Anna Vilanova

Prof.Dr. Anna Vilanova is full professor in Visual Analytics (vis.win.tue.nl) since October 2019, at the department of Mathematics and Computer Science, at the Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e). Previously she was associate professor for 6 years at the Computer Graphics & Visualization Group at EEMCS at the University of Delft, the Netherlands. From 2002 to August 2013, she was Assistant Professor at the Biomedical Image Analysis group of the Biomedical Engineering Department at TU/e. She is leading a research group in the subject of visual analytics and multivalued image analysis and visualization, focusing on Visual Analytics for high dimensional data and explainable AI. She focuses on Biomedical applications such as: Diffusion Weighted Imaging, 4D Flow and Pangenomics. In 2005, she was awarded a NWO-Veni personal grant with title “Visualization of global tensor information for diffusion tensor imaging”. In 2013 she got a NWO-Aspasia. She is member of the international program committee of several conferences (e.g., IEEE Visualization and EG-EuroVis). She has been chair and editor of relevant conferences and journals in her field of research (e.g., EuroVis 2008, Computer & Graphics, Computer Graphics Forum, Computer Graphics & Applications, IEEE Vis). She was member of the steering committee of EG EuroVis (2014 -2018) and VCBM (2018-2022). She is elected member of the EUROGRAPHICS executive committee since 2015. She was EUROGRAPHICS vice president (2019-2022), and president (2023-2024). She also became EUROGRAPHICS fellow in 2019. She was elected member of  IEEE VIS Steering Committee (VSC) (2021-2025).

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