Conference Overview
The Conference on Visualization and Data Analysis (VDA) 2026 covers all research, development, and application aspects of data visualization and visual analytics. Since the first VDA conference was held in 1994, the annual event has grown steadily into a major venue for visualization researchers and practitioners from around the world to present their work and share their experiences. We invite you to participate by submitting your original research as a full paper, for an oral or interactive (poster) presentation, and attending VDA 2026, which is planned as part of the High Performance Computing for Imaging 2026 Conference.
2026 Conference Topics
The VDA conference solicits papers on all topics of data visualization, including, but not limited to:
- Biomedical visualization
- Case studies and empirical studies
- Cyber-security
- Data mining
- Exploratory data visualization and analysis
- Geographic visualization
- Graph visualization
- High-performance computing and visualization
- Image processing
- Information visualization
- Multivariate time series visualization
- Scientific visualization
- Sentiment analysis
- Social media
- Virtual and augmented reality
- Human factors
- Volume and flow visualization
2026 Special Sessions
TBA
Awards
Kostas Pantazos Memorial Award for Outstanding Paper in Visualization and Data Analysis
Past winners
| 2026 |
Deepshikha Bhati, Kent State University (US); Ye Zhao, Kent State University (US); Tsung-Heng Wu, Kent State University (US); Md Amiruzzaman, West Chester University (US); Jing Yang, University of North Carolina (US), for their work on "Easy interpretation of image classification results with feature-level visualization." |
| 2023 |
Nikola Vugdelija¹, Rainer Splechtna², Goran Todorović³, Mirko Sužnjević⁴, and Krešimir Matković²; ¹Gamepires d.o.o. (Croatia), ²VRVis Research Center (Austria), ³AVlL_AST d.o.o. (Croatia), and ⁴University of Zagreb (Croatia) for their work on "Comparative visualization for noise simulation data." |
| 2022 |
Sifan Ye, Ting Wu, Michael Jarvis, and Yuhao Zhu (Stanford University, eBay Inc., and University of Rochester) for their work on "Digital reconstruction of Elmina Castle for mobile virtual reality via point-based detail transfer." |
| 2021 |
Mark A. Livingston, Laura Matzen, Derek Brock, Andre Harrison, and Jonathan W. Decker (US Naval Research Laboratory, Sandia National Laboratories, and US Army Research Laboratory) for their work on "Testing the value of salience in statistical graphs." |
| 2020 |
Casey Haber and Robert Gove (Chartio and Two Six Labs) for their work on "A visualization tool for analyzing the suitability of software libraries via their code repositories." |
| 2019 |
Maggie Goulden, Eric Gronda, Yurou Yang, Zihang Zhang, Jun Tao, Chaoli Wang, Xiaojing Duan, G. Alex Ambrose, Kevein Abbott, and Patrick Miller (Trinity College Dublin, University of Maryland, Zhejiang University, and University of Notre Dame) for their work titled "CCVis: Visual analytics of student online learning behaviors using course clickstream data." |
| 2018 |
Benjamin Karer, Inga Scheler, and Hans Hagen (University of Kaiserslautern) for their work on "A step towards automatic visual analytics pipeline generation." |
| 2017 |
Stefan Zellmann, Mauritius Hoevels, and Ulrich Lang (University of Cologne and University Hospital of Cologne) for their work titled "Ray traced volume clipping using multi-hit BVH traversal." |
| 2016 |
Kaiyu Zhao, Matthew Ward, Elke Rundensteiner, and Huong Higgins (Worcester Polytechnic Institute) for their work on "MaVis: Machine learning aided multi-model framework for time series visual analytics." |
| 2016 |
Best Paper
Kostas Pantazos and Soren Lauesen (IT University of Copenhagen) for their work on "End-user development in visualizations." Award accepted by Dimitris Pantazos. |
2026 Committee
Conference Chairs
Yi-Jen Chiang, New York University (United States)
Thomas Wischgoll, Wright State University (United States)
Program Committee
Madjid Allili,
Bishop's University (Canada)
Wes Bethel,
San Francisco State University (US)
Ulrich Engelke,
CSIRO (Australia)
Christoph Garth,
Technische Univ. Kaiserslautern (Germany)
Matti Groehn,
Turku University of Applied Sciences (Finland)
Christopher G. Healey,
North Carolina State University (US)
Ming Jiang,
Lawrence Livermore National Lab (US)
Andreas Kerren,
Linköping University (Sweden)
Peter Lindstrom,
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (US)
Aidong Lu,
The University of North Carolina at Charlotte (US)
Fabio Miranda,
University of Illinois at Chicago (US)
Kristi Potter,
NREL (US)
Inga Scheler,
Technische Universität Kaiserslautern (Germany)
Tobias Schreck,
Universität Konstanz (Germany)
Kalpathi Subramanian,
University of North Carolina at Charlotte (US)
Eugene Zhang,
Oregon State University (US)