I am excited to share that I will be the elections co-chair at IEEE VIS 2023.
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Workshop Paper Accepted at IEEE VIS 2023
Our paper “CommunityClick-Virtual: Multi-Modal Interactions for Enhancing Participation in Virtual Meetings” was accepted at the Multimodal Experiences for Remote Communication Around Data Online (MERCADO) Workshop, in conjunction with IEEE VIS 2023.
Read MoreBest paper award Eurovis 2022
Our paper “Of Course it’s Political! A Critical Inquiry into Underemphasized Dimensions in Civic Text Visualization” received the best paper award in Eurovis 2022.
Read MoreHonorable mention award CHI 2022
Our paper “Investigating Perceptual Biases in Icon Arrays” received an honorable mention award at CHI 2022.
Read MoreAwarded NSF Grant on Building Intelligent Community Agents
I received an NSF grant ($147,000) with PI Narges Mahyar and CO-PI Pari Riahi for “MAPPING INSTABILITY: Building an Intelligent Community Agent Platform for Understanding the Impact of Large-Scale Crisis on Small Town Communities”.
Read MoreBiblioVIS dataset is now publicly available
I am excited to announce that BiblioVIS, our scientometric DB with comprehensive metadata about IEEE VIS publications from 1990-2020 is accessible online. Invite you all to have fun with the data.
Read MoreHiring PhD Students
I am hiring a Ph.D. student to work on the visualization of Differentially Prive data. If you are interested, send your CV to asarv@cs.umass.edu
Read MoreData Physicalization Exhibition
We will have an exhibition from Jnuary 27th to March 10, 2022, at the Design Building Gallery at Umass, presenting both physical and virtual rendering of mechanical fluids data.
Read MoreAwarded UMass ADVANCE Collaborative Research Seed Grant
I was awarded the UMass ADVANCE Collaborative Research Seed Grant on “Towards Reducing Social Inequality in Local-level Public Participation by Giving Voice to Marginalized Populations.”
Read MoreTwo Papers Accepted at CHI 2022
Our papers “Supporting Serendipitous Discovery and Balanced Analysis of Unstructured Text with Interaction-Driven Metrics and Bias-Mitigating Suggestions” and “Investigating Perceptual Biases in Icon Arrays” was accepted at CHI 2022.
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