Silvia Miksch

Function
Head
Address

Favoritenstraße 9-11, A-1040 Vienna, Austria

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

2023                IEEE VGTC Visualization Technical Award
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 – 2026     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

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
Alessio Arleo, Christos Tsigkanos, Chao Jia, Roger Leite, Ilir Murturi, Manfred Klaffenböck, Schahram Dustdar, Silvia Miksch, Michael Wimmer, Johannes Sorger, "Sabrina: Modeling and Visualization of Economy Data with Incremental Domain Knowledge", IEEE VIS 2019, 2019. paper https://www.cvast.tuwien.ac.at/sites/default/files/2019-07/Suppl.%20Material_0…
Davide Ceneda, Theresia Gschwandtner, Silvia Miksch, "You get by with a little help: The effects of variable guidance degrees on performance and mental state", Visual Informatics, vol. 3, pp. 177-191, 2019. paper
The Quality Flow and Provenance Graph views of the Data Quality Provenance Explorer. Christian Bors, Theresia Gschwandtner, Silvia Miksch, "Capturing and Visualizing Provenance From Data Wrangling", IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, vol. 39, pp. 15, 2019. paper
Saminu Salisu, Eva Mayr, Velitchko Filipov, Florian Windhager, Roger Leite, Silvia Miksch, "Shapes of Time: Visualizing Set Changes Over Time", SetVA - Set Visual Analytics Workshop at IEEE VIS 2019, 2019.
Roger Leite, Theresia Gschwandtner, Silvia Miksch, Simone Kriglstein, Margit Pohl, Erich Gstrein, Johannes Kuntner, "EVA: Visual Analytics to Identify Fraudulent Events", IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, vol. 24, pp. 330 - 339, 2018. paper video
Florian Windhager, Paolo Federico, Günther Schreder, Katrin Glinka, Marian Dörk, Silvia Miksch, Eva Mayr, "Visualization of Cultural Heritage Collection Data: State of the Art and Future Challenges", IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, vol. 25, pp. 20, 2018. paper
Christian Bors, Theresia Gschwandtner, Simone Kriglstein, Silvia Miksch, Margit Pohl, "Visual Interactive Creation, Customization, and Analysis of Data Quality Metrics", Journal of Data and Information Quality (JDIQ), vol. 10, pp. 3:1–3:26, 2018. paper
Jürgen Bernard, Christian Bors, Markus Bögl, Christian Eichner, Theresia Gschwandtner, Silvia Miksch, Heidrun Schumann, Jörn Kohlhammer, "Combining the Automated Segmentation and Visual Analysis of Multivariate Time Series", EuroVis Workshop on Visual Analytics (EuroVA) 2018, pp. 49–53, 2018. paper
Christian Bors, Theresia Gschwandtner, Silvia Miksch, "Visually Exploring Data Provenance and Quality of Open Data", EuroVis 2018 - Posters, pp. 9–11, 2018. paper
Davide Ceneda, Theresia Gschwandtner, Thorsten May, Silvia Miksch, Marc Streit, Christian Tominski, "Guidance or No Guidance? A Decision Tree Can Help", EuroVA: International Workshop on Visual Analytics, pp. 19–23, 2018. paper
Velitchko Filipov, Paolo Federico, Silvia Miksch, "CV3: Visual Exploration, Assessment, and Comparison of CVs", EuroVis 2018 - Posters, 2018.
Roger Leite, Theresia Gschwandtner, Silvia Miksch, Erich Gstrein, Johannes Kuntner, "Network Analysis for Financial Fraud Detection", EuroVis 2018 - Posters, 2018. paper
Natalia Andrienko, Tim Lammarsch, Gennady Andrienko, Georg Fuchs, Daniel Keim, Silvia Miksch, Alexander Rind, "Viewing Visual Analytics as Model Building", Computer Graphics Forum, vol. 37, pp. 275–299, 2018. paper
Davide Ceneda, Theresia Gschwandtner, Silvia Miksch, Christian Tominski, "Guided Visual Exploration of Cyclical Patterns in Time-series", , 2018. paper
Markus Bögl, Christian Bors, Theresia Gschwandtner, Silvia Miksch, "Categorizing Uncertainties in the Process of Segmenting and Labeling Time Series Data", , 2018. paper
Christian Bors, Markus Bögl, Jürgen Bernard, Theresia Gschwandtner, Silvia Miksch, "Quantifying Uncertainty in Time Series Data Processing", , 2018.
Velitchko Filipov, Davide Ceneda, Michael Koller, Alessio Arleo, Silvia Miksch, "The Circle Of Thrones: Conveying the Story of Game of Thrones Using Radial Infographics", , 2018. paper High Quality Poster
Markus Bögl, Christian Bors, Theresia Gschwandtner, Silvia Miksch, "Uncertainty types in segmenting and labeling time series data", , 2018. paper
Roger Leite, Theresia Gschwandtner, Silvia Miksch, Erich Gstrein, Johannes Kuntner, "Visual analytics for event detection: Focusing on fraud", Visual Informatics, Elsevier, vol. 2, 2018. paper