Vis Academics
A list of visualization researchers. Includes ppl who are actively publishing or have published data visualization research papers.
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@alex-lex.bsky.social
@ebertini.bsky.social
FILWD on Substack: https://filwd.substack.com/. Weekly post on data visualization and beyond (quite some AI lately). Data visualizer (teaching, researching, divulging, etc.) Faculty at Northeastern University. Italian. Father of 3.
@vlott.bsky.social
i model behavior & develop stats software @jaspstats.bsky.social. ✧ amsterdam vincentott.github.io
@huyennguyen.com
Postdoc @ Harvard. Data visualization for biomedical informatics and beyond. I like to create visualization and play the ukulele. 🌐 https://huyennguyen.com/
@jstasko3.bsky.social
Professor of Interactive Computing at Georgia Tech, visualization researcher, Atlanta sports fan, and not-frequent-enough golfer
@lacepadilla.bsky.social
I am an Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Psychology at Northeastern University and a member of the Data Visualization Lab @Khoury. Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@DrDataVIS
@showmydata.org
Founder of http://ShowMyData.org. Co-leader of http://TestMyBrain.org. Graph interpretation research: https://www.sciencefriday.com/segments/bar-graph/. Faculty @Wellesley.
@charlbotha.com
Enjoyer of programming, data visualization / science / engineering, ML / AI, Emacs (org, evil), PKM, running and other humans. https://charlbotha.com/ P.S. my extremely personal blog (100s of posts, more than 20 years of life) is at https://cpbotha.net
@dggoldst.bsky.social
Senior Principal Research Manager at Microsoft Research NYC. Economics and Computation Group. Distinguished Scholar at Wharton.
@ralitzas.bsky.social
Data Interpreter & Visualizer: Transforming Complex Data into Compelling Visual Stories. Writes about DataViz, R, Science Communication. Teaching statistics to undergraduate students.
@noeskasmit.com
Professor in Medical Visualization at the dept. of Informatics, University of Bergen and the Mohn Medical Imaging and Visualization (MMIV) center. 🇳🇱 in 🇳🇴, 📊,🧶,🎮,🤘
@johnguerra.bsky.social
Associate Teaching Professor Northeastern University, KhouryVis member Research on #dataviz #a11y Co-creator https://btactile.com https://navio.dev https://duto.org https://johnguerra.co
@elibryan.bsky.social
Raleigh. How might we visualize people, fairly and equitably? Data / dataviz / design / psychology / research geek. He / him. Chaotic good. Follows Fizzlethorpe Bristlebane. Design / research / writing at https://3iap.com.
@janaerts.bsky.social
Professor interested in data visualisation, especially in biology (omics, biodiversity, etc) ... and jazz Running the Augmented Intelligence for Data Analytics Lab http://aida-lab.be Trying to emulate Paul Desmond on alto
@epietriga.bsky.social
Senior Researcher at INRIA / Université Paris-Saclay, and Part-time Professor at École Polytechnique. Themes: Human Computer Interaction. Visualization. Augmented Reality.
@jonathanzong.com
mit visualization group postdoc berkman klein fellow at harvard incoming assistant prof at cu boulder information science (fall 2025) https://jonathanzong.com/ https://www.data-and-design.org @data-and-design.org
@dertimgerrits.bsky.social
[he/him] | Scientific Visualization Research Group Lead @RWTH Aachen University, Germany | Developer, Musician, Podcaster
@nelmqvist.bsky.social
Villum Investigator and Professor in HCI & visualization at Aarhus University in Denmark. Husband, dad, dog dad, runner, Kung Fu artist, gamer. He/him. Mastodon: @elm@vis.social
@ritsosp.bsky.social
aka Panos - #HCI, #XR, #InfoVis, #Data #Visualization, #ImmersiveAnalytics | Senior Lecturer & Director of Research, School of Computer Science and Engineering, Bangor University, UK | computer games, scale modelling & MTBiking | https://pdritsos.com/
@tnagel.bsky.social
Designing, developing, researching and teaching visualizations. Research Professor for visual analytics at Hochschule Mannheim. Co-editor of Making with Data. https://www.hdilab.org
@kbschloss.bsky.social
Associate Professor Psychology and Wisconsin Institute for Discovery University of Wisconsin-Madison
@alper.datav.is
Senior Visualization R&D at Microsoft's Power BI. PhD from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. I speak for myself. he/him https://alper.datav.is/
@jiquad.bsky.social
Assistant Professor at the University of Oklahoma┃he/him/his┃Studying data visualization and HCI | food, art, plants
@wattenberg.bsky.social
Human/AI interaction. ML interpretability. Visualization as design, science, art. Professor at Harvard, and part-time at Google DeepMind.
@frank.computer
PhD candidate and researcher in HCI. I care a lot about accessible data interaction 📊 (: Disabled and getting into trouble. Presently at @hcii.cmu.edu. Formerly: Adobe, Highsoft, Apple, Visa, + others. He/him www.frank.computer
@fumeng.bsky.social
Assistant Professor @ UMD CS┃she/her┃HCI, Vis, & daydreaming┃Prev Northwestern CS, Brown CS, Tufts CS ┃www.fmyang.com ┃fig-x.github.io
@hyeok.me
Postdoc at UW CSE | Vis, Soni, Quantum, Design, CFDC (caffeine-free diet coke) | Don't talk about CSS with me because I can't stop.
@davidgotz.bsky.social
Professor at UNC SILS, CS. Director of Carolina Health Informatics Program @chip-unc.bsky.social. I also lead the UNC Visual Analysis and Communication Lab. https://vaclab.unc.edu/gotz/
@devlange.bsky.social
Postdoc @ Harvard Medical School in HIDIVE Lab. I build and research visualizations.
@ngehlenborg.bsky.social
Associate Professor @ Harvard Medical School Department of Biomedical Informatics. Data Visualization & Biomedical Informatics.
@sehilyi.com
Harvard postdoc working on human-centered biomedical data visualization sehilyi.com
@cagatay-turkay.bsky.social
Academic at @CIMethods at University of Warwick. Interested in data visualisation, data science, and interactions between humans, data and algorithms - https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fac/cim/people/cagatay-turkay
@viewlab.bsky.social
@drpi.bsky.social
Visualization researcher based at Inria and Université Paris-Saclay in France.
@cybunk.bsky.social
Associate Professor in #SHS #Design #Dataviz #délibération at Telecom Paris / Institut Polytchenique de Paris Website : https://samuel-huron.github.io/ Last book : https://makingwithdata.org/ Views are my own.
@amcrisan.bsky.social
Assistant Professor, University of Waterloo. I try to help people make informed decisions with data. #HCI, #Viz, applied #AI/#ML.
@kisaacs.bsky.social
Assoc. Prof. Kahlert School of Computing & SCI Institute, The University of Utah. Data Visualization. HPC. She/Her. https://kisaacs.github.io
@gotdairyya.bsky.social
not affiliated with the got milk? campaign 🥛 feminist dataviz, climbing, biking 🎨 phd @ Linköping University 🇸🇪 she/her
@henstr.bsky.social
Senior Research Scientist at IBM Research and Explainability lead at the MIT-IBM AI Lab in Cambridge, MA. Interested in all things (X)AI, NLP, Visualization. Hobbies: Social chair at #NeurIPS, MiniConf, Mementor-- http://hendrik.strobelt.com
@Birdbassador.jorts.horse.ap.brid.gy
enthusiast of things you like, detester of the things you don't like, but not in a mean way so i don't seem off-putting. just generally a solid follow [bridged from https://jorts.horse/@Birdbassador on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/ ]
@lonnibesancon.bsky.social
Assist. Prof'ing in Data Vis & Sleuth'ing "Troublemaker for truth" @ABCaustralia "Dogged critic" @ScienceMagazine @TEDx speaker #openscience #vegan
@yuriengelhardt.bsky.social
Information Visualization 📊📉✍🏼 at University of Twente Core project: The Languages of Visualization, with Clive Richards Also at UT Climate Centre @utclimate.bsky.social LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/yuriengelhardt Mastodon: https://vis.social/@yuri
@magrawala.bsky.social
Forest Baskett Professor of Computer Science and Director of the Brown Institute for Media Innovation at Stanford. http://graphics.stanford.edu/~maneesh
@geovisual.bsky.social
visualization lecturer, researcher, developer. datavis, geovis, uncertainty vis. professor of media informatics and data visualization at university of applied sciences hamburg.
@danyelf.bsky.social
Data visualization; user experience with data analysis; general joyful data nerdery
@mcnuttandrew.bsky.social
Professing at University of Utah vis/hci/programming interfaces (He/his) http://mcnutt.in/
@kimay.bsky.social
Professor for Information Design at Folkwang University of the Arts Principal metaLAB (at) Harvard & Berlin kimalbrecht.com
@jheer.org
UW Computer Science Professor. Data, visualization & interaction. UW Interactive Data Lab, Vega, Ex-Trifacta. Sometimes Seattle, manchmal Berlin.
@ieeevis.bsky.social
The world's premier forum for advances in visualization and visual analytics. https://ieeevis.org/year/2024/welcome
@kalealex.bsky.social
Assistant Prof of Computer Science and Data Science at UChicago. Research on visualization, HCI, statistics, data cognition. Moonlighting as a musician 🎺 https://people.cs.uchicago.edu/~kalea/
@do.minik.us
generative artist, data visualization developer, identity-challenged dataviz: https://do.minik.us art: https://dominikus.art
@viegas.bsky.social
Human/AI Interaction and data visualization. Professor at Harvard. Co-founder of Google's People+AI Research initiative (PAIR)
@alark.bsky.social
Data Visualization researcher and Professor of Computer Science at the University of San Francisco. Research interests - Visualization Literacy, Mobile Data Visualization. Anti-Racist. Immigrant. web: https://www.cs.usfca.edu/~apjoshi
@mattbrehmer.bsky.social
#HCI researcher, assistant professor of computer science at the university of waterloo. previously {tableau | microsoft} research. interested in #visualization and ubietous information experiences. https://mattbrehmer.ca | https://ubixgroup.ca
@peck.phd
🦬🏔️ @cuboulder.info science prof Vis / HCI - Designing data for the public. 📊❤️ PI @informationvisions.bsky.social Previously: Bucknell CS prof, Tufts CS PhD 🔗 https://peck.phd/
@domoritz.de
Visualization, data, AI/ML. Professor at CMU (@dig.cmu.edu, @hcii.cmu.edu) and researcher at Apple. Also sailboats ⛵️ and chocolate 🍫. www.domoritz.de
@datavisfriendly.bsky.social
ASA Fellow; #rstats developer of graphical methods for categorical and multivariate data; #datavis history of data visualization; #historicaldatavis; Milestones project Web: www.datavis.ca GitHub: github.com/friendly
@cscheid.net
Principal Engineer at Posit (fka RStudio), building quarto.org Learning Brazilian Choro and the 7-string guitar
@helenajambor.bsky.social
Data Visualization & Biomedical Science. PhD in biology, trained in art, Associate Prof Writes here: https://helenajamborwrites.netlify.app/
@eagereyes.org
Data visualization developer at @observablehq.com, interested in all things visual. ISOTYPE collector, synth dabbler, runner.
@jwolondon.bsky.social
Professor of Visual Analytics who does datavis, visualization storytelling and natural travel. Did I mention visualization?
@jessicahullman.bsky.social
Ginni Rometty Prof @NorthwesternCS | Fellow @NU_IPR | Uncertainty + decisions | Humans + AI/ML | Blog @statmodeling
@arvind.bsky.social
Asst Professing at MIT CSAIL. Data visualization, ML interpretability, accessibility, cognitively convivial information.
@ocks.org
Visualization toolmaker. Founder of Observable. Creator of D3. Former NYT Graphics. Pronounced BOSS-tock.
@laurenfklein.bsky.social
Digital humanities, data science, AI, eating, professor of Quantitative Theory & Methods and English at Emory. Coauthor #DataFeminism w/ @kanarinka, PI #AIAInetwork.
@thomasp85.com
Visualisation and graphics @posit.co Classic Generative Art Weirdo using 🖤 and R: http://thomaslinpedersen.art and http://deca.art/thomasp85 he/him
@mjskay.com
Assoc Prof Computer Science and Communication Studies at Northwestern. Infovis, HCI. Author of tidybayes & ggdist R pkgs. he/him. 🏳️🌈 https://mjskay.com/ Co-director https://mucollective.northwestern.edu Co-founder https://journalovi.org
@crystaljjlee.com
Writing about tech, power, data visualization, social media, disability. Assistant prof of computational media @ MIT. 🇹🇼 crystaljjlee.com
@albertocairo.com
Designer, journalist, and professor. Author of 'The Art of Insight' (2023) 'How Charts Lie' (2019), 'The Truthful Art' (2016), and 'The Functional Art' (2012). NEW PROJECT: https://openvisualizationacademy.org/
@alex-lex.bsky.social
Data visualization researcher. Associate Prof of CS at the University of Utah. Lab website: https://vdl.sci.utah.edu. Co-founder of datavisyn: https://datavisyn.io