Organizers

Bongshin Lee is a Senior Researcher at Microsoft Research. She explores innovative ways to enable people to create visualizations, interact with their data, and share data-driven stories. She has been recently focusing on helping people collect & explore the data about themselves, and share insights with others by leveraging visualizations. Bongshin has organized several workshops including DEXIS 2011 & 2015 and Immersive Analytics 2016 & 2017. She is a co-organizer of the recently accepted CHI 2018 Workshop on Data Visualization on Mobile Devices. Bongshin currently serves as Associate Editor for IEEE TVCG and Papers Co-Chair for IEEE PacificVis 2018, and has served as Papers Co-chair for IEEE InfoVis 2015 & 2016. She earned her Ph.D. in Computer Science from University of Maryland at College Park in 2006.

Arjun Srinivasan is a PhD student in Computer Science at the Georgia Institute of Technology. His research focuses on combining natural user interfaces (particularly, natural language and touch) and mixed-initiative systems for data analysis with visualization.

John Stasko is a Professor in the School of Interactive Computing and the Director of the Information Interfaces Research Group at the Georgia Institute of Technology. His research is in the areas of information visualization and visual analytics, approaching each from a human-computer interaction perspective. John, an ACM Distinguished Scientist and IEEE Fellow, has served as Papers Co-Chair for the IEEE Information Visualization (InfoVis) and IEEE Visual Analytics Science and Technology (VAST) Conferences. He also has co-organized many prior workshops at IEEE VIS, ACM CHI and AVI, as well as multiple Dagstuhl symposia.

Melanie Tory is a senior research scientist at Tableau Software. Her research explores interactive visual analytics, including interaction, sensemaking support, and collaboration. Before joining Tableau, Melanie was an Associate Professor in visualization at the University of Victoria. She earned her PhD in Computer Science from Simon Fraser University and her BSc from the University of British Columbia. Melanie is Associate Editor of IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications and has served as Papers Co-chair for the IEEE Information Visualization and ACM Interactive Surfaces and Spaces conferences. She has contributed to organization of the IEEE VIS conference for many years and has organized several workshops including three on personal visual analytics.

Vidya Setlur is a staff research scientist and technical lead of the natural language team at Tableau Software. Previously, she worked as a principal research scientist at the Nokia Research Center for 7 years. She earned her doctorate in Computer Science in 2005 from Northwestern University. Her research interests lie at the intersection of natural language processing (NLP), computer graphics, content retargeting, and iconography. Vidya has organized workshops and tutorials at conferences such as MobiSys, SIGCHI, SIGGRAPH Asia, and MobileHCI. She was the general chair of the Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia (MUM) conference in 2006. She is also the technical co-chair for the Human Computer Interaction Consortium (HCIC) in 2018, focusing on "AI and HCI." Currently, Vidya works on natural language interfaces to help enable a conversational flow with data.