Open Grad Positions in Visualization

Open Positions

• Arizona State Univeresity

  • 🎓 Professor: Chris Bryan
    🗣️ Contact: cbryan16@asu.edu
    🔭 Positions sought: PhD (Fall 24)
    📚 Topics: Visualization for XAI, Visualization for Education, Cybersecurity/Privacy-related Visualization

• Augusta University

  • 🎓 Professor: Jieqiong Zhao
    🗣️ Contact: jiezhao@augusta.edu
    🔭 Positions sought: PhD (Spring/Fall 24)
    📚 Topics: Data visualization, visual analytics systems, human-computer interaction, human-AI trust,

• Blekinge Institute of Technology

  • 🎓 Professor: Veronica Sundstedt
    🗣️ Contact: veronica.sundstedt@bth.se
    🔭 Positions sought: PhD, (apply at https://tinyurl.com/vavmut2u) (Application deadline 2023-10-31)
    📚 Topics: Visual Analytics, Game Analytics

• Brandeis University

  • 🎓 Professor: Dylan Cashman
    🗣️ Contact: dylan@cs.brandeis.edu
    🔭 Positions sought: PhD (Fall 24)
    📚 Topics: Visualization Tools for Data Scientists, Explainable AI, Visual Interfaces for ML/AI/Language Models

• Carleton University

  • 🎓 Professor: Fateme Rajabi (Lab Website)
    🗣️ Contact: fateme.rajabiyazdi@carleton.ca
    🔭 Positions sought: Masters (Winter/Fall 24)
    📚 Topics: Health Data Visualization

• Carnegie Mellon University

  • 🎓 Professor: Adam Perer (Lab Website)
    🗣️ Contact: adamperer@cmu.edu
    🔭 Positions sought: PhD (Fall 24)
    📚 Topics: Vis systems, Human-AI collaboration for high-stakes decision making, Interpretable ML, healthcare,
  • 🎓 Professor: Dominik Moritz (Lab Website)
    🗣️ Contact: domoritz@cmu.edu
    🔭 Positions sought: PhD (Fall 24)
    📚 Topics: Tools, Scalability, Accessibility, Machine Learning

• Clemson University

  • 🎓 Professor: Federico Iuricich (Lab Website)
    🗣️ Contact: fiurici@clemson.edu
    🔭 Positions sought: PhD, Postdoc (Spring/Fall 24)
    📚 Topics: Data analytics, Systems, Biomedical data, Health data visualization

• Georgia Tech

  • 🎓 Professor: Yalong Yang (Lab Website)
    🗣️ Contact: yalong.yang@gatech.edu
    🔭 Positions sought: PhD (Fall 24)
    📚 Topics: Immersive Analytics, VR/AR, 3D UI & Interaction, Data Science Tools
  • 🎓 Professor: Alex Endert (Lab Website)
    🗣️ Contact: endert@gatech.edu
    🔭 Positions sought: PhD (Fall 24)
    📚 Topics: Visual analytic applications, design studies, interpretable AI/LLMs, Cognitive Bias, coffee
  • 🎓 Professor: Cindy Xiong Bearfield (Lab Website)
    🗣️ Contact: cxiong@u.northwestern.edu
    🔭 Positions sought: PhD students (Fall 24)
    📚 Topics: Visualization, Human Perception, Trust, Decision-Making, Confirmation Bias

• giCentre - City, University of London

  • 🎓 Professor: Mai Elshehaly & Jo Wood (Lab Website)
    🗣️ Contact: mai.elshehaly@city.ac.uk
    🔭 Positions sought: PhD candidates for two fully funded scholarships (Spring / Fall 24)
    📚 Topics: Visualisation, population health, visual analytics

• Inria

  • 🎓 Professors: Petra Isenberg, Tobias Isenberg, Jean-Daniel Fekete (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)

• King's College London

  • 🎓 Professor: Nicolas S. Holliman (Lab Website)
    🗣️ Contact: https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DCM683/phd-studentship-personalising-adjustments-to-information-visualisations-for-optimal-perception-accounting-for-individual-differences-including-ageing
    🔭 Positions sought: PhD (January 24)
    📚 Topics: Personalising visualization

• Linköping University

  • 🎓 Professor: Alexander Bock (Lab Website)
    🗣️ Contact: alexander.bock@liu.se
    🔭 Positions sought: PhD (asap)
    📚 Topics: Real-time large-scale temporary volumetric rendering structures and their applications. Think Quadtree but in 4D.

• Linköping University, Sweden

  • 🎓 Professor: Miriah Meyer (Lab Website)
    🗣️ Contact: miriah.meyer@liu.se
    🔭 Positions sought: PhD, postdoc (always)
    📚 Topics: vis design, vis for the public, non-digital visualizations, critical visualization, collaboration and co-design

• Linnaeus University

  • 🎓 Professor: Andreas Kerren (Lab Website)
    🗣️ Contact: andreas.kerren@lnu.se
    🔭 Positions sought: PostDocs (anytime)
    📚 Topics: Information visualization, visual analytics, network visualization, human-computer interaction, dimensionality reduction, ML4VIS, VIS4ML, explainable AI/ML, text visualization

• MIT

  • 🎓 Professor: Arvind Satyanarayan (Lab Website)
    🗣️ Contact: arvindsatya@mit.edu
    🔭 Positions sought: PhD, Postdocs (Fall 24)
    📚 Topics: Visualization tools/systems, ML interpretability, accessibility, mis/disinformation

• Northeastern

  • 🎓 Professor: Lace Padilla (Lab Website)
    🗣️ Contact: l.padilla@northeastern.edu
    🔭 Positions sought: PhD (Fall 24)
    📚 Topics: Uncertainty Visualization, Perception/Cognition, Decision Making with Risk
  • 🎓 Professor: Carmen Hull
    🗣️ Contact: c.hull@northeastern.edu
    🔭 Positions sought: PhD (Fall 24)
    📚 Topics: Data visualization, physical visualization, tangible interaction/mixed modalities, generative design->ML, diagramming, cognition and perception

• Northwestern University

  • 🎓 Professor: Jessica Hullman (Lab Website)
    🗣️ Contact: jessica.hullman@gmail.com
    🔭 Positions sought: PhD (Fall 24)
    📚 Topics: Visualization + statistical decision theory, information economics

• Purdue University

  • 🎓 Professor: Paul Parsons (Lab Website)
    🗣️ Contact: parsonsp@purdue.edu
    🔭 Positions sought: PhD (Spring 24; Fall 24)
    📚 Topics: vis design practice; vis design cognition; vis in complex socio-technical systems
  • 🎓 Professor: Angus Forbes (Lab Website)
    🗣️ Contact: agforbes@purdue.edu
    🔭 Positions sought: PhD students, Postdoctoral researchers (Fall 24)
    📚 Topics: Visualization of scientific data, real-time graphics, neural graphics, generative ML, computational art, creative AI, natural language interfaces for science databases

• Simon Fraser University

  • 🎓 Professor: Alireza Karduni
    🗣️ Contact: akarduni@sfu.ca
    🔭 Positions sought: PHD, masters (Fall 24)
    📚 Topics: Visualization, visual analytics, persuasion, social media, misinformation

• Tulane University

  • 🎓 Professor: Brian Summa (Lab Website)
    🗣️ Contact: bsumma@tulane.edu
    🔭 Positions sought: PhD (Winter/Fall 24)
    📚 Topics: Scientific Visualization and Image Analysis
  • 🎓 Professor: Rebecca Faust
    🗣️ Contact: rfaust@vt.edu
    🔭 Positions sought: PhD Students (Fall 24)
    📚 Topics: Data Visualization, Human-AI sensemaking, Visualization for data science

• UC Davis

  • 🎓 Professor: Dongyu Liu
    🗣️ Contact: dyuliu@ucdavis.edu
    🔭 Positions sought: PhD students (Fall 24)
    📚 Topics: Visual Analytics, Human-Centered AI

• University of Calgary

  • 🎓 Professor: Wesley Willett (Lab Website)
    🗣️ Contact: wesley.willett@ucalgary.ca
    🔭 Positions sought: MSc, PhD, Post-Doc (Fall 24)
    📚 Topics: Integrating Visualization and the Physical World, Inclusive Visualization & Analysis

• University of Chicago

  • 🎓 Professor: Alex Kale
    🗣️ Contact: kalea@uchicago.edu
    🔭 Positions sought: PhD, Postdocs (Fall 24)
    📚 Topics: Visual data exploration, model interpretability and causal inference, tools for decision-making and value judgments

• University of Colorado Boulder

  • 🎓 Professor: Evan Peck
    🗣️ Contact: evan.peck@colorado.edu
    🔭 Positions sought: PhD (Fall 24)
    📚 Topics: public data communication, visualization for diverse communities, tech ethics and education, critical visualization

• University of Illinois Chicago

  • 🎓 Professors: Liz Marai, Fabio Miranda, Mike Papka, Sidharth Kumar (Lab Website)
    🗣️ Contact: gmarai@uic.edu
    🔭 Positions sought: PhD, Postdocs (always)
    📚 Topics: data visualization, immersive analytics, virtual reality, scientific visualization, urban data visualization, biomedical and biological data visualization

• University of Minnesota

  • 🎓 Professor: Zhutian Chen
    🗣️ Contact: ztchen@umn.edu
    🔭 Positions sought: PhD (always)
    📚 Topics: Vis/HCI systems, Human-AI collaborations, AR/VR, Intelligent UI, 3D Vision and LLM
  • 🎓 Professor: Qianwen Wang
    🗣️ Contact: qianwen@umn.edu
    🔭 Positions sought: MSc, PhD (always)
    📚 Topics: Explainable AI, Human-AI collaboration, BioVis, Visualization for Biomedical AI

• University of Oklahoma

  • 🎓 Professor: Ghulam Jilani Quadri
    🗣️ Contact: quadri@ou.edu
    🔭 Positions sought: PHD (Fall 24)
    📚 Topics: Visualization, HCI, Design Optimization, Human-Centred Computing Systems, Data Comprehension& Exploration

• University of Toronto

  • 🎓 Professor: Carolina Nobre (Lab Website)
    🗣️ Contact: cnobre@cs.toronto.edu
    🔭 Positions sought: PhD (Fall 24)
    📚 Topics: Data visualization, Active Learning, Vis for Education, Adaptive User Interfaces, User studies in Vis

• University of Utah

  • 🎓 Professor: Andrew McNutt
    🗣️ Contact: amcnutt@uw.edu
    🔭 Positions sought: PhD (Fall 24)
    📚 Topics: Visualization Tools/Systems (Dashboards, DSLs, Linters), Critical Visualization, Programming Interfaces (Creative Coding, Notebooks, Spreadsheets)
  • 🎓 Professor: Alexander Lex (Lab Website)
    🗣️ Contact: alex@sci.utah.edu
    🔭 Positions sought: PhD, Postdocs (Fall 24 )
    📚 Topics: Vis tools/systems; medical/bio applications; provenance & reproducibility; user study infrastructure; accesibility; visual misinformation on social media
  • 🎓 Professor: Kate Isaacs
    🗣️ Contact: kisaacs@sci.utah.edu
    🔭 Positions sought: PhD (Fall 24)
    📚 Topics: network visualizations, event timelines, data abstractions, vis in notebooks, computing systems applications

• University of Victoria

  • 🎓 Professor: Charles Perin (Lab Website)
    🗣️ Contact: cperin@uvic.ca
    🔭 Positions sought: PhD (Fall 24)
    📚 Topics: Perception, Personal Data Visualization, Physical Visualization/Making, Visualization Authoring Tools

• Utah State University

  • 🎓 Professor: Isaac Cho (Lab Website)
    🗣️ Contact: isaac.cho@usu.edu
    🔭 Positions sought: PhD (Fall 24)
    📚 Topics: data analytics, immersive analytics, human factors in VR/AR/3DUI

• Utrecht University

  • 🎓 Professor: Angelos Chatzimparmpas (Lab Website)
    🗣️ Contact: angelos.chatzimparmpas@gmail.com
    🔭 Positions sought: PhD (Spring/Fall 24)
    📚 Topics: Visualization Tools/Systems, ML Interpretability, Explainable AI, Model Checking, Uncertainty Quantification in ML