Colleagues and I won the Best Paper Award for Evaluating the utility of feature importance visualizations in SHAP at PacificVis 2026 (VisMeetsAI full-day workshop). Congrats to paper #1!

Colleagues from TU/e and WUR  and I were awarded a €100,000 Unusual Collaborations Grant from CUCo for the interdisciplinary project Living Foams.

Opening the Magic Box of AI was selected for Science is Wonderful! 2026, the annual EU public science fair under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions. 

Together with Martina Dossi and Niels Teunissen, I co-hosted an interactive booth offering hands-on activities for pupils to explore how AI works.

Since March 2024, I have been an Assistant Professor in Visual Computing in the Department of Information and Computing Sciences at Utrecht University, The Netherlands.

I was a Postdoctoral Researcher at Northwestern University, USA, for 1 year, working at the MU Collective lab under the mentorship of Prof. Dr. Jessica Hullman. In addition to developing visual analytics systems, I also focused on model uncertainty quantification, utilizing deep learning architectures for visualization evaluation, and supporting users in detecting AI-generated images, including deepfakes.

During 2018–2023, I was a PhD student in Computer and Information Science at Linnaeus University, Sweden, specializing in Visual Analytics (VA) and Explainable AI (XAI). I conducted my doctoral research within the ISOVIS group under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Andreas Kerren, while completing 90 ECTS credits of coursework as part of my doctoral studies. My five-year doctoral employment followed an 80%/20% structure, corresponding to four years of research and one year of teaching assistant duties. I defended my PhD thesis, titled "Visual Analytics for Explainable and Trustworthy Machine Learning", at Linnaeus University on 23 February 2023.

In 2022, I was granted Linnaeus University’s strategic mobility fund for doctoral students, together with an honorarium from the Center for Accelerating Operational Efficiency, CAOE, led by Arizona State University.

Through this support, I spent two months as a visiting researcher at ASU’s VADER Lab, where I developed my doctoral research, exchanged ideas with international researchers, and strengthened international research collaboration.

I have completed a two-month internship as a Computer Programmer at Web Expert Company in Greece!

This experience helped me strengthen my programming skills, work on real-world projects, and learn more about professional software development. I am grateful to the team at Web Expert Company for the opportunity.