Members of the iVis Group

Leadership

Andreas Kerren, PhD
Professor
Chair of the iVis Group, MIT Division Director of Research

Email: andreas.kerrenliu.se
Phone: +46 11 36 34 06

Camilla Forsell, PhD
Associate Professor, Docent
MIT Division Deputy Head, MIT Division Co-Director of Undergraduate Studies

Email: camilla.forsellliu.se
Phone: +46 11 36 34 71

Staff

Aida Nordman, PhD
Associate Professor

Email: aida.nordmanliu.se
Phone: +46 11 36 33 29

Behnaz Kavoosighafi, PhD
PostDoc Researcher

Email: behnaz.kavoosi.ghafiliu.se
Phone: +46 11 36 30 43

Carl Westin, PhD
Assistant Professor

Email: carl.westinliu.se

Elmira Zohrevandi, PhD
PostDoc Researcher

Email: elmira.zohrevandiliu.se
Phone: +46 11 36 33 77

Jekaterina Basjuka
PhD Student

Email: jekaterina.basjukaliu.se
Phone: +46 11 36 30 37

Jimmy Hammarbäck
Industrial PhD Student

Email: jimmy.hammarbackliu.se

Jinyi Wang
PhD Student

Email: jinyi.wangliu.se
Phone: +46 11 36 36 83

Jonas Lundberg, PhD
Professor

Email: jonas.lundbergliu.se
Phone: +46 11 36 34 52

Karl Johan Klang
PhD Student

Email: karl.johan.klangliu.se
Phone: +46 11 36 33 58

Katerina Vrotsou, PhD
Associate Professor, Docent

Email: katerina.vrotsouliu.se
Phone: +46 11 36 36 44

Kostiantyn Kucher, PhD
Associate Professor

Email: kostiantyn.kucherliu.se
Phone: +46 11 36 33 56

Peilin Yu
PhD Student

Email: peilin.yuliu.se
Phone: +46 11 36 34 44

Zeyang Huang
PhD Student

Email: zeyang.huangliu.se
Phone: +46 11 36 33 38

Associated Members

Lonni Besançon, PhD
Assistant Professor

Email: lonni.besanconliu.se

Mathis Brossier
PhD Student

Email: mathis.brossierliu.se

Nico Reski, PhD
Assistant Professor

Email: nico.reskiliu.se

Alumni

Elias Elmquist, PhD

Email: elias.elmquistvisus.uni-stuttgart.de

Jimmy Johansson Westberg, PhD

Email: jimmy.johansson.westbergliu.se

Magnus Nylin, PhD

Email: magnus.nylinvti.se

Matthew Cooper, PhD

Email: matthew.cooperliu.se

Niklas Rönnberg, PhD

Email: niklas.rönnbergliu.se

Takanori Fujiwara, PhD

Email: tfujiwaraarizona.edu

Current and Former Students

Adrian Szuter	Visual Analysis of Multivariate Networks with VINCent Master's Thesis. Started 2025.
Ramez Rizek	Low-Power Crowd Analytics: Deploying Edge AI-Based Density Estimation on Hailo-8 Master's Thesis. Started 2025. [External supervisor: Brad Kao (Arcadyan)]
Julia Ronnefalk and Mila Shahnavaz	Using Deep Learning to Predict Aircraft and Missile Trajectories in Simulated Scenarios — Development and Evaluation of a CNN-LSTM and an iTransformer Model Trained on MATLAB/Simulink Simulation Data Master's Thesis. Finished 2025. [External supervisor: Markus Svensson (FOI)]
Salma Gabot and Klara Tollerz Bratteby	Digital Assistant in the Aviation Industry — Leveraging Generative AI to Enhance Access to Open Data Master's Thesis. Finished 2025. [External supervisor: Fredrik Rhodin (Swedavia)]
Dasmit Sethi	Multi-horizon Electricity Price Forecasting Using Long Short-term Memory Based Encoder-Decoder Neural Networks and Uncertainty Estimation Master's Thesis. Finished 2024. [External supervisor: Peter Dahlén (Holmen AB)]
Mathilda Welander and Saga Norén Karlsson	Visualization of Networks in Cyber Environments Master's Thesis. Finished 2024. [External supervisor: Oliver Johansson (FOI)]
Henrik Gustafsson and Gabriel Cederqvist	Event-Cap: Event Ranking and Transformer-Based Video Captioning Master's Thesis. Finished 2024. [External supervisor: Fredrik Helders (Axis Communications AB)]
Hirbod Gholamniaetakhsami	Comparison of Causal Models for Bibliometric and Scientometric Analysis Applications Master's Thesis. Finished 2024. [External supervision. Main supervisor: Krzysztof Bartoszek (IDA, LiU)]
Casper Larsson	Dynamic Graph Comparison Using a Magic Lens — Enhancing Network Visualisation for Temporal and Multivariate Data Master's Thesis. Finished 2024.
Axel Nielsen and Jakob Karlstrand	Generative AI Assistant for Public Transport Using Scheduled and Real-Time Data Master's Thesis. Finished 2024. [External supervisors: Björn Götestrand and Hans Ekström (Gaia Systems AB)]
Daniel Laesker, Berkay Orhan, Isak Karlsson, and Alma Linder	d3-textVis: Text Visualization Techniques Based on JavaScript Bachelor's Project. Finished 2024.
Erik Gimbergsson	XploreSMR: Visual Analytic Tool for Classification and Exploration of Mass Causality Incidents Using News Media Data Master's Thesis. Finished 2024.
Johanna Folde and Elin Akkurt	Visual Analysis of Humor Assessment in Edited News Headlines Master's Thesis. Finished 2023.
Nellie Engström and Wilma Axelsson	Large-scale Exploratory Text Visualisation Master's Thesis. Finished 2023. [External supervisor: Berkant Savas (ITN, LiU and iMatrics)]
Yasser Kaddoura	Extracting and Exploring Information about Flood Events from Twitter Master's Thesis [Uppsala University]. Finished 2023.
Thomas Indrias Biniam and Adam Moren	Extractive Text Summarization of Norwegian News Articles Using BERT Master's Thesis. Finished 2021. [External supervisor: Björn Schiffler (Schibsted)]
Mikael Lundell Vinkler and Peilin Yu	Conversational Chatbots with Memory-based Question and Answer Generation Master's Thesis. Finished 2020. [External supervisors: Mariët Theune and Jelte van Waterschoot (University of Twente)]