Open Grad Positions in Visualization

Open Positions

• 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 (Fall25)
    📚 Topics: ML Interpretability, Visual Analytics, Toolkits, Accessibility, Scalability

• Clemson University

  • 🎓 Professor: Federico Iuricich (Lab Website)
    🗣️ Contact: fiurici@clemson.edu
    🔭 Positions sought: PhD (Fall25)
    📚 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

• 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)
    🗣️ Contact:
    🔭 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)
    🗣️ Contact:
    🔭 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)

• Northeastern University

  • 🎓 Professor: Lace Padilla (Lab Website)
    🗣️ Contact: l.padilla@northeastern.edu
    🔭 Positions sought: PhD (Fall25)
    📚 Topics: Visualization of Uncertainty, Decision-making in Visualization, Perception, Cognition

• University of Calgary

  • 🎓 Professor: Wesley Willett (Lab Website)
    🗣️ Contact: wesley.willett@ucalgary.ca
    🔭 Positions sought: PhD, MSchttps://science.ucalgary.ca/computer-science (Fall25)
    📚 Topics: Integrating Visualization and the Physical World, Inclusive Visualization & Analysis

• University of Maryland, College Park

  • 🎓 Professor: Fumeng Yang (Lab Website)
    🗣️ Contact:
    🔭 Positions sought: PhD, Please refer to the lab website for more details (Fall25)
    📚 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.

• 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 (Fall25 for positions starting fall 25)
    📚 Topics: Perception; Design Optimization; Visual Comprehension; Design Frameworks

• University of Toronto

  • 🎓 Professor: Fanny Chevalier
    🗣️ Contact:
    🔭 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