Jean-Daniel Fekete is a Senior Research Scientist (DR1) at Inria, Scientific Leader of the Inria Project-team Aviz, which he founded in 2007 and joined Université Paris-Saclay in 2020. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE.
He received his PhD in Computer Science in 1996 from Université Paris-Sud (which became Université Paris-Saclay in 2020).
His main research areas are Visualization and Human-Computer Interaction. He focuses on supporting humans in exploring, understanding, and making decisions with data using interactive visualizations coupled with interactive analysis methods.
He published more than 180 articles in multiple conferences and journals, including the most prestigious in visualization (TVCG, InfoVis, EuroVis, PacificVis) and Human-Computer Interaction (CHI, UIST).
He has been granted the IEEE VGTC Visualization Career Award 2020 and is a member of the IEEE VGTC Visualization Academy and ACM SIGCHI Academy. He received the 20-year Test-of-Time Award at IEEE VIS 2024, as well as 11 best paper awards at conferences throughout his career.
He is co-chair of the IEEE VIS 2026 Paris Satellite. He is a member of the Eurographics publication board. He has been a member of the IEEE VGTC VIS Awards Committee since 2025.
He was Chair 2018-2021 of the EuroVis Best PhD Award Committee, Associate Editor in Chief 2019-2023 of IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, the General Chair of the IEEE VIS Conference in 2014, the first time it was held outside of the USA in Paris, and the President of the French-Speaking HCI Association (AFIHM) 2009-2013.
Selected Publications:
- Jean-Daniel Fekete, Christian Poli, ProgressiVis: A Language and Environment for Progressive Data Analysis and Visualization, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 2025, In press, hal-05696316
- Jean-Daniel Fekete, Danyel Fisher, and Michael Sedlmair, Progressive Data Analysis: Roadmap and Research Agenda, Eurographics Association, ISBN: 978-3-03868-270-7, Nov. 2024, : 10.2312/pda.20242707, Book Web Site
- Gaëlle Richer, Alexis Pister, Moataz Abdelaal, Jean-Daniel Fekete, Michael Sedlmair, and Daniel Weiskopf. Scalability in Visualization. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 2024, 30 (7), pp.3314 - 3330. 10.1109/TVCG.2022.3231230. hal-03820394
- Paola Valdivia, Paolo Buono, Catherine Plaisant, Nicole Dufournaud, Jean-Daniel Fekete. Analyzing Dynamic Hypergraphs with Parallel Aggregated Ordered Hypergraph Visualization. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2021, 27 (1), pp.1-13. 10.1109/TVCG.2019.2933196. hal-02264960
See also his Google Scholar profile.