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We congratulate Eiman Ahangar Ebrahimi for his successful thesis defense.

Photo: University of Vienna

His thesis on "Designing Public-Facing Visualizations: Insights from Case Studies" can be accessed at u:thesis here.

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Greetings from Barcelona & CHI 2026

Regina Schuster, Laura Koesten and Verena Prantl at CHI 26 (ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems)

New Publication! Untangling Rhetoric, Pathos, and Aesthetics in Data Visualization

Painting: It shows a man on a mountain; we see his back as he looks down into the valleys (which are covered by clouds) and out into the distance.

Verena Prantl, Torsten Möller and Laura Koesten got their work published in IEEE Visualization and Computer Graphics.

Guest Lecture by Manuela Waldner: Scalable Visual Exploration of Unstructured Data

When: 20.05.2026 10:00-11:00

Where: HS2, Währinger Straße 29

Guest lecturer: Manuela Waldner

Title: Scalable Visual Exploration of Unstructured…

Welcoming Leyu Tan to the VDA Research Group

Portrait photo of Leyu Tan

We are happy to welcome Leyu Tan as a new PhD student in the H4DES project.

Péter Ferenc Gyarmati Wins the VISxGenAI Challenge at IEEE VIS 2025

Portrait photo of Péter Ferenc Gyarmati

We congratulate Péter on winning the challenge at the 1st Workshop on GenAI, Agents, and the Future of VIS, held during IEEE VIS 2025…