Open Grad Positions in Visualization

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

• Newcastle Univeristy

  • 🎓 Professor: Xinhuan Shu
    🗣️ Contact: xinhuan.shu@newcastle.ac.uk
    🔭 Positions sought: PhD(Fall 2025)
    📚 Topics: AI literacy, data-driven storytelling, Human-AI collaboration

• 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