Yalong Yang joined the School of Interactive Computing at Georgia Tech this fall. He directs the Immersive Visualization & Interaction Lab (IVI Lab) focusing on building interactive systems in VR/AR for productivity. Yalong came to us from Virginia Tech, where he served as an Assitant Professor in the Department of Computer Science. He also spent two years as a Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard University after obtaining his Ph.D. from Monash University, Australia. He brings added expertise in the area of VR/AR to the VIS group.
June 21, 2023: Arpit was named as one of the Graduate Teaching Fellows for 2023-24.
Arpit will work with the Center for Teaching and Learning in support of TA and future faculty programs. This joins his recognitions as a CIRTL Associate and a Tech to Teaching Fellow.