| 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 1st 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 will give a popular-science talk and, 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 1st 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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