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Elmira Zohrevandi

Assistant Professor

Assistant professor in information visualization with focus on design and evaluation of visual analytics interfaces to strengthen human-automation collaboration.

Presentation

My research explores how visualization and artificial intelligence can help people understand complex situations and make better decisions in safety-critical environments. A particular focus is on transportation systems where humans and automation need to interact and coordinate effectively.

My research lies at the intersection of cognitive science, transportation systems engineering, artificial intelligence, and visualization design. I develop visual analytics interfaces that support human reasoning and real-time decision-making to enhance safety. My research particularly focuses on mixed-autonomy situations where automation and humans must coordinate tasks and collaborate effectively.

As for the design methodology, I try to transform domain constraints into visual representations that help people understand situations, anticipate consequences, and analyse what-if scenarios. 

My expertise includes visual encoding and interactive prototype design, simulation development, and quantitative and qualitative evaluation through human-in-the-loop experiments. 

Within AI, my work focuses on making explanations of machine-learning models responsive to the user’s task and context aiming to support them in making decisions more aligned with the operational goals of the system they control.


Awards and Distinctions

2026: Gunnar Sundblad Research Foundation Award 2026. 400,000 SEK 
2025: Hans Werthén Scholarship. 190,000 SEK
2024: Verification for Utilization Grant within Transport and Mobility Profile by Linköping University Innovation Office. 49,400 SEK 
2019: Best Poster Award at ECCE ’19 by European Association of Cognitive Ergonomics

Project Grants

2025 – 2027 KOMPLEX 2: 4 mSEK funded by the Swedish Transport Administration (Trafikverket) 
Role: Scientific PI
2026-2029 RESOPS: 3 mSEK funded by VINNOVA
Role: Co-PI

 

 

Decision-support visual analytics interface for the forest industry

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Interactive decision-support dashboard for paper pulp production, combining historical operating data, machine-learning predictions, and coordinated visualizations to help operators understand the delayed effects of control adjustments in time-constant processes. Learn more about the research here

Publications

2026

Elmira Zohrevandi, Nilavra Bhattacharya, Emmanuel Brorsson, Yanqing Zhang, Rasmus Tammia, Andreas Darnell, Gianluca Manca (2026) Design and Visualisation of Time-Series Based Explanation Mechanisms for Industrial AI Applications International Congress and Workshop on Industrial AI and eMaintenance 2025, p. 723-735 (Conference paper) https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-03725-1_51
Elmira Zohrevandi, Pierangelo Dell’acqua, Stefania Costantini, Francesco Gullo (2026) Design of an AI-Based Decision-Support Framework to Enhance Road Safety in Varying Autonomy Conditions Using Virtual Reality SN Computer Science, Vol. 7, Article 126 (Article in journal) https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s42979-025-04580-3

2025

Elmira Zohrevandi, Aida Nordman, Anders Ynnerman, Jonas Lundberg, Carl Westin, Katerina Vrotsou (2025) Engaging Safety-Critical Operators in Visualization Design 2025 IEEE Conference on Engaging Critical Workforce In co-Design aNd Assessment (ECWIDNA), p. 29-33 (Conference paper) https://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ecwidna68506.2025.00014
Kostiantyn Kucher, Elmira Zohrevandi, Carl Westin (2025) Towards Visual Analytics for Explainable AI in Industrial Applications Analytics, Vol. 4, Article 7 (Article in journal) https://dx.doi.org/10.3390/analytics4010007
Yanqing Zhang, Leila Methnani, Emmanuel Brorsson, Elmira Zohrevandi, Andreas Darnell, Kostiantyn Kucher (2025) Designing Explainable and Counterfactual-Based AI Interfaces for Operators in Process Industries 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) https://dx.doi.org/10.5220/0013107700003912

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Supervised M.Sc. Theses

2026: Axel Modén and Andrea Svensson Cojocaru, “Transparent Automation: Visualizing Autonomous Vehicle Intentions for Human Drivers”

2025: Marcus Sjöblom and Rasmus Svala, “Multi-Agent Performance Using Goal-Oriented Action Planning (GOAP) in a Procedural Game”

2024: Axel Nielsen and Jakob Karlstrand, “Generative AI Assistant for Public Transport Using Scheduled and Real-Time Data”

2021: Thomas Indrias Biniam and Adam Morén, “Extractive Text Summarization of Norwegian News Articles Using BERT”

2020–2021: Mikael Lundell Vinkler and Peilin Yu, “Conversational Chatbots with Memory-based Question and Answer Generation”

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