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April 23, 2025: Professor John Stasko gave his final lecture to the Vis Lab, reflecting on the value of visualization before his retirement.
Professor John Stasko gave his farewell lecture today, titled “Reflections on the Value of Visualization.” John shared stories behind the development of well-known visualization systems such as Jigsaw, visualizations for fault localization, and other software visualizations. He also reflected on teaching experiences, memorable moments from decades of progress in the field, and the broader value of visualization. John noted that “visualization supports investigative analysis, fosters engagement—perhaps even fun and emotion—and helps build trust and deepen understanding of data and its context.” We are so grateful to have you, John — not just for your remarkable accomplishments, but for the kindness, wit, and mentorship you brought to the community.
February 06, 2025: Adam Coscia won the EVPR Award at CRIDC Poster Competition 2025.
Adam Coscia won the Executive Vice President for Research (EVPR) Award at the 2025 Career, Research and Innovation Development Conference (CRIDC) for their poster on Incorporating Knowledge Graphs and Large Language Models into Visual Text Analysis Tools.
November 12, 2024: Adam Coscia was selected as one of eight finalists for the GVU and IPaT Foley Scholar Award for 2024 in the PhD category.
The Foley Scholars Program recognizes the achievements of top graduate students whose personal vision and innovations in their research fields have the potential to shape how people interact with technology.
May 16, 2024: GT Vis Lab participates in CHI this year with 2 papers and 3 Late Breaking Works.
Check out all contributions from Georgia Tech here .
October 25, 2023: Professor John Stasko is the esteemed recipient of the IEEE VGTC Visualization Lifetime Achievement Award for his significant contributions to information visualization and visual analytics research.
Professor John Stasko received the 2023 Lifetime Achievement Award from the IEEE VGTC. This award recognizes John for his “seminal contributions to the value of interaction in information and visual analytics research and to the design and evaluation of software and information visualization”. Read more about this award and John's research at here .
October 13, 2023: Thank you to everyone who participated in the Atlanta Vis Meet-up and shared their exciting projects.
A big thanks to Alex Endert and Emily Wall for hosting the Atlanta Vis Meet-up. It was exciting to have our colleagues from the Georgia Tech Visualization Group, the Cognition & Visualization Lab at Emory, Georgia State University, Google, Microsoft, and Augusta University share their fantastic projects.
August 24, 2023: Arpit Narechania was selected as one of four finalists for the GVU and IPaT Foley Scholar Award for 2023 in the PhD category.
The Foley Scholars Program recognizes the achievements of top graduate students whose personal vision and innovations in their research fields have the potential to shape how people interact with technology.
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 11, 2023: Members of John Stasko's Information Interfaces Group had a happy reunion!
Greetings from the Bay Area! Current students and alumni of the Information Interfaces Group celebrated John Stasko's ACM Fellow Award over a wonderful lunch and a tour through San Francisco.
April 19, 2023: Arpit Narechania received the national CIRTL associate and Tech to Teaching certificates by CIRTL and CTL.
The Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL) facilitates a robust teaching certificate program to prepare graduate students and postdocs for academic faculty positions. These "future faculty" engage in a combination of courses, workshops, and online resources in evidence-based teaching followed by a mentored teaching capstone.
February 02, 2023: John Stasko was named to the class of 2022 ACM Fellows for his "contributions to the design, analysis, usage, and evaluation of software and information visualization."
This joins his 2014 IEEE Fellow recognition to complete the double of top recognitions for computer scientists.
February 01, 2023: Our Emeritus Prof. Jim Foley's AAAS, ACM, and IEEE Fellow awards now reside in our new Wall of Fame in the Vis Lab.
Jim is now retired but often still drops in on our weekly group meeting. Keep inspiring us, Jim!
October 19, 2022: GT Vis Lab participates in VIS this year. Check out all our contributions here .
The GT Visualization Lab contributes to the VIS conference this year in a number of ways. This includes 2 papers, 4 short papers, and 4 posters.
May 02, 2022: Dr. Fred Hohman won the SIGCHI Outstanding Dissertation Award at ACM CHI 2022.
Dr. Fred Hohman won the SIGCHI Outstanding Dissertation Award and gave a talk at ACM CHI 2022 summarizing his dissertation and reflecting on his research on interactive interfaces for machine learning interpretability.
February 03, 2022: Narechania won the College of Computing Award at CRIDC Poster Competition 2022.
Arpit Narechania represented Team vitaLITy and won the College of Computing Award at the annual Career, Research and Innovation Development Conference (CRIDC) for their poster on VitaLITy Promoting Serendipitous Discovery of Academic Literature.
October 26, 2021: Srinivasan won the IEEE VGTC Top Visualization Dissertation Award at IEEE VIS 2021.
Arjun Srinivasan won the IEEE VGTC Award for the top Visualization-related PhD Dissertation of the past year for his work on multimodal interfaces to visualization systems.
May 14, 2021: Weitz, Andris and team will work with CDC on COVID-19 Risk Mapping Tool.
The Center for Disease Control has awarded a $300,000 contract to Georgia Tech to help study human behavior and interaction with the COVID-19 Risk Assessment Tool, a mapping tool that allows users to assess the risk associated with attending events of different sizes. The team will be working with psychology resarchers at Duke University to measure how access to information changes behavioral response to attending events in the midst of COVID-19.
May 07, 2021: VIS researchers with multiple papers at CHI '21.
VIS Group researchers contributed three full papers at CHI '21 on topics such as animated visualizations, natural language specifications of visualizations, and causal perception in Q&A systems.
April 30, 2021: GaTech holds first Research Symposium on Points of Interest (POI) data.
The POInt Research Symposium was a hit. It drew 50 participants from across the world in a virtual setting to discuss the future of spatial data that represents points of interest. There were 13 speakers, including four Tech graduate students. The discussion session pointed to a clear need for more data/analysis on how POI usage, and how communities can map and make good use of these data. A special issue on Social Infrastructure in the journal of Computational Urban Science will invite papers on this topic.
March 01, 2021: John was named Interim Chair for the School of Interactive Computing in March.
In March 2021, John became the Interim School Chair for the School of Interactive Computing in the College of Computing. John will lead IC while it undertakes the search process for a new full-time chair.
February 23, 2021: Narechania won the EVPR Award at CRIDC Poster Competition 2021.
Arpit Narechania represented Team Lumos and won the Executive Vice President for Research (EVPR) Award at the annual Career, Research and Innovation Development Conference (CRIDC) for their poster on Lumos: Increasing Awareness of Biases during Visual Data Analysis.
October 24, 2020: New VIS papers published at VIS 2020
VIS Group members contributed to IEEE VIS 2020 through co-organizing workshops, serving on the organizing and program committees, and publishing new papers.
October 27, 2019: The GT Visualization Group had a strong showing at the IEEE VIS 2019 Conference in Vancouver, CA.
GT Visualization researchers had multiple papers, posters, and organizational roles at the IEEE VIS 2019 meeting in Vancouver, Canada in October. Overall, we were part of six full papers, five short papers, three workshops, and a tutorial. Prof. Alex Endert served as Co-General Chair for the meeting, and Prof. John Stasko was inducted into the initial class of the Visualization Academy. To learn more about the specifics of their contributions, please see the press release about involvement.
August 01, 2019: Clio Andris joined the VIS group bringing her expertise in geovisualization and GIS.
Assistant Professor Clio Andris joined Georgia Tech this fall and holds a joint appointment between the Schools of City and Regional Planning and Interactive Computing. Dr. Andris comes to us from Penn State University where she served as Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography. She founded and directed the Friendly Cities Lab and conducts research in the areas of spatial networks and social flow theory. She brings added expertise in the area of geovisualization to the VIS group.
April 11, 2025: Thank you to everyone who participated in the Atlanta Vis Meet-up and shared their inspiring work.
A big thanks to Cindy for hosting the Atlanta Vis Meet-up. It was exciting to have our colleagues from the Georgia Tech Visualization Group, Georgia State University, the Cognition & Visualization Lab at Emory, Autodesk, Apple, Dolby to share their visualization journeys and valuable insights.
December 12, 2024: Recent grads at Fall '24 Commencement.
Congratulations to our recent PhD graduates Grace Guo, Hayeong Song, Arpit Narechania, and Jay Wang. They are moving on to Harvard (PostDoc), Western Digital (Research Data Scientist), Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Faculty), and OpenAI (Safety Researcher), respectively. In the photo, Hayeong and Arpit are with their advisors, John and Alex.
October 14, 2024: GT Vis Lab participates in VIS this year. Check out all our contributions here .
The GT Visualization Lab contributes to the VIS conference this year in a number of ways. This includes 10 papers, 4 workshop papers, and 5 posters.
March 28, 2024: Grace is awarded IBM Ph.D. Fellowship for 2023-2024.
The IBM PhD Fellowship supports Ph.D. students with expertise artificial intelligence (AI), hybrid cloud technology, quantum computing, data science, security, and the next generation of cutting-edge processors. Read more about Grace's work here.
October 16, 2023: GT Vis Lab participates in VIS this year. Check out all our contributions here .
The GT Visualization Lab contributes to the VIS conference this year in a number of ways. This includes 9 papers, and 3 posters.
October 05, 2023: As a Graduate Teaching Fellow, Arpit Narechania co-facilitated two workshops- Universal Design for Learning and Academic Well-being for future faculty and undergraduate TAs.
These workshops are offered by the Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL) at Georgia Tech. The "Universal Design for Learning" workshop is part of the Foundational Level of the Tech to Teaching Certificate Program offered by the CTL. The "Academic Well-being" workshop is offered as part of TA Training for undergraduate teaching assistants.
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.
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.
April 28, 2023: The GT Vis Lab presented our latest work at ACM CHI 2023.
Greetings from Hamburg! The GT Visualization Lab contributed three papers and one late-breaking work to ACM CHI this year. The paper topics range from XAI and data preparation, to causal inference and multi-media content engagement.
March 03, 2023: Jay Wang was named as an Apple Scholar, among only 22 awardees of the 2023 Apple Scholars in AI/ML PhD Fellowship worldwide!
The Apple Scholars in AI/ML PhD Fellowship aims to support and amplify emerging leaders in their field and their cutting-edge machine learning research.
February 01, 2023: Arpit Narechania won the Executive Vice Provost for Research Award and Adam Coscia won the College of Computing Award at the CRIDC'23.
Narechania presented different ways to bin data on a map; Coscia presented their work on visualizing what large language models have learnt. Both won travel grants!
November 02, 2022: Our students presented multiple research projects at the GVU Research Showcase.
Arpit Narechania, Grace Guo, Adam Coscia, Yu Fu, Rishivanth Thulasiraman, Alex Bendeck, and Ting Yu presented their work across basketball analytics, bias mitigation, causal inference, stock trading, large language models, literature reviews, map making, and UX design at the 2022 Fall Research Showcase as part of the 30th anniversary celebrations of the GVU Center. Check out a virtual tour through these projects here.
October 19, 2022: New update of NL4DV toolkit released.
We have provided a new release of the NL4DV toolkit that helps people add natural language capabilities to their visualization applications. This release supports follow-up queries.
April 20, 2022: Narechania won the CTL Graduate Teaching Assistant of the Year Award.
Arpit Narechania won the Center for Teaching and Learning's Graduate Teaching Assistant (GTA) of the Year Award in the School of Interactive Computing. Arpit was a GTA to Alex Endert for CS4460 during Fall 2021.
November 12, 2021: Hiring new faculty in the School of Interactive Computing.
We are looking to add a new visualization-focused faculty member in IC this academic year. Job Ad
October 12, 2021: GT Vis Lab participates in VIS this year. Check out all contributions in this interactive dashboard .
The GT Visualization Lab contributes to the VIS conference this year in a number of ways. This includes 5 papers, 2 short papers, 3 posters, 2 keynote presentations, and 1 panel discussion participation.
May 08, 2021: Recent grads at Spring '21 Commencement.
Congratulations to our recent PhD graduates Arjun Srinivasan, John Thompson, and Po-Ming (Terrance) Law. They are moving on to Tableau, Microsoft Research, and Epsilon, respectively.
May 04, 2021: New papers and presentations at EuroVis 21.
The Vis Group contributed to EuroVis 2021, including serving on the Program Committee and publishing a new paper. The STAR report describes the results of a structured literature review that examines how user-centered evaluations of XAI tools can be categorized.
April 22, 2021: Haekyu Park, a CS PhD student, aims to create new methods that break down the black box of artificial intelligence (AI) for users.
Haekyu's human-centered approach increases machine learning interpretability for the financial tech sector with a newly awarded 2021 JPMorgan Chase AI Research Ph.D. Fellowship.
February 26, 2021: Andris wins NSF CAREER Award for project entitled "A Research and Educational Framework for Incorporating Spatial Heterogeneity into Social Network Analysis"
This project will advance the quantiative study of interpersonal relationships and connectivity in geographic space, with an emphasis on best practices for spatial modeling, visualization, representation, software and exploratory spatial data analysis. We look forward to sharing our new data repository, R Code and visuals with the public so that social network researchers and mappers can learn how to combind SNs and GIS! The associated images are from Andris and colleages' paper on spatial social network analysis of mentorship ties from Big Brothers Big sisters.
December 08, 2020: Congrats to our 2020 Graduates
VIS Group students Emily Wall, Bahador Saket, Fred Hohman, Hannah Kim, and Subhajit Das graduated! Congrats to them and to the next phase in their careers at Emory University, Mathworks, Apple, Megagon Labs, and 3M, respectively!
August 20, 2020: Adam Coscia and Yu Fu join the Vis Group.
Welcome Adam Coscia and Yu Fu, who joined the Vis Group in Fall 2020! They are both pursuing their PhD in Human-Centered Computing.
August 27, 2019: The VIS Group welcomes three new PhD students this fall.
Three new PhD students — Grace Guo, Arpit Narechania, and Shenyu Xu — have joined the VIS Group this fall. We look forward to getting to know them better and to all the great work they’ll be doing in the future.
April 22, 2019: Alberto Cairo from the University of Miami presents "How the Public Misinterprets Visualizations and what we can do about it".
In April, Alberto Cairo from the University of Miami visited and talked about his work. Alberto discussed how people often misinterpret visualizations, and what we can do to help this and to create better visualizations in general. Alberto spent the day with us in the GT Vis Lab, and also was the external member of John Thompson’s PhD thesis proposal committee. For more details about his talk, see the news release about it.
April 23, 2025: Professor John Stasko gave his final lecture to the Vis Lab, reflecting on the value of visualization before his retirement.
Professor John Stasko gave his farewell lecture today, titled “Reflections on the Value of Visualization.” John shared stories behind the development of well-known visualization systems such as Jigsaw, visualizations for fault localization, and other software visualizations. He also reflected on teaching experiences, memorable moments from decades of progress in the field, and the broader value of visualization. John noted that “visualization supports investigative analysis, fosters engagement—perhaps even fun and emotion—and helps build trust and deepen understanding of data and its context.” We are so grateful to have you, John — not just for your remarkable accomplishments, but for the kindness, wit, and mentorship you brought to the community.
April 11, 2025: Thank you to everyone who participated in the Atlanta Vis Meet-up and shared their inspiring work.
A big thanks to Cindy for hosting the Atlanta Vis Meet-up. It was exciting to have our colleagues from the Georgia Tech Visualization Group, Georgia State University, the Cognition & Visualization Lab at Emory, Autodesk, Apple, Dolby to share their visualization journeys and valuable insights.
February 06, 2025: Adam Coscia won the EVPR Award at CRIDC Poster Competition 2025.
Adam Coscia won the Executive Vice President for Research (EVPR) Award at the 2025 Career, Research and Innovation Development Conference (CRIDC) for their poster on Incorporating Knowledge Graphs and Large Language Models into Visual Text Analysis Tools.
December 12, 2024: Recent grads at Fall '24 Commencement.
Congratulations to our recent PhD graduates Grace Guo, Hayeong Song, Arpit Narechania, and Jay Wang. They are moving on to Harvard (PostDoc), Western Digital (Research Data Scientist), Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Faculty), and OpenAI (Safety Researcher), respectively. In the photo, Hayeong and Arpit are with their advisors, John and Alex.
November 12, 2024: Adam Coscia was selected as one of eight finalists for the GVU and IPaT Foley Scholar Award for 2024 in the PhD category.
The Foley Scholars Program recognizes the achievements of top graduate students whose personal vision and innovations in their research fields have the potential to shape how people interact with technology.
October 14, 2024: GT Vis Lab participates in VIS this year. Check out all our contributions here .
The GT Visualization Lab contributes to the VIS conference this year in a number of ways. This includes 10 papers, 4 workshop papers, and 5 posters.
May 16, 2024: GT Vis Lab participates in CHI this year with 2 papers and 3 Late Breaking Works.
Check out all contributions from Georgia Tech here .
March 28, 2024: Grace is awarded IBM Ph.D. Fellowship for 2023-2024.
The IBM PhD Fellowship supports Ph.D. students with expertise artificial intelligence (AI), hybrid cloud technology, quantum computing, data science, security, and the next generation of cutting-edge processors. Read more about Grace's work here.
October 25, 2023: Professor John Stasko is the esteemed recipient of the IEEE VGTC Visualization Lifetime Achievement Award for his significant contributions to information visualization and visual analytics research.
Professor John Stasko received the 2023 Lifetime Achievement Award from the IEEE VGTC. This award recognizes John for his “seminal contributions to the value of interaction in information and visual analytics research and to the design and evaluation of software and information visualization”. Read more about this award and John's research at here .
October 16, 2023: GT Vis Lab participates in VIS this year. Check out all our contributions here .
The GT Visualization Lab contributes to the VIS conference this year in a number of ways. This includes 9 papers, and 3 posters.
October 13, 2023: Thank you to everyone who participated in the Atlanta Vis Meet-up and shared their exciting projects.
A big thanks to Alex Endert and Emily Wall for hosting the Atlanta Vis Meet-up. It was exciting to have our colleagues from the Georgia Tech Visualization Group, the Cognition & Visualization Lab at Emory, Georgia State University, Google, Microsoft, and Augusta University share their fantastic projects.
October 05, 2023: As a Graduate Teaching Fellow, Arpit Narechania co-facilitated two workshops- Universal Design for Learning and Academic Well-being for future faculty and undergraduate TAs.
These workshops are offered by the Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL) at Georgia Tech. The "Universal Design for Learning" workshop is part of the Foundational Level of the Tech to Teaching Certificate Program offered by the CTL. The "Academic Well-being" workshop is offered as part of TA Training for undergraduate teaching assistants.
August 24, 2023: Arpit Narechania was selected as one of four finalists for the GVU and IPaT Foley Scholar Award for 2023 in the PhD category.
The Foley Scholars Program recognizes the achievements of top graduate students whose personal vision and innovations in their research fields have the potential to shape how people interact with technology.
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.
June 11, 2023: Members of John Stasko's Information Interfaces Group had a happy reunion!
Greetings from the Bay Area! Current students and alumni of the Information Interfaces Group celebrated John Stasko's ACM Fellow Award over a wonderful lunch and a tour through San Francisco.
April 28, 2023: The GT Vis Lab presented our latest work at ACM CHI 2023.
Greetings from Hamburg! The GT Visualization Lab contributed three papers and one late-breaking work to ACM CHI this year. The paper topics range from XAI and data preparation, to causal inference and multi-media content engagement.
April 19, 2023: Arpit Narechania received the national CIRTL associate and Tech to Teaching certificates by CIRTL and CTL.
The Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL) facilitates a robust teaching certificate program to prepare graduate students and postdocs for academic faculty positions. These "future faculty" engage in a combination of courses, workshops, and online resources in evidence-based teaching followed by a mentored teaching capstone.
March 03, 2023: Jay Wang was named as an Apple Scholar, among only 22 awardees of the 2023 Apple Scholars in AI/ML PhD Fellowship worldwide!
The Apple Scholars in AI/ML PhD Fellowship aims to support and amplify emerging leaders in their field and their cutting-edge machine learning research.
February 02, 2023: John Stasko was named to the class of 2022 ACM Fellows for his "contributions to the design, analysis, usage, and evaluation of software and information visualization."
This joins his 2014 IEEE Fellow recognition to complete the double of top recognitions for computer scientists.
February 01, 2023: Arpit Narechania won the Executive Vice Provost for Research Award and Adam Coscia won the College of Computing Award at the CRIDC'23.
Narechania presented different ways to bin data on a map; Coscia presented their work on visualizing what large language models have learnt. Both won travel grants!
February 01, 2023: Our Emeritus Prof. Jim Foley's AAAS, ACM, and IEEE Fellow awards now reside in our new Wall of Fame in the Vis Lab.
Jim is now retired but often still drops in on our weekly group meeting. Keep inspiring us, Jim!
November 02, 2022: Our students presented multiple research projects at the GVU Research Showcase.
Arpit Narechania, Grace Guo, Adam Coscia, Yu Fu, Rishivanth Thulasiraman, Alex Bendeck, and Ting Yu presented their work across basketball analytics, bias mitigation, causal inference, stock trading, large language models, literature reviews, map making, and UX design at the 2022 Fall Research Showcase as part of the 30th anniversary celebrations of the GVU Center. Check out a virtual tour through these projects here.
October 19, 2022: GT Vis Lab participates in VIS this year. Check out all our contributions here .
The GT Visualization Lab contributes to the VIS conference this year in a number of ways. This includes 2 papers, 4 short papers, and 4 posters.
October 19, 2022: New update of NL4DV toolkit released.
We have provided a new release of the NL4DV toolkit that helps people add natural language capabilities to their visualization applications. This release supports follow-up queries.
May 02, 2022: Dr. Fred Hohman won the SIGCHI Outstanding Dissertation Award at ACM CHI 2022.
Dr. Fred Hohman won the SIGCHI Outstanding Dissertation Award and gave a talk at ACM CHI 2022 summarizing his dissertation and reflecting on his research on interactive interfaces for machine learning interpretability.
April 20, 2022: Narechania won the CTL Graduate Teaching Assistant of the Year Award.
Arpit Narechania won the Center for Teaching and Learning's Graduate Teaching Assistant (GTA) of the Year Award in the School of Interactive Computing. Arpit was a GTA to Alex Endert for CS4460 during Fall 2021.
February 03, 2022: Narechania won the College of Computing Award at CRIDC Poster Competition 2022.
Arpit Narechania represented Team vitaLITy and won the College of Computing Award at the annual Career, Research and Innovation Development Conference (CRIDC) for their poster on VitaLITy Promoting Serendipitous Discovery of Academic Literature.
November 12, 2021: Hiring new faculty in the School of Interactive Computing.
We are looking to add a new visualization-focused faculty member in IC this academic year. Job Ad
October 26, 2021: Srinivasan won the IEEE VGTC Top Visualization Dissertation Award at IEEE VIS 2021.
Arjun Srinivasan won the IEEE VGTC Award for the top Visualization-related PhD Dissertation of the past year for his work on multimodal interfaces to visualization systems.
October 12, 2021: GT Vis Lab participates in VIS this year. Check out all contributions in this interactive dashboard .
The GT Visualization Lab contributes to the VIS conference this year in a number of ways. This includes 5 papers, 2 short papers, 3 posters, 2 keynote presentations, and 1 panel discussion participation.
May 14, 2021: Weitz, Andris and team will work with CDC on COVID-19 Risk Mapping Tool.
The Center for Disease Control has awarded a $300,000 contract to Georgia Tech to help study human behavior and interaction with the COVID-19 Risk Assessment Tool, a mapping tool that allows users to assess the risk associated with attending events of different sizes. The team will be working with psychology resarchers at Duke University to measure how access to information changes behavioral response to attending events in the midst of COVID-19.
May 08, 2021: Recent grads at Spring '21 Commencement.
Congratulations to our recent PhD graduates Arjun Srinivasan, John Thompson, and Po-Ming (Terrance) Law. They are moving on to Tableau, Microsoft Research, and Epsilon, respectively.
May 07, 2021: VIS researchers with multiple papers at CHI '21.
VIS Group researchers contributed three full papers at CHI '21 on topics such as animated visualizations, natural language specifications of visualizations, and causal perception in Q&A systems.
May 04, 2021: New papers and presentations at EuroVis 21.
The Vis Group contributed to EuroVis 2021, including serving on the Program Committee and publishing a new paper. The STAR report describes the results of a structured literature review that examines how user-centered evaluations of XAI tools can be categorized.
April 30, 2021: GaTech holds first Research Symposium on Points of Interest (POI) data.
The POInt Research Symposium was a hit. It drew 50 participants from across the world in a virtual setting to discuss the future of spatial data that represents points of interest. There were 13 speakers, including four Tech graduate students. The discussion session pointed to a clear need for more data/analysis on how POI usage, and how communities can map and make good use of these data. A special issue on Social Infrastructure in the journal of Computational Urban Science will invite papers on this topic.
April 22, 2021: Haekyu Park, a CS PhD student, aims to create new methods that break down the black box of artificial intelligence (AI) for users.
Haekyu's human-centered approach increases machine learning interpretability for the financial tech sector with a newly awarded 2021 JPMorgan Chase AI Research Ph.D. Fellowship.
March 01, 2021: John was named Interim Chair for the School of Interactive Computing in March.
In March 2021, John became the Interim School Chair for the School of Interactive Computing in the College of Computing. John will lead IC while it undertakes the search process for a new full-time chair.
February 26, 2021: Andris wins NSF CAREER Award for project entitled "A Research and Educational Framework for Incorporating Spatial Heterogeneity into Social Network Analysis"
This project will advance the quantiative study of interpersonal relationships and connectivity in geographic space, with an emphasis on best practices for spatial modeling, visualization, representation, software and exploratory spatial data analysis. We look forward to sharing our new data repository, R Code and visuals with the public so that social network researchers and mappers can learn how to combind SNs and GIS! The associated images are from Andris and colleages' paper on spatial social network analysis of mentorship ties from Big Brothers Big sisters.
February 23, 2021: Narechania won the EVPR Award at CRIDC Poster Competition 2021.
Arpit Narechania represented Team Lumos and won the Executive Vice President for Research (EVPR) Award at the annual Career, Research and Innovation Development Conference (CRIDC) for their poster on Lumos: Increasing Awareness of Biases during Visual Data Analysis.
December 08, 2020: Congrats to our 2020 Graduates
VIS Group students Emily Wall, Bahador Saket, Fred Hohman, Hannah Kim, and Subhajit Das graduated! Congrats to them and to the next phase in their careers at Emory University, Mathworks, Apple, Megagon Labs, and 3M, respectively!
October 24, 2020: New VIS papers published at VIS 2020
VIS Group members contributed to IEEE VIS 2020 through co-organizing workshops, serving on the organizing and program committees, and publishing new papers.
August 20, 2020: Adam Coscia and Yu Fu join the Vis Group.
Welcome Adam Coscia and Yu Fu, who joined the Vis Group in Fall 2020! They are both pursuing their PhD in Human-Centered Computing.
October 27, 2019: The GT Visualization Group had a strong showing at the IEEE VIS 2019 Conference in Vancouver, CA.
GT Visualization researchers had multiple papers, posters, and organizational roles at the IEEE VIS 2019 meeting in Vancouver, Canada in October. Overall, we were part of six full papers, five short papers, three workshops, and a tutorial. Prof. Alex Endert served as Co-General Chair for the meeting, and Prof. John Stasko was inducted into the initial class of the Visualization Academy. To learn more about the specifics of their contributions, please see the press release about involvement.
August 27, 2019: The VIS Group welcomes three new PhD students this fall.
Three new PhD students — Grace Guo, Arpit Narechania, and Shenyu Xu — have joined the VIS Group this fall. We look forward to getting to know them better and to all the great work they’ll be doing in the future.
August 01, 2019: Clio Andris joined the VIS group bringing her expertise in geovisualization and GIS.
Assistant Professor Clio Andris joined Georgia Tech this fall and holds a joint appointment between the Schools of City and Regional Planning and Interactive Computing. Dr. Andris comes to us from Penn State University where she served as Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography. She founded and directed the Friendly Cities Lab and conducts research in the areas of spatial networks and social flow theory. She brings added expertise in the area of geovisualization to the VIS group.
April 22, 2019: Alberto Cairo from the University of Miami presents "How the Public Misinterprets Visualizations and what we can do about it".
In April, Alberto Cairo from the University of Miami visited and talked about his work. Alberto discussed how people often misinterpret visualizations, and what we can do to help this and to create better visualizations in general. Alberto spent the day with us in the GT Vis Lab, and also was the external member of John Thompson’s PhD thesis proposal committee. For more details about his talk, see the news release about it.
