IEEE Workshop on Topology meets Artificial Intelligence
in conjunction with IEEE VIS 2026, Boston, USA

Program

Monday, November 9, 2026 (US Eastern Time)

Venue: Hall America center @ VIS (session page)

1:00pm – 1:05pm Introduction
1:05pm – 1:25pm

Best Paper Presentation + Q&A

  • Explainable Reaction Atlas
    Jason Li, Rodrigo de la Nuez Moraleda, Dhruv Meduri, Kelin Xia, Bei Wang
1:25pm – 2:10pm

Paper Session 1: Application-Oriented Visualizations

(10 min per paper, joint Q&A at the end)
  • Visualizing Local Maxima of the Ohio Overdose Epidemic with Vineyards
    Nicholas A Bermingham, David White, Nathan Willey
  • Categorical Framework for Visualization Software Architecture
    Hannah Rachel Aizenman, Mikael Vejdemo-Johansson, Thomas Caswell, Michael D Grossberg
  • Temporal Visualization of Hurricane Wind Fields Using Mapper Graphs
    Justin Hoffmeier
2:10pm – 2:30pm

Panel 1: TopoInVis Connect → Applications
2:30pm – 3:00pm Break
3:00pm – 3:45pm

Paper Session 2: Temporal and Multivariate Data

(10 min per paper, joint Q&A at the end)
  • Continuous Edit Distance between Time-varying Persistence Diagrams
    Sebastien Tchitchek, Mohamed Kissi, Julien Tierny
  • Exact Computation of Trait-induced Merge Trees for Bivariate Fields
    Petar Hristov, Ingrid Hotz, Talha Bin Masood
  • Temporal Tracking of Reeb-Space Sheets
    Mohit Sharma, Petar Hristov, Ingrid Hotz, Talha Bin Masood
3:45pm – 3:50pm

Poster Lightning Talks

  • Dimensionality Reduction Meets Network Science: Sensemaking on UMAP's kNN Graph
    Duen Horng Chau, Donghao Ren, Fred Hohman, Dominik Moritz
  • Topology-Inspired Fine-Tuning for Wind-Field Super-Resolution
    Arjun Dadhwal, Brian Summa
3:50pm – 4:10pm

Panel 2: TopoInVis Connect → AI
4:10pm – 4:30pm

Community Discussion: Future of TopoInVis