The information visualization group is part of the University of British Columbia's Computer Science Department in Vancouver, BC, Canada.
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Posted: 11/2026
Tamara's InfoVis Group at UBC Vancouver will have three PhD candidates at VIS this year. Matt Oddo will present his TVCG paper Visualization Tasks for Unlabeled Graphs. Ryan Smith will present his VIS paper HealthTale: A Patient-Centric Health Story Visualization Tool and participate in the Doctoral Colloquium. New PhD student Joe Hilleary will also attend. Tamara will present the TVCG paper VIVA: Virtual Healthcare Interactions Using Visual Analytics, With Controllability Through Configuration (with co-first-authors Jürgen Bernard and PhD candidate Mara Solen) and a tutorial on Visualization Analysis and Design. She is co-editor of the AK Peters Visualization book series with CRC/Routledge, which will have a physical table at VIS. UBC welcomes Andrew McNutt, who will join us as an assistant professor in January 2027.
Tamara Munzner
Mara Solen
Matt Oddo
Ryan Smith
Joe Hilleary
Ricky Curry
Anna Luo
Carson Weeks
Aryan Shah
HealthTale: A Patient-Centric Health Story Visualization Tool
Ryan Smith,
Kyle D. Chin,
Tamara Munzner
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG), Proc. IEEE VIS 2026
Visualization Tasks for Unlabeled Graphs
Matt I. B. Oddo,
Ryan Smith,
Stephen Kobourov,
Tamara Munzner
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG)
Position Paper: Potential Areas of Bias in Visualization-as-Input Systems
Ryan Smith
Input Visualization Workshop at IEEE VIS 2025
Visualization Literacy or Skillset? Beyond the Analogy to Textual Literacy
Mara Solen,
Saugat Pandey,
Firas Moosvi,
Alvitta Ottley,
Tamara Munzner
VisComm Workshop at IEEE VIS 2025
