Meeting Organizers

Wolfgang Büschel

University of Stuttgart, Germany

(MERCADO II)

Wolfgang Büschel is a postdoctoral researcher at VISUS, University of Stuttgart, Germany, where he specializes in immersive and situated analytics. Previously, he was with the Interactive Media Lab of TUD Dresden University of Technology. There, he also did his PhD on spatial interaction with immersive visualizations. For his thesis, he received the Dissertation Award of Commerzbank’s Dresden Cultural Foundation. His research interests include the situated analysis of interaction data, immersive data storytelling, and the use of mobile devices to support 3D interaction. Wolfgang Büschel has published more than 30 peer-reviewed papers and received several best paper awards. His works have been cited over 1200 times. Website: wolfgang-bueschel.de 

Gabriela Molina Léon

Aarhus University, Denmark

(MERCADO II)

Gabriela Molina Léon is a postdoctoral research fellow at Aarhus University, Denmark, with a focus on collaborative visual analytics. Previously, she did her PhD at the Institute of Information Management Bremen at the University of Bremen. As part of her research, she has co-authored several publications on the design and development of multimodal systems to support data experts in performing visual data exploration and collaborative sensemaking . Her research lies at the intersection of visualization, computer-supported cooperative work, and human-computer interaction. She has co-organized workshops at CSCW 2021 and CLIHC 2021, and is also one of the organizers of the Data Visualization Bremen meetup. Website: gmleon.github.io.

Arnaud Prouzeau

Inria, France

(MERCADO II)

Arnaud Prouzeau is a human-computer interaction and visualization researcher at Inria in Paris and previously Bordeaux, France. Prior to Inria, he was a research fellow at Monash University, Australia. He brings an array of expertise from various projects involving the exploration of visualization with tangible interfaces, virtual and augmented reality, and collaborative systems. He led Monash University’s Cognitive Building Initiative in collaboration with Honeywell, aiming to integrate immersive analytics and machine learning to support building management. Currently, he is leading the ’ICARE’ project11, a multidisciplinary initiative focusing on the design of collaborative environments for hands-on educational activities. Website: aprouzeau.com.

Mahmood Jasim

Louisiana State University, USA

(MERCADO II)

Mahmood Jasim is an assistant professor at Louisiana State University (LSU), USA, where he specializes in building decision support systems to inform collaborative and personalized decision-making. Before joining LSU, he completed his PhD at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. His dissertation focused on inclusive collection and analysis of public-generated data for informed decision-making. His research intersects across information visualization, humancomputer interaction, and social computing to build and deploy systems to inform collaborative analysis and sensemaking and personalized decisions. His published research received awards from CSCW 2020, DIS 2021, and EuroVIS 2022. Website: csc.lsu.edu/~mjasim.

Matthew Brehmer

University of Waterloo, Canada

(MERCADO I + II, Shonan 213)

Matt Brehmer joined the Cheriton School of Computer Science as a tenure-track Assistant Professor in August 2024. Previously, he was a lead researcher at Tableau Research in Seattle, where he specialized in new experiences for communication and collaboration around data. Before joining Tableau, he was a postdoctoral researcher with the Extended Perception, Interaction & Cognition (EPIC) and Human-Computer Interaction groups at Microsoft Research. He completed his PhD and an MSc at the University of British Columbia, where he was a member of the InfoVis group and the Multimodal User Experience lab. In 2022, Professor Brehmer was elected to the Visualization Conference (VIS) Executive Committee, which oversees the planning and success of the IEEE VIS conference, and he was appointed to the IEEE Visualization and Computer Graphics Technical Community’s executive committee. Website: mattbrehmer.ca

Maxime Cordeil

University of Queensland, Australia

(MERCADO I + II, Shonan 213)

Maxime Cordeil is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Queensland, Australia. Dr. Cordeil has been recognised Australia’s top researcher in computer graphics (2021, 2022). His research focuses on human-computer interaction, data visualisation and analytics. He has published over 60 journal and conference in top venues such as ACM CHI, IEEE VIS or IEEE VR. Dr. Cordeil is a key international member of the Immersive Analytics community of researchers, and has organised several workshops on the topic of Immersive Analytics (“IA Workshop series” at VIS 2017, CHI 2018, CHI 2019, CHI 2020, and CHI 2022). The activities of the IA community focuses on designing and evaluating the future graphical user interfaces for data analysis in Virtual / Augmented Reality. Website: sites.google.com/view/cordeil

Christophe Hurter

University of Toulouse, France

(MERCADO I + II, Shonan 213)

Christophe Hurter is a Professor working at the University of Toulouse, France, leading the Interactive Data Visualization group (DataVis) of the French Civil Aviation University (ENAC). His research covers explainable A.I. (XAI), big data manipulation and visualization (InfoVis), immersive analytics, and human-computer interaction (HCI). He investigates the design of scalable visual interfaces and the development of pixel-based techniques. He is an associate researcher at the research center for the French Military Air Force Test Center (CReA, Base militaire de Salon de Provence) and at the Brain and Cognition Research Center (CerCo, Hospital University Center of Toulouse). He published 2 books, 4 book chapters, 20 patents, 25 journal papers, more than 100 per reviewed international research papers. Website: recherche.enac.fr/ hurter

Takayuki itoh

Ochanomizu University, Japan

(MERCADO I, Shonan 213)

Takayuki Itoh is a full professor of the department of information sciences in Ochanomizu University, Japan since 2011, and the director of the center for artificial intelligence and data science of the university since 2019. He was a researcher at Tokyo Research Laboratory of IBM Japan during 1992 to 2005. He has been an associate professor in Ochanomizu University since 2005, and a full professor since 2011. He is the general chair of Graph Drawing 2022, the general chair of IEEE Pacific Visualization 2018, short paper co-chair of IEEE VIS 2023, and organizing members of other many international conferences. His representative studies include fast iso surface generation, hierarchical data visualization, network visualization and multidimensional data visualization. Website: itolab.is.ocha.ac.jp/ itot