EuroVis Best PhD Dissertation Award 2024
During May 27- 31 the EuroVis 2024 was held in Odense, Denmark hosted by The University of Southern Denmark. At the conference, Angelos Chatzimparmpas, former PhD-student at Linneaus University, was awarded the Best PhD Dissertation Award 2024.
Angelos Chatzimparmpas defended his dissertation “Visual analytics for Explainable and Trustworthy Machine Learning” in Computer Science at Linnaeus University in February 2023. During his research studies he was active in the ISOVIS research group and affiliated to DISA. His PhD-thesis was selected to the IVA 100-list in 2023, the list selects the 100 research projects that are considered to have great potential for commercialization, business development, or societal impact.
This year, Angelos Chatzimparmpas thesis received the award with the motivation that the thesis introduces novel and effective visual analytics techniques to enhance trust and understanding in complex machine learning models, combining comprehensive meta-analyses and data- and model-agnostic technical solutions for the various stages of the machine learning pipeline while focusing on high-risk domains like healthcare and improving the transparency and reliability of human-centered AI.
- Receiving the EuroVis Best PhD Award from esteemed researchers and professors in the visualization community is a profound honor and a significant milestone in my academic career. This recognition validates the countless hours of hard work, dedication, and collaboration involved in developing visual analytics solutions for explainable artificial intelligence (XAI). It also motivates me to continue advancing research in visualization to enhance our understanding and trust in human-centered AI systems, says Angelos Chatzimparmpas.
About the award
The EuroVis Best PhD Dissertation Award recognizes outstanding dissertations in academic research and development over topics relevant to visualization. The intent of this award is to recognize excellent young researchers in their early career and to highlight visualization research.
After getting his doctoral degree at Linnaeus University, he moved to the USA for a postdoctoral fellowship at North Western University and has now moved back to Europe and is working as a assistant professor of visual computing at Utrecht University in the Netherlands. Angelos is continuing his research (and teaching) on the same subject as his thesis and stays in close contact with the ISOVIS-research group.