Welcome

 

I am a senior research scientist (directeur de recherche) with Inria at its Saclay/Université Paris-Saclay campus, at the southern outskirts of Paris.

I am member of the Scientific Visualization and Computer Graphics research group within the Johann Bernoulli Institute of Mathematics and Computer Science of the University of Groningen, the Netherlands. Since September 2010,

My research focuses on questions in the fields of interactive scientific visualization and illustrative rendering, using methods from computer graphics, non-photorealistic rendering (NPR), and human-computer interaction. I am specifically interested in (2D and, in particular, 3D) interaction techniques for work with visualizations on non-traditional hardware (large surfaces, AR/VR, hybrid settings) as well as illustrative visualization that is inspired by traditional illustration, such as questions on how to use and control abstraction in visualization.

p text-align=justify color=red I am currently looking for a PhD student with a solid background in computer graphics and/or visualization who is interested in working with me on the topic of Support of the Interactive Visual Exploration and Classification of Temporal Development in 3D Datasets using the Example of Cell Division Data. Please contact me by e-mail if you are interested or directly apply at the mentioned application site.

News and Upcoming Events

October 2024 We received a Graphics Replicability Stamp for our journal paper on “PREVis: Perceived Readability Evaluation for Visualizations”.
October 2024 💶 Our tVISt grant for a collaboration between our team, Ilda, and the Interactive Media Lab Dresden was accepted by DFG and ANR.
October 2024 🏆 At IEEE VIS, our 2012 SciVis paper “Efficient Structure-Aware Selection Techniques for 3D Point Cloud Visualizations with 2DOF Input” received the 12 Year SciVis Test-of-Time Award.
October 2024 📄📄📄📄 At IEEE VIS, we presented four papers: one on “PREVis: Perceived Readability Evaluation for Visualizations”, one on “DiffFit: Visually-Guided Differentiable Fitting of Molecule Structures to a Cryo-EM Map”, one on “The Language of Infographics: Toward Understanding Conceptual Metaphor Use in Scientific Storytelling”, and one on “SpatialTouch: Exploring Spatial Data Visualizations in Cross-reality”. They all will also be published in the journal IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics.
October 2024 🏆 The first of these IEEE VIS papers, “PREVis: Perceived Readability Evaluation for Visualizations”, won a Best Paper Honorable Mention Award at the conference.
October 2024 📄📄 At IEEE VIS, we also presented two journal papers: one on “V-Mail: 3D-Enabled Correspondence about Spatial Data on (Almost) All Your Devices” and another one on “Visualizing and Comparing Machine Learning Predictions to Improve Human-AI Teaming on the Example of Cell Lineage” that are published in the journal IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics.
October 2024 📄 Furthermore, at the BELIV workshop at IEEE VIS, I presented my paper on “The State of Reproducibility Stamps for Visualization Research Papers”.
October 2024 💬 Next, at IEEE VIS, I also was a panelist on the panel on “(Yet Another) Evaluation Needed? A Panel Discussion on Evaluation Trends in Visualization”.
October 2024 🎴 Finally, at IEEE VIS, my colleagues and I also presented a poster on “In Space, No One (but AI) Can Hear You Scream”.
September 2024 🗣️ I gave a keynote talk at VCBM 2024 in Magdeburg on the “Visualization of Species Distributions based on Social Media Data and a Couple of Surprises and Insights”.
September 2024 📄 We also presented a paper at VCBM 2024 on the “Virtual Reality Inspection of Chromatin 3D and 2D Data”. It was published in the journal Computers & Graphics.
September 2024 🎓 My PhD student Tingying He 何汀滢 successfully defended her PhD thesis on “Encoding with Patterns: A Design Space and Evaluations” on September 6. Congratulations Tingying!
September 2024 We received three Graphics Replicability Stamps for our journal papers, one for “SpatialTouch: Exploring Spatial Data Visualizations in Cross-reality” and two more for older papers on “vispubdata.org: A Metadata Collection about IEEE Visualization (VIS) Publications” and on “A Survey of Digital Stippling”.
August 2024 We received a Graphics Replicability Stamp for our journal paper on “The Language of Infographics: Toward Understanding Conceptual Metaphor Use in Scientific Storytelling”.
June 2024 We received a Graphics Replicability Stamp for our journal paper on “A Survey of Designs for Combined 2D+3D Visual Representations”.
May 2024 🏆 At EuroVis EG Logo 2024, I received a Reviewing Honorable Mention Award.
April 2024 📄 At IEEE PacificVis 2024, we presented our paper on “A Survey of Designs for Combined 2D+3D Visual Representations” that is also published in the journal IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics.
February 2024 We received a Graphics Replicability Stamp for our journal paper on the MeTACAST selection techniques, specifically for the analysis of our experimental data.

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