Silvia Miksch

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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

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 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 Bors, Theresia Gschwandtner, Silvia Miksch, "QualityFlow: Provenance Generation from Data Quality", Proceedings of the Eurographics Conference on Visualization (EuroVis) - Posters 2015, pp. 3, 2015.
Markus Bögl, Wolfgang Aigner, Peter Filzmoser, Theresia Gschwandtner, Tim Lammarsch, Silvia Miksch, Alexander Rind, "Visually and Statistically Guided Imputation of Missing Values in Univariate Seasonal Time Series", Poster Proceedings of the IEEE Visualization Conference 2015, 2015. Preview Video
Martin Röhlig, Martin Luboschik, Markus Bögl, Frank Krüger, Bilal Alsallakh, Silvia Miksch, Thomas Kirste, Heidrun Schumann, "Supporting Activity Recognition by Visual Analytics", Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Visual Analytics Science and Technology, 2015. Teaser
Margit Pohl, Florian Scholz, Simone Kriglstein, Bilal Alsallakh, Silvia Miksch, "Evaluating the Dot-Based Contingency Wheel: Results from a Usability and Utility Study", HCI International, pp. 76--86, 2014.
Daniel Archambault, James Abello, Jessie Kennedy, Stephen Kobourov, Kwan-Liu Ma, Silvia Miksch, Chris Muelder, Alexandru Telea, "Temporal Multivariate Networks", Multivariate Network Visualization, pp. 151-174, 2014. paper
Martin Röhlig, Martin Luboschik, Heidrun Schumann, Markus Bögl, Bilal Alsallakh, Silvia Miksch, "Analyzing Parameter Influence on Time-Series Segmentation and Labeling", Poster Proceedings of the IEEE Visualization Conference (VIS), 2014. Preview
Paolo Federico, Stephan Hoffmann, Alexander Rind, Wolfgang Aigner, Silvia Miksch, "Qualizon Graphs: Space-Efficient Time-Series Visualization with Qualitative Abstractions", Proceedings of the 12th International Working Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces (AVI2014), pp. 273-280, 2014. http://www.cvast.tuwien.ac.at/QualizonGraphs
Albert Amor-Amorós, Paolo Federico, Silvia Miksch, "TimeGraph: a Data Management Framework for Visual Analytics of Large Multivariate Time-Oriented Networks", Poster Proceedings of the IEEE Visualization Conference (VIS), 2014. TimeGraph teaser
Alexander Rind, Wolfgang Aigner, Markus Wagner, Silvia Miksch, Tim Lammarsch, "User Tasks for Evaluation: Untangling the Terminology Throughout Visualization Design and Development", Proceedings of the Fifth Workshop on Beyond Time and Errors: Novel Evaluation Methods for Visualization (BELIV), pp. 9–15, 2014.
Paolo Federico, Albert Amor-Amorós, Silvia Miksch, "Knowledge-assisted EHR visualization for cohorts", Proceedings of the IEEE Vis Workshop on Visualizing Electronic Health Record Data (EHRVis 2014), 2014.
Christian Bors, Theresia Gschwandtner, Silvia Miksch, Johannes Gärtner, "QualityTrails: Data Quality Provenance as a Basis for Sensemaking", Proceedings of the IEEE VIS Workshop on Provenance for Sensemaking, pp. 1–2, 2014.
Silvia Miksch, Wolfgang Aigner, "A Matter of Time: Applying a Data-Users-Tasks Design Triangle to Visual Analytics of Time-Oriented Data", Computers & Graphics, Special Section on Visual Analytics, vol. 38, pp. 286-290, 2014.
Tim Lammarsch, Wolfgang Aigner, Alessio Bertone, Silvia Miksch, Alexander Rind, "Mind the Time: Unleashing Temporal Aspects in Pattern Discovery", Computers & Graphics, vol. 38, pp. 38-50, 2014.
Bilal Alsallakh, Markus Bögl, Theresia Gschwandtner, Silvia Miksch, Bilal Esmael, Arghad Arnaout, Gerhard Thonhauser, Philipp Zöllner, "A Visual Analytics Approach to Segmenting and Labeling Multivariate Time Series Data", EuroVis Workshop on Visual Analytics (EuroVA), pp. 31-35, 2014.
Bilal Alsallakh, Luana Micallef, Wolfgang Aigner, Helwig Hauser, Silvia Miksch, Peter Rodgers, "Visualizing Sets and Set-typed Data: State-of-the-Art and Future Challenges", Eurographics conference on Visualization (EuroVis)– State of The Art Reports, pp. 1-21, 2014. Survey Browser
Theresia Gschwandtner, Wolfgang Aigner, Silvia Miksch, Johannes Gärtner, Simone Kriglstein, Margit Pohl, Nikolaus Suchy, "TimeCleanser: A Visual Analytics Approach for Data Cleansing of Time-Oriented Data", 14th International Conference on Knowledge Technologies and Data-driven Business (i-KNOW 2014), pp. 1-8, 2014.
Bilal Alsallakh, Allan Hanbury, Helwig Hauser, Silvia Miksch, Andreas Rauber, "Visual Methods for Analyzing Probabilistic Classification Data", IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, vol. 20, pp. 1703--1712, 2014. Examples with public classification datasets The visual and interaction metaphors
Bilal Alsallakh, Silvia Miksch, Andreas Rauber, "Towards a Visualization of Multi-faceted Search Results", Workshop on Knowledge Maps and Information Retrieval (KMIR), vol. 1311, pp. 4, 2014.
Simone Kriglstein, Margit Pohl, Nikolaus Suchy, Johannes Gärtner, Theresia Gschwandtner, Silvia Miksch, "Experiences and Challenges with Evaluation Methods in Practice: A Case Study", Fifth Workshop on Beyond Time and Errors: Novel Evaluation Methods for Visualization (BELIV '14), pp. 118-125, 2014. paper
Peter Bodesinsky, Bilal Alsallakh, Theresia Gschwandtner, Silvia Miksch, "Visual Process Mining: Event Data Exploration and Analysis", Poster Proceedings of the IEEE Visualization Conference (VIS), 2014.
Markus Bögl, Wolfgang Aigner, Peter Filzmoser, Theresia Gschwandtner, Tim Lammarsch, Silvia Miksch, Alexander Rind, "Visual Analytics Methods to Guide Diagnostics for Time Series Model Predictions", Proceedings of the 2014 IEEE VIS Workshop on Visualization for Predictive Analytics, 2014.
Tim Lammarsch, Wolfgang Aigner, Silvia Miksch, Alexander Rind, "Showing Important Facts to a Critical Audience by Means Beyond Desktop Computing", Death of the Desktop - Workshop co-located with IEEE VIS 2014, 2014.
Michael Smuc, Paolo Federico, Florian Windhager, Wolfgang Aigner, Lukas Zenk, Silvia Miksch, "How Do You Connect Moving Dots? Insights from User Studies on Dynamic Network Visualizations", Handbook of Human Centric Visualization, pp. 623-650, 2013.
Alexander Rind, Taowei Wang, Wolfgang Aigner, Silvia Miksch, Krist Wongsuphasawat, Catherine Plaisant, Ben Shneiderman, "Interactive Information Visualization to Explore and Query Electronic Health Records", Foundations and Trends in Human-Computer Interaction, vol. 5, pp. 207-298, 2013.
Tim Lammarsch, Wolfgang Aigner, Alessio Bertone, Silvia Miksch, Alexander Rind, "Mind the Time: Unleashing the Temporal Aspects in Pattern Discovery", Fourth International Eurovis Workshop on Visual Analytics held in Europe (EuroVA 2013), pp. 31-35, 2013.