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

Andreas Seyfang, Michael Paesold, Peter Votruba, Silvia Miksch, "{Improving the Execution of Clinical Guidelines and Temporal Data Abstraction in High-Frequency Domains}", , pp. 263–272, 2008.
Tim Lammarsch, Wolfgang Aigner, Alessio Bertone, Johannes Gärtner, Silvia Miksch, Thomas Turic, "A Comparison of Programming Platforms for Interactive Visualization in Web Browser Based Applications", Proceedings of 12th International Conference on Information Visualisation (IV08), pp. 194–199, 2008. paper
Wolfgang Aigner, Alessio Bertone, Silvia Miksch, "{Tutorial: Introduction to Visual Analytics}", Proceedings of 3rd Symposium Usability & HCI for Medicine and Healthcare (USAB 07), pp. 457–460, 2007. paper
Wolfgang Aigner, Alessio Bertone, Silvia Miksch, Heidrun Schumann, Christian Tominski, "{Towards a Conceptual Framework for Visual Analytics of Time and Time-Oriented Data}", Proceedings of the 2007 Winter Simulation Conference, pp. 721–729, 2007. paper
Wolfgang Aigner, Silvia Miksch, Wolfgang Müller, Heidrun Schumann, Christian Tominski, "{Visualizing Time-Oriented Data - A Systematic View}", Computers & Graphics, vol. 31, pp. 401–409, 2007. paper
Wolfgang Aigner, Klaus Hinum, Silvia Miksch, "{InfoVis:Wiki - Eine Informations- und Diskussionsplattform für die InfoVis-Community}", Wikis im Social Web, pp. 112–127, 2007. paper
Bernhard Hoisl, Wolfgang Aigner, Silvia Miksch, "{Social Rewarding in Wiki Systems - Motivating the Community}", Proceedings of HCI International - 12th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (HCII 2007), vol. 4564/2007, pp. 362–371, 2007. paper
Bernhard Hoisl, Wolfgang Aigner, Silvia Miksch, "{Soziale Belohnung in Wiki Systemen}", Wikis im Social Web, pp. 60–72, 2007. paper
Markus Martin, Wolfgang Aigner, Silvia Miksch, "{Stand der Technik der Abfrage und Repräsentation von Online Fahr- und Flugplänen}", , 2007. paper
Georg Prohaska, Wolfgang Aigner, Silvia Miksch, "{Glyphs and Visualization of Multivariate Data}", , 2007. paper
Martin Eller, Silvia Miksch, Jaques Lettry, T. Stora, "{Calculation of Production and Decay of Radioisotopes for Future Irradiation Experiments and Ion Beam Facilities}", European Physical Journal, vol. Special Topics 150, pp. 233–234, 2007. paper
Christian Fuchsberger, Silvia Miksch, Lucas Forer, Cristian Pattaroa, "{Analyzing Populations with Visual and Analytical Methods to Identify Family Clustered Diseases}", 12th World Congress on Health (Medical) Informatics (Medinfo'2007), pp. P317 (1–2), 2007. paper
Silvia Miksch, Jim Hunter, Elpida Keravnou, "{Theme: Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (AIME 05)}", Special issue of the journal "Artificial Intelligence in Medicine" (AIIM), vol. 39, 2007.
Katharina Kaiser, Silvia Miksch, "{Formalizing 'Living Guidelines' using LASSIE: A Multi-step Information Extraction Method}", Proceedings of the 11th Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (AIME 2007), pp. 401–410, 2007. paper
Katharina Kaiser, Silvia Miksch, Patrick Martini, Alime Oeztuerk, "{A Meta Schema for Evidence Information in Clinical Practice Guidelines as a Basis for Decision-Making}", 12th World Congress on Health (Medical) Informatics (Medinfo'2007), pp. 925–929, 2007. paper
Katharina Kaiser, Cem Akkaya, Silvia Miksch, "How Can Information Extraction Ease Formalizing Treatment Processes in Clinical Practice Guidelines? A Method and its Evaluation", Special issue of the Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (AIIM), Theme: Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (AIME 05), vol. 39, pp. 151–163, 2007. paper
Katharina Kaiser, Silvia Miksch, "{Modeling Treatment Processes Using Information Extraction}", Computational Intelligence In Healthcare (SCI), vol. 48, pp. 189–224, 2007. paper
Tze Leong, Katharina Kaiser, Silvia Miksch, "{Free and Open Source Enabling Technologies for Patient-Centric, Guideline-Based Clinical Decision Support: A Survey}", IMIA Yearbook of Medical Informatics, Methods Inf Med, vol. 46, pp. 74–86, 2007. paper
Silvia Miksch, Jim Hunter, Elpida Keravnou, "{Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Medicine AIME 05 (Guest Editorial)}", Special issue of the Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (AIIM), vol. 39, pp. 97–98, 2007. paper
Silvia Miksch, "{Freiheit mit System - Möglichkeiten und Grenzen der Seniorenhilfe}", upgrade, pp. 30–34, 2007. paper
Alime Oeztuerk, Katharina Kaiser, Patrick Martini, Silvia Miksch, "Embedding the Evidence Information in Guideline Representation Languages", 20th IEEE International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems (CBMS 2007), pp. 512–517, 2007. paper
Markus Rester, Margit Pohl, Silvia Wiltner, Klaus Hinum, Silvia Miksch, Christian Popow, Susanne Ohmann, "{Mixing Evaluation Methods for Assessing the Utility of an Interactive InfoVis Technique}", Proceedings of HCI International - 12th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (HCII 2007), pp. 604–613, 2007. paper
Markus Rester, Margit Pohl, Silvia Wiltner, Klaus Hinum, Silvia Miksch, Christian Popow, Susanne Ohmann, "{Evaluating an InfoVis Technique Using Insight Reports}", 11th International Conference on Information Visualization (IV 2007), pp. 693–700, 2007. paper
Burcu Yildiz, Silvia Miksch, "{Motivating Ontology-Driven Information Extraction}", International Conference on Semantic Web and Digital Libraries, (ICSD-2007), 2007. paper
Burcu Yildiz, Silvia Miksch, "{Ontology-Driven Information Systems: Challenges and Requirements}", International Conference on Semantic Web and Digital Libraries (ICSD-2007), 2007. paper