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Kudos to Associate Professor Nils Gehlenborg, who will receive an A. Clifford Barger Excellence in Mentoring Award at this afternoon's ceremony! HMS Diversity Inclusion & Community Partnership Harvard Medical School Nils Gehlenborg dicp.hms.harvard.edu/awards-and-rec… Past mentoring award recipients of DBMI include Marinka Zitnik

Curios about this year’s Bio+MedVis Challenge? 🤷‍♀️ We will present the challenge and answer questions this Tuesday, Jun 27, 2023! 🎉 10am – 10:30am (Central European Time - Berlin) Join us on zoom: cesnet.zoom.us/j/93610475094 #BioVis #MedVis

I am recruiting PhD students and postdocs this year! If you’re excited about building and evaluating data visualization and analysis software, please consider applying to join my lab UChicagoCS Data Science Institute

Qianwen Wang joined the Department of Computer Science & Engineering in fall 2023 as an assistant professor. Before joining the University, Wang served as a post-doctoral researcher at Harvard University. Learn more about Qianwen Wang here: z.umn.edu/MeetWang

🚨Elections are now open! We have four nominees to represent the VEC and four nominees to represent the VSC. IEEE VIS registered voters, you should have received email correspondence with instructions to vote using Belenios. 🗳️ See you at the polls!

I am recruiting PhD students for Fall 2024 to join me (and GroupLens ) at UMN Computer Science & Engineering! If you're interested in human-centered AI, explainability, or hybrid intelligence systems, please consider applying here cse.umn.edu/cs/phd-admissi… Please RT or DM me if you know of folks!

Hi #ieeevis🦘 Dylan Cashman, Junpeng Wang, and I will host a VIS4ML panel this Thursday 3:45-5:00 PM 🎙Honored to have Duen Horng "Polo" Chau, Menna El-Assady, Ross Maciejewski, and Dominik Moritz as our panelists Join us to critique and explore the role of VIS4ML in the rapid evolution of AI🤖!

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Join us this summer 🌞& Explore VR, visualization, HCI, and human-robot interaction research! 🌟We offer a $7k stipend, dorm housing, meals, and travel funds. 🌟 Apply by April 10 for early consideration, but we’re open until we’re full! ➡️ reu.cs.umn.edu

Registration is open for the 2024 #Boston VIS Summer School 📍Northeastern University 📅 Aug 13-14 🏫 Workshops, panels, and connections for early career researchers in #dataviz CC Arvind Satyanarayan Enrico Bertini Sydney Purdue Registration closes on July 29th docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

VIS is the best academic conference I’ve been to hands down, a big tent of friendly, smart, open-minded folks working on big problems. If you do work on visualization, data analysis, usable statistics, or applied behavioral science, please consider checking out the conference!

Join us for Thirst for Knowledge on October 1st at Urban Growler Brewing Company! This all-alumni event will explore the latest research advancements in virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR), and visualization. Register by September 20th here: z.umn.edu/ThirstforKnowl…

📢 Super excited to share our new study Nature Medicine on developing and validating an explainable graph-based foundation model for drug repurposing, designed specially for rare diseases, which collectively affect 300 million patients globally! 🧵1/10

Thrilled to be part of this project! For insights into the design of the visualization tool, check out our IEEE VIS honorable mention paper: Extending the Nested Model for User-Centric XAI: A Design Study on GNN-based Drug Repurposing ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/99165…

Very proud of this undergrad team, who kicked off this GNN visualization as freshmen back in April 🙌 This tool also got a shoutout in Stanford's CS224w (slides 61-62: web.stanford.edu/class/cs224w/s…) 👀Check it out here: visual-intelligence-umn.github.io/GNN-101/ we’d love to hear what you think!

📄Reading papers is hard. 🎥What if we "watch" instead? Inspired by creator workflows using editing tools, SciTalk enables self-evolving agentic loop, turning papers into short-form videos & improving agent's prompts based on feedback like engagingness. minnesotanlp.github.io/scitalk-projec…