Research

I am interested in craftinf novel visual tools, to support humans in solving real-world, data-intensive problems. This work lies at the intersection of the academic fields of Information/Data Visualization (Infovis, DataViz), Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), and Design. My results are publications, prototypes, and toolkits, available online and their code open-source on GitHub. I have also interests for the combination of art, design, and visualization, to explore untapped design spaces. I currently apply my research to various domains, such as COVID-19 data, Sports Data and Deep Learning Explanability.

Funded Projects

NEPTUNE (ANR 2020-2024) - Improving elite swimmers performance with novel video tracking methods and visualization.

MI2 Urban Mobility (PIA 2017-2021): Urban mobility data visualizations. Learn more about the project here.

Visual Analytics (VisTics): We chrome-vs-code at pushing the envelope of Visual Analytics tools and methods, by building a high performance infrastructure for visual exploration and steering of predictive models. The funding comes from a research starting grant Impulsion 2017 and will last one year (starting January 2017).

3D Motion Capture Visualization & Analysis (Amigo): École Centrale de Lyon has just acquired a state-of-the-art motion capture platform. We are interested in finding motion patterns and building predictive models, using interactive visualizations. Details on the platform and preliminary results are available. We are also interested in building benchmark datasets of annotated motions.

PhD students

• Theo Jaunet (2018 - 2021 French ministry PhD fellowship)
  Transparency and Explainability for Machine Learning

• Liqun Liu (2018 - 2022 CSC Fellowship)
  Visualizing Traffic Light Strategies in Smart Cities

• Nicolas Jacquelin (2019 - 2022 CNRS scholarship)
  Video Analysis for Sport Movement Analysis

Awards

• Best paper, honorable mention at CHI’15
  Investigating the Direct Manipulation of Ranking Tables

• Best paper, honorable mention at InfoVis’13
  SoccerStories: A Kick-off for Soccer Visual Analysis

• Best poster, honorable mention at InfoVis’15
  Visualizing the Scale of World Economies

• Best poster at InfoVis’12
  Towards Visual Sedimentation

Program Committee Member

• IEEE InfoVis - 2015, 2016, 2017 (max 3 years in a row), 2019, 2020
• ACM CHI Visualization PC - 2020
• ACM CHI (Late-Breaking Works) - 2017
• ACM IUI - 2019, 2020
• VIS Arts Program - 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018
• BusinessVis - 2015
• Logs Visualization Workshop - 2016
• Journée Visu - 2017
• BlendWebMix - 2016, 2017

Reviewer

• ACM CHI 2013 → 2020
• IEEE InfoVis 2011 → 2021
• IEEE VAST 2011 → 2014, 2016, 2018, 2019
• IEEE VAST Challenge 2014, 2016, 2017
• IEEE SciVis 2016, 2018
• IHM 2009 → 2014, 2017
• EuroVis 2013 → 2014, 2016, 2018, 2020
• PacificVis 2014 → 2015, 2020
• TVCG 2020
• IUI 2015, ECIS 2015, TVX 2015, Mobile HCI 2011, IEEE Multimedia
• ACM CSCW Posters 2017
• DIS 2010
• GI 2018
• IEEE CG&A 2018 (list of reviewers)
• C&C Pictorial 2017
• IV Journal 2017
• Immersive Analytics workshop 2019, 2020

Conference Organization

• 1st Sciences 2024 Conference online
• GDR Journée Visu 2020 online
• Panels co-chair of the Web Conference (WWW 2018) in Lyon
• Scientific Organizer of Journée Visu 2017 in Paris
• Founder and co-organizer of the Meetup Lyon DataViz in Lyon
• Co-organizer of the Logging Interactive Visualizations & Visualizing Interaction Logs during IEEE Vis 2016, Baltimore, USA
• Symposium on Inclusive Growth and Development 2015
• GEM 2013, GEM 2014 Global Empowerment Meeting
• Email2012 “International Workshop on Messaging and Web of Data: Private meets Public (and vice-versa)”
• NextMail’11 ”First International Workshop on Next Trends in Email”
• Local organization committee: VLDB 2009, MEDES 2009, UbiMob 2010, NextMail’11, WWW 2012 (Volunteers Track co-chair).

Past projects

• Starting Research Grant (Lyon / Palse / Impulsion) 2017
• French Ambassy Grand / Research Travel Grant to Tokyo
• PhD travel grant (2008). Visiting Catherine Plaisant, HCIL, University of Maryland working on text visualization 3K€

Past students

Theo Jaunet: Crowdsourcing of data graphics labels

• Master Student Internship (M1) from Université de Lyon
• Start/End: July 2017 → August 2017
• GitHub: https://github.com/sical/NameThatChart

Owen Cornec: The Globe of Economic Complexity

• Master Student Internship from ECE Paris
• Start/End: March 2015 → August 2015
• Demo: http://globe.cid.harvard.edu/
• GitHub: https://github.com/cid-harvard/globe/
• Publication: Infovis’15 Poster

Ye Lin: Spirograph Designs for DataViz

• Master Student Internship from Université Paris Sud
• Start/End: March 2013 → June 2013
• Demo: https://vimeo.com/74122568]
• GitHub: https://github.com/rosejay/SpiroViz
• Publication: InfoVis Arts Program’13

Azhar Ait Ouassarah, Florian Debiesse: Shift-Box Thunderbird Extension

• Bac+3 and Bac+4 students from INSA Lyon
• Start/End: Spring 2009 and 2010
• Demo: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/shift-box/
• GitHub: https://github.com/romsson/shift-box/
• Publication: Poster at CEAS’10

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