Mennatallah El-Assady
Assistant Professor
Researches visual analytics and human-AI collaboration, building interactive visualization tools that explain and steer language models and support text analysis in the digital humanities.
Mennatallah El-Assady's lab at ETH Zurich works on human-AI collaboration & trust, visualization & visual analytics and generative 3D & visual content. 57 papers since 2023, 6 at top venues, mostly CGF and NeurIPS. 9 PhD students. 3 alumni.
At a glance
- papers, 2023–2026
- 15/ year
- at T1 venues
- 11%
- PhD students
- 9
- MS students
- 0
- alumni listed
- 3
Papers by yearfrom the lab homepage, 2023–2026
- 13 papers2026 · T1 1 · collecting
- 11 papers2025 · T1 3
- 15 papers2024 · T1 1
- 18 papers2023 · T1 1
T1 venuesOtherVenues: CGF, NeurIPS, ACL, CHI, Expert Systems with Applications
Research focuspaper titles that use each topic's words
- Visualization & visual analytics15 papers
- Generative 3D & visual content13 papers
- Human-AI collaboration & trust9 papers
- interactive visualization0 papers
- explain0 papers
Paper list
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202613 papers
- Expert Systems with ApplicationsA Unified Intelligence-Augmented Framework for Building Audits via Physical and Virtual Inspection (opens in a new tab)
- Symposium of the International Association for Shell and Spatial StructuresCan AI Co-Design Structures? An AI Agent for Early-Stage Structural Design (opens in a new tab)
- ICML WorkshopCreativity from Friction: Human-AI Interaction for Exploratory Structural Design (opens in a new tab)
- CHI Polisim workshopCross-Cultural Simulation of Citizen Emotional Responses to Bureaucratic Red Tape Using LLM Agents (opens in a new tab)
- Conference on Human Factors in Computing SystemDo We Have the Knowledge We Need? Rethinking Human-AI Decision-Making in Corporations (opens in a new tab)
- Developments in the Built EnvironmentEnhancing Building Product Inventory Automation through a Hybrid Spatial-Semantic Modeling Framework (opens in a new tab)
- International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)MAVRL: Learning Reward Functions from Multiple Feedback Types with Amortized Variational Inference (opens in a new tab)
- Joint Proc. of the ACM UMAP Workshops (ParaAdapt), CEUR Vol-4206Parametric Detail-on-Demand for Projection Spaces of High-Dimensional Data (opens in a new tab)
- CHI (T1)PleaSQLarify: Visual Pragmatic Repair for Natural Language Database Querying (opens in a new tab)
- Proc. of the International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI)StepMIND: A Visual Framework for Stepwise, Multimodal, and Bidirectional Explanations of AI-Generated Data Analysis Pipeline (opens in a new tab)
- Conf. on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), Evaluations & Datasets TrackSTRIDE: Automated Evaluation of Text-to-Trajectory Alignment across Diverse Contexts (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE VIS Visualization and Visual AnalyticsVACP: Visual Analytics Context Protocol (opens in a new tab)
202511 papers
- ACM Conf. on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI)A Design Space for Intelligent Dialogue Augmentation (opens in a new tab)
- NeurIPS (T1)Concept-Level Explainability for Auditing & Steering LLM Responses (opens in a new tab)
- Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 3: System Demonstrations)Dia-Lingle: A Gamified Interface for Dialectal Data Collection (opens in a new tab)
- UIST (T1)DxHF: Providing High-Quality Human Feedback for LLM Alignment with Interactive Decomposition (opens in a new tab)
- IJHCSf-RecX: A framework for designing effective textual explanations in recommender systems’ user interfaces (opens in a new tab)
- Conf. on Human Factors in Computing SystemsFinding Needles in Document Haystacks: Augmenting Serendipitous Claim Retrieval Workflows
- CGFLayerFlow: Layer-wise Exploration of LLM Embeddings using Uncertainty-aware Interlinked Projections (opens in a new tab)
- Proc. of Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), System DemonstrationsRevealing the Unwritten: Visual Investigation of Beam Search Trees to Address Language Model Prompting Challenges (opens in a new tab)
- ICLR (T1)Reward Learning from Multiple Feedback Types (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE Computer Graphics and ApplicationsToward Agency in Human–AI Collaboration (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE Trans. on Visualization and Computer GraphicsUnderstanding Large Language Model Behaviors through Interactive Counterfactual Generation and Analysis (opens in a new tab)
202415 papers
- ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems🌳-generAItor: Tree-in-the-Loop Text Generation for Language Model Explainability and Adaptation (opens in a new tab)
- TVCGA Wizard of Oz Study of Guidance Strategies and Dynamics (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE Trans. on Visualization and Computer GraphicsAn Analysis of the Interplay and Mutual Benefits of Grounded Theory and Visualization (opens in a new tab)
- World Conf. on eXplainable Artificial IntelligenceChallenges and Opportunities in Text Generation Explainability (opens in a new tab)
- CGFDeconstructing Human-AI Collaboration: Agency, Interaction, and Adaptation (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE Workshop on Natural Language Processing Meets VisualizationiToT: An Interactive System for Customized Tree-of-Thought Generation (opens in a new tab)
- ECAI Int. Workshop on Responsible Applied Artificial IntelligenceMindSet: A Bias-Detection Interface Using a Visual Human-in-the-Loop Workflow (opens in a new tab)
- Conf. on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), Datasets and Benchmarks TrackNavigating the Maze of Explainable AI: A Systematic Approach to Evaluating Methods and Metrics (opens in a new tab)
- NeurIPS (T1)On Affine Homotopy between Language Encoders (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE Trans. on Visualization and Computer GraphicsProvenanceWidgets: A Library of UI Control Elements to Track and Dynamically Overlay Analytic Provenance (opens in a new tab)
- Proc. CHI Conf. on Human Factors in Computing SystemsRELIC: Investigating Large Language Model Responses using Self-Consistency (opens in a new tab)
- Workshop on Explainable User Models and Personalized Systems at User Modeling and PersonalizationScrollyPOI: A Narrative-Driven Interactive Recommender System for Points-of-Interest Exploration and Explainability (opens in a new tab)
202318 papers
- Proc. Conf. on Empirical Methods in Natural Language ProcessingA Diachronic Perspective on User Trust in AI under Uncertainty (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE Trans. on Visualization and Computer GraphicsA Heuristic Approach for Dual Expert/End-User Evaluation of Guidance in Visual Analytics (opens in a new tab)
- CGFDoom or Deliciousness: Challenges and Opportunities for Visualization in the Age of Generative Models (opens in a new tab)
- Workshop on Visual Analytics in HealthcareExpLIMEable: A Visual Analytics Approach for Exploring LIME (opens in a new tab)
- NeurIPS WorkshopExpLIMEable: An Exploratory Framework for LIME (opens in a new tab)
- Proc. of the Int. Symp. on Visual Information Communication and InteractionExplore, Compare, and Predict Investment Opportunities through What-If Analysis: US Housing Market Investigation (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE Trans. on Visualization and Computer GraphicsFS/DS: A Theoretical Framework for the Dual Analysis of Feature Space and Data Space (opens in a new tab)
- NeurIPS WorkshopGInX-Eval: Towards In-Distribution Evaluation of Graph Neural Network Explanations (opens in a new tab)
- ACM Transactions on Management Information SystemsMediCoSpace: Visual Decision-Support for Doctor-Patient Consultations using Medical Concept Spaces from EHRs (opens in a new tab)
- Proc. of IEEE VIS Workshop on Visualization for AI ExplainabilityNeighborhood Traces: When Your Neighborhood Changes One Layer at a Time
- IEEE Trans. on Visualization and Computer GraphicsPersonalized Language Model Selection through Gamified Elicitation of Contrastive Concept Preferences (opens in a new tab)
- ICML WorkshopRLHF-Blender: A Configurable Interactive Interface for Learning from Diverse Human Feedback (opens in a new tab)
Where alumni went3 listed
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