Jeffrey Heer
Professor
Designs interactive visualization systems and languages such as Vega, including AI-assisted data analysis tools.
Jeffrey Heer's lab at UW works on visualization & visual analytics. 30 papers since 2023, 1 at top venues, mostly EMNLP and IUI. 7 PhD students. 47 alumni. Applications close .
At a glance
- papers, 2023–2026
- 8/ year
- at T1 venues
- 3%
- PhD students
- 7
- MS students
- 0
- alumni listed
- 47
Papers by yearfrom the lab homepage, 2023–2026
- 2 papers2026 · T1 0 · collecting
- 7 papers2025 · T1 0
- 15 papers2024 · T1 1
- 6 papers2023 · T1 0
T1 venuesOtherVenues: EMNLP, IUI
Research focuspaper titles that use each topic's words
- Visualization & visual analytics10 papers
- interactive visualization2 papers
- designs interactive0 papers
- analysis tools0 papers
- ai-assisted0 papers
Paper list
From the lab homepage.
20262 papers
- IEEE Trans. Visualization & Comp. Graphics (Proc. VIS)Data Augmentation for Visualization Design Knowledge Bases (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE Trans. Visualization & Comp. Graphics (Proc. VIS)Mosaic Selections: Managing and Optimizing User Selections for Scalable Data Visualization Systems (opens in a new tab)
20257 papers
- ACM Trans. on Computer-Human InteractionDesigning LLM Chains by Adapting Techniques from Crowdsourcing Workflows (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE Trans. Visualization & Comp. Graphics (Proc. VIS)DracoGPT: Extracting Visualization Design Preferences from Large Language Models (opens in a new tab)
- Proc. ACM Creativity & CognitionFrom Pen to Prompt: How Creative Writers Integrate AI into their Writing Practice (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE Trans. Visualization & Comp. Graphics (Proc. VIS)Mixing Linters with GUIs: A Color Palette Design Probe (opens in a new tab)
- Companion of ACM Management of Data (SIGMOD)Mosaic: An Architecture for Linking Databases and Scalable Interactive Visualizations (opens in a new tab)
- Proc. IEEE VIS Short PapersPublish-Time Optimizations for Web-Based Visualizations (opens in a new tab)
- Proc. ACM User Interface Software & Technology (UIST)Sculpin: Direct-Manipulation Transformation of JSON (opens in a new tab)
202415 papers
- Proc. IEEE VIS Short PapersAltGeoViz: Facilitating Accessible Geovisualization (opens in a new tab)
- EMNLP (T1)BLADE: Benchmarking Language Model Agents for Data-Driven Science (opens in a new tab)
- Proc. IEEE VIS Short PapersBringing Data into the Conversation: Adapting Content from Business Intelligence Dashboards for Threaded Collaboration Platforms (opens in a new tab)
- Proc. ACM Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI)Concept Induction: Analyzing Unstructured Text with High-Level Concepts Using LLooM (opens in a new tab)
- Proc. IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human Centric Computing (VL/HCC)Considering Visualization Example Galleries (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE Trans. Visualization & Comp. Graphics (Proc. VIS)DIVI: Dynamically Interactive Visualization (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE Trans. Visualization & Comp. Graphics (Proc. VIS)EVM: Incorporating Model Checking into Exploratory Visual Analysis (opens in a new tab)
- Proc. ACM Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI)How Do Data Analysts Respond to AI Assistance? A Wizard-of-Oz Study (opens in a new tab)
- Proc. EuroVis Short PapersInteraction Techniques for Exploratory Data Visualization on Mobile Devices (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE Trans. Visualization & Comp. Graphics (Proc. VIS)Mosaic: An Architecture for Scalable & Interoperable Data Views (opens in a new tab)
- Proc. ACM Management of Data (SIGMOD)Optimizing Dataflow Systems for Scalable Interactive Visualization (opens in a new tab)
- Workshop on Intelligent and Interactive Writing Assistants (In2Writing)Preserving Writer Values in AI Writing Assistance Tools (opens in a new tab)
20236 papers
- Proc. IEEE VIS Short PapersDraco 2: An Extensible Platform to Model Visualization Design (opens in a new tab)
- Proc. ACM User Interface Software & Technology (UIST)Engraft: An API for Live, Rich, and Composable Programming (opens in a new tab)
- Proc. ACM User Interface Software & Technology (UIST)Living Papers: A Language Toolkit for Augmented Scholarly Communication (opens in a new tab)
- IUIScatterShot: Interactive In-context Example Curation for Text Transformation (opens in a new tab)
- Proc. ACM User Interface Software & Technology (UIST)VegaProf: Profiling Vega Visualizations (opens in a new tab)
- Proc. IEEE VIS Short PapersWhaleVis: Visualizing the History of Commercial Whaling (opens in a new tab)
Where alumni went47 listed
Apply to UWFall 2027
UW Allen School Computer Science PhD
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