Jean-Daniel Fekete is a Senior Research Scientist (DR1) at Inria, Scientific Leader of the Inria Project-team Aviz that he founded in 2007 and which 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 (that became Université Paris-Saclay in 2020).
His main research areas are Visualization and Human-Computer Interaction. 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 8 best paper awards at conferences during his career. He is a member of the Eurographics publication board.
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:
- Ameya Patil, Gaëlle Richer, Christopher Jermaine, Dominik Moritz, Jean-Daniel Fekete. Studying Early Decision Making with Progressive Bar Charts. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 2023, 29 (1), pp.407-417. 10.1109/TVCG.2022.3209426. hal-03738461v2
- Gaëlle Richer, Alexis Pister, Moataz Abdelaal, Jean-Daniel Fekete, Michael Sedlmair, et al.. Scalability in Visualization. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, In press, 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.
- Jaemin Jo, Jinwook Seo, Jean-Daniel Fekete. PANENE: A Progressive Algorithm for Indexing and Querying Approximate k-Nearest Neighbors. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2020, 26 (2), pp.1347-1360.