News & Updates
- May 2026
Tapendra's abstracts were accepted for presentation at the VisxVision workshop and as a conference poster at the Vision Sciences Society Annual Meeting.
- May 2026
Aaryani Chowdary Ambati, PhD Student, is joining DIV-Lab from Summer 2026.
- April 2026
Two papers accepted at EuroVis 2026: 'How Do LLMs See Charts? A Comparative Study on High-Level Visualization Comprehension in Humans and LLMs.' and 'Designing Annotations in Visualization: Considerations from Visualization Practitioners and Educators.'
- April 2026
Got Best Paper Honorable Mention at ACM CHI 2026 for "Redundant is Not Redundant: Automating Efficient Categorical Palette Design Unifying Color & Shape Encodings with CatPAW".
- October 2025
One paper at IEEE VIS 2025: Subtilizing paper received IEEE VIS 2025 Best Paper Honorable Mention award. One paper at IEEE 2025 VisComm workshop :Understanding Bias in Perceiving Dimensionality Reduction Projections.
- September 2025
Three papers accepted at IEEE TVCG:Distortion-Aware BrushingAnnotation SurveyVisual Stenography
- August 2025
Braden, Debra, and Shane joined DIV-lab as PhD student.
- June 2025
Ghulam Co-organized and attended Dagstuhl Seminar (# 25232) - Navigating the Maze of Guidelines to Unify Visualization Design Recommendations
- September 2024
We have a panel discussion proposal '(Yet Another) Evaluation Needed? A Panel Discussion on Evaluation Trends in Visualization' accepted at IEEE VIS 2024
- September 2024
We have one BELIV workshop paper 'Striking the Right Balance: Systematic Assessment of Evaluation Method Distribution Across Contribution Types' accepted at IEEE VIS 2024
- August 2024
We have two full papers '(1) A Qualitative Analysis of Common Practices in Annotations: A Taxonomy and Design Space' and '(2) Shape It Up: An Empirically Grounded Approach for Designing Shape Palettes' accepted at IEEE VIS 2024
- July 2024
We have one full paper 'Our Stories, Our Data: Co-designing Visualizations with People with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities' accepted at ACM ASSETS 2024
- June 2024
I spent the summer at Seoul National University, South Korea as BK21 Global Visiting Fellow in Summer 2024.
- May 2024
Our EuroVis short paper 'Revisiting Categorical Color Perception in Scatterplots: Sequential, Diverging, and Categorical Palettes' received Best Short Paper Award at 2024 EG/VGTC Conference on Visualization (EuroVis). Odense, Denmark.
- April 2024
Two papers accepted. 'Do You See What I See? A Qualitative Study Eliciting High-Level Visualization Comprehension' accepted at ACM CHI 2024. 'Revisiting Categorical Color Perception in Scatterplots: Sequential, Diverging, and Categorical Palettes' at IEEE EuroVis 2024.
- February 2024
Invited research talk at VIS Seminar at Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute (SCI), University of Utah.
- December 2023
I will join University of Oklahoma as a tenure track Assistant Professor in the School of Computer Science at Gallogly College of Engineering in 2024.
- September 2023
Honored to receive Best Paper Honorable Mention Award for CLAMS paper from IEEE VIS 2023!