Silvia Miksch

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Address

Favoritenstraße 9-11, A-1040 Vienna, Austria

Room
HG 01 15
Email
silvia.miksch@tuwien.ac.at
Phone
+43 (1) 58801 - 18824
ORCID
0000-0003-4427-5703
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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

Research profile

Short Bio

Visualization (Information Visualization, Visual Analytics), Interaction Design, Process Engineering, time-oriented data

Research Keywords

  • Visual Computing
  • Time-oriented Data
  • Information and Knowledge Engineering
  • Information Visualization
  • Information Design
  • Process Engineering
  • Plan Management
  • Medical Informatics
  • Visual Analytics

Awards

  • Bridging the Gap between Visual Analytics and Digital Humanities: Beyond the Data-Users-Tasks Design Triangle
    2019 / Best Paper Award / United States of America / Website
  • The Fabric of Heroes: an Infographic about Marvel Cinematic Universe
    2019 / International Symposium on Graph Drawing and Network Visualization (GD) Creative Topic Challenge / Czech Republic / Website
  • The Circle Of Thrones: Conveying the Story of Game of Thrones Using Radial Infographics
    2018 / International Symposium on Graph Drawing and Network Visualization (GD) Creative Topic Challenge / Spain / Website
  • Visually and Statistically Guided Imputation of Missing Values in Univariate Seasonal Time Series
    2015 / IEEE Conference on Visual Analytics Science and Technology (VAST) / United States of America
  • Honorable Mention at IEEE Conference on Visual Analytics Science and Technology (VAST) 2012
    2011 / IEEE Computer Society Visualization & Graphics Technical Committee (VGTC) / United States of America
  • Recognition of Service Award
    2011 / Eurographics: European Association for Computer Graphics / *
  • Top Cited Article 2005-2010 in Computers and Graphics
    2009 / Pergamon/Elsevier / Netherlands
  • Karl Ritter von Ghega Award of Recognition for the research project "VisuExplore"
    2009 / Land Niederösterreich
  • Karl Ritter von Ghega Award of Recognition for the research project "DisCo"
    2007 / Land Niederösterreich

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, BA, PR, MA Information Visualization (IV), Visual Analytics (VA)
The Role of Visualization in Machine Learning SE, BA, PR, MA Information Visualization (IV), Visual Analytics (VA)
Provenance Visualization SE, BA, PR, MA Information Visualization (IV), Visual Analytics (VA)
Task-Oriented Guidance for Information Visualization Recommendation SE, BA, PR, MA Information Visualization (IV), Visual Analytics (VA)
Semi-Automated Data Cleansing of Multivariate Time Series SE, BA, PR, MA Data Quality, Visual Analytics (VA)
Process Visualization SE, BA, PR, MA Information Visualization (IV), Visual Analytics (VA)
find more open student topics here.

Publications

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. High Quality Poster
Markus Bögl, Christian Bors, Theresia Gschwandtner, Silvia Miksch, "Uncertainty types in segmenting and labeling time series data", , 2018.
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
Christian Bors, Markus Bögl, Theresia Gschwandtner, Silvia Miksch, "Visual Support for Rastering of Unequally Spaced Time Series", 10th International Symposium on Visual Information Communication and Interaction (VINCI), pp. 53-57, 2017. paper
Davide Ceneda, Theresia Gschwandtner, Thorsten May, Silvia Miksch, Hans-Jörg Schulz, Marc Streit, Christian Tominski, "Amending the Characterization of Guidance in Visual Analytics", ArXiv, vol. Human-computer Interaction, 2017.
Paolo Federico, Florian Heimerl, Steffen Koch, Silvia Miksch, "A Survey on Visual Approaches for Analyzing Scientific Literature and Patents", IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, vol. 23, pp. 2179 – 2198, 2017. Video Teaser
Davide Ceneda, Theresia Gschwandtner, Thorsten May, Silvia Miksch, Hans-Jörg Schulz, Marc Streit, Christian Tominski, "Characterizing Guidance in Visual Analytics", IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, vol. 23, pp. 111-120, 2017.
Paolo Federico, Markus Wagner, Alexander Rind, Albert Amor-Amorós, Silvia Miksch, Wolfgang Aigner, "The Role of Explicit Knowledge: A Conceptual Model of Knowledge-Assisted Visual Analytics", Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Visual Analytics Science and Technology (IEEE VAST 2017), 2017. Video Teaser
Markus Bögl, Peter Filzmoser, Theresia Gschwandtner, Tim Lammarsch, Roger Leite, Silvia Miksch, Alexander Rind, "Cycle Plot Revisited: Multivariate Outlier Detection Using a Distance-Based Abstraction", Computer Graphics Forum, vol. 36, pp. 227–238, 2017. Usage Scenario
Albert Amor-Amorós, Paolo Federico, Silvia Miksch, Sebastian Zambanini, Simon Brenner, Robert Sablatnig, "Visual Analytics for Multitemporal Aerial Image Georeferencing", 8th International EuroVis Workshop on Visual Analytics (EuroVA), pp. 55–59, 2017.
Christian Bors, Markus Bögl, Theresia Gschwandtner, Silvia Miksch, "Visual Support for Rastering of Unequally Spaced Time Series", Data Science, Statistics & Visualisation Conference (DSSV), 2017. paper
Theresia Gschwandtner, Markus Bögl, Paolo Federico, Silvia Miksch, "Visual Encodings of Temporal Uncertainty: A Comparative User Study", IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, vol. 22, pp. 539 - 548, 2016.
Florian Windhager, Eva Mayr, Günther Schreder, Michael Smuc, Paolo Federico, Silvia Miksch, "Reframing Cultural Heritage Collections in a Visualization Framework of Space-Time Cubes", Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Computational History (HistoInformatics2016), vol. 1632, pp. 20-24, 2016.
Roger Leite, Theresia Gschwandtner, Silvia Miksch, E. Gstrein, J. Kuntner, "Visual Analytics for Fraud Detection: Focusing on Profile Analysis", Proceedings of the Eurographics Conference on Visualization (EuroVis) - Posters 2016, 2016.
Paolo Federico, Albert Amor-Amorós, Silvia Miksch, "A Nested Workflow Model for Visual Analytics Design and Validation", Proceedings of the Sixth Workshop on Beyond Time and Errors: Novel Evaluation Methods for Visualisation (BELIV '16), 2016. Presentation on Vimeo
Davide Ceneda, Wolfgang Aigner, Markus Bögl, Theresia Gschwandtner, Silvia Miksch, "Guiding the Visualization of Time-oriented Data", Proceedings of the IEEE Visualization Conference (VIS) - Poster, 2016.
Bilal Alsallakh, Luana Micallef, Wolfgang Aigner, Helwig Hauser, Silvia Miksch, Peter Rodgers, "The State-of-the-Art of Set Visualization", Computer Graphics Forum, vol. 35, pp. 234–260, 2016.
Alexander Rind, Wolfgang Aigner, Markus Wagner, Silvia Miksch, Tim Lammarsch, "Task Cube: A Three-Dimensional Conceptual Space of User Tasks in Visualization Design and Evaluation", Information Visualization, vol. 15, pp. 288-300, 2016.
Eva Mayr, Paolo Federico, Silvia Miksch, Günther Schreder, Michael Smuc, Florian Windhager, "Visualization of Cultural Heritage Data for Casual Users", IEEE VIS Workshop on Visualization for the Digital Humanities, 2016.
Paolo Federico, Silvia Miksch, "Evaluation of Two Interaction Techniques for Visualization of Dynamic Graphs", Proc. of the 24th Int. Symp. on Graph Drawing & Network Visualization (GD'16), 2016.
Albert Amor-Amorós, Paolo Federico, Silvia Miksch, "Visually-Supported Graph Traversals for Exploratory Analysis", Proceedings of the IEEE Visualization Conference (VIS) - Poster, 2016.
Wolfgang Aigner, Silvia Miksch, Heidrun Schumann, Christian Tominski, "Visualization Techniques for Time-Oriented Data", Interactive Data Visualization: Foundations, Techniques, and Applications, pp. 253–284, 2015. paper Book webpage
Roger Leite, Theresia Gschwandtner, Silvia Miksch, Erich Gstrein, Johannes Kuntner, "Visual Analytics for Fraud Detection and Monitoring", Poster Proceedings of the IEEE Visualization Conference 2015, 2015.
Florian Windhager, Albert Amor-Amorós, Michael Smuc, Paolo Federico, Lukas Zenk, Silvia Miksch, "A concept for the exploratory visualization of patent network dynamics", Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Information Visualization Theory and Applications, 2015.

Advised Publications

Arno Pany, "SimulAnt : Design and implementation of a simulation environment for ant algorithms in peer-to-peer networks", Institute of Visual Computing and Human-Centered Technology, pp. 89, 2006.
Klaus Hinum, "Gravi++ : an interactive information visualization for high dimensional, temporal data", Institute of Visual Computing and Human-Centered Technology, pp. 133, 2006.
Michael Paesold, "Monitoring Temporal Patterns in Guideline-based Care", , 2006.
Cem Akkaya, "CPGPro - Extracting process information from clinical practice guidelines", Institute of Visual Computing and Human-Centered Technology, pp. 71, 2005. paper
Krisztina Joo, "Konzeption und Entwicklung einer Archivierungsschnittstelle", Institute of Visual Computing and Human-Centered Technology, pp. 99, 2005.
Katharina Kaiser, "LASSIE : modeling treatment processes using information extraction", Institute of Visual Computing and Human-Centered Technology, pp. 223, 2005.
Burcu Yildiz, "Information extraction - utilizing table patterns", Institute of Visual Computing and Human-Centered Technology, pp. 65, 2004. paper
Klaus Hinum, "Human centred design for graphical user interfaces : practical guidelines", Institute of Visual Computing and Human-Centered Technology, pp. 136, 2004. paper
Martin Eller, "Applying information visualization techniques to explore complex irradiation schemes and decay chains", Institute of Visual Computing and Human-Centered Technology, pp. 79, 2004.
Monika Moser, "Identifying Patterns in Clinical Guidelines", , 2004. paper
Wolfgang Aigner, "Interactive Visualization of Time-Oriented Treatment Plans and Patient Data", , 2003.
Monika Lanzenberger, "The Interactive Stardinates An Information Visualization Technique Applied in a Multiple View System", , 2003. paper
Peter Votruba, "Structured knowledge acquisition for Asbru", Institute of Visual Computing and Human-Centered Technology, pp. 67, 2003.
Christian Fuchsberger, "Entwicklung einer Ausführeinheit für Asbru Light' : anhand der kontrollierten Beatmung für Früh- und Neugeborene", Institute of Visual Computing and Human-Centered Technology, pp. 80, 2003.
Stefan Roiser, "Event data modelling for the LHCb experiment at CERN", Institute of Visual Computing and Human-Centered Technology, pp. 99, 2003.
Christian Petzer, "Entwicklung eines interaktiven Systems zur optimalen Vergabe von Patiententerminen in der Physikalischen Therapie", Institute of Visual Computing and Human-Centered Technology, pp. 60, 2001.
Robert Kosara, "Semantic Depth of Field -- Using Blur for Focus+Context Visualization", , pp. 88, 2001.
Peter Messner, "Time Shapes - A Visualization for Temporal Uncertainty in Planning", , 2000.