We are a research group in the Department of Computer Science at University of Maryland, College Park. Our mission is to support interactive data analysis and data-driven visual communication by synthesizing human-centered methodologies and artificial intelligence. Our work spans the areas of data visualization, visual analytics, human-computer interaction, and machine learning. We are affiliated with the Human-Computer Interaction Lab (HCIL) at UMD.
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| Aug 2025 | Zinat will present her work on the impact of out-of-domain intervention on causal relations in event sequences at ICANN 2025 and benchmarking LLM performance on mined process visualizations at Findings of EMNLP 2025. |
| Jul 2025 | We will present a full paper on VisAnatomy, led by Chen Chen, at IEEE VIS 2025. VisAnatomy is a novel corpus containing diverse real-world SVG charts and provides fine-grained labels for more than 383k graphical elements. |
| May 2025 | Congratulations to Hannah Bako on her successful dissertation defense! Hannah will join the School of Data Science at the University of Virginia as an assistant professor. |
| May 2025 | Congratulations to Yuexi (Tracy) Chen on her successful dissertation defense! Tracy will join GE Healthcare as an AI scientist. |
| Mar 2025 | Leo receives a DARPA STTR contract on Reasoned Cyber Visualization (Phase II). |
| Feb 2025 | Two papers accepted at ACM CHI 2025: What-if Analysis for Business Professionals led by Sneha, and Comparing Collaborative Writing Behaviors through Visual Analytics led by Yuexi (Tracy). |
| Nov 2024 | Congratulations to Chen Chen on his successful dissertation defense! Chen will join Dolby Laboratories as a senior researcher. |
| Aug 2024 | Our paper on manipulable semantic components receives an Honorable Mention award at IEEE VIS 2024. |
| Jul 2024 | We will be presenting 3 full papers (the influence of examples on design outcomes, manipulable semantic components, and a task framework for event sequence analytics) and 2 short papers (evaluating the semantic profiling capabilities of LLMs, and managing automated data insights) at IEEE VIS 2024. |
| Jul 2024 | Leo receives a DARPA STTR contract on Reasoned Cyber Visualization (Phase I). |
| Jul 2024 | Paper on the effects of turn-taking order and AI-powered editing tools on collaborative writing accepted at CSCW 2024. |
| Mar 2024 | Paper led by Yuexi (Tracy) on AI-assisted mixed-media tutorial creation on physical tasks accepted at CHI 2024. |
| Nov 2023 | Leo joins the Editorial Board of IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG) as an Associate Editor. |
| Jul 2023 | Our paper on deconstructing SVG charts for layout reuse is accepted at VIS 2023. |
| Jul 2023 | Leo receives an NSF CAREER Award. |
| Jun 2023 | Two short papers on authoring responsive documents with layout generation and guided data analysis in computational notebooks accepted at VL/HCC 2023. |
| May 2023 | Survey paper led by Chen on the state of the art in creating visualization corpora for automated chart analysis accepted at EuroVis 2023. |
| Apr 2023 | Paper led by Zinat on a comparative evaluation study of visual summarization techniques for event sequences accepted at EuroVis 2023. |
| Apr 2023 | Congratulations to Hannah for receiving a Summer Research Fellowship! |