Fanny Chevalier
Associate Professor of Computer Science and Statistics
University of Toronto
Knight of the French Order of Academic Palms
Faculty Affiliate, Vector Institute
Visiting Researcher, Microsoft Research, EPIC Group
My research lies at the intersection of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) and Data Visualization. I am interested in addressing the challenges involved in the design, implementation, and evaluation of novel interactive tools supporting visual analytics and creative activities, with a primary focus on interactive visualization for the visual exploration of rich and complex data, visualization education and statistical communication, and computing tools supporting the flow of creativity.
Recent Highlights
Publications
CHI 2025
Acceptance Rate: 25% (1249/5014)
Damien Masson, Young-Ho Kim, Fanny Chevalier.
Honorable Mention Award (top 5%)
CHI 2025
Acceptance Rate: 25% (1249/5014)
Eva Mackamul, Fanny Chevalier, Géry Casiez, Sylvain Malacria.
Honorable Mention Award (top 5%)
CHI 2025
Acceptance Rate: 25% (1249/5014)
Zixin Zhao, Damien Masson, Young-Ho Kim, Gerald Penn, Fanny Chevalier.
TVCG
VIS 2024
Acceptance Rate: 22% (124/557)
Anna Offenwanger, Theophanis Tsandilas, Fanny Chevalier.
TVCG
VIS 2024
Acceptance Rate: 22% (124/557)
Xinhuan Shu, Alexis Pister, Junxiu Tang, Fanny Chevalier, Benjamin Bach.
TOG
SIGGRAPH 2024
Acceptance Rate: 14% (118/844)
Emilie Yu, Fanny Chevalier, Karan Singh, Adrien Bousseau.
CHI 2024
Acceptance Rate: 26% (1060/4028)
Book Sadprasid, Anne Mei, Alex Mariakakis, Scott Bateman, Fanny Chevalier.
Honorable Mention Award (top 5%)
CHI 2024
Acceptance Rate: 26% (1060/4028)
Md Naimul Hoque, Tasfia Mashiat, Bhavya Ghai, Cecilia Shelton, Fanny Chevalier, Kari Kraus, Niklas Elmqvist.
CHI 2024
Acceptance Rate: 26% (1060/4028)
Blue (Georgianna) Lin, Pierre-William Lessard, Min Ngoc Le, Brenna Li, Fanny Chevalier, Khai N. Truong, Alex Mariakakis.
TVCG
PacificVis 2024
Acceptance Rate: 11% (15/131)
Morgane Koval, Yvonne Jansen, Fanny Chevalier.
Honorable Mention Award (top 5%)
TVCG
VIS 2023
Acceptance Rate: 26% (139/539)
Anna Offenwanger, Matthew Brehmer, Fanny Chevalier, Theophanis Tsandilas.
Best Paper Award (top 1%)
TOG
SIGGRAPH 2023
Acceptance Rate: 34% (212/611)
Karran Pandey, Fanny Chevalier, Karan Singh.
Eurovis 2023
Acceptance Rate: 38% (19/50)
Gabriela Morgenshtern, Arnav Verma, Sana Tonekaboni, Robert Greer, Jürgen Bernard, Mjaye Mazwi, Anna Goldenberg, Fanny Chevalier.
CHI 2023
Acceptance Rate: 27% (879/3182)
Abhraneel Sarma, Alex Kale, Michael Jongho Moon, Nathan Taback, Fanny Chevalier, Jessica Hullman, Matthew Kay.
Honorable Mention Award (top 5%)
CHI 2023
Acceptance Rate: 27% (879/3182)
Arnav Verma, Luiz Morais, Pierre Dragicevic, Fanny Chevalier.
MLSys 2023
Acceptance Rate: 22% (45/207)
Daniel Snider, Fanny Chevalier, Gennady Pekimenkho.
TVCG
VIS 2023
Acceptance Rate: 25% (90/364)
Nicole Sultanum, Farooq Naeem, Michael Brudno, Fanny Chevalier.
Honorable Mention Award (top 5%)
VIS: VisGuides 2022
Jonathan C. Roberts, Benjamin Bach, Magdalena Boucher, Fanny Chevalier, Alexandra Diehl, Uta Hinrichs, Samuel Huron, Andy Kirk, Søren Knudsen, Isabel Meirelles, Rebecca Noonan, Laura Pelchmann, Fateme Rajabiyazdi, Christina Stoiber.
Proc. IEEE Workshop on Visualization Guidelines in Research, Design, and Education (VisGuides), pp. 22-30. 2022.
CHI 2022
Acceptance Rate: 25% (637/2579)
Minfan Zhang, Daniel Ehrmann, Mjaye Mazwi, Danny Eytan, Marzyeh Ghassemi, Fanny Chevalier.
Honorable Mention Award (top 5%)
PMLR 2022
Sana Tonekaboni, Gabriela Morgenshtern, Azadeh Assadi, Aslesha Pokhrel, Xi Huang, Anand Jayarajan, Robert Greer, Gennady Pekhimenko, Melissa McCradden, Fanny Chevalier, Mjaye Mazwi, Anna Goldenberg.
CGF 2022
Brian Hall, Yang Liu, Yvonne Jansen, Pierre Dragicevic, Fanny Chevalier, Matthew Kay.
ICCV SHE 2021
Josh Holinaty, Alec Jacobson, Fanny Chevalier.
Proc. ICCV Workshop on Sketching for Human Expressivity (ICCV SHE), 9 pages. 2021.
Best Paper Award (top submission)
UIST 2021
Acceptance Rate: 26% (95/367)
Vicky Bilbily, Elaine Huynh, Karan Singh, Fanny Chevalier.
SUI 2021
Acceptance Rate: 39% (17/43)
Cheryl Lao, Haijun Xia, Daniel Wigdor, Fanny Chevalier.
TVCG
VIS 2021
Acceptance Rate: 25% (64/251)
Zezhong Wang, Hugo Romat, Fanny Chevalier, Nathalie Henry Riche, Dave Murray-Rust, Benjamin Bach.
VIS 2021
Acceptance Rate: 19% (41/142)
Nicole Sultanum, Anastasia Bezerianos, Fanny Chevalier.
VIS 2021
Acceptance Rate: 19% (41/142)
Jared Ahmad, Elaine Huynh, Fanny Chevalier.
ASSETS 2021
Acceptance Rate: 29% (36/124)
Claudia Chen, Robert Wu, Hashim Khan, Khai Truong, Fanny Chevalier.
Teaching Statistics 2021
Wesley Burr, Fanny Chevalier, Christopher Collins, Alison L. Gibbs, Raymond Ng, Chris J. Wild.
CHI 2021
Acceptance Rate: 26% (749/2844)
Nicole Sultanum, Fanny Chevalier, Zoya Bylinkskii, Zhicheng Liu.
CHI 2021
Acceptance Rate: 26% (749/2844)
Rebecca Zheng, Marina Fernández Camporro, Hugo Romat, Nathalie Riche, Benjamin Bach, Fanny Chevalier, Ken Hinckley, Nicolai Marquardt.
Honorable Mention Award (top 5%)
CHI Workshop 2021
Caitlin F. Harrigan, Gabriela Morgenshtern, Anna Goldenberg, Fanny Chevalier.
Proc. of CHI ’21 Workshop: Realizing AI in Healthcare. 2021.
IMWUT
Ubicomp 2020
Steven Y. Zheng, Robert Wu, Khai N. Truong, Fanny Chevalier.
TVCG
Infovis 2020
Acceptance Rate: 25% (64/251)
Elaine Huynh, Angela Nyhout, Patricia Ganea, Fanny Chevalier.
TVCG
Infovis 2020
Acceptance Rate: 25% (64/251)
Zezhong Wang, Jacob Ritchie, Jingtao Zhou, Fanny Chevalier, Benjamin Bach.
UIST 2020
Acceptance Rate: 21% (97/450)
Rinat Abdrashitov, Fanny Chevalier, Karan Singh.
CHI 2020
Acceptance Rate: 24% (760/3126)
Jiayi Eris Zhang, Nicole Sultanum, Anastasia Bezerianos, Fanny Chevalier.
TVCG
Infovis 2019
Acceptance Rate: 24% (53/214)
Amira Chalbi, Jacob Ritchie, Deokgun Park, Jungu Choi, Nicolas Roussel, Niklas Elmqvist, Fanny Chevalier.
VIS 2019
Acceptance Rate: 31% (59/186) -- Short papers
Catherine Solis, Fahimeh Rajabiyazdi, Fanny Chevalier.
CHI 2019
Acceptance Rate: 24% (760/3126)
Pierre Dragicevic, Yvonne Jansen, Abrhaneel Sarma, Matthew Kay, Fanny Chevalier.
Best Paper Award (top 1%)
CHI 2019
Acceptance Rate: 23% (705/2958)
Jacob Ritchie, Daniel Wigdor, Fanny Chevalier.
CHI 2019
Acceptance Rate: 23% (705/2958)
Maria Shugrina, Wenjia Zhang, Fanny Chevalier, Sanja Fidler, Karan Singh.
TVCG
VAST 2018
Acceptance Rate: 26% (42/164)
Nicole Sultanum, Devin Singh, Michael Brudno, Fanny Chevalier.
CHI 2018
Acceptance Rate: 26% (666/2590)
Haijun Xia, Nathale Riche, Fanny Chevalier, Bruno de Araujo, Daniel Wigdor.
Honorable Mention Award (top 5%) CHI Extended Abstracts 2018
Haijun Xia, Nathale Riche, Fanny Chevalier, Bruno de Araujo, Daniel Wigdor.
CHI 2018
Acceptance Rate: 26% (666/2590)
Nicole Sultanum, Michael Brudno, Daniel Wigdor, Fanny Chevalier.
Honorable Mention Award (top 5%)
CG&A 2018
Fanny Chevalier, Nathalie Henry Riche, Basak Alper, Catherine Plaisant, Jeremy Boy, Niklas Elmqvist.
TVCG
VAST 2017
Acceptance Rate: 21% (37/173)
Jian Zhao, Michael Glueck, Petra Isenberg, Fanny Chevalier, Azam Khan.
Honorable Mention Award (top 5%)
TVCG
VAST 2017
Acceptance Rate: 21% (37/173)
Michael Glueck, Mahdi Pakdaman Naeini, Finale Doshi-Velez, Fanny Chevalier, Azam Khan, Daniel Wigdor, Michael Brudno.
CHI 2017
Acceptance Rate: 23% (600/2400)
Basak Alper, Nathalie Henry Riche, Fanny Chevalier, Jeremy Boy, Metin Sezgin.
Honorable Mention Award (top 5%)
CHI 2017
Acceptance Rate: 23% (600/2400)
Emmanouil Giannisakis, Gilles Bailly, Sylvain Malacria, Fanny Chevalier.
IJHCS 2017
Alix Goguey, Dan Vogel, Fanny Chevalier, Thomas Pietrzak, Nicolas Roussel, Géry Casiez.
Book Chapter in Data-Driven Storytelling. A K Peters / CRC Press
Fanny Chevalier, Melanie Tory, Bongshin Lee, Marian Dörk, Jarke Van Wijk, Jessica Hullman.
N. Henry Riche, C. Hurter, N. Diakopoulos, S. Carpendale (Eds.) Data-Driven Storytelling. A K Peters / CRC Press. 2017.
TVCG
VAST 2016
Acceptance Rate: 21% (33/157)
Jian Zhao, Michael Glueck, Simon Breslav, Fanny Chevalier, Azam Khan.
TVCG
VAST 2016
Acceptance Rate: 21% (33/157)
Michael Glueck, Alina Gvozdik, Fanny Chevalier, Azam Khan, Michael Brudno, Daniel Wigdor.
UIST 2016
Acceptance Rate: 20% (79/384)
Rorik Henrikson, Bruno De Araujo, Fanny Chevalier, Karan Singh, Ravin Balakrishnan.
ACM Interactions 2016
Tovi Grossman, Fanny Chevalier, Rubaiat Habib Kazi.
CHI 2016
Acceptance Rate: 23% (565/2435)
Jian Zhao, Michael Glueck, Fanny Chevalier, Yanhong Wu, Azam Khan.
Honorable Mention Award (top 5%)
CHI 2016
Acceptance Rate: 23% (565/2435)
Nikola Banovic, Tofi Buzali, Fanny Chevalier, Jennifer Mankoff, Anind K. Dey..
Honorable Mention Award (top 5%)
CHI 2016
Acceptance Rate: 23% (565/2435)
Rorik Henrikson, Bruno De Araujo, Fanny Chevalier, Karan Singh, Ravin Balakrishnan.
AVI 2016
Acceptance Rate: 27% (26/95)
Fanny Chevalier, Nathalie Henry Riche, Catherine Plaisant, Amira Chalbi, Christophe Hurter.
TVCG
VAST 2015
Acceptance Rate: 22% (33/149)
Michael Glueck, Peter Hamilton, Fanny Chevalier, Simon Breslav, Azam Khan, Daniel Wigdor, Michael Brudno.
alt.CHI 2015
Tovi Grossman, Fanny Chevalier, Rubaiat Habib Kazi.
Patent
Rubaiat Habib Kazi, Tovi Grossman, George Fitzmaurice, Fanny Chevalier.
US Patent US20150370468. December 2015.
Patent
Rubaiat Habib Kazi, Tovi Grossman, George Fitzmaurice, Fanny Chevalier, Shengdong Zhao.
US Patent US20150145870. May 28, 2015.
TVCG
Infovis 2014
Acceptance Rate: 23% (45/196)
Fanny Chevalier, Pierre Dragicevic, Steven Franconeri.
UIST 2014
Acceptance Rate: 22% (74/333)
Rubaiat Habib Kazi, Fanny Chevalier, Tovi Grossman, Shengdong Zhao, George Fitzmaurice.
UIST 2014 Best Talk Award
CHI 2014
Acceptance Rate: 23% (465/2043)
Rubaiat Habib Kazi, Fanny Chevalier, Tovi Grossman, Shengdong Zhao, George Fitzmaurice.
CHI 2014 Honorable Mention Award (Top 5%) CHI 2014 Best Talk Award
Apple iPad app of the Year
CHI 2014
Acceptance Rate: 23% (465/2043)
Dustin Freeman, Stephanie Santosa, Fanny Chevalier, Ravin Balakrishnan, Karan Singh.
CSCWD 2014
Bhuvaneswan Arunachalan, Sara Diamond, Steve Szigeti, Fanny Chevalier, Anne Stevens, Maziar Ghaden, Borzu Talaie, Derek Reilly.
Book Chapter in Interactive Experience in the Digital Age
Derek Reilly, Fanny Chevalier, Dustin Freeman.
L. Candy & S. Ferguson (Eds.) Interactive Experience in the Digital Age. Springer International Publishing. pages 153-168. 2014.
IEEE VISAP 2014
Angus Forbes, Fanny Chevalier.
Proc. of the IEEE VIS Arts Program (VISAP). pages 43–45. 2014.
UIST Adjunct 2014
Alix Goguey, Fanny Chevalier, Thomas Pietrzak, Nicolas Roussel, Gery Casiez, Dan Vogel.
Teaching
- CSC318 — The Design of Interactive Computational Media Introduction to HCI
- CSC2537/STA2555 — Information Visualization Seminar course on visualization
- STA313 — Data Visualization Introduction to data visualization
- JSC270 — Data Science I Fundaments of Data Science
Advisees
Current students and postdocs
- Zixin Zhao (PhD), Co-advised with G. Penn
- Warren Park (PhD), Co-advised with T. Tang
- Elaine Hyunh (PhD), currently on leave
- Jeb Thomas Mitchell (MSc)
- Book Sadprasid (MSc)
Alumni
- Damien Masson (Postdoc 2024)
- Anna Offenwanger (PhD 2025), Co-advised with T. Tsandilas
- Emilie Yu (International Visiting Student 2023)
- Morgane Koval (International Visiting Student 2023)
- Eva Mackamul (International Visiting Student 2023)
- Arnav Verma (MSc 2023)
- Jingyu Liu (MSc in Applied Computing 2023)
- Nicole Sultanum (PhD 2022), with M. Brudno
- Minfan Zhang (MSc 2022), with M. Ghassemi
- Gabriela Morgenshtern (MSc 2022), with A. Goldenberg
- Josh Holinaty (MSc 2021), with A. Jacobson
- Claudia Chen (MSc 2021), with K. Truong
- Ram Gurram (MSc in Applied Computing 2021)
- Peifeng Zhu (MSc in Applied Computing 2021)
- Steven (Yifan) Zeng (MSc 2020), with K. Truong
- Elaine Hyunh (MSc 2020)
- Vicky Bilbily (MSc 2020)
- Jianda Chen (MSc in Applied Computing 2020)
- Raymond Zeng (MSc in Applied Computing 2020)
- Weija Sun (MSc in Applied Computing 2020)
- Jacob Ritchie (MSc 2019), with D. Wigdor
- Adrien Chaffangeon Caillet (International Visiting Student 2019)
- Michael Glueck (PhD 2018), with D. Wigdor
- Amira Chalbi (PhD 2018), with N. Roussel
Professional Activities
Technical Program Chair / Paper Chair
- ACM UIST: Technical Program Chair (2020)
- ACM ISS: Technical Program Chair (2020)
- GI: Technical Program Chair (2020)
- IEEE VIS: Short Paper Chair (2019)
Award Chair / Award Committee
- ACM CHI: Best Paper Award Chair (2022)
- ACM CHI: Best Paper Committee Member (2022)
- IEEE VIS: Best Paper Award Chair (2019)
Organising Committee
- ACM UIST: Doctoral Symposium Chair (2019)
- IEEE VIS: Doctoral Colloquium co-Chair (2018)
- IEEE VIS: Meetups co-Chair (2017)
- VISAP: General co-Chair (2016)
- IEEE VIS: Art Program co-Chair (2014, 2015)
- ACM UIST: Video Previews co-Chair (2014)
- ACM CHI: Video Previews co-Chair (2014)
- IEEE Visweek: Fast-Forward Chair (2010, 2011, 2012, 2013)
- IHM: Work-in-Progress co-Chair (2016)
- IHM: Tutorials & Workshops co-Chair (2013)
Program Committee
- ACM UIST: Program Committee Member (Associate Chair) (2024)
- ACM SIGGRAPH: Program Committee Member (2021, 2023)
- IEEE VIS: Program Committee Member (2021)
- ACM CHI: Program Committee Member (Associate Chair) (2014, 2015, 2021)
- ACM CHI: Program Committee Member (Sub-Committee Chair) (2017, 2018)
Contact
Department of Computer Science University of Toronto 40 St. George Street, Room BA5226 Toronto, Ontario M5S 3G4 Canada
Office: BA5226 Email: fanny[at]cs.toronto.edu Phone: +1 (416) 978-4391
Last update: February 2024.