EVL at IEEE VIS 2026 in Boston
IEEE VIS 2026 is the premier forum for advances in theory, methods, and applications of visualization and visual analytics. This year’s conference will be held November 9–13 in Boston, and EVL faculty and students will be there with papers, a poster, workshop and challenge presentations, a panel, and the kickoff of VIS 2027 in Chicago.
Full papers
Stefan Cobeli will present “A Neural Field-Based Approach for View Computation & Data Exploration in 3D Urban Environments” in the paper session “Places and spaces” on Thursday at 1:36pm.
Stefan Cobeli, Kazi Shahrukh Omar, Rodrigo Valença (Universidade Federal de Pernambuco), Nivan Ferreira (Universidade Federal de Pernambuco), Fabio Miranda
Kazi Shahrukh Omar will present “VIGMA: An Open-Access Framework for Visual Gait and Motion Analytics” in the paper session “Can we have a (real) doctor, please?” on Tuesday at 1:24pm.
Kazi Shahrukh Omar, Shuaijie Wang (UIC Applied Health Sciences), Ridhuparan Kungumaraju, Tanvi Bhatt (UIC Applied Health Sciences), Fabio Miranda
Siyuan Zhao will present “Loom: Multi-Region Analysis of Spatial Transcriptomics with Local Neighborhoods and Global Trajectories” in the paper session “What does it mean to live, anyway?” on Wednesday at 10:12am.
Siyuan Zhao, Md Nafiul Alam Nipu, Hossein Fathollahian, Hao Chen, Ameen Salahudeen, Olga Karginova, G. Elisabeta Marai
Workshops, challenges, and posters
On Monday morning, Khairi Reda will present “Marks, Channels, and Dead Ends: Stop Running Graphical Perception Studies and Start Modeling Visualizations as Images” at the BELIV’26 workshop (Evaluation and Beyond – Methodological Approaches for Visualization).
Khairi Reda, S. Sharma, Luc Renambot, Fabio Miranda, Saeed Boorboor
On Monday at 3pm, Hossein Fathollahian will present “ConformaLens: Conformational States in Adaptive Molecular Dynamics” at the Bio+MedVis Challenge.
Hossein Fathollahian, Siyuan Zhao, Marziye Salahshour, Saeed Boorboor, G. Elisabeta Marai
Tahsen Islam Sajon will present “LLM Agents for Visualization Generation and Vision-First Evaluation”, his runner-up entry in the AgenticVIS Challenge, at the VISxGenAI workshop on Monday morning.
Stefan Cobeli will also present the poster “Philosophical Lenses on Data Visualization” with Gustavo Moreira at the Welcome Reception + Posters on Tuesday at 6:30pm.
Landon Dyken will present at the VIS Doctoral Colloquium on Sunday, November 8.
Panel and conference service
On Tuesday at 1pm, Liz Marai will be a panelist in “Molecules to Humankind: Challenges in Multiscale Visualization”. Liz Marai is also co-chairing Area 2 of the VIS 2026 full papers.
Saeed Boorboor is an organizer of the VISxGenAI: 2nd GenAI, Agents, and the Future of VIS workshop on Monday morning.
On Thursday at 4:30pm, the VIS 2027 General Chairs, Fabio Miranda, Victor Mateevitsi, Khairi Reda, and Michael E. Papka, will hold the VIS 2027 Kickoff session for VIS 2027 in Chicago, introducing the organizing committee and starting the conference preparation.
Kazi Shahrukh Omar, Siyuan Zhao, and Hossein Fathollahian are student volunteers at the conference.
