I am interested in information visualization, network visual analysis, and interactions. I am especially interested in designing scalable techniques or systems that enable interactive exploration of large or complex datasets.

Short CV

Postdoctoral Researcher, Inria, AVIZ / Université Paris-Saclay, LISN (12/2019 — 05/2022)
- Advised by Jean-Daniel Fekete
Ph.D. in Computer Science, LaBRI / Université de Bordeaux (09/2016 — 11/2019)
- Thesis: “Passage à l’échelle pour la visualisation interactive exploratoire de données : approches par abstraction et par déformation spatiale” [French] (English: “Addressing scaling challenges in interactive exploratory visualization with abstraction and spatial distortion”)
- Advised by David Auber and Romain Bourqui
MSc in Computer Science at ENSEIRB-Matméca with Honors (2012 – 2015)

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News

2020-10-26	Our entry for the VAST Challenge 2020 Mini-Challenge 1 received an award. Take a look at the entry here.
2019-11-26	I defended my thesis (manuscript).
2019-07-04	An extended version of our hierarchical parallel coordinate paper was accepted by the Big Data Research journal.
2019-04-20	PacificVis 2019: trip to Bangkok, Thailand to present CorFish.
2018-10-07	Dagstuhl Seminar on Progressive Data Analysis and Visualization, Germany.

Recent publications

VAST 2020 Contest Challenge: GraphMatchMaker: Visual Analytics for Graph Comparison and Matching

IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, 2021

Natkamon Tovanich, Alexis Pister, Gaëlle Richer, Paola Valdivia, Christophe Prieur, Jean-Daniel Fekete, Petra Isenberg

Preprint Document link 110.1109/mcg.2021.3091955

HiePaCo: Scalable hierarchical exploration in abstract parallel coordinates under budget constraints

Big Data Research, 2019

Gaëlle Richer, Joris Sansen, Frédéric Lalanne, David Auber, Romain Bourqui

Preprint Document link Document PDF 10.1016/j.bdr.2019.07.001

CorFish: Coordinating Emphasis Across Multiple Views Using Spatial Distortion

2019 IEEE Pacific Visualization Symposium (PacificVis), 2019

Gaëlle Richer, Romain Bourqui, David Auber

Preprint Document link 10.1109/PacificVis.2019.00009 Video 26% acceptance rate

Full list here.

Projects

GraphletMatchMaker

Set of tools developed as part of our submission to the Visual Analytics Science and Technology (VAST) Challenge 2020 (Mini Challenge 1).

Project page Award for Outstanding Comprehensive MC1 Presentation video

LonGenEx (DALIA)

Visual exploration tool for longitudinal gene expression data from vaccine trials

Project page

CoPHI

Interactive web application based on abstract parallel coordinates for exploring multidimensional data.

Project page Associated paper