Projects
DoRIAH
Domain-adaptive Remote Sensing Image Analysis with Human-in-the-loop
GuidedVA
Guidance-Enriched Visual Analytics for Temporal Data
Bio
Ignacio Baltazar Pérez-Messina is a Ph.D. candidate at TU Wien’s Centre for Visual Analytics Science and Technology (CVAST), where he has been conducting research since 2021. His work focuses on guidance in mixed-initiative visual analytics systems, particularly in progressive analysis processes and user interaction. Ignacio has presented his research at major international venues including EuroVis, EuroVA, and IEEE VIS, receiving an Honourable Mention at EuroVA 2023. He has also participated in interdisciplinary residencies and events, such as the Bibliothek Andreas Züst residency in Switzerland and the Creartathon in Paris, and exhibited media artworks at the VIS Arts Program. In 2025, he joined the NII International Internship Program in Tokyo, where he worked on the visualization of typographical forensics in historical Japanese movable type printing.
Timeline
2021
- Joined the CVAST lab at TU Wien (September 1)
- Exhibited "Spectrographies" at VISAP'21 (October)
2022
- Presented "A Typology of Guidance Tasks in Mixed-Initiative Visual Analytics Environments" at EuroVis 2022, Rome (June)
- Participated in the week-long hackathon Creartathon '22, Paris (July)
2023
- Presented at Universidad de Chile (January)
- Artistic residency at Bibliothek Andreas Züst, St. Anton, Switzerland (April)
- Ph.D. Proficiency Evaluation: Presented proposal "Progressive Guidance in Visual Analytics" (May)
- Presented "A Methodology for Task-Driven Guidance Design" at EuroVA 2023, Leipzig — Honourable Mention (June)
- Presented "Guided Visual Analytics for Image Selection in Time and Space", Melbourne (October)
- Exhibited "The Vast Territory" at VISAP'23, Melbourne (October)
2024
- Presented "Persistent Interaction: User-Generated Artefacts in Visual Analytics" at EuroVA'24, Odense (June)
- Research visit to UCLab, FH Potsdam (July)
- Exhibited "Mosaic Memory Drive" at VISAP'24 (October)
2025
- Internship at National Institute of Informatics (NII), Tokyo — Project on Visualization for Typographical Forensics of Kokatsuji (March–July)
- Presented "Coupling Guidance and Progressiveness in Visual Analytics" at EuroVis 2025, Luxembourg (June 5)
- Presented at National Institute of Japanese Literature (August)
