Section: Partnerships and Cooperations

International Research Visitors

Visits of International Scientists

• Claudio Silva (August 2018 – June 2019): Sabbatical from New York University (USA). Also, invited professor through a DigiCosme grant for 3 months. Claudio Silva is spending one year with Aviz. We launched a bi-weekly seminar on explainable machine-learning with visualization.

• Michael McGuffin (October – November): visit from ETS Montreal (Canada). Michael McGuffin has spent a month with Aviz working on augmented reality and visualization, collaborating with Pierre Dragicevic, Jean-Daniel Fekete, and students.

Internships

• Jung Nam from the University of Minnesota visited for 3 months in the summer of 2018. His work centered on the use of storytelling mechanisms to support and communicate results of the exploration 3D data. This collaboration is still ongoing.