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Kostiantyn Kucher

Universitetslektor

Universitetslektor i Informationsvisualisering med inriktning mot visuell analys av texter, nätverk och modeller för maskininlärning

Biografi

  • Doktorsexamen i data- och informationsvetenskap, Linnéuniversitetet, 2019
  • Masterexamen i datavetenskap (informationskontrollsystem och teknologier), Odessa National Polytechnic University, Ukraina, 2012
  • Kandidatexamen i datavetenskap, Odessa National Polytechnic University, Ukraina, 2010

Kostiantyn Kucher föddes i Odessa, Ukraina. Han tog en masterexamen med utmärkelse i datavetenskap vid Odessa National Polytechnic University 2012. Under 2013–2018 var Kostiantyn doktorand med inriktning mot informationsvisualisering och visuell analys under handledning av Prof. Dr. Andreas Kerren i forskningsgruppen ISOVIS vid Institutionen för datavetenskap och medieteknik, Linnéuniversitetet. Kostiantyn disputerade på sin doktorsavhandling med titeln "Sentiment and Stance Visualization of Textual Data for Social Media" i april 2019. Under december 2018–december 2019 var han forskningsassistent i forskningsgruppen ISOVIS vid LNU.

Under januari 2020–augusti 2022 var han biträdande universitetslektor vid Institutionen för datavetenskap och medieteknik vid LNU. Under maj 2021–augusti 2022 var Kostiantyn även gästadjunkt på deltid vid Linköpings universitet.

Från och med september 2022 är Kostiantyn universitetslektor i forskningsgruppen iVis vid avdelningen för Medie- och informationsteknik, Institutionen för teknik och naturvetenskap, Linköpings universitet (Campus Norrköping).


Senaste uppdateringar

Oktober 2024: Prof. Kerren, Dr. Vrotsou, och Dr. Kucher anordnar en ELLIIT Focus Period med titeln "Visualization-Empowered Human-in-the-Loop Artificial Intelligence"  vid Campus Norrköping under de 28 april – 30 maj, 2025, inklusive en 3-dagars symposium under de 13–15 maj.
Oktober 2024: Kostiantyn kommer att medverka som Posters and Demos track medordförande vid EuroVis 2025, som kommer att äga rum i Staden Luxemburg, Luxemburg under de 2–6 juni 2025.
Oktober 2024: Kostiantyn blir associerad ordförande med fokus på informationsvisualisering vid IVAPP 2025. Deadline för inlämning av papper är den 2 oktober 2024 för den första omgången (vanliga papper) och den 13 november 2024 för den andra omgången (vanliga och  positions- papper).

Forskning

Kostiantyns huvudsakliga forskningsintressen och projekt inkluderar följande:

Publikationer

2024

Magnus Nylin, Jonas Lundberg, Magnus Bång, Kostiantyn Kucher (2024) Glyph Design for Communication Initiation in Real-Time Human-Automation Collaboration Visual Informatics (Artikel i tidskrift) Vidare till DOI
Takanori Fujiwara, Kostiantyn Kucher, Junpeng Wang, Rafael M. Martins, Andreas Kerren, Anders Ynnerman (2024) Adversarial Attacks on Machine Learning-Aided Visualizations Journal of Visualization (Artikel i tidskrift) Vidare till DOI
Mashrur Rashik, Mahmood Jasim, Kostiantyn Kucher, Ali Sarvghad, Narges Mahyar (2024) Beyond Text and Speech in Conversational Agents: Mapping the Design Space of Avatars Proceedings of the 2024 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference (DIS '24), s. 1875-1894 (Konferensbidrag) Vidare till DOI
Kostiantyn Kucher, Elin Akkurt, Johanna Folde, Andreas Kerren (2024) Visual Analysis of Humor Assessment Annotations for News Headlines in the Humicroedit Data Set Proceedings of the First Workshop on Visualization for Natural Language Processing (Vis4NLP 2024) (Konferensbidrag) Vidare till DOI
Jinyi Wang, Kostiantyn Kucher, Andreas Kerren (2024) Visual Analysis of Power Plant Data for European Countries Poster Proceedings of the 26th Eurographics Conference on Visualization (EuroVis 2024 Posters) (Konferensbidrag) Vidare till DOI
Zeyang Huang, Kostiantyn Kucher, Andreas Kerren (2024) Towards a Visual Analytics System for Emotion Trajectories in Multiparty Conversations Poster Proceedings of the 26th Eurographics Conference on Visualization (EuroVis 2024 Posters) (Konferensbidrag) Vidare till DOI
Kostiantyn Kucher, Alexandra Diehl, Christina Gillmann (Redaktörskap) (2024) Poster Proceedings of the 26th Eurographics Conference on Visualization (EuroVis 2024 Posters)
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) AI för klimatanpassning: Hur kan nya digitala teknologier stödja klimatanpassning?
Maria Skeppstedt, Magnus Ahltorp, Kostiantyn Kucher, Matts Lindström (2024) From Word Clouds to Word Rain: Revisiting the Classic Word Cloud to Visualize Climate Change Texts Information Visualization, Vol. 23, s. 217-238 (Artikel i tidskrift) Vidare till DOI
Kostiantyn Kucher, Nellie Engström, Wilma Axelsson, Berkant Savas, Andreas Kerren (2024) Visualization of Swedish News Articles: A Design Study 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, s. 670-677 (Konferensbidrag) Vidare till DOI
Angelos Chatzimparmpas, Kostiantyn Kucher, Andreas Kerren (2024) Visualization for Trust in Machine Learning Revisited: The State of the Field in 2023 IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, Vol. 44, s. 99-113 (Artikel i tidskrift) Vidare till DOI

2023

Daniel Witschard, Ilir Jusufi, Kostiantyn Kucher, Andreas Kerren (2023) Visually Guided Network Reconstruction Using Multiple Embeddings Proceedings of the 16th IEEE Pacific Visualization Symposium (PacificVis '23), visualization notes track, IEEE, 2023, s. 212-216 (Konferensbidrag) Vidare till DOI
Elizaveta Kopacheva, Masoud Fatemi, Kostiantyn Kucher (2023) Using Social-Media-Network Ties for Predicting Intended Protest Participation in Russia Online Social Networks and Media, Vol. 37-38, Artikel 100273 (Artikel i tidskrift) Vidare till DOI
Kostiantyn Kucher, Andreas Kerren (2023) Supporting University Research and Administration via Interactive Visual Exploration of Bibliographic Data Proceedings of the 18th International Joint Conference on Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics Theory and Applications (VISIGRAPP '23): Volume 3: IVAPP, s. 248-255 (Konferensbidrag) Vidare till DOI
Katerina Vrotsou, Carlo Navarra, Kostiantyn Kucher, Igor Fedorov, Fredrik Schück, Jonas Unger, Tina-Simone Neset (2023) Towards a Volunteered Geographic Information-Facilitated Visual Analytics Pipeline to Improve Impact-Based Weather Warning Systems Atmosphere, Vol. 14, Artikel 1141 (Artikel i tidskrift) Vidare till DOI
Zeyang Huang, Daniel Witschard, Kostiantyn Kucher, Andreas Kerren (2023) VA + Embeddings STAR: A State-of-the-Art Report on the Use of Embeddings in Visual Analytics Computer graphics forum (Print), Vol. 42, s. 539-571 (Artikel i tidskrift) Vidare till DOI

2022

Kostiantyn Kucher, Nicole Sultanum, Angel Daza, Vasiliki Simaki, Maria Skeppstedt, Barbara Plank, Jean-Daniel Fekete, Narges Mahyar (2022) An Interdisciplinary Perspective on Evaluation and Experimental Design for Visual Text Analytics: Position Paper Proceedings of the 2022 IEEE Workshop on Evaluation and Beyond — Methodological Approaches to Visualization (BELIV '22) (Konferensbidrag) Vidare till DOI
Victoria Yantseva, Kostiantyn Kucher (2022) Stance Classification of Social Media Texts for Under-Resourced Scenarios in Social Sciences Data, Vol. 7, Artikel 159 (Artikel i tidskrift) Vidare till DOI
Zeyang Huang, Kostiantyn Kucher, Andreas Kerren (2022) Towards an Exploratory Visual Analytics System for Multivariate Subnetworks in Social Media Analysis Poster Abstracts, IEEE Visualization and Visual Analytics (VIS '22) (Konferensbidrag)
Daniel Witschard, Ilir Jusufi, Rafael M. Martins, Kostiantyn Kucher, Andreas Kerren (2022) Interactive optimization of embedding-based text similarity calculations Information Visualization, Vol. 21, s. 335-353 (Artikel i tidskrift) Vidare till DOI
Angelos Chatzimparmpas, Rafael Messias Martins, Kostiantyn Kucher, Andreas Kerren (2022) FeatureEnVi: Visual Analytics for Feature Engineering Using Stepwise Selection and Semi-Automatic Extraction Approaches IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, Vol. 28, s. 1773-1791 (Artikel i tidskrift) Vidare till DOI
Tácito Trindade de Araújo Tiburtino Neves, Rafael Messias Martins, Danilo Barbosa Coimbra, Kostiantyn Kucher, Andreas Kerren, Fernando Vieira Paulovich (2022) Fast and Reliable Incremental Dimensionality Reduction for Streaming Data Computers & graphics, Vol. 102, s. 233-244 (Artikel i tidskrift) Vidare till DOI
Kostiantyn Kucher, Samir Bouchama, Achim Ebert, Andreas Kerren (2022) Task-Based Evaluation of Sentiment Visualization Techniques 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, s. 187-194 (Konferensbidrag) Vidare till DOI

2021

Kostiantyn Kucher, Masoud Fatemi, Mikko Laitinen (2021) Towards Visual Sociolinguistic Network Analysis 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, s. 248-255 (Konferensbidrag) Vidare till DOI
Angelos Chatzimparmpas, Rafael Messias Martins, Kostiantyn Kucher, Andreas Kerren (2021) StackGenVis: Alignment of Data, Algorithms, and Models for Stacking Ensemble Learning Using Performance Metrics IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, Vol. 27, s. 1547-1557 (Artikel i tidskrift) Vidare till DOI
Masoud Fatemi, Kostiantyn Kucher, Mikko Laitinen, Pasi Fränti (2021) Self-Similarity of Twitter Users Proceedings of the 2021 Swedish Workshop on Data Science (SweDS) (Konferensbidrag) Vidare till DOI
Rafael Messias Martins, Morgan Ericsson, Danny Weyns, Kostiantyn Kucher (Redaktörskap) (2021) Proceedings of the 2021 Swedish Workshop on Data Science (SweDS)
Victoria Yantseva, Kostiantyn Kucher (2021) Machine Learning for Social Sciences: Stance Classification of User Messages on a Migrant-Critical Discussion Forum Proceedings of the 2021 Swedish Workshop on Data Science (SweDS) (Konferensbidrag) Vidare till DOI
Angelos Chatzimparmpas, Rafael Messias Martins, Kostiantyn Kucher, Andreas Kerren (2021) Empirical Study: Visual Analytics for Comparing Stacking to Blending Ensemble Learning Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Control Systems and Computer Science (CSCS23), s. 1-8 (Konferensbidrag) Vidare till DOI
Angelos Chatzimparmpas, Rafael Messias Martins, Kostiantyn Kucher, Andreas Kerren (2021) VisEvol: Visual Analytics to Support Hyperparameter Search through Evolutionary Optimization Computer graphics forum (Print), Vol. 40, s. 201-214 (Artikel i tidskrift) Vidare till DOI
Kostiantyn Kucher, Rafael Messias Martins, Andreas Kerren (2021) Project in Visualization and Data Analysis: Experiences in Designing and Coordinating the Course Proceedings of 42nd Annual Conference of the European Association for Computer Graphics (EG '21) — Education Papers, s. 39-44 (Konferensbidrag) Vidare till DOI

2020

Maria Skeppstedt, Magnus Ahltorp, Kostiantyn Kucher, Andreas Kerren, Rafal Rzepka, Kenji Araki (2020) Topic modelling applied to a second language: A language adaption and tool evaluation study Selected Papers from the CLARIN Annual Conference 2019, s. 145-156, Artikel 17 (Konferensbidrag) Vidare till DOI
Angelos Chatzimparmpas, Rafael Messias Martins, Ilir Jusufi, Kostiantyn Kucher, Fabrice Rossi, Andreas Kerren (2020) The State of the Art in Enhancing Trust in Machine Learning Models with the Use of Visualizations Computer graphics forum (Print), Vol. 39, s. 713-756 (Artikel i tidskrift) Vidare till DOI
Kostiantyn Kucher, Rafael Messias Martins, Carita Paradis, Andreas Kerren (2020) StanceVis Prime: Visual Analysis of Sentiment and Stance in Social Media Texts Journal of Visualization, Vol. 23, s. 1015-1034 (Artikel i tidskrift) Vidare till DOI
Vasiliki Simaki, Carita Paradis, Maria Skeppstedt, Magnus Sahlgren, Kostiantyn Kucher, Andreas Kerren (2020) Annotating speaker stance in discourse: The Brexit Blog Corpus Corpus linguistics and linguistic theory, Vol. 16, s. 215-248 (Artikel i tidskrift) Vidare till DOI

2019

Kostiantyn Kucher, Andreas Kerren (2019) Text Visualization Revisited: The State of the Field in 2019 Posters of the 21th EG/VGTC Conference on Visualization (EuroVis '19), s. 29-31 (Konferensbidrag) Vidare till DOI
Kostiantyn Kucher (2019) Sentiment and Stance Visualization of Textual Data for Social Media

2018

Kostiantyn Kucher, Carita Paradis, Andreas Kerren (2018) Visual Analysis of Sentiment and Stance in Social Media Texts EuroVis 2018 - Posters, s. 49-51 (Konferensbidrag) Vidare till DOI
Maria Skeppstedt, Kostiantyn Kucher, Manfred Stede, Andreas Kerren (2018) Topics2Themes: Computer-Assisted Argument Extraction by Visual Analysis of Important Topics Proceedings of the LREC 2018 Workshop “The 3rd Workshop on Visualization as Added Value in the Development, Use and Evaluation of Language Resources (VisLR III)”, s. 9-16 (Konferensbidrag)
Kostiantyn Kucher, Carita Paradis, Andreas Kerren (2018) The State of the Art in Sentiment Visualization Computer graphics forum (Print), Vol. 37, s. 71-96, Artikel CGF13217 (Artikel i tidskrift) Vidare till DOI
Kostiantyn Kucher, Carita Paradis, Andreas Kerren (2018) DoSVis: Document Stance Visualization Proceedings of the 13th International Joint Conference on Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics Theory and Applications (VISIGRAPP '18), s. 168-175 (Konferensbidrag) Vidare till DOI
Kostiantyn Kucher, Maria Skeppstedt, Andreas Kerren (2018) Application of Interactive Computer-Assisted Argument Extraction to Opinionated Social Media Texts Proceedings of the 11th International Symposium on Visual Information Communication and Interaction (VINCI '18), s. 102-103 (Konferensbidrag) Vidare till DOI
Kostiantyn Kucher, Rafael Messias Martins, Andreas Kerren (2018) Analysis of VINCI 2009-2017 Proceedings Proceedings of the 11th International Symposium on Visual Information Communication and Interaction (VINCI '18), 13-15 August 2018, Växjö, Sweden, s. 97-101 (Konferensbidrag) Vidare till DOI

2017

Rafael Messias Martins, Vasiliki Simaki, Kostiantyn Kucher, Carita Paradis, Andreas Kerren (2017) StanceXplore: Visualization for the Interactive Exploration of Stance in Social Media
Andreas Kerren, Kostiantyn Kucher, Yuan-Fang Li, Falk Schreiber (2017) MDS-based Visual Survey of Biological Data Visualization Techniques EuroVis 2017 - Posters, s. 85-87 (Konferensbidrag) Vidare till DOI
Maria Skeppstedt, Kostiantyn Kucher, Carita Paradis, Andreas Kerren (2017) Language Processing Components of the StaViCTA Project Proceedings of the Workshop on Logic and Algorithms in Computational Linguistics 2017 (LACompLing 2017), s. 137-138 (Konferensbidrag)
Andreas Kerren, Kostiantyn Kucher, Yuan-Fang Li, Falk Schreiber (2017) BioVis Explorer: A visual guide for biological data visualization techniques PLOS ONE, Vol. 12, Artikel e0187341 (Artikel i tidskrift) Vidare till DOI
Kostiantyn Kucher, Carita Paradis, Magnus Sahlgren, Andreas Kerren (2017) Active Learning and Visual Analytics for Stance Classification with ALVA ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems, Vol. 7, Artikel 14 (Artikel i tidskrift) Vidare till DOI

2016

Kostiantyn Kucher, Daniel Cernea, Andreas Kerren (2016) Visualizing Excitement of Individuals and Groups Proceedings of the ACM IUI 2016 Workshop on Emotion and Visualization (EmoVis '16), s. 15-22 (Konferensbidrag) Vidare till DOI
Kostiantyn Kucher, Andreas Kerren, Carita Paradis, Magnus Sahlgren (2016) Visual Analysis of Text Annotations for Stance Classification with ALVA EuroVis Posters 2016, s. 49-51 (Konferensbidrag) Vidare till DOI
Kostiantyn Kucher, Teri Schamp-Bjerede, Andreas Kerren, Carita Paradis, Magnus Sahlgren (2016) Visual Analysis of Online Social Media to Open Up the Investigation of Stance Phenomena Information Visualization, Vol. 15, s. 93-116 (Artikel i tidskrift) Vidare till DOI
Kostiantyn Kucher, Andreas Kerren, Carita Paradis, Magnus Sahlgren (2016) Methodology and Applications of Visual Stance Analysis: An Interactive Demo International Symposium on Digital Humanities, Växjö 7-8 November 2016: Book of Abstracts, s. 56-57 (Konferensbidrag)

2015

Kostiantyn Kucher, Andreas Kerren (2015) Text Visualization Techniques: Taxonomy, Visual Survey, and Community Insights Proceedings of the 8th IEEE Pacific Visualization Symposium (PacificVis '15),, s. 117-121 (Konferensbidrag) Vidare till DOI
Teri Schamp-Bjerede, Carita Paradis, Kostiantyn Kucher, Andreas Kerren, Magnus Sahlgren (2015) New Perspectives on Gathering, Vetting and Employing Big Data from Online Social Media: An Interdisciplinary Approach Abstracts Booklet, ICAME 36: Words, Words, Words – Corpora and Lexis, s. 153-155 (Konferensbidrag)

2014

Kostiantyn Kucher, Andreas Kerren, Carita Paradis, Magnus Sahlgren (2014) Visual Analysis of Stance Markers in Online Social Media Poster Abstracts of IEEE VIS 2014 (Konferensbidrag) Vidare till DOI
Teri Schamp-Bjerede, Carita Paradis, Kostiantyn Kucher, Andreas Kerren, Magnus Sahlgren (2014) Turning Face: Emoticons as Reinforcers/Attenuators
Teri Schamp-Bjerede, Carita Paradis, Kostiantyn Kucher, Andreas Kerren, Magnus Sahlgren (2014) The Signifier, Signified and Stance: Happy/Sad Emoticons as Emotionizers Book of Abstracts, IACS 2014, s. 219-219 (Konferensbidrag)
Kostiantyn Kucher, Andreas Kerren (2014) Text Visualization Browser: A Visual Survey of Text Visualization Techniques Poster Abstracts of IEEE VIS 2014 (Konferensbidrag)
Teri Schamp-Bjerede, Carita Paradis, Kostiantyn Kucher, Andreas Kerren, Magnus Sahlgren, Afshin Rahimi (2014) Hedges and Tweets: Certainty and Uncertainty in Epistemic Markers in Microblog Feeds Book of abstracts: 47th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea 11–14 September 2014, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland, s. 199-199 (Konferensbidrag)

2013

Kostiantyn Kucher, Danny Weyns (2013) A Self-Adaptive Software System to Support Elderly Care Proceedings of Modern Information Technology, MIT, 2013 (Konferensbidrag)