Menna El-Assady honoured with Significant New Researcher Award
Professor Mennatallah El-Assady, head of the Interactive Visualization and Intelligence Augmentation Lab at the Department of Computer Science (D-INFK), has been awarded the 2024 Visualization Significant New Researcher Award at the IEEE VIS Conference. The prize honours her ground-breaking work at the intersection of visualization and machine learning. Congratulations!
The 2024 Visualization Significant New Researcher Award has been awarded to Professor Mennatallah El-Assady. The prize is granted by IEEE VIS, a forum for advances in theory, methods, and applications of visualization and visual analytics. The 2024 conference convened an international community of researchers and practitioners from universities, government, and industry to exchange recent findings on the design and use of visualization tools.
Prof. Mennatallah El-Assady heads the Interactive Visualization and Intelligence Augmentation (IVIA) lab at D-INFK. Prior to that, she was a research fellow at the ETH AI Center; and before that, she was a research associate in the group for Data Analysis and Visualization at the University of Konstanz (Germany) and in the Visualization for Information Analysis lab at the OntarioTech University (Canada). She works at the intersection of data analysis, visualization, computational linguistics, and explainable artificial intelligence. Her main research interest is studying interactive human-AI collaboration interfaces for effective problem-solving and decision-making. In particular, she is interested in empowering humans by teaming them up with AI agents in co-adaptive processes. She has gained experience working in close collaboration with political science and linguistic scholars over several years, which led to the development of the LingVis.io platform. El-Assady has co-founded and co-organized several workshop series, notably Vis4DH and VISxAI.