Silvia Miksch

Function
Head
Address

Favoritenstraße 9-11, A-1040 Vienna, Austria

Room
HG 01 15
Phone
+43 (1) 58801 - 18824

CV / Current Position

I studied Information Systems (Economic Computer Science) at the University of Vienna and the Vienna University of Technology with concentration on Applied Statistics and Artificial Intelligence. I received my master of Social and Economic Science from the University of Vienna in 1987 and my Ph.D. in 1990. Afterwards I joined the Knowledge-Based Systems Group at the Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence (OFAI) , as scientific researcher. I was a Postdoctoral Fellow within the Adaptive Intelligent Systems group of the Knowledge Systems Laboratory which in turn is part of the Computer Science Department at Stanford University CA, USA (August 1995 - August 1996, FWF-Erwin Schrödinger post-graduate fellowship). In October 1996, I joined the Institute of Software Technology and Interactive Systems (ISIS), Vienna University of Technology . From November 1999 to Febuary 2006, I was Associate University Professor. From 2006 to 2010 I was University Professor (Univ.Prof.) and head of the Department of Information and Knowledge Engineering at Danube University Krems, Austria. In April 2010 I moved back to the Institute at the Vienna University of Technology to establish the awarded Laura Bassi Centre of Expertise "CVAST - Center for Visual Analytics Science and Technology" funded by the Federal Ministry of Economy, Family and Youth of the Republic of Austria. (This initiative programme, the only one of its kind in Europe, is committed to equal opportunities and to establishing a new research culture to carry out applied basic research in the natural sciences, engineering and technology). As of April 1, 2015 (no joke ;-) ), I am Full University Professor (Visual Analytics) at Vienna University of Technology

From April to September 2001 I was Visiting/Guest Professor at the Department of Simulation and Graphics, Faculty of Computer Science (FIN), Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg. From October 2001 to January 2002 I was Visiting/Guest Professor at the Johannes Kepler University Linz.

From 1997 to 2006 I was chair of the Austrian Society for Artificial Intelligence (ÖGAI) and from 1998 to 2002 I was member (and vice-chair) of the board of the European Coordinating Committee for Artificial Intelligence (ECCAI) .

Our work has been recognized through a variety of awards: Best Paper Award at VIS Workshop vis4dh, 2019, Best Poster Award at IEEE Conference on Visual Analytics Science and Technology (VAST), 2015, Honorable Mention at IEEE Conference on Visual Analytics Science and Technology (VAST), 2012, third price winner at International Symposium on Graph Drawing and Network Visualization (GD) Creative Topic Challenge 2018 and 2019, Recognition of Service Award, Eurographics:European Association for Computer Graphics, 2012.

 

Research Interests

  • Visualization & Visual Analytics
    • Information Visualization
    • Interaction Design
    • Data Analysis Methods: Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery
    • Information Extraction and Integration
    • Knowledge Crystallization Processes
  • Temporal Representation and Reasoning
    • Time-Oriented Modelling
    • Temporal Data Abstraction
  • Plan Management (Continual Plan Modeling)
    • Data and Process Modeling
    • Workflow Systems
    • Planning, Plan Execution, Plan Monitoring and Evaluation
  • Task-oriented Design, Development, and Evaluation in Real-World Environments 
    • Bridging the Gap between Theory and Practice
    • Guideline- and Protocol-based Care: Design, Monitoring, and Therapy Planning
    • Medical Environments: (Neonatal) Intensive Care Units, Diabetes Management, Management of Hyperbilirubinemia/Jaundice
    • Business Intelligence
    • Market Analysis
    • Other disciplines of natural, social, and economic sciences

Teaching (partly in German)

Current Activities

Membership of Scientific Societies (Selection of the last 10 years)

2020                Inducted into The IEEE VGTC Visualization Academy
2018 –  2027   Member of EuroVis Steering Committee; chair of EuroVis Steering Committee (2023–2027)
2015 –  2020   Member of VIS Executive Committee (VEC)
2014 –  2020   Member of VAST Steering Committee
2005 – 2013    Member of AIME Steering Committee
1997 2005    Chairperson of the ÖGAI - Austrian Society for Artificial Intelligence (“Österreichische Gesellschaft für Artificial Intelligence”)
2006 – 2019    Vize-Chairperson of the ÖGAI - Austrian Society for Artificial Intelligence (“Österreichische Gesellschaft für Artificial Intelligence”)
2006 – 2008    Danube University Krems representative in the Forum Neue Medien Austria (FNMA)

Reviewing Activities (Selection of the last 10 years)

2014 – 2017     Member in Advisory Board of EU Project VALCRI
2014 – 2018     Member in Advisory Board of FWF Project KAVA-Time
2015 – 2018     Member in Advisory Board of FIT Project Visual Analytics in Data-driven Journalism (VALID), FFG ICT of the Future
2013 – 2020     Panel Member of European Research Council (ERC): Consolidator Grant, Computer Science and Informatics (PE6): 4 times
2017 – 2023     Scientific Reporter of Austrian Research Fund (FwF)
2021 – 2024     Advisory Board Member of Vienna Science and Technology Fund (WWTF)
2013                   Panel Member of ZIT / Wirtschaftsagentur Wien: Call Science to Products
2014                   Panel Member of ZIT / Wirtschaftsagentur Wien: Innovations (Urban Solutions)
2011 – 2015      Associate Editor of Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG, IEEE)
2011 –  2015     Book Review Editor of Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (AIM-J, Elsevier)
2012 – 2020    Member of Editorial Board of Journal of Biomedical Informatics (JBI, Elsevier)
2017 – 2020     Member of Editorial Board of Computer Graphics Forum (CGF, Wiley)
2021 – 2023     Member of Editorial Board of Cartography and Geographic Information Science (Taylor and Francis).

Chairpersons (selected)

  • VIS Overall Papers Chair (IEEE VIS 2021)
  • Paper Co-Chair of IEEE Conference on Visual Analytics Science and Technology (IEEE VAST 2020)
  • Paper Co-Chair of Eurographics/IEEE Conference on Visualization (EuroVis 2012)
  • Paper Co-Chair of IEEE Conference on Visual Analytics Science and Technology (IEEE VAST 2010 and IEEE VAST 2011)
  • Paper Co-Chair of the Second International Workshop on Visual Analytics (EuroVA 2011)
  • Paper Co-Chair of International Workshop Series on Knowledge Representation for Health Care (KR4HC)

Institutional Responsibilities (Selection of the last 10 years)

2016 – 2018     Member of the Curricular Committees of Computer Science, TU Wien, Austria
2016 – 2025     Member of the Academic Senate, TU Wien, Austria (2016-2017 substitute member) 
2016 – 2023     Member of the Faculty Council of the Faculty of Informatics, TU Wien, Austria
2018 –              Coordinator of the Research Focus Visual Computing and Human-Centered Technology, TU Wien, Austria
2010 – 2016     Member of the Senate at Danube University Krems
1999 –               Member of several Habilitation Committees
2011 –               Member of several Selection Committees of Professors (TU Wien, Austria; Otto-von-Guericke University, Magdeburg, Germany; Department of Computer and Information Science - Norges Teknisk-Naturvitenskapelige Universitet (NTNU), Trondheim, Norwegen)

Further Information

Open Student Topics

Title Scope Area
Visual Analytics Meets Process Mining SE, BA, PR, MA Information Visualization (IV), Visual Analytics (VA)
Knowledge-Assisted Visual Analytics (KnoVA) SE Information Visualization (IV), Visual Analytics (VA)
The Role of Visualization in Machine Learning SE, BA, PR, MA Visual Analytics (VA)
Provenance Visualization SE, BA, PR, MA Information Visualization (IV)
Task-Oriented Guidance for Information Visualization Recommendation SE, BA, PR, MA Information Visualization (IV)
Semi-Automated Data Cleansing of Multivariate Time Series SE, BA, PR, MA Data Quality
Process Visualization SE, BA, PR, MA Visual Analytics (VA)
Visual Recommender Systems & Complex (Big) Data BA, MA Visual Analytics (VA)
Supporting users to understand the data transformation and analytical methods verbally and visually SE, BA, PR, MA Visual Analytics (VA)

Publications

Christian Tominski, Gennady Andrienko, Natalia Andrienko, Susanne Bleisch, Sara Fabrikant, Eva Mayr, Silvia Miksch, Margit Pohl, André Skupin, "Toward Flexible Visual Analytics Augmented through Smooth Display Transitions", Visual Informatics, vol. 5, pp. 28-38, 2021. paper
Andreas Scheidl, Roger Leite, Silvia Miksch, "VisMiFlow: Visual Analytics to Support Citizen Migration Understanding Over Time and Space", , 2021.
Silvia Miksch, "Visual Analytics Meets Process Mining: Challenges and Opportunities", 2021 3rd International Conference on Process Mining (ICPM), 2021.
Niklas Elmqvist, Brian Fisher, Peter Lindstrom, Ross Maciejewski, Miriah Meyer, Silvia Miksch, Luis Nonato, Nathalie Riche, Han-Wei Shen, Ruediger Westermann, Jo Wood, Jing Yang, "VIS 2020 - Preface", IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, vol. 27, pp. xviii-xxv, 2021.
Alessio Arleo, Silvia Miksch, Daniel Archambault, "A Multilevel Approach for Event-Based Dynamic Graph Drawing", EuroVIS 2021 - Short Papers, 2021. paper GitHub page Supplemental Video
: Different combinations of structural and temporal encodings of a network as depicted in our study Velitchko Filipov, Alessio Arleo, Silvia Miksch, "Exploratory User Study on Graph Temporal Encodings", , pp. 126-130, 2021. paper
Davide Ceneda, Alessio Arleo, Theresia Gschwandtner, Silvia Miksch, "Show Me Your Face: Towards an Automated Method to Provide Timely Guidance in Visual Analytics", IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, pp. 12, 2021. paper
Victor Schetinger, Kathrin Raminger, Velitchko Filipov, Nathalie Soursos, Susana Zapke, Silvia Miksch, "Bridging the Gap between Visual Analytics and Digital Humanities: Beyond the Data-Users-Tasks Design Triangle", , 2020.
Davide Ceneda, Natalia Andrienko, Gennady Andrienko, Theresia Gschwandtner, Silvia Miksch, Nikolaus Piccolotto, Tobias Schreck, Marc Streit, Josef Suschnigg, Christian Tominski, "Guide Me in Analysis: A Framework for Guidance Designers", Computer Graphics Forum, vol. 39, pp. 19, 2020. paper
Florian Windhager, Saminu Salisu, Roger Leite, Velitchko Filipov, Silvia Miksch, Günther Schreder, Eva Mayr, "Many Views Are Not Enough: Designing for Synoptic Insights in Cultural Collections", IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, vol. 40, pp. 58-71, 2020. paper
Silvia Miksch, Heike Leite, Min Chen, "Knowledge-Assisted Visualization and Guidance", Foundations of Data Visualization, pp. 61--85, 2020. paper
Johannes Gärtner, Luca Miksch, Mikko Miksch, Silvia Miksch, "Handbuch Fisch & Fußball: Oder warum Fische die besseren Fußballer*innen sind", , 2020. paper
Christian Bors, Christian Eichner, Silvia Miksch, Christian Tominski, Heidrun Schumann, Theresia Gschwandtner, "Exploring Time Series Segmentations Using Uncertainty and Focus+Context Techniques", EuroVis 2020, 2020. paper
Roger Leite, Theresia Gschwandtner, Silvia Miksch, Erich Gstrein, Johannes Kuntner, "NEVA: Visual Analytics to Identify Fraudulent Networks", Computer Graphics Forum, vol. 39, 2020. paper https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/cgf.14042
Teaser Image Alessio Arleo, Walter Didimo, Giuseppe Liotta, Silvia Miksch, Fabrizio Montecchiani, "VAIM: Visual Analytics for Influence Maximization", 28th International Symposium on Graph Drawing and Network Visualization, 2020. arXiv version YouTube
Roger Leite, Victor Schetinger, Davide Ceneda, Bernardo Henz, Silvia Miksch, "COVIs: Supporting Temporal Visual Analysis of Covid-19 Events Usable in Data-Driven Journalism", IEEE VIS 2020, short paper, 2020.
Roger Leite, Alessio Arleo, Johannes Sorger, Theresia Gschwandtner, Silvia Miksch, "Hermes: Guidance-enriched Visual Analytics for economic network exploration", Visual Informatics, Elsevier, vol. 4, 2020.
An uncertainty quantification cube for multivariate time series Christian Bors, Jürgen Bernard, Markus Bögl, Theresia Gschwandtner, Jörn Kohlhammer, Silvia Miksch, "Quantifying Uncertainty in Multivariate Time Series Pre-Processing", EuroVis Workshop on Visual Analytics (EuroVA), 2019.
Davide Ceneda, Theresia Gschwandtner, Silvia Miksch, "A review of guidance approaches in visual data analysis: A multifocal perspective", Computer Graphics Forum, vol. 38, pp. 861-879, 2019. paper
Velitchko Filipov, Alessio Arleo, Davide Ceneda, Silvia Miksch, "The Fabric of Heroes: an Infographic about Marvel Cinematic Universe", International Symposium on Graph Drawing and Network Visualization, 2019.
Velitchko Filipov, Alessio Arleo, Paolo Federico, Silvia Miksch, "CV3: Visual Exploration, Assessment, and Comparison of CVs", Computer Graphics Forum, vol. 38, pp. 11, 2019. paper
Velitchko Filipov, Nathalie Soursos, Victor Schetinger, Susana Zapke, Silvia Miksch, "Exiled but not forgotten: Investigating commemoration of musicians in Vienna after 1945 through Visual Analytics", , 2019.
Eva Mayr, Saminu Salisu, Velitchko Filipov, Günther Schreder, Roger Leite, Silvia Miksch, Florian Windhager, "Visualizing Biographical Trajectories by Historical Artifacts: A Case Study based on the Photography Collection of Charles W. Cushman", , 2019.
Saminu Salisu, Eva Mayr, Velitchko Filipov, Roger Leite, Silvia Miksch, Florian Windhager, "Shapes of Time: Visualizing Set Changes Over Time in Cultural Heritage Collections", , pp. 45-47, 2019.
Sara Fabrikant, Silvia Miksch, Alexander Wolff, "Visual Analytics for Sets over Time and Space (Dagstuhl Seminar 19192)", , vol. 9, pp. 31-57, 2019. paper