Silvia Miksch

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Head
Address

Favoritenstraße 9-11, A-1040 Vienna, Austria

Room
HG 01 15
Email
silvia.miksch@tuwien.ac.at
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)
find more open student topics here.

Publications

Katharina Kaiser, Cem Akkaya, Silvia Miksch, "{Gaining Process Information from Clinical Practice Guidelines Using Information Extraction}", Proceedings of the 10th Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (AIME 2005), pp. 181–190, 2005.
Katharina Kaiser, Silvia Miksch, "{Modeling Computer-Supported Clinical Guidelines and Protocols. A Survey}", , 2005.
Katharina Kaiser, Cem Akkaya, Silvia Miksch, "{Gaining Process Information from Clinical Practice Guidelines Using Information Extraction}", , 2005.
Katharina Kaiser, Silvia Miksch, "{Information Extraction. A Survey}", , 2005.
Monika Lanzenberger, Silvia Miksch, Margit Pohl, "Exploring Highly Structured Data: A Comparative Study of Stardinates and Parallel Coordinates", Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Information Visualisation (IV 2005), pp. 312--320, 2005. paper
Monika Moser, Silvia Miksch, "{Improving Clinical Guideline Implementation Through Prototypical Design Patterns}", Proceedings of the 10th Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (AIME 2005), pp. 126–130, 2005.
Cristina Polo-Conde, Mar Marcos, Andreas Seyfang, Jolanda Wittenberg, Silvia Miksch, Kitty Rosenbrand, "{Assessment of MHB: an Intermediate Language for the Representation of Medical Guidelines}", Proceedings of the 10th Conference of the Spanish Association for Artificial Intelligence (CAEPIA-05), pp. I-19–I-28, 2005. paper
Markus Rester, Margit Pohl, Klaus Hinum, Silvia Miksch, Susanne Ohmann, Christian Popow, Staven Banovic, "{Assessing the Usability of an Interactive Information Visualization Method as the First Step of a Sustainable Evaluation}", Usability Symposium: Empowering Software Quality: How can Usability Engineering reach these goals?, vol. 198, pp. 31–43, 2005. paper
Peter Votruba, Andreas Seyfang, Silvia Miksch, "{Using the Document Exploration and Linking Tool to Ease Authoring of Clinical Guidelines}", , 2005.
Peter Votruba, Katharina Kaiser, Silvia Miksch, "{Tutorial for the Document Exploration and Linking Tool}", , 2005.
Burcu Yildiz, Katharina Kaiser, Silvia Miksch, "{pdf2table: A Method to Extract Table Information from PDF files}", 2nd Indian International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2005. paper
Andreas Seyfang, Silvia Miksch, Cristina Polo-Conde, Jolanda Wittenberg, Mar Marcos, Kitty Rosenbrand, "{MHB–A Many-Headed Bridge Between Informal and Formal Guideline Representations}", Proceedings of the 10th Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (AIME 2005), pp. 146–150, 2005.
Wolfgang Aigner, Silvia Miksch, "{CareVis: Integrated Visualization of Computerized Protocols and Temporal Patient Data}", Workshop on Intelligent Data Analyis in Medicine and Pharmacology (IDAMAP-2004), 2004. paper
Wolfgang Aigner, Silvia Miksch, "{Communicating the Logic of a Treatment Plan Formulated in Asbru to Domain Experts}", Computer-based Support for Clinical Guidelines and Protocols. Proceedings of the Symposium on Computerized Guidelines and Protocols (CGP 2004), vol. 101, pp. 1–15, 2004. paper
Wolfgang Aigner, Silvia Miksch, "{Supporting Protocol-Based Care in Medicine via Multiple Coordinated Views}", Proceedings of the Second International Conferene on Coordinated & Multiple Views in Exploratory Visualization (CMV'04), pp. 118–129, 2004. paper
Wolfgang Aigner, Silvia Miksch, "{Communicating the Logic of a Treatment Plan Formulated in Asbru to Domain Experts}", Proceedings of the International Joint Meeting EuroMISE 2004, pp. 75, 2004. paper
Ragnar Bade, Silvia Miksch, Stefan Schlechtweg, "{Connecting Time-Oriented Data and Information to a Coherent Interactive Visualization}", Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI-2004), pp. 105–112, 2004. paper
Michael Balser, Oscar Coltell, Joyce van Croonenborg, Christoph Duelli, Frank van Harmelen, Albert Jovell, Peter Lucas, Mar Marcos, Silvia Miksch, Wolfgang Reif, Kitty Rosenbrand, Andreas Seyfang, Annette Teije, "{Protocure: Supporting the Development of Medical Protocols through Formal Methods}", Proceedings of the International Joint Meeting EuroMISE 2004, pp. 81, 2004. paper
Michael Balser, Oscar Coltell, Joyce van Croonenborg, Christoph Duelli, Frank van Harmelen, Albert Jovell, Peter Lucas, Mar Marcos, Silvia Miksch, Wolfgang Reif, Kitty Rosenbrand, Andreas Seyfang, Annette Teije, "{Protocure: Integrating Formal Methods in the Development Process of Medical Guidelines and Protocols}", Computer-based Support for Clinical Guidelines and Protocols. Proceedings of the Symposium on Computerized Guidelines and Protocols (CGP 2004), vol. 101, pp. 103–107, 2004.
Katharina Kaiser, Silvia Miksch, "{Treating Temporal Information in Plan and Process Modeling}", , 2004.
Katharina Kaiser, Silvia Miksch, "{Temporal Plan Interdependencies}", Proceedings of the 16th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI 2004), pp. 1039–1040, 2004. paper
Katharina Kaiser, Silvia Miksch, "{Timewrap – A Method for Automatic Transformation of Structured Guideline Components into Formal Process Representations}", Computer-based Support for Clinical Guidelines and Protocols. Proceedings of the Symposium on Computerized Guidelines and Protocols (CGP 2004), vol. 101, pp. 61–74, 2004. paper
Silvia Miksch, "{Girls-Boys & Computers: Case Studies about Gender Differences in Austrian Schools}", Proceedings of the Third International Conference: Children in the Information Age, 19 Informatics, 2004.
Susanne Ohmann, Christian Popow, B Schuch, A Karwautz, Monika Lanzenberger, Herbert Herzog, Silvia Miksch, "{Manual Based Cognitive Behavioral Group Therapy (Cbt) for Adolescent Girls with Anorexia Nervosa (An) and their Families}", 16th World Congress of the International Association for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Allied Professions (IACAPAP), 2004.
Christian Popow, Susanne Ohmann, Monika Lanzenberger, Herbert Herzog, B Schuch, Silvia Miksch, "{LINK-VIS, a Computer Program for Visualizing the Psychotherapeutical Process of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)}", 16th World Congress of the International Association for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Allied Professions (IACAPAP), 2004.