The VIDA Gazette

Vol. 1 — Data Science & VisualizationNYU Tandon School of EngineeringEst. 2024

news—April 24, 2026

VIDA Center faculty Claudio Silva & Chinmay Hegde to Participate in Federal Effort to Build AI Collaborator for Mathematics

A major DARPA award, led by VIDA Center faculty Claudio Silva and Chinmay Hegde, puts NYU at the forefront of one of the most ambitious bets in science: that AI can help mathematicians crack problems that have persisted for generations.

news—April 23, 2026

VIDA PhD alum Benjamin Feuer receives NYU-wide outstanding PhD dissertation award in Science and Technology

VIDA PhD alum Benjamin Feuer has received the NYU-wide outstanding PhD dissertation award in the category of Science and Technology.

news—April 13, 2026

VIDA PhD students Giancarlo Pereira and Yurong Liu recognized with the Deborah Rosenthal, MD Award

VIDA PhD students Giancarlo Pereira and Yurong Liu recognized with the Deborah Rosenthal, MD Award.

news—September 3, 2025

Professor Juliana Freire delivers keynote talk at the 51st International Conference on Very Large Data Bases

Freire's talk, Bridging Disciplines in Data Management Research to Solve Complex Data Problems, presents a research journey spanning three scientific paradigms and projects that illustrate how domain-driven problems reveal fundamental data management challenges and drive interdisciplinary innovation..

news—January 27, 2025

Professor Claudio Silva named a fellow of the ACM, the world's largest computer-science society

Silva’s seminal research has had a broad impact in various application areas and has led to numerous innovative methods and practical systems.

news—January 16, 2025

Professor Julia Stoyanovich receives the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers for groundbreaking research at the frontiers of science and technology

Associate Professor Julia Stoyanovich, director of NYU's Center for Responsible AI, has received the Presidential Early Career Award (PECASE), the highest U.S. government honor for young STEM researchers.

publication—August 15, 2022

Haoyue Ping's paper accepted to SIGMOD

Congratulations to Haoyue Ping on having his first-author paper 'Most Expected Winner: An Interpretation of Winners over Uncertain Voter Preferences' accepted to SIGMOD.

publication—August 10, 2022

Paper accepted to NeurIPS 2022

Congratulations to Mengwei Ren and Neel Dey on their paper 'Local Spatiotemporal Representation Learning for Longitudinally-consistent Neuroimage Analysis' accepted to NeurIPS 2022.

publication—August 5, 2022

SUBPLEX paper in IEEE CG&A

Congratulations to Jun, Gromit, Brian, Kyle, Kim, Gustavo, Enrico and Claudio on their SUBPLEX paper in IEEE Computer Graphics & Applications.

publication—July 20, 2022

Calibrate paper accepted to IEEE VIS 2022

Congratulations to Peter, Joao and Claudio on their paper 'Calibrate: Interactive Analysis of Probabilistic Model Output' accepted to IEEE VIS 2022.

publication—July 15, 2022

GALE paper selected for Spotlight Talk at ICML Workshop

Congratulations to Peter, Gromit, Harish, Gustavo, and Brian on their GALE paper selected for a Spotlight Talk at the 2022 ICML Workshop on Topology, Algebra, and Geometry in Machine Learning.

publication—July 10, 2022

Neel Dey paper accepted to MICCAI 2022

Congratulations to Neel for his paper 'ContraReg: Contrastive Learning of Multi-modality Unsupervised Deformable Image Registration' accepted to MICCAI 2022.

milestone—June 15, 2022

Neel Dey successfully defends PhD thesis

Congratulations to Neel Dey on successfully defending his PhD thesis on medical image analysis and deep learning.

milestone—May 20, 2022

Peter Xenopoulos successfully defends PhD thesis

Congratulations to Peter Xenopoulos on successfully defending his PhD thesis on esports analytics.

award—April 20, 2022

Aécio Santos receives Deborah Rosenthal Award

Congratulations to Aécio Santos on receiving the Deborah Rosenthal, MD Award for outstanding performance on the PhD qualifying examination.

award—April 18, 2022

Neel Dey receives Pearl Brownstein Doctoral Research Award

Congratulations to Neel Dey for receiving this year's CSE best research Pearl Brownstein Doctoral Research Award.

award—April 15, 2022

Andrew Bell receives NSF Graduate Research Fellowship

Congratulations to Andrew Bell on receiving an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship!

publication—March 25, 2022

Urban Rhapsody paper accepted to EuroVis 2022

Congratulations to Joao, Fabio, Maryam and Marcos on their Urban Rhapsody paper accepted to EuroVis 2022.

publication—March 20, 2022

IntentVizor paper accepted to CVPR 2022

Congratulations to Guande and Jianzhe on their paper 'IntentVizor: Towards Generic Query Guided Interactive Video Summarization' accepted to CVPR 2022.

publication—February 15, 2022

Paper accepted to WWW 2022

Congratulations to Peter for his paper 'Analyzing the Differences Between Professional and Amateur Esports Through Win Probability' accepted to WWW 2022.

award—January 20, 2022

Juliana Freire elected AAAS Fellow

Congratulations to Juliana Freire on being elected an AAAS Fellow!

milestone—July 20, 2021

Heejong Kim successfully defends PhD thesis

Congratulations to Heejong Kim on successfully defending her PhD thesis on longitudinal brain imaging analysis.

publication—July 15, 2021

Peter Xenopoulos paper accepted to KDD 2021

Congratulations to Peter Xenopoulos on his paper 'ggViz: Accelerating Large-Scale Esports Game Analysis' accepted to KDD 2021.

milestone—June 10, 2021

Jorge Piazentin Ono successfully defends PhD thesis

Congratulations to Jorge Piazentin Ono on successfully defending his PhD thesis.

milestone—May 15, 2021

Gromit Chan successfully defends PhD thesis

Congratulations to Gromit Chan on successfully defending his PhD thesis on visual analytics for machine learning.

milestone—April 20, 2021

Ke Yang successfully defends PhD thesis

Congratulations to Ke Yang on successfully defending her PhD thesis on fair ranking.

publication—April 15, 2020

Julia Stoyanovich co-authors paper in Nature Machine Intelligence

Julia Stoyanovich co-authored with Jay Van Bavel and Tessa West a comment paper on Nature Machine Intelligence about the imperative of interpretable machines.

publication—March 20, 2020

Raoni Lourenço papers accepted to SIGMOD 2020

Congratulations to Raoni de Paula Lourenço who had both a full paper and a demo paper accepted to SIGMOD 2020 describing his work on debugging computational pipelines.

publication—March 18, 2020

Harish Doraiswamy and Juliana Freire paper accepted to SIGMOD 2020

Congratulations to Harish Doraiswamy and Juliana Freire on their paper 'A GPU-friendly Geometric Data Model and Algebra for Spatial Queries' accepted to ACM SIGMOD 2020.

publication—February 15, 2020

Paper accepted to VLDB 2020

Congratulations to Masayo Ota and Heiko Mueller on their paper 'Data-Driven Domain Discovery for Structured Datasets' accepted to VLDB 2020.

publication—January 20, 2020

Gromit Chan paper accepted to WWW 2020

Congratulations to Gromit Yeuk-Yin Chan on his paper 'Real-Time Clustering for Large Sparse Online Visitor Data' accepted for oral presentation at WWW 2020.

publication—January 15, 2020

Papers accepted to CHI 2020

Congratulations to Francis Williams on 'Unwind: Interactive Fish Straightening' and Fabio Miranda on 'Urban Mosaic: Visual Exploration of Streetscapes Using Large-Scale Image Data' accepted to CHI 2020.

news—August 15, 2019

Professor Freire's research featured on Science Magazine

Professor Freire's research on Artificial Intelligence was featured on Science Magazine.

news—July 20, 2019

NYU Tandon helps American Museum of Natural History relaunch Apollo 11

With NYU Tandon's help, the American Museum of Natural History relaunches Apollo 11 visualization.

award—July 15, 2019

FlowSense receives Best Paper Award at VAST 2019

Claudio Silva and Bowen Yu selected to receive Best Paper Award for VAST 2019 with 'FlowSense: A Natural Language Interface for Visual Data Exploration with a Dataflow System'.

award—April 20, 2019