Publications
2025

Discrepancies in Mental Workload Estimation: Self-Reported versus EEG-Based Measures in Data Visualization Evaluation
Soobin Yim, Sangbong Yoo, Chanyoung Yoon, Chanyoung Jung, Chansoo Kim, Yun Jang, Ghulam Jilani Quadri
Preprint, 2025.

Evaluating Line Chart Strategies for Mitigating Density of Temporal Data: The Impact on Trend, Prediction, and Decision-Making
Rifat Ara Proma, Ghulam Jilani Quadri, Paul Rosen
In Proceedings of the 20th International Symposium on Visual Computing, 2025.

Understanding Bias in Perceiving Dimensionality Reduction Projections
Seoyoung Doh, Hyeon Jeon, Sungbok Shin, Ghulam Jilani Quadri, Nam Wook Kim, Jinwook Seo
In Proceedings of the Workshop on Visualization for Communication (VisComm) at IEEE VIS, 2025.

Characterizing Visualization Perception with Psychological Phenomena: Uncovering the Role of Subitizing in Data Visualization
Arran Zeyu Wang, Ghulam Jilani Quadri, Mengyuan Zhu, Chin Tseng, Danielle Albers Szafir
In Proceedings of IEEE VIS 2025; to appear in IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 2025.
2024

Shape It Up: An Empirically Grounded Approach for Designing Shape Palettes
Chin Tseng, Arran Zeyu Wang, Ghulam Jilani Quadri, Danielle Albers Szafir
In Proceedings of IEEE VIS 2024; published in IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 2025.

A Qualitative Analysis of Common Practices in Annotations: A Taxonomy and Design Space
Dilshad ur Rahman, Ghulam Jilani Quadri, Bhavana Doppalapudi, Danielle Albers Szafir, Paul Rosen
In Proceedings of IEEE VIS 2024; published in IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 2025.

Our Stories, Our Data: Co-designing Visualizations with People with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities
Keke Wu, Ghulam Jilani Quadri, Arran Zeyu Wang, David Kwame Osei-Tutu, Emma Peterson, Varsha Koushik, Danielle Albers Szafir
In the Proceedings of ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility, 2024.

Toward Constructing Frameworks for Task- and Design-Optimized Visualizations
Ghulam Jilani Quadri
IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications (CG&A), 2024.

Revisiting Categorical Color Perception in Scatterplots: Sequential, Diverging, and Categorical Palettes
Chin Tseng, Arran Zeyu Wang, Ghulam Jilani Quadri, Danielle Albers Szafir
In Proceedings of EG/VGTC European Conference on Visualization (EuroVis) 2024, Odense, Denmark.
2023

CLAMS: Cluster Ambiguity Measure for Estimating Perceptual Variability in Visual Clustering
Hyeon Jeon*, Ghulam Jilani Quadri*, Hyunwook Lee, Paul Rosen, Danielle Albers Szafir, Jinwook Seo
IEEE Transactions on Visualization & Computer Graphics (Proc. IEEE VIS 2023), 2024.

Exploring Annotation Strategies in Professional Visualizations:Insights from Prominent US News Portals
Md Dilshadur Rahman, Ghulam Jilani Quadri, Paul Rosen
In Proceedings of VIS’23: IEEE Conference on Visualization. Workshop on Visualization on Communication (VisComm), 2023.

Measuring Categorical Perception in Color-Coded Scatterplots
Chin Tseng, Ghulam Jilani Quadri, Zeyu Wang, Danielle Albers Szafir
In Proceedings of ACM CHI’ 2023: ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2023.
2022

Automatic Scatterplot Design Optimization for Clustering Identification.
Ghulam Jilani Quadri, Jeniffer Adorno, Brenton Wiernik, Paul Rosen
IEEE Transactions on Visualization & Computer Graphics, 2022.

A Qualitative Evaluation and Taxonomy ofStudent Annotations on Bar Charts
Dilshad ur Rahman, Ghulam Jilani Quadri, Paul Rosen
In Proceedings of VIS’22: IEEE Conference on Visualization. Workshop on Visualization on Communication (VisComm), 2022.
2021

A Survey of Perception-Based Visualization Studies by Task.
Ghulam Jilani Quadri, Paul Rosen
IEEE Transactions on Visualization & Computer Graphics, 2021.

Constructing Frameworks for Task-Optimized Visualizations.
Ghulam Jilani Quadri
Docotoral Dissertation, University of South Florida, 2021.
2020

Modeling the Influence of Visual Density on Cluster Perception in Scatterplots Using Topology.
Ghulam Jilani Quadri, Paul Rosen
Transactions on Visualization & Computer Graphics, 2020. Part of the Proceedings of IEEE VIS 2020.

LineSmooth: An Analytical Framework for Evaluating the Effectiveness of Smoothing Techniques on Line Charts.
Paul Rosen, Ghulam Jilani Quadri
Transactions on Visualization & Computer Graphics, 2020. Part of the Proceedings of IEEE VIS 2020.
2019

You Can’t Publish Replication Studies (and How to Anyways).
Ghulam Jilani Quadri, Paul Rosen
In Proceedings of VIS’19: IEEE Conference on Visualization. Workshop on Vis X Vision, 2019.

A Case-Study on Variations Observed in Accelerometers Across Devices.
Carlos Alvarado, Ghulam Jilani Quadri, Jennifer Adorno, Paul Rosen
2018

Modelling Visual Density in Scatterplot Using Megre Trees.
Ghulam Jilani Quadri, Paul Rosen
Poster at Data Science Colloquium, College of Business Analytics and Information Science, University of South Florida 2018.
2017

Make Your Bone Great Again: A Study on Osteoporosis Classification.
Rahul Paul, Saeed Alhamari, Sulav Malla, Ghulam Jilani Quadri
In arXiv. 2017.

Multi-Spectral Satellite Image Analysis for Feature Identification and Change Detection.
Sulav Malla, Anwesh Tuladhar, Ghulam Jilani Quadri, Paul Rosen
IEEE Conference on Visual Analytics Science and Technology (VAST), VAST Challenge, 2017.

Visual Analytic Design for Characterizing Air-Sampling Sensor Performance and Oeration.
Ghulam Jilani Quadri, Anwesh Tuladhar, Sulav Malla, Paul Rosen
In Proceedings of IEEE Conference on Visual Analytics Science and Technology (VAST) 2017.

Data Aggregation and Visualization Technique for Traffic Sensor Data.
Anwesh Tuladhar, Sulav Malla, Ghulam Jilani Quadri, Paul Rosen
In Proceedings of IEEE Conference on Visual Analytics Science and Technology (VAST) 2017.





