Are you considering a Ph.D. in visualization? Or some related position (MS, PostDoc, etc)? Not sure who is hiring? Not sure where to start looking for positions? This is an actively maintained ( for Fall 2024-Spring 2025 ) page describing some open positions in this field. There are doubtless other locations hiring, but we hope that this will give you a nice start in your search.
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Open Positions
Brandeis University
- 🎓 Professor: Dylan Cashman🗣️ Contact: dylancashman@brandeis.edu🔭 Positions sought: PhD(Fall25)📚 Topics: Visual Analytics, Reproducibility, Systems, Infrastructure, Explainability
Carnegie Mellon University
- 🎓 Professor: Adam Perer (Lab Website)🗣️ Contact: adamperer@cmu.edu🔭 Positions sought: PhD(Fall 2025)📚 Topics: Visualization Tools/Systems, Human-AI collaboration, Interpretable ML, Healthcare
- 🎓 Professor: Dominik Moritz (Lab Website)🗣️ Contact: domoritz@cmu.edu🔭 Positions sought: PhD(Fall 2025)📚 Topics: ML Interpretability, Visual Analytics, Toolkits, Accessibility, Scalability
Clemson University
- 🎓 Professor: Federico Iuricich (Lab Website)🗣️ Contact: fiurici@clemson.edu🔭 Positions sought: PhD(Fall 2025)📚 Topics: HPC, Point Cloud Visualization, Biological Data Visualization
Emory University
- 🎓 Professor: Emily Wall (Lab Website)🗣️ Contact: emily.wall@emory.edu🔭 Positions sought: PhD(Fall 2025)📚 Topics: Decision making, bias, visualization
Georgia Tech
- 🎓 Professor: Yalong Yang (Lab Website)🗣️ Contact: yalong.yang@gatech.edu🔭 Positions sought: PhD(Fall 2025)📚 Topics: VR/AR/MR, Immersive Analytics
Inria
- 🎓 Professor: Petra Isenberg (Lab Website)🗣️ Contact: petra.isenberg@inria.fr🔭 Positions sought: PhD, postdoc, permanent researcher positions (PhD required)(we have scholarship calls typically open in the spring of each year for a september/october start for PhDs and PostDocs. Permanent position calls start in February )📚 Topics: progressive visualization, visualization and 3D interaction, mobile data vis, embedded and situated visualization (depending on who you want to work with)
- 🎓 Professor: Jean-Daniel Fekete (Lab Website)🔭 Positions sought: PhD, postdoc, permanent researcher positions (PhD required)(we have scholarship calls typically open in the spring of each year for a september/october start for PhDs and PostDocs. Permanent position calls start in February )📚 Topics: progressive visualization, visualization and 3D interaction, mobile data vis, embedded and situated visualization (depending on who you want to work with)
- 🎓 Professor: Tobias Isenberg (Lab Website)🔭 Positions sought: PhD, postdoc, permanent researcher positions (PhD required)(we have scholarship calls typically open in the spring of each year for a september/october start for PhDs and PostDocs. Permanent position calls start in February )📚 Topics: progressive visualization, visualization and 3D interaction, mobile data vis, embedded and situated visualization (depending on who you want to work with)
MIT
- 🎓 Professor: Arvind Satyanarayan (Lab Website)🔭 Positions sought: PhD(Fall 2025)📚 Topics: Accessibility
Northeastern University
- 🎓 Professor: Lace Padilla (Lab Website)🗣️ Contact: l.padilla@northeastern.edu🔭 Positions sought: PhD(Fall 2025)📚 Topics: Visualization of Uncertainty, Decision-making in Visualization, Perception, Cognition
Polytechnique Montreal
- 🎓 Professor: Thomas Hurtut🗣️ Contact: thomas.hurtut@polymtl.ca🔭 Positions sought: PhD, Master(Anytime)📚 Topics: Storytelling, accessibility, data journalism
Roux Institute at Northeastern University
- 🎓 Professor: Michael Correll (Lab Website)🗣️ Contact: m.correll@northeastern.edu🔭 Positions sought: PostDoc(Spring 2025)📚 Topics: Uncertainty Visualization, Data Ethics
- 🎓 Professor: Melanie Tory (Lab Website)🗣️ Contact: m.tory@northeastern.edu🔭 Positions sought: PhD, PostDoc(Positions starting Fall 2025)📚 Topics: Vis+AI; accessibility; perception; medical applications; engineering applications; visual analytics; streaming data visualization
- 🎓 Professor: Mahsan Nourani (Lab Website)🗣️ Contact: M.nourani@northeastern.edu🔭 Positions sought: PhD, PostDoc, PhD Summer Internships (Postdoc: Spring 25 (onward), Intern Summer 25, PhD Fall 25)📚 Topics: Human-centered and Responsible AI, Human-Data Interaction and Collaboration, Visual Analytics, Decision-Making
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
- 🎓 Professor: Jun Han🗣️ Contact: junhanvis@outlook.com🔭 Positions sought: PhD, Research Assistant(Fall 2025)📚 Topics: Scientific Visualization, Human-AI Collaboration, AI for Visualization
- 🎓 Professor: Arpit Narechania🗣️ Contact: arpitnarechania@gatech.edu🔭 Positions sought: PhD(Spring 2025)📚 Topics: Visual Analytics, Human-Computer Interaction, Analytic Provenance, Guidance, Natural Language Processing, Large Language Models
- 🎓 Professor: Huamin Qu (Lab Website)🗣️ Contact: vislab-hiring@outlook.com🔭 Positions sought: PhD, Mphil, RA(Fall25)📚 Topics: Data Visualization, Visual Analytics, Augmented Reality & Virtual Reality in E-Learning
Tulane University
- 🎓 Professor: Brian Summa🗣️ Contact: bsumma@tulane.edu🔭 Positions sought: PhD, PostDoc, Staff positions for large ARPA-H project(Fall 2024, Spring 2024, Fall 2025)📚 Topics: Scientific Visualization, Image Processing, Large Data Systems
University of British Columbia
- 🎓 Professor: Tamara Munzner (Lab Website)🗣️ Contact: tmm@cs.ubc.ca🔭 Positions sought: PhD, MSc(Fall 2025)📚 Topics: visualization and visual analytics, broadly construed
University of Calgary
- 🎓 Professor: Wesley Willett (Lab Website)🗣️ Contact: wesley.willett@ucalgary.ca🔭 Positions sought: PhD, MSchttps://science.ucalgary.ca/computer-science(Fall 2025)📚 Topics: Integrating Visualization and the Physical World, Inclusive Visualization & Analysis
University of Colorado Boulder
- 🎓 Professor: Evan Peck (Lab Website)🗣️ Contact: evan.peck@colorado.edu🔭 Positions sought: PhD(Fall 2025)📚 Topics: public/local communication, political vis, community-based research
- 🎓 Professor: Jonathan Zong (Lab Website)🗣️ Contact: jzong@colorado.edu🔭 Positions sought: PhD(Fall 2025)📚 Topics: accessibility, multisensory data representations, interaction, toolkits, data ethics
University of Maryland, College Park
- 🎓 Professor: Fumeng Yang (Lab Website)🔭 Positions sought: PhD, Please refer to the lab website for more details(Fall 2025)📚 Topics: Current interests include uncertainty communication, AI literacy, decision-making, and model explanation. Other topics related to information visualization, HCI, and visual computing are also possible.
- 🎓 Professor: Leo Zhicheng Liu (Lab Website)🗣️ Contact: leozcliu@umd.edu🔭 Positions sought: PhD(Fall 2025)📚 Topics: vis design tools, generative AI for vis, interaction and animation, event sequence analytics
University of Minnesota
- 🎓 Professor: Qianwen Wang🗣️ Contact: qianwen@umn.edu🔭 Positions sought: PhD(Fall 2025)📚 Topics: AI Interpretability, Human-AI collaboration and co-creation
University of Oklahoma
- 🎓 Professor: Ghulam Jilani Quadri🗣️ Contact: quadri@ou.edu🔭 Positions sought: PhD(Fall 2025)📚 Topics: Perception; Design Optimization; Visual Comprehension; Design Frameworks
University of Toronto
- 🎓 Professor: Fanny Chevalier🔭 Positions sought: PhD, MSc(Fall 2025 (See https://web.cs.toronto.edu/graduate/programs ))📚 Topics: creativity, visualization for climate, visualization literacy and education, etc...
University of Utah
- 🎓 Professor: Paul Rosen🗣️ Contact: paul.rosen@utah.edu🔭 Positions sought: PhD(Fall 2025)📚 Topics: visualization design optimization, computational approaches for visualizations (topology, dimension reduction, etc.), explainable and trustworthy AI, visualization education
- 🎓 Professor: Andrew McNutt🗣️ Contact: andrew.mcnutt@utah.edu🔭 Positions sought: PhD(Fall 2025)📚 Topics: Visualization Tools/Systems (Dashboards, DSLs, Linters), Critical Visualization, Programming Interfaces (Creative Coding, Notebooks, Spreadsheets)
University of Victoria
- 🎓 Professor: Charles Perin (Lab Website)🗣️ Contact: cperin@uvic.ca🔭 Positions sought: PhD, MSc (can be funded)📚 Topics: Information Visualization, HCI, Interaction, Perception, Cognition, Extended Reality, Quantitative and Qualitative Methods, Wearables, In-the-wild Studies, Physical Activities
University of Waterloo
- 🎓 Professor: Matt Brehmer🗣️ Contact: mbrehmer@uwaterloo.ca🔭 Positions sought: PhD, MMath (MSc)(December 1 2024 for Fall 2025 start)📚 Topics: information visualization beyond charts and beyond the desktop, spatial computing + augmented reality for data-rich multimodal collaborative experiences, bite-sized data storytelling, immersive data analogies
Utrecht University
- 🎓 Professor: Angelos Chatzimparmpas (Lab Website)🗣️ Contact: a.chatzimparmpas@uu.nl🔭 Positions sought: PhD(Spring/Fall 2025)📚 Topics: Visualization Tools/Systems, ML Interpretability, Explainable AI, Model Checking, Uncertainty Quantification in ML
Washington University in St. Louis
- 🎓 Professor: Alvitta Ottley (Lab Website)🗣️ Contact: alvitta@wustl.edu🔭 Positions sought: PhD, PostDoc(Fall 2025)📚 Topics: Visual Analytics, Human-AI Teaming, Material Design, Chromatographic Data Analysis