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Data visualizations are designed to leverage the impressive human visual bandwidth so that users can spot clusters, gaps, trends, outliers in the data within a fraction of a second. Visualizations, combined with interaction and animation techniques, can help experts interpret and explore complex data as well as gain confidence in their algorithmic results. Moreover, visualizations are highly effective tools for communicating with other analysts or stakeholders. Research on visualization involves understanding human perception and vision, visual encodings, design thinking, color choice, data simplification, interaction techniques, and animation techniques and designing the next generation of data analysis and communication tools. We have several current research opportunities available for faculty, research scientists, postdoctoral researchers, and students joining our PhD, master's, and bachelor's programs.

Areas of investigation:

  • Perception and cognition
  • Data storytelling
  • Analytic provenance
  • Exploratory data analysis
  • Coordinated views and interactions
  • Tree/hierarchical data
  • Network data
  • Multidimensional data
  • Geospatial data
  • Uncertain, missing, erroneous data
  • Temporal event sequences
  • User interface design
  • Interaction design
  • Evaluation methodologies

Specific domains of interest:

  • Healthcare diagnostic and treatment decision support, including diabetes, neurology, ophthalmology
  • Cybersecurity, including unmanned autonomous system analysis
  • Astronomy and physics, including 3D visualization and multidimensional data
  • Computer Science, including work in databases, programming languages, and systems
  • Digital humanities, including networks of concepts in humanities texts, text and timeline visualizations
  • Epidemiology, including the spread of infectious disease

Updates

2022-04-15: Welcome to our new PhD students Racquel Fygenson, Eduardo Puerta, Connor Wilson, and Sydney Purdue!
2022-04-08: 38 authors from Northeastern were represented at CHI 2022 and there were 11 contributions from Khoury! Our group contributed two different papers, a late-breaking work, and a case study.
2022-04-06: Our PhD student Sara Di Bartolomeo was recognized by the university as a Huntington 100 scholar for her outstanding academic achievements!
2022-03-25: Three papers from our group will appear in EuroVis 2022, plus a keynote by Melanie Tory!
2022-03-30: Congratulations Cody Dunne for receiving an NSF CAREER award on General And Optimal Layered Network Visualization!

Recent Publications

Thumbnail image for publication titled: Daisen: A framework for visualizing detailed GPU execution
Daisen: A framework for visualizing detailed GPU execution

Yifan Sun, Yixuan Zhang, Ali Mosallaei, Michael D. Shah, Cody Dunne, and David Kaeli. Computer Graphics Forum—EuroVis/CGF. 2021

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Thumbnail image for publication titled: Grand challenges in immersive analytics
Grand challenges in immersive analytics

Barrett Ens, Benjamin Bach, Maxime Cordeil, Ulrich Engelke, Marcos Serrano, Wesley Willett, Arnaud Prouzeau, Christoph Anthes, Wolfgang Büschel, Cody Dunne, Tim Dwyer, Jens Grubert, Jason H. Haga, Nurit Kirshenbaum, Dylan Kobayashi, Tica Lin, Monsurat Olaosebikan, Fabian Pointecker, David Saffo, Nazmus Saquib, Dieter Schmalstieg, Danielle Albers Szafir, Matt Whitlock, and Yalong Yang. In Proc. CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems—CHI. 2021

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Thumbnail image for publication titled: A state-of-the-art survey of tasks for tree design and evaluation with a curated task dataset
A state-of-the-art survey of tasks for tree design and evaluation with a curated task dataset

Aditeya Pandey, Uzma Haque Syeda, Chaitya Shah, John Alexis Guerra-Gomez, and Michelle A. Borkin. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics—TVCG. 2021

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Thumbnail image for publication titled: STRATISFIMAL LAYOUT: A modular optimization model for laying out layered node-link network visualizations
STRATISFIMAL LAYOUT: A modular optimization model for laying out layered node-link network visualizations

Sara Di Bartolomeo, Mirek Riedewald, Wolfgang Gatterbauer, and Cody Dunne. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics—VIS/TVCG. 2022

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