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Expert Assignments

Updated September 19, 2024 by Mario Romero.

Chair of Doctoral Defenses

  1. Liu, Yue - Breast cancer risk assessment and detection in mammograms with artificial intelligence - Download full text (pdf), January 18, 2024.

  2. Sadeghian, Parastoo - Computational fluid dynamics application in indoor air quality and health - Download full text (pdf), May 30, 2022.

  3. di Giorgio, Andrea - Introducing a procedural knowledge model for enhancing industrial process adaptiveness - Download full text (pdf), September 17, 2021.

Member of Doctoral Defense Committees

  1. Engelke, Wito - Exploring the Invisible: FINDING STRUCTURE IN SCIENTIFIC DATA - Download full text (pdf), April 29, 2022.

  2. Gomez, Paula - Spatiotemporal occupancy in building settings - Download full text (pdf), March 28, 2017.

  3. Todorov, Ivo - Individual differences in multitasking - Download full text (pdf), March 9, 2017.

  4. Solsona Belenguer, Jordi - Engineering through Designerly Conversations with the Digital Material: The Approach, the Tools and the Design Space - Download full text (pdf), December 18, 2015.

External Review of Docent Applications

  1. Uppsala University, Faculty of Arts. Requested by Lena Hagqvist. March 28 - June 21, 2018.

External Review of Professorship Positions

  1. Associate Professor promotion, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Department of Electronic Systems, requested by Kimmo Juhani Kansanen, March 6 - May 31, 2024.

  2. Open position Dnr LiU-2019-01120 Linköping University, requested by Ulf Nilsson, 2019.

External Review of Education Programs

  1. Uppsala University Game Design Program at Gotland Campus. Requested by Christer Waldenström.  April 18, 2015.

External Review of Grant Applications

  1. Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) - Grant Review, invited by Dr. Raquel Grazina. 2012.

Conference, Seminar and Worshop Organizer

  1. Organizer, Digital Futures Seminar, Robert Johansson, Stockholm University, From Machine Learning to Machine Psychology, Stockholm, September 11, 2024.
  2. Organizer, Digital Futures Seminar, Janice Gobert, Rutgers Graduate School of Education, An AI-based platform for real-time assessment, scaffolding, and alerting on students’ science, Stockholm, September 11, 2024.
  3. Organizer, Digital Futures Seminar, Fredrik Kjolstad, Stanford University, Four Languages for Portability, Stockholm, September 6, 2024.
  4. Organizer, Digital Futures Distinguished Lecture, Prof. Shoji Takeuchi, University of Tokyo, Biohybrid Robotics: Harnessing Living Systems for Robotic Advancements, September 4, 2024.
  5. Organizer, Digital Futures Seminar, Ivana Podnar Žarko, University of Zagreb, Artificial Intelligence of Things (AIoT): Bringing Intelligence into the Physical World, Stockholm, August 29, 2024.
  6. Organizer, Digital Futures Seminar, Chinwendu Enyioha, University of Central Florida, Communication-Aware Distributed Computation in Networked Autonomous Systems, Stockholm, June 27, 2024.
  7. Organizer, Digital Futures Seminar, Barbara Giunti, University at Albany, An introduction to Topological Data Analysis via its industrial applications, Stockholm, June 13, 2024.
  8. Organizer, Digital Futures Seminar, Noel Gorilick, Google Earth Engine, Predicting the Future: AI & Google Sustainability, Stockholm, May 8, 2024.
  9. Co-Organizer, Digital Futures TEDxKTH, Stockholm, September 3, 2024.
  10. Demonstrator, CitizAir, Digital Futures TEDxKTH, Stockholm, September 3, 2024.
  11. Demonstrator, CitizAir, Kulturfestivalen Luft, Norrmalmstorg, Stockholm, August 16, 2024.
  12. Co-Chair, InfraVis Days, Umeå, Sweden, March 18-20, 2024.
  13. Chair, InfraVis Days, Stockholm, Sweden, October 2-4, 2023.
  14. Co-Chair, InfraVis Days, Norrköping, Sweden, April 27-28, 2023.
  15. Co-Chair, InfraVis Days, Uppsala, Sweden, September 5-6, 2023.
  16. Co-Chair, InfraVis Days, Gothenburg, Sweden, March 23, 2022.
  17. Co-Chair, Fluid Dynamics for understanding aerosol transport with relevance to respiratory disorders and treatment; a research-driven education live webinar, Stockholm, Sweden (online), November 11-12, 2020.
  18. Program Chair, Eurographics Education Track, Norrköping, Sweden (online), May 25-29, 2020.
  19. Chair, KTH ICT Platform networking event, Stockholm, Sweden, April 26, 2017.
  20. Co-Chair, SIGRAD 2015, the Swedish Chapter of Eurographics, Stockholm, Sweden, June 1-2, 2015.
  21. Chair, Open Data for Academics Workshop, Stockholm, Sweden, May 5, 2015.
  22. Chair, EuroVis 2014 Workshop: Towards Visualization Literacy, Swansea, Wales, UK, June 10, 2014. 
  23. Organizing Committee Member, ACM CHI 2013, Workshop on Designing For- and With- Vulnerable People, Paris France, April, 27, 2013. 
  24. Associate Chair, ACM CHI 2013, Works in Progress, Paris, France, April 27 - May 2, 2013. 
  25. Program Chair, ACM CHI 2013, Workshops, Paris, France, April 27 - May 2, 2013. 
  26. Program Chair, ACM CHI 2013, Courses, Paris, France, April 27 - May 2, 2013.
  27. Chair, Workshop on Frontiers in Accessibility for Pervasive Computing, Pervasive 2012, Newcastle, UK, June 19, 2012.

Scientific Publications Reviewer

  1. ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, avg. 3 papers per year. 2008 - present.
  2. ACM SIGCHI Work in Progress / Late-breaking results, WIP – Extended Abstracts – Papers Chair, avg. 4 papers per year. 2012 - present.
  3. IEEE VIS, avg. 2 papers per year. 2015 - present.
  4. Eurographics Conference on Visualization, EuroVis, 3 papers per year. 2013 - present.
  5. IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, avg. 1 paper per year. 2024-present.
  6. Sustainable Cities and Society, 1 paper per year, 2024-present.
  7. SIGRAD, the Swedish Chapter of Eurographics, 4 papers. 2015.
  8. International Conferences on Intelligent User Interfaces, IUI Papers and Workshops, 3 papers per year. 2012 - 2013.
  9. ACM SIGCHI Symposium on Engineering Interactive Systems, EICS, 2 papers per year. 2012 - 2013.
  10. International Conference on Intelligent Environments - IE'12, 2 papers. 2012 - 2013.
  11. IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems & Rehabilitation  Engineering – TNSRE, 1 paper. 2013.
  12. ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology, UIST, 2 papers. 2013.
  13. International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services, MobileHCI, 3 papers. 2013.
  14. ACM Symposium on Spatial User Interaction, SUI, 2 papers. 2013.
  15. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, JASIST, 1 paper. 2013.
  16. ACM SIGCHI SDC Juried Reviewer. 2013.
  17. IEEE Transaction on Multimedia, TMM, 2 papers. 2013.
  18. International Conference on Pervasive Computing, 2 papers per year. 2008 – 2012.
  19. Designing Interactive Systems, DIS, 2 papers. 2012.
  20. Rolex Awards for Enterprise, 1 paper. 2012.
  21. ACM International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing, avg. 4 papers per year. 2008 – 2011.
  22. IEEE Pervasive Computing, 2 papers. 2009.

Invited speaker, keynote speaker and panelist

  1. Invited speaker, "AI in the OR: advances of artificial intelligence in the operating room", TEDxKTH Salon: Facets of AI – Exploring the Various Uses of AI in Research. Invited by Avid Fayaz. May 16, 2024.
  2. Invited speaker, "VisBac:  Airflow and contaminant visualization with real-time CFD simulation for the hospital operating rooms", Air Conditioning in Hospital Facilities Conference. Invited by Prof. Anna Bogdan, March 22, 2024.
  3. Keynote speaker, “Who understands your visualizations?”, eSSENCE Days, Uppsala, Sweden. Invited by Prof. Ingela Nyström, October 10, 2023.
  4. Invited speaker, “Visualizing health data”, XNK, Stockholm, Sweden. Invited by Johan Liwing. May 25, 2023.
  5. Invited speaker, "Brailletouch's design and impact", DIS Stockholm. Invited by Program Director Natalia Landázuri. September 14, 2023.
  6. Invited speaker, "Visualization for Biostatistics", DIS Stockholm, Sweden. Invited by Program Director Natalia Landázuri. May 29, 2023.
  7. Invited speaker, "Visualization for Biostatistics", DIS Stockholm, Sweden. Invited by Program Director Natalia Landázuri. May 25, 2022.
  8. Invited speaker, "Graphics and Interaction at the Visualization Studio at KTH", DIS Stockholm. Invited by Program Director Natalia Landázuri. March 24, 2022.
  9. Invited speaker, "Brailletouch's impact ten years after", DIS Stockholm. Invited by Program Director Natalia Landázuri. February 10, 2022.
  10. Invited speaker, "The Visualization Studio at KTH", DIS Stockholm.Invited by Program Director Natalia Landázuri. September 22, 2021.
  11. Invited speaker, "Interactive Graphics at KTH", DIS Stockholm. Invited by Program Director Natalia Landázuri. February 12, 2020.
  12. Keynote speaker, "Expo-Based Learning in the higher education of virtual and augmented reality", Vilär International Conference, Trollhättan, Sweden. December 5-6, 2019.
  13. Keynote speaker, Innovent, EIT, Stockholm, Sweden. June 7, 2018.
  14. Keynote speaker, China Academy of Art, Hangzhou, China. Invited by Tina Zhu. December 2, 2016.
  15. Invited speaker, Mobile accessibility, Escuela Politécnica del Ejército, July 21, Quito, Ecuador. Invited by Sara Durán. July 21, 2016.
  16. Keynote speaker, Innovent, EIT, April 24, Budapest, Hungary. Invited by Carla Griggio. April 24, 2016.
  17. Panelist, ACM WomenCourage 2015, Out of the Ordinary Jobs After a CS Degree, Uppsala. Invited by Jessica Cauchard. September 26, 2015. 
  18. Panelist, IEEE Vis Workshop VisLit 2014, Visualization Literacy, Paris, Invited by Jean-Daniel Fekete. November 11, 2014.
  19. Invited speaker, “BrailleTouch: the Entrepreneurial Story of an Accessibility App”, EIT ICT Labs. Invited by Karoline Beronius. March 20, 2013.
  20. Invited speaker, “Tableau Machine: Art and AI in the home,” Mobile Life. Invited by Prof. Kia Höök. March 20, 2013.
  21. Invited speaker, “Visualization of Natural Human Behavior,” HPCViz Seminar, KTH. Invited by Johan Hoffman, Professor. November 7, 2012.
  22. Invited speaker, “Capture and Visualize Natural Human Behavior,” Summer school in collective behavior, Mathematics Department, Uppsala University. Invited by David Sumpter. August 21, 2012.
  23. Invited speaker, “Vision, Visualization, Accessibility”, Institutet för Framtidsstudier. Invited by Peter Hedström, Director. June 1, 2012.
  24. Invited speaker, “Accessible Text Entry on Smartphones,” Los Angeles Pacific Radio KPFK. Invited by Henry Slucki. March 28, 2012.
  25. Invited speaker, “BrailleTouch and Designing for Accessibility,” Lexmark Corporate Headquarters, Lexington, KY. Invited by Amanda Plakosh-Angeles, Global Sustainability Analyst, Lexmark International. March 27, 2012.
  26. Invited speaker, “BrailleTouch,” Accessible World Tek Talk, sponsored by Helping Hands for the Blind. Invited by Robert Acosta, host of Tek Talk. March 27, 2012.
  27. Invited speaker, "Braille for smart phones," CNN Live, February 25, 2012. 
  28. Invited speaker, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Undergraduate Studies, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA. 2011.
  29. Invited speaker, “The Social Impact of Digital Media,” Computer Science Department, Universidad de Concepción, Chile. Invited by Prof. Pablo Catalán, Industrial Engineering. November 17, 2010.
  30. Invited speaker, 3DScanCo, Inc., Alpharetta, USA. 2009.

Expert Consulting

  1. DIS Stockholm, Designing and examining a visualization course. Invited by Angie Hjort and Natalia Landázuri. February 8 - September 7, 2022.
  2. Center for Discovery (for children on the autism spectrum), New York, USA. 2010 – 2012.
  3. The Lionheart School (for children on the autism spectrum), Alpharetta, USA. 2010 – 2012.
  4. Georgia Institute of Technology, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Undergraduate Studies, Atlanta, USA. Invited by Joe Le Doux. 2011.
  5. 3DScanCo, Inc., Alpharetta, USA. 2009.
Updated September 19, 2024  by Mario Romero.
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