| June, 2026
| Our paper Stochastic Gradient Descent for 3D Graph Drawings, $SGD^3$ received the Best Short Paper Award at EuroVis 2026.
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| April, 2026
| Alexandru Telea delivered a keynote speech at CGI on data visualization for explainable AI.
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| April, 2026
| Evanthia Dimara will give a keynote speech titled The Value of Visualization in the Era of Generative AI at the International Conference on Graphics and Interaction (ICGI) 2026, held in Viana do Castelo, Portugal, on October 29–30, 2026.
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| April, 2026
| Alexandru Telea has received an Outstanding Scholar grant from the Cross-Disciplinary Research Funding for Visiting Scholars (CRFVS) from HKUST.
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| April, 2026
| Angelos Chatzimparmpas and colleagues won the Best Paper Award for Evaluating the utility of feature importance visualizations in SHAP at PacificVis 2026 (VisMeetsAI full-day workshop). Congrats to paper #1!
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| April, 2026
| Lynda Hardman won a prestigious service award from IPN. This reflects Lynda's structural commitments to the advance and support of computer Science research in The Netherlands. Congratulations!
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| April, 2026
| Our paper Monte Carlo Vortical Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics for Simulating Turbulent Flows has received a top cited award from Computer Graphics Forum. Congratulations to all authors!
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| March, 2026
| Angelos Chatzimparmpas provides expert analysis on AI-generated videos for Reuters Fact Check.
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| March, 2026
| Sjoerd Vink won the Best Paper Award for Graph Visualization Design Guidelines as Learnable Predicates at GRIVAPP 2026. Congrats to paper #1! What a start!
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| March, 2026
| Alexandru Telea will deliver a keynote talk at the CVC conference.
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| February, 2026
| Our paper APPA: A Cluster-Preserving Approximating Parametric Projection Algorithm was nominated for the Best Paper Award at GRIVAPP 2026.
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| February, 2026
| Our paper Graph Visualization Design Guidelines as Learnable Predicates was nominated for the Best Paper Award at GRIVAPP 2026.
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| January, 2026
| Boyu Xu defended her PhD thesis Exploring Indirect Relations Between Topics in Neuroscience Literature Using Augmented Reality to Inform Experimental Design with Lynda Hardman as main supervisor and Wolfgang Hürst as co-supervisor. Congratulations!
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| December, 2025
| Angelos Chatzimparmpas and colleagues from TU/e and WUR were awarded a €100,000 Unusual Collaborations Grant from CUCo — the joint alliance of TU/e, WUR, UU, and UMC Utrecht — for the interdisciplinary project Living Foams.
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| December, 2025
| Angelos Chatzimparmpas held two research presentations on visual analytics for explainable AI at ASML and The Alan Turing Institute.
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| November, 2025
| Alexandru Telea held three research presentations on high-dimensional data visualization at IME, FFLCH, and Google Sao Paulo.
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| November, 2025
| Florian Grötschla from ETH Zürich visited the VIG group for two days resulting in collaborations on using Graph Neural Networks for both discrete metric approximation and for Dimensionality Reduction. Thank you for your visit!
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| November, 2025
| The project Advancing Diagnostic Medicine through Effortless Expert-Guided Flyweight Convolutional Networks (participants: UU (Alexandru Telea); UNICAMP, PUC-Minas UFPR (BR), Univs. Gustave Eiffel and Rennes (FR), Univ. of Virginia (US) has been granted by CNPq. The project will finance multiple PhD student and researcher exchanges between the partners in 2025-2028.
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| November, 2025
| Michael Behrisch gave an invited talk on "Knowledge Graph Analytics: From Insight to Connected Insights" at the TU Eindhoven. The Mini-Symposium following Linhao Meng's PhD defense was hosted by Anna Vilanova and Stef van den Elzen from the TU/e Visualization Cluster.
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| November, 2025
| Opening the Magic Box of AI will be part of Science is Wonderful!, the annual EU public science fair under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (20% acceptance rate). Angelos Chatzimparmpas together with Martina Dossi, Ziv Hochman, and Niels Teunissen, will co-host an interactive booth offering hands-on activities for pupils of all ages to explore how AI works.
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| October, 2025
| The DetectFakes website has reached over 100,000 unique visitors since January 2024, and our how-to guide on distinguishing AI-generated from authentic images was featured in The New York Times. Angelos Chatzimparmpas collaborates with researchers at Northwestern University on this project.
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| September, 2025
| Katharina Hecht started as a post doc co-advised by Michael Behrisch and Alexandru Telea. Welcome! Katharina works on the Data-driven sustainable building design nexus project.
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| September, 2025
| Alexandru Telea won the Distinguished Reviewer Award at VISSOFT 2025.
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| July, 2025
| Yu Wang defended his PhD thesis Enhanced Decision Maps for Exploring Classification Models with Alexandru Telea as main supervisor and Michael Behrisch as co-supervisor. Congratulations!
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| June, 2025
| Michael Behrisch received a UU Pathways to Sustainability Incubator grant on Sustainable Building Design using Knowledge Graph technology. Congratulations!
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| June, 2025
| Michael Behrisch gave a keynote at the 25th anniversary of the DBVIS group, highlighting Visual Analytics in academia and the future of knowledge graph analytics.
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| May, 2025
| Angelos Chatzimparmpas and Victor Stenvers won a Pluim Award for teaching the Game Programming BSc course for the year 2024.
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| May, 2025
| Evanthia Dimara has given birth to her first child, a strong boy! Warm congratulations!
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| May, 2025
| Martina Dossi started as a PhD student co-advised by Angelos Chatzimparmpas and Alexandru Telea. Welcome!
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| May, 2025
| Shivam Agarwal started as a postdoctoral researcher mentored by Angelos Chatzimparmpas. Welcome!
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| May, 2025
| Lynda Hardman has been elected as the chairperson of the COST Scientific Committee. Congratulations!
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| May, 2025
| Alexandru Telea will hold an invited talk at the ELLIIT school.
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| January, 2025
| Alexandru Telea won a Pluim Award for teaching the Multimedia Retrieval MSc course for the year 2024.
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| January, 2025
| Yanrui Xu defended his PhD thesis Smoother Particle Hydrodynamics for Fluid Simulation in Computer Graphics with Alexandru Telea as 2nd supervisor. Congratulations!
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| January, 2025
| Tamara Mchedlidze, Anja Volk, and Maartje de Graaf, representing the Women in Computer Science (WICS) committee, have received the NWO Diversity and Inclusion award. Congratulations!
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| January, 2025
| Yuncong Yu defended his PhD thesis Multivariate Time Series Pattern Search with Alexandru Telea as main supervisor. Congratulations!
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