Committees

Organising Committee

Honorary Chair:

Prof. Dr. Penousal Machado, , Coimbra University, Portugal

General Co-Chairs:
Ebad Banissi (Em Prof. Dr), LSBU, UK
Dr Evgheni Polisciuc, Coimbra University, Portugal

Symposium General Co-Chairs:
Kawa Nazemi (Prof.), Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences, Germany – Visual Analytics and Data Science
Boris Kovalerchuk (Prof.), University of Central Washington, USA – AI and Visual Knowledge Discovery
Urska Cvek (Prof.), Louisiana State University, USA – Visualization and Artificial Intelligence for Medicine, Healthcare
Anna Ursyn (Prof.), University of Northern Colorado, USA – Digital Art and Gallery

Publication Chairs:
Dr. Rita Francese, University of Salerno, IT
Prof. Joao Moura Pires, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, PT (publicity chair)
Prof. Nuno Datia, ISEL/Instituto Politecnico de Lisboa, PT (web chair)
Prof. Kawa Nazemi, Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences, Germany

Social Media Chairs:
Dr Ana Figueiras, CICANT and Universidade Lusófona, PT (media chair)
Barbara Nascimento, Coimbra University , Coimbra, Portugal

Steering & Programme Committee Chair:
Dr Catarina Maçãs, Coimbra University, Portugal 

Local – coordinator organiser chair
Dr João Miguel Cunha, Coimbra University, Portugal

Overall Conference Coordinator:
GraphicsLink, UK

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Programme Committee

• Abdellatif BETTAYEB, SA
• Ahmad Aljamali, KW
• Ahmad Khurshid, IE
• Alejandro Garcia-Alonso, ES
• Alexander Mikroyannidis, UK
• Alma Leora Culén, NO
• Ana Figueiras, PT
• Ana Paula Afonso, PT
• Ana Paula Cláudio, PT
• Andre Skupin, US
• Andrea Sterbini, IT
• Andreas Holzinger, AT
• Andrew Fish, UK
• Andrew Agapiou, UK
• Angel Cataron, RO
• Anna Ursyn, US
• Antonio Fernandez Anta, ES
• Arzu Çöltekin, CH
• Bianchi Serique Meiguins, BR
• Blaz Zupan, SI
• Boris Kovalerchuk, US
• Bruno Martins, PT
• Camilla Forsell, SE
• Carla Limongelli, IT
• Carla M.D.S Freitas, BR
• Chen Zhong, UK
• Cheng-Chieh Chiang, TW
• Chris Walshaw, UK
• Christin Seifert, NL
• Christine Judith Nicholls, AU
• Chun-Cheng Lin, TW
• Clark Cory, US
• Damiano Distante, IT
• Daniel C Howe, HK
• Daniel Gonçalves, PT
• Daniela Sirbu, CA
• Davide Taibi, IT
• Delfina Malandrino, IT
• Donato Pirozzi, IT
• Dorrit Vibeke Sorensen, SG
• Ebad Banissi, UK
• Elena Railean, MD
• Elvira Popescu, RO
• Fabio Gasparetti, IT
• Fatma Bouali, FR
• Fatma Zohra Nouri, DZ
• Fernando A. Costa, PT
• Fernando Birra, PT
• Filippo Sciarrone, IT
• Francesco Bianconi, IT
• Gaetano Cimino, IT
• Gearoid Patrick Lydon, CH
• Gehan Nagy, EG
• Gennady Andrienko, DE
• Gennaro Costagliola, IT
• Gilles Venturini, FR
• Giovanni Issini, IT
• Giuseppe Desolda, IT
• Giuseppe Polese, IT
• Haifeng Shen, AU
• Hanane Azzag, FR
• Harri Siirtola, FI
• Hascoët Mountaz, FR
• Heimo Müller, AT
• Hideki Aoyama, JP
• Hing-Wah Chau, AU
• Hovhannes Harutyunyan, CA
• Hsu-Chun Yen, TW
• Hussein Karam Abd-Elsattar, EG
• Ivana Marenzi, DE
• James Faure Walker, UK
• Janet Wesson, ZA
• Javier Diaz-Martinez, AU
• Jian J Zhang, UK
• Jie Hua, AU
• João Miguel Cunha, PT
• João Moura Pires, PT
• Joaquin Garcia-Alfaro, FR
• John Counsell, UK
• John Trobaugh, US
• Jorge Delgado, ES
• Joske Houtkamp, NL
• Katherine Liapi, GR
• Katja Wengler, DE
• Kawa Nazemi, DE
• Kok Why Ng, MY
• Laurent Moccozet, CH
• Loredana Caruccio, IT
• Maiga Chang, CA
• Malinka Ivanova, BG
• Mao Lin Huang, AU
• Marco Temperini, IT
• Maria Beatriz Carmo, PT
• Maria Caulo, IT
• Maria De Marsico, IT
• Mark Apperley, NZ
• Mark Bannatyne, US
• Matilde Pós-de-Mina Pato, PT
• Maya Dimitrova, BG
• Mengbi Li, AU
• Md Mizanur Rahman, UK
• Michael Zeiller, AT
• Michela Bertolotto, IE
• Milos Kravcik, DE
• Minoru Nakayama, JP
• Min-Yuh Day, TW
• Mohamed Salah HAMDI, QA
• Muhammad Hussain, SA
• Muhammad Sarfraz, KW
• Nacéra Benamrane, DZ
• Natasha Dejdumrong, TH
• Nicholas Diakopoulos, US
• Nicola Villa, IT
• Nicola Capece, IT
• Nuno Datia, PT
• Paloma Diaz, ES
• Paolo Buono, IT
• Pär-Anders Albinsson, SE
• Paul Cairns, UK
• Paul Sant, UK
• Pedro Miguel Cruz, US
• Peter James Rodgers, UK
• Peter Y Wu, US
• Philip Rhodes, US
• Quang Vinh Nguyen, AU
• R. Brian Stone, US
• Rachid Anane, UK
• Rafael Santos, BR
• Ralf Dörner, DE
• Ralf Klamma, DE
• Randolph George Goebel, CA
• Razvan Andonie, US
• Remo Burkhard, CH
• Ricardo Queiros, PT
• Richard Back, AU
• Richard Brath, CA
• Richard Laing, UK
• Rita Francese, IT
• Roberto De Prisco, IT
• Rocco Zaccagnino, IT
• Roman Durikovic, SK
• Rosane Minghim, BR
• Ryan Flynn, UK
• Sabrina Bresciani, CH
• Sarah Kenderdine, AU
• Sebastian Kernbach, CH
• Sergio Di Martino, IT
• Stefan Bertschi, UK
• Stefan Müller Arisona, SG
• Stefan Seipel, SE
• Stefano Cirillo, IT
• Stefano Mastrostefano, IT
• Steven A Conrad, US
• Stewart von Itzstein, AU
• Tania Di Mascio, IT
• Tatiana von Landesberger, DE
• Teng-Wen Chang, TW
• Teresa Romão, PT
• Teresa Roselli, IT
• Theodor Wyeld, AU
• Theresa-Marie Rhyne, US
• Timothy Cribbin, UK
• Ting-Ting Wu, TW
• Tom Arbuckle, IE
• Tony Ackroyd, UK
• Tully Barnett, AU
• Tumasch Reichenbacher, CH
• Ugo Erra, IT
• Umberto Nanni, IT
• Urska Cvek, US
• Valery Adzhiev, UK
• Veronica Rossano, IT
• Vincenzo Del Fatto, IT
• Vincenzo Deufemia, IT
• Vittorio Fuccella, IT
• Volker Coors, DE
• Wei Zeng, SG
• Weidong Huang, AU
• Wibke Weber, CH
• Wolfgang Mueller, DE
• Yangjun Chen, CA
• Yoshihiro Okada, JP
• Zulfiqar Habib, PK
• Zuzana Kubincova, SK

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Organising & Liaison Committee of Symposium

Information Visualisation

InfVis – Information Visualisation Theory & Practice

• Ebad Banissi (Dr. Prof. Emeritus), London South Bank University, UK
• Mao Lin Huang (Prof), University of Technology, Sydney, AU
• Jie HUA (Dr.) TD School, University of Technology Sydney

IV-App – Applications of Information Visualization

• Fatma Bouali (Prof.), University of Lille, FR
• Gilles Venturini (Prof.), University of Tours, FR

Glyphs – Glyphs: Shapes, Icons, Text and Imagery in Visualization

Richard Brath (Dr.), Uncharted Software Inc, CA
João Miguel Cunha (Dr.), CISUC, University of Coimbra, Portugal

IVE – Information Visualization Evaluation

Ugo Erra (Prof.), University of Basilicata, Italy
Nicola Capece (Dr), Università degli Studi della Basilicata, Italy
Ebad Banissi (Prof.), Graphicslink, UK

HCI – Human-Computer Interaction for Information Visualization

• Minoru Nakayama (Prof), Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
• Mountaz Hascoet (Prof.) , Universite Montpellier, FR

GTNV – Graph Theory & Network Visualization

•  Quang Vinh Nguyen (Prof.), School of Computer, Data & Mathematical Sciences, and MARCS Institute, AU
• Samuel Mabakane (Dr.), University of Cape Town, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research South Africa
  Adrian Rusu (Prof.), Department of Computer Science, Fairfield University, USA

Knowledge Visualisation

KV – Knowledge Visualization and Visual Thinking

• Sebastian Kernbach (Dr)., University of St.Gallen, Sankt Gallen, CH
• Gaetano Cimino, University of Salerno, Italy
  • Advisory Committee
    • Sabrina Bresciani, University of St Gallen, http://www.sabrinabresciani.com
    • Dominique Brodbeck, Macrofocus GmbH, http://www.macrofocus.com
    • Tom Crawford, Visualization Network, http://www.viznetwork.com
    • Serge Gebhardt, Jan Halatsch, Antje Kunze, Stefan Muller Arisona, Lukas Treyer, ETH Zurich, http://www.ia.arch.ethz.ch
    • Randy Goebel, University of Alberta, http://www.cs.ualberta.ca
    • Michael Granitzer, Wolfgang Kienreich, Vedran Sabol, Christin Seifert, Mario Zechner, Know-Center, http://www.know-center.at
    • Michael Meier, vasp datatecture GmbH, http://www.vasp.ch
    • Jeanne Mengis, University of Lugano (USI), http://www.usi.ch
    • Roland Pfister, University of St. Gallen, http://www.mcm.unisg.ch
    • Andrew Vande Moere, KU Leuven, http://www.asro.kuleuven.be
    • Wibke Weber, Stuttgart Media University (HdM), http://www.hdm-stuttgart.de
    • Chen Zhong, ETH Future Cities Laboratory Singapore
    • Wei Zeng, ETH Future Cities Laboratory Singapore and NTU

LA –  8th International Symposium Learning Analytics

• Tania Di Mascio (Prof.) , University of L’Aquila, IT
• Minoru Nakayama(Prof.), Tokyo Institute of Technology,  Japan
• Filippo Sciarrone (Prof. ), Universitas Mercatorum, Rome, IT
• Marco Temperini (Prof.), Sapienza University, Rome, IT

Advisory, Programme, and Reviewing Committee:

• • • Andrea Sterbini, Sapienza University, Rome, IT
    • Carla Limongelli, RomaTre University, Rome, IT
    • Davide Taibi, Istituto Tecnologie Didattiche, CNR, Palermo, IT
    • Elvira Popescu, University of Craiova, RO
    • Fabio Gasparetti, RomaTre University, Rome, IT
    • Ivana Marenzi, L3S Research Center, Hannover, DE
    • Malinka Ivanova, TU Sofia, Bulgaria
    • Maria De Marsico, Sapienza University of Rome, IT
    • Milos Kravcik, RWTH Aachen University, DE
    • Ralf Klamma, RWTH Aachen University, DE
    • Ting-Ting Wu, National Yunlin University of Science and Technology, TW

DHKV – Digital Humanities Knowledge Visualisation

• Stefano Cirillo (Dr.), The University of Salerno, Italy
• Luca Virgili (Dr.), Polytechnic University of Marche, Italy
• Ebad Banissi (Prof.), Graphicslink, UK

MuVis – Musical Visualization

• Delfina Malandrino , Università di Salerno, IT
• Rocco Zaccagnino, Università di Salerno, IT
• Pedro Martins, Universidade de Coimbra, PT

AI & Data Science & Visual Analytics

IV_ AI&VKD – AI and Visual Knowledge Discovery

• Boris Kovalerchuk (Prof.)  http://www.cwu.edu/~borisk
• Marina Gavrilova (Prof.) https://pages.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/~marina
• Muhammad Aurangzeb Ahmad (Dr.) , http://www.aurumahmad.com
• Razvan Andonie (Prof. ), https://www.cwu.edu/faculty/andonie
• Evgenii Vityaev (Dr.) , http://math.nsc.ru/AP/ScientificDiscovery/E.Vityaev/index.html
• Nistor Grozavu (Prof.) http://grozavu.fr/

VA – Visual Analytics and Data Science

• Kawa Nazemi (Prof.), Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences, Germany
• Joao Moura Pires (Prof), NOVA LINCS Laboratory for Computer Science and Informatics, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, PT
• Nuno Datia (Dr) , NOVA LINCS and ISEL-Instituto Politécnico de Lisboa, PT 
• Loredana Caruccio (Dr. ), University of Salerno, Italy
• Autilia Vitiello (Dr.), University of Naples Federico II, Italy

 1st Symposium on AI Empowered Visual Computing

• Jian J Zhang (Prof.), Faculty of Media and Communication, Bournemouth University, UK
• Xiaosong Yang (Dr.), Faculty of Media and Communication, Bournemouth University, UK

AIVDC – Advances in Interactive and Visual Data Clustering

VBI_OD – Visualisation in Business Intelligence and Open Data

• Giuseppe Polese, University of Salerno, IT
• Vincenzo Deufemia, University of Salerno, IT

SSNN – Social Issues Analysis and Visualisation

• Paloma Díaz. Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, ES
• Ebad Banissi Graphicslink – Research, UK
  • Advisory, Programme and Reviewing Committee:
    • Antonio Fernandez Anta. IMDEA Networks Institute
    • Andres Abeliuk, University of Southern California, USA
    • Sotirios Chatzis, Cyprus University of Technology, CY
    • Herodotos Herodotou, Cyprus University of Technology, CY
    • Kaj Kolja Kleineberg, ETH, Zurich, CH
    • Steffen Lohmann . Fraunhofer IAIS / Universität Bonn (EIS), DE
    • Alan MacEachren. Penn State University, USA
    • Teresa Onorati. Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, ES
    • Anxo Sánchez. Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, ES
    • Monica Sebillo. Università degli Studi di Salerno, IT
    • Michael Sirivianos, Cyprus University of Technology, Cyprus
    • Giuliana Vitiello. Università degli Studi di Salerno, IT

BiWA – Big data Visualization and Visual Analytics

• Alice Dong (Dr.), University of Technology, Sydney, Australia
  
  

vis2024

VIS – Visualization

• Prof (Emeritus) Haim Levkowitz, Ph. D.,  University of Massachusetts Lowel, (USA)
• Dr. Catarina Maçãs, The University of Coimbra, PT

VAD – Visualization, Art, & Design

D-ART – Symposium of Digital Art and Gallery

• Anna Ursyn, Chair, University of Northern Colorado, USA
  • D-Art 2018 Symposium and Online Gallery of Digital Art Advisory, Programme and Reviewing Committee:
    • Dena Eber, Bowling Green State University, USA
    • Ernest Edmonds, University of Technology, Sydney, AUS
    • Marla Schweppe, Rochester Institute of Technology, USA
    • Daniela Sirbu, University of Lethbridge, CAN
    • LiQuin Tan, Rutgers University, USA
    • Anna Ursyn, University of Northern Colorado, USA
    • James Faure Walker, CCW Graduate School, University of the Arts, UK

ARVA – Augmented Reality Visualization and Art

• Vladimir Geroimenko, The British University in Egypt, EGY
  • Bernardo Breve, University of Salerno – ITA

CAivDE – Computer Animation, Information Visualisation, and Digital Effects

• Mark W. McK.Bannatyne, Purdue University, USA
•  Jian J Zhang, National Centre for Computer Animation,  Bournemouth University, UK

Animate – Computer Animation & Especial Effects Show

• Mark W. McK. Bannatyne, Purdue University, USA
• Jian J Zhang, Bournemouth University, UK
• Theodor G Wyeld, Flinders University, Australia

DE – Digital Entertainment

• Jian J Zhang, National Centre for Computer Animation, UK
• Research Centre on Interactive Media, Smart Systems and Emerging Technologies, CYENS – Centre of Excellence, Cyprus

MediVis2024

MediViz – AIMH – Visualization and Artificial Intelligence for Medicine, Healthcare and Social Good 

• Urska Cvek, Sc.D., Louisiana State University, USA

• Marjan Trutschl, Sc.D. Louisiana State University, USA

• Heimo Mueller, Ph.D., Medical University Graz (MUG), AU

• Harri Siirtola , (TAU), Finland

• Wai Lok Woo (Prof.), Northumbria University, UK

• Rita Francese, Università degli Studi di Salerno | UNISA ITALY

• Veronica Rossano, University of Bari, ITALY

BuiltViz2024

Visualization in Built and Rural Environment

• Dr Andrew Agapiou, Strathclyde University, Glasgow, UK

• Prof.  Farzad Khosrowshahi, Victoria University, Melbourne, AU

• Prof. Richard Laing, Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen, UK

• John Counsell, independent consultant, Cardiff, UK

• Dr. Zora Vrcelj, Victoria University, Melbourne, AU

 Sustaining Built Heritage

• Ebad Banissi (Prof.), LSBU, UK
• Gehan Nagy (Prof.), British University of Egypt, Cairo, Egypt
• John Counsell, independent consultant, Cardiff, UK

Visualization for the Heritage of Asia-Pacific Architecture and Urbanism

• Dr Mengbi Li, Victoria University, Melbourne, AU
• Dr. Hing-Wah Chau, Victoria University, Melbourne, AU

GMAI2024

GMAI – Geometric Modelling and Imaging

• Muhammad Sarfraz, Department of Information Science, Kuwait University, KW
  • Programme and reviewing committee:
    • Jorge Delgado, Universidad de Zaragoza, ES
    • Malik Zawwar Hussain, Punjab University, PK
    • Natasha Dejdumrong, King Mongkuts University of Technology Thonburi, THA
    • Zulfiqar Habib, FAST National University of Computer & Emerging Sciences, PK
    • Okada, Yoshihiro,  Kyushu-U, JP
    • Foufou, Sebti, Univ. de Bourgogne, FR
    • A. Zidouri, KFUPM, SA
    • Jarosław Miszczak, Institute of Theoretical and Applied Informatics, Polish Academy of Sciences, PL
    • Nouri, Fatma Zohra, Laboratoire de Mathematiques Appliquees, Universite Badji Mokhtar, Annaba, DZ
    • Mohamed Salah Hamdi,. Fachbereich Informatik, Universitaet Hamburg, DE
    • Nacera Benamrane, University of Sciences and Technology of Oran, Algeria
    • Maple, Carsten,  University of Bedfordshire, UK
    • Nasri, Ahmad, American University of Beirut, LB
    • Noble, Robert, The Robert Gordon University, UK
    • Unsworth, Keith, Lincoln University, NZ