Kostiantyn Kucher

Associate Professor

Senior Lecturer in Information Visualization with Specialization in Visual Analytics of Texts, Networks, and Machine Learning Models

Biography

PhD in Computer and Information Science, Linnaeus University, Sweden, 2019
MSc in Computer Science (Information Control Systems and Technologies), Odessa National Polytechnic University, Ukraine, 2012
BSc in Computer Science, Odessa National Polytechnic University, Ukraine, 2010

Kostiantyn Kucher was born in Odessa, Ukraine. He received a Master's degree with honors in Computer Science from Odessa National Polytechnic University in 2012. During 2013鈥�2018, Kostiantyn was a PhD student with a specialization in Information Visualization and Visual Analytics under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Andreas Kerren with the ISOVIS group at the Department of Computer Science and Media Technology, Linnaeus University. Kostiantyn defended his PhD dissertation titled "Sentiment and Stance Visualization of Textual Data for Social Media" in April 2019. During December 2018鈥揇ecember 2019, he was a research assistant with the ISOVIS group.

During January 2020鈥揂ugust 2022, he was an associate senior lecturer at the Department of Computer Science and Media Technology. During May 2021鈥揂ugust 2022, Kostiantyn was also a part-time visiting assistant lecturer at Link枚ping University.

Starting with September 2022, Kostiantyn is a senior lecturer / associate professor (universitetslektor) with the iVis group at the Media and Information Technology division, the Department of Science and Technology, Link枚ping University (Campus Norrk枚ping).

Academic Awards and Distinctions:

Early Career Award at EuroVis '25
Best Reviewer Award at EuroVis '25
Best Reviewer Award at EuroVis '23
Best Poster Award at EuroVis '18

Contact:

Phone: +46 11 36 33 56 (feel free to leave voice mail)
Mobile: +46 72 158 47 08 (feel free to leave voice mail)
Visiting address: Kopparhammaren 2, Room 3031, Norra Grytsgatan 10, SE-602 33 Norrk枚ping, Sweden
Postal address: Department of Science and Technology (ITN), Link枚ping University, Campus Norrk枚ping, SE-601 74 Norrk枚ping, Sweden

Recent Updates

August 2025: Kostiantyn will serve as an associate chair with a focus on information visualization and visual analytics at GRIVAPP 2026 (). Paper submission deadline is October 2, 2025 for the first batch (regular papers) and November 13, 2025 for the second batch (regular and position papers).

June 2025:Preparations are in full swing for GD 2025 (), the 33rd International Symposium on Graph Drawing and Network Visualization, organized by Prof. Kerren and Dr. Kucher as general chairs in Norrköping during September 24–26, 2025. A pre-conference PhD school will take place on September 22–23, 2025.

June 2025: Kostiantyn has received the Best Reviewer Award and the Early Career Award () at EuroVis 2025 (), which took place in Luxembourg City, Luxembourg during 2–6 June, 2025.

Research

The main research interests and projects of Kostiantyn include the following:

text visualization and visual text analytics (see Text Visualization Browser at );
sentiment and stance visualization of text data (see Sentiment Visualization Browser at and the website of the StaViCTA project at );
network and temporal data visualization (especially for social media data);
further integration of visual analytics approaches with computational models (especially for natural language processing and text mining tasks, see VA+Embeddings Browser at ) as well as explainable AI (see TrustMLVis Browser at ); and
domain applications of information visualization, visual analytics, intelligent user interfaces, and human-computer interaction (see BioVis Explorer at and Chatbot Avatar Browser at , for instance).

Ongoing projects and activities:

Starting with January 2025, Kostiantyn is engaged in activities of the LiU node of , a Swedish national research infrastructure funded by the Swedish Research Council (Vetenskapsr氓det) in support of scientific advancement through the application of state-of-the-art data analysis and visualization techniques.
Starting with autumn 2024, Kostiantyn is engaged with several projects led by Prof. Dr. Jonas Lundberg from the at iVis, including the EU-funded project on AI-based solutions addressing critical systems (electricity, railway, and air traffic management) modelled by networks and the project on a digital infrastructure to enable autonomous flight of UAVs.

Information Visualization

The group focuses on the explorative analysis and visualization of typically large and complex information spaces. We develop novel interactive visualization methods and tools that are able to efficiently support analysts from various domains.

Publications

2025

Alexandra Diehl, Kostiantyn Kucher, Nicolas Médoc (Editorship) (2025)

Carlo Navarra, Kostiantyn Kucher, Tina-Simone Neset, Clara Greve Villaro, Fredrik Schück, Jonas Unger, Katerina Vrotsou (2025) International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, Vol. 126, Article 105562 (Article in journal)

Daniel Witschard, Kostiantyn Kucher, Ilir Jusufi, Andreas Kerren (2025) Applied Network Science, Vol. 10, Article 8 (Article in journal)

Daniel Witschard, Ilir Jusufi, Kostiantyn Kucher, Andreas Kerren (2025) PLOS ONE, Vol. 20, Article e0321114 (Article in journal)

Kostiantyn Kucher, Elmira Zohrevandi, Carl Westin (2025) Analytics, Vol. 4, Article 7 (Article in journal)

Daniel Witschard, Ilir Jusufi, Kostiantyn Kucher, Andreas Kerren (2025) Information Visualization, Vol. 24, p. 179-198 (Article in journal)

Yanqing Zhang, Leila Methnani, Emmanuel Brorsson, Elmira Zohrevandi, Andreas Darnell, Kostiantyn Kucher (2025) Proceedings of the 20th International Joint Conference on Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics Theory and Applications (VISIGRAPP '25): Volume 1: GRAPP, HUCAPP and IVAPP, p. 831-842 (Conference paper)

Takanori Fujiwara, Kostiantyn Kucher, Junpeng Wang, Rafael M. Martins, Andreas Kerren, Anders Ynnerman (2025) Journal of Visualization, Vol. 28, p. 133-151 (Article in journal)

Kostiantyn Kucher, Niklas Rönnberg, Jonas Löwgren (2025)

2024

Tina-Simone Neset, Katerina Vrotsou, Lotta Andersson, Carlo Navarra, Fredrik Schück, Magnus Mateo Edström, Caroline Rydholm, Clara Greve Villaro, Kostiantyn Kucher, Björn-Ola Linnér (2024) Climate Risk Management, Vol. 46, Article 100673 (Article in journal)

Magnus Nylin, Jonas Lundberg, Magnus Bång, Kostiantyn Kucher (2024) Visual Informatics, Vol. 8, p. 23-35 (Article in journal)

Mashrur Rashik, Mahmood Jasim, Kostiantyn Kucher, Ali Sarvghad, Narges Mahyar (2024) Proceedings of the 2024 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference (DIS '24), p. 1875-1894 (Conference paper)

Jinyi Wang, Kostiantyn Kucher, Andreas Kerren (2024) Poster Proceedings of the 26th Eurographics Conference on Visualization (EuroVis 2024 Posters) (Conference paper)

Kostiantyn Kucher, Elin Akkurt, Johanna Folde, Andreas Kerren (2024) Proceedings of the First Workshop on Visualization for Natural Language Processing (Vis4NLP 2024) (Conference paper)

Zeyang Huang, Kostiantyn Kucher, Andreas Kerren (2024) Poster Proceedings of the 26th Eurographics Conference on Visualization (EuroVis 2024 Posters) (Conference paper)

Kostiantyn Kucher, Alexandra Diehl, Christina Gillmann (Editorship) (2024)

Tina-Simone Neset, Lotta Andersson, Magnus Matteo Edström, Katerina Vrotsou, Clara Greve Villaro, Carlo Navarra, Kostiantyn Kucher, Fredrik Schück, Caroline Rydholm, Jonas Unger, Björn-Ola Linnér (2024)

Maria Skeppstedt, Magnus Ahltorp, Kostiantyn Kucher, Matts Lindström (2024) Information Visualization, Vol. 23, p. 217-238 (Article in journal)

Kostiantyn Kucher, Nellie Engström, Wilma Axelsson, Berkant Savas, Andreas Kerren (2024) Proceedings of the 19th International Joint Conference on Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics Theory and Applications (VISIGRAPP '24): Volume 1: GRAPP, HUCAPP and IVAPP, p. 670-677 (Conference paper)

Angelos Chatzimparmpas, Kostiantyn Kucher, Andreas Kerren (2024) IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, Vol. 44, p. 99-113 (Article in journal)

2023

Daniel Witschard, Ilir Jusufi, Kostiantyn Kucher, Andreas Kerren (2023) Proceedings of the 16th IEEE Pacific Visualization Symposium (PacificVis '23), visualization notes track, IEEE, 2023, p. 212-216 (Conference paper)

Elizaveta Kopacheva, Masoud Fatemi, Kostiantyn Kucher (2023) Online Social Networks and Media, Vol. 37-38, Article 100273 (Article in journal)

Kostiantyn Kucher, Andreas Kerren (2023) Proceedings of the 18th International Joint Conference on Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics Theory and Applications (VISIGRAPP '23): Volume 3: IVAPP, p. 248-255 (Conference paper)

Katerina Vrotsou, Carlo Navarra, Kostiantyn Kucher, Igor Fedorov, Fredrik Schück, Jonas Unger, Tina-Simone Neset (2023) Atmosphere, Vol. 14, Article 1141 (Article in journal)

Zeyang Huang, Daniel Witschard, Kostiantyn Kucher, Andreas Kerren (2023)

2022

Kostiantyn Kucher, Nicole Sultanum, Angel Daza, Vasiliki Simaki, Maria Skeppstedt, Barbara Plank, Jean-Daniel Fekete, Narges Mahyar (2022) Proceedings of the 2022 IEEE Workshop on Evaluation and Beyond 鈥� Methodological Approaches to Visualization (BELIV '22) (Conference paper)

Victoria Yantseva, Kostiantyn Kucher (2022) Data, Vol. 7, Article 159 (Article in journal)

Zeyang Huang, Kostiantyn Kucher, Andreas Kerren (2022) Poster Abstracts, IEEE Visualization and Visual Analytics (VIS '22) (Conference paper)

Daniel Witschard, Ilir Jusufi, Rafael M. Martins, Kostiantyn Kucher, Andreas Kerren (2022) Information Visualization, Vol. 21, p. 335-353 (Article in journal)

Angelos Chatzimparmpas, Rafael Messias Martins, Kostiantyn Kucher, Andreas Kerren (2022) IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, Vol. 28, p. 1773-1791 (Article in journal)

Tácito Trindade de Araújo Tiburtino Neves, Rafael Messias Martins, Danilo Barbosa Coimbra, Kostiantyn Kucher, Andreas Kerren, Fernando Vieira Paulovich (2022) Computers & graphics, Vol. 102, p. 233-244 (Article in journal)

Kostiantyn Kucher, Samir Bouchama, Achim Ebert, Andreas Kerren (2022) Proceedings of the 17th International Joint Conference on Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics Theory and Applications (VISIGRAPP '22): Volume 3: IVAPP, Online Streaming, February 6-8, 2022, p. 187-194 (Conference paper)

2021

Kostiantyn Kucher, Masoud Fatemi, Mikko Laitinen (2021) Proceedings of the 16th International Joint Conference on Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics Theory and Applications (VISIGRAPP '21): Volume 3: IVAPP, Online Streaming, February 8-10, 2021, p. 248-255 (Conference paper)

Angelos Chatzimparmpas, Rafael Messias Martins, Kostiantyn Kucher, Andreas Kerren (2021) IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, Vol. 27, p. 1547-1557 (Article in journal)

Masoud Fatemi, Kostiantyn Kucher, Mikko Laitinen, Pasi Fränti (2021) Proceedings of the 2021 Swedish Workshop on Data Science (SweDS) (Conference paper)

Rafael Messias Martins, Morgan Ericsson, Danny Weyns, Kostiantyn Kucher (Editorship) (2021)

Victoria Yantseva, Kostiantyn Kucher (2021) Proceedings of the 2021 Swedish Workshop on Data Science (SweDS) (Conference paper)

Angelos Chatzimparmpas, Rafael Messias Martins, Kostiantyn Kucher, Andreas Kerren (2021) Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Control Systems and Computer Science (CSCS23), p. 1-8 (Conference paper)

Angelos Chatzimparmpas, Rafael Messias Martins, Kostiantyn Kucher, Andreas Kerren (2021) Computer graphics forum (Print), Vol. 40, p. 201-214 (Article in journal)

Kostiantyn Kucher, Rafael Messias Martins, Andreas Kerren (2021) Proceedings of 42nd Annual Conference of the European Association for Computer Graphics (EG '21) 鈥� Education Papers, p. 39-44 (Conference paper)

2020

Maria Skeppstedt, Magnus Ahltorp, Kostiantyn Kucher, Andreas Kerren, Rafal Rzepka, Kenji Araki (2020) Selected Papers from the CLARIN Annual Conference 2019, p. 145-156, Article 17 (Conference paper)

Angelos Chatzimparmpas, Rafael Messias Martins, Ilir Jusufi, Kostiantyn Kucher, Fabrice Rossi, Andreas Kerren (2020) Computer graphics forum (Print), Vol. 39, p. 713-756 (Article in journal)

Kostiantyn Kucher, Rafael Messias Martins, Carita Paradis, Andreas Kerren (2020) Journal of Visualization, Vol. 23, p. 1015-1034 (Article in journal)

Vasiliki Simaki, Carita Paradis, Maria Skeppstedt, Magnus Sahlgren, Kostiantyn Kucher, Andreas Kerren (2020) Corpus linguistics and linguistic theory, Vol. 16, p. 215-248 (Article in journal)

2019

Kostiantyn Kucher, Andreas Kerren (2019) Posters of the 21th EG/VGTC Conference on Visualization (EuroVis '19), p. 29-31 (Conference paper)

Kostiantyn Kucher (2019)

2018

Kostiantyn Kucher, Carita Paradis, Andreas Kerren (2018) EuroVis 2018 - Posters, p. 49-51 (Conference paper)

Maria Skeppstedt, Kostiantyn Kucher, Manfred Stede, Andreas Kerren (2018) Proceedings of the LREC 2018 Workshop 鈥淭he 3rd Workshop on Visualization as Added Value in the Development, Use and Evaluation of Language Resources (VisLR III)鈥�, p. 9-16 (Conference paper)

Kostiantyn Kucher, Carita Paradis, Andreas Kerren (2018) Computer graphics forum (Print), Vol. 37, p. 71-96, Article CGF13217 (Article in journal)

Kostiantyn Kucher, Carita Paradis, Andreas Kerren (2018) Proceedings of the 13th International Joint Conference on Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics Theory and Applications (VISIGRAPP '18), p. 168-175 (Conference paper)

Kostiantyn Kucher, Maria Skeppstedt, Andreas Kerren (2018) Proceedings of the 11th International Symposium on Visual Information Communication and Interaction (VINCI '18), p. 102-103 (Conference paper)

Kostiantyn Kucher, Rafael Messias Martins, Andreas Kerren (2018) Proceedings of the 11th International Symposium on Visual Information Communication and Interaction (VINCI '18), 13-15 August 2018, Växjö, Sweden, p. 97-101 (Conference paper)

2017

Rafael Messias Martins, Vasiliki Simaki, Kostiantyn Kucher, Carita Paradis, Andreas Kerren (2017)

Andreas Kerren, Kostiantyn Kucher, Yuan-Fang Li, Falk Schreiber (2017) EuroVis 2017 - Posters, p. 85-87 (Conference paper)

Maria Skeppstedt, Kostiantyn Kucher, Carita Paradis, Andreas Kerren (2017) Proceedings of the Workshop on Logic and Algorithms in Computational Linguistics 2017 (LACompLing 2017), p. 137-138 (Conference paper)

Andreas Kerren, Kostiantyn Kucher, Yuan-Fang Li, Falk Schreiber (2017) PLOS ONE, Vol. 12, Article e0187341 (Article in journal)

Kostiantyn Kucher, Carita Paradis, Magnus Sahlgren, Andreas Kerren (2017) ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems, Vol. 7, Article 14 (Article in journal)

2016

Kostiantyn Kucher, Daniel Cernea, Andreas Kerren (2016) Proceedings of the ACM IUI 2016 Workshop on Emotion and Visualization (EmoVis '16), p. 15-22 (Conference paper)

Kostiantyn Kucher, Andreas Kerren, Carita Paradis, Magnus Sahlgren (2016) EuroVis Posters 2016, p. 49-51 (Conference paper)

Kostiantyn Kucher, Teri Schamp-Bjerede, Andreas Kerren, Carita Paradis, Magnus Sahlgren (2016) Information Visualization, Vol. 15, p. 93-116 (Article in journal)

Kostiantyn Kucher, Andreas Kerren, Carita Paradis, Magnus Sahlgren (2016) International Symposium on Digital Humanities, Va虉xjo虉 7-8 November 2016: Book of Abstracts, p. 56-57 (Conference paper)

2015

Kostiantyn Kucher, Andreas Kerren (2015) Proceedings of the 8th IEEE Pacific Visualization Symposium (PacificVis '15),, p. 117-121 (Conference paper)

Teri Schamp-Bjerede, Carita Paradis, Kostiantyn Kucher, Andreas Kerren, Magnus Sahlgren (2015) Abstracts Booklet, ICAME 36: Words, Words, Words 鈥� Corpora and Lexis, p. 153-155 (Conference paper)

2014

Kostiantyn Kucher, Andreas Kerren, Carita Paradis, Magnus Sahlgren (2014) Poster Abstracts of IEEE VIS 2014 (Conference paper)

Teri Schamp-Bjerede, Carita Paradis, Kostiantyn Kucher, Andreas Kerren, Magnus Sahlgren (2014)

Teri Schamp-Bjerede, Carita Paradis, Kostiantyn Kucher, Andreas Kerren, Magnus Sahlgren (2014) Book of Abstracts, IACS 2014, p. 219-219 (Conference paper)

Kostiantyn Kucher, Andreas Kerren (2014) Poster Abstracts of IEEE VIS 2014 (Conference paper)

Teri Schamp-Bjerede, Carita Paradis, Kostiantyn Kucher, Andreas Kerren, Magnus Sahlgren, Afshin Rahimi (2014) Book of abstracts: 47th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea 11鈥�14 September 2014, Adam Mickiewicz University, Pozna艅, Poland, p. 199-199 (Conference paper)

2013

Kostiantyn Kucher, Danny Weyns (2013) Proceedings of Modern Information Technology, MIT, 2013 (Conference paper)

Organisation

Portrait of Anders Ynnerman presenting in the dome theatre.

Media and Information Technology

The research at MIT is conducted in groups that focuses on a separate aspect of visual information technology, but not isolated from each other. The collaborative atmosphere involves both basic and application oriented research.

Department of Science and Technology (ITN)

We research and teach in several technical and scientific disciplines in which our main areas are organic electronics, media, communications and logistics.

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