Bio:
Niklas Elmqvist (he/him/his) is a Villum Investigator, a Fellow of the ACM and the IEEE, and a full professor in the Department of Computer Science at Aarhus University in Aarhus, Denmark. He received his Ph.D. in computer science in 2006 from Chalmers University in Gothenburg, Sweden. Prior to joining Aarhus, he was faculty at University of Maryland in College Park, MD, USA from 2014 to 2023, and at Purdue University in West Lafayette, IN, USA from 2008 to 2014. From 2016 to 2021, he served as the director of the Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory (HCIL) at University of Maryland, one of the oldest and most well-known HCI research labs in the country. His research area is data visualization, human-computer interaction, and visual analytics. He is the recipient of Villum Investigator and NSF CAREER grants as well as best paper and honorable mention awards from the IEEE Information Visualization conference, the ACM CHI conference, and the ACM DIS conference. He was papers chair for IEEE InfoVis 2016, 2017, and 2020, subcommittee chair for ACM CHI 2020 and 2021, papers chair for IEEE PacificVis 2024, and overall papers chair for IEEE VIS in 2024 and 2025. He is also an associate editor for the International Journal of Human-Computer Studies and the Information Visualization journal. In addition, he serves as series editor of the Springer Nature Synthesis Lectures on Visualization. Finally, he is a member of the ACM SIGCHI Executive Committee as Adjunct Chair for Awards and an elected member of the IEEE VIS Steering Committee, both since 2023. His research has been funded by both federal agencies such as NSF, NIH, and DHS as well as by companies such as Google, NVIDIA, and Microsoft. He is the recipient of the Purdue Student Government Graduate Mentoring Award (2014), the Ruth and Joel Spira Outstanding Teacher Award (2012), and the Purdue ECE Chicago Alumni New Faculty award (2010). He has been a member of the IEEE VGTC Visualization Academy since 2024. He was elevated to ACM Fellow in 2025 and IEEE Fellow in 2024.
ACM Involvement
Elmqvist has served as the Adjunct Chair of Awards in the ACM SIGCHI Executive Committee since 2023. Prior to serving in the EC, he was chair of the SIGCHI Outstanding Dissertation Subcommittee from 2020 until 2023.
Elmqvist has been a technical program committee member at ACM conferences more than 20 times, including for ACM conferences such as ISS, DIS, CSCW, and NordiCHI. In particular, he has served as an associate chair on the flagship ACM CHI conference a total of 14 times since 2010. Two of these years he was a subcommittee chair for the Visualization subcommittee.
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Anytime Anywhere All At Once: Data Analytics in the Metaverse
Mobile computing, virtual and augmented reality, and the internet of things (IoT) have transformed the way we interact with computers. Artificial intelligence and machine learning have...
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Automating the Path: An R&D Agenda for Human-Centered AI and Visualization
The emergence of generative AI and foundation models is fundamentally reshaping computer science, and visualization is no exception. In this talk, I will present a systematic framework for...
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