The Visual Computing Group at Harvard University
Joined September 2013
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12 Jun 2020
🎉 We are honored to share that @hpfister has been elected to ACM SIGGRAPH Academy @siggraph for “diverse contributions to visual computing including data visualization, point-based rendering, 3D scanning and physical fabrication."
Congratulations!
siggraph.org/about/awards/ac…
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Harvard VCG retweeted
31 Dec 2025
We demonstrate that SmartEM achieves up to a ~7-fold acceleration of image acquisition time for connectomic samples using a commercial single-beam SEM in samples from nematodes, mice, and the human brain.
31 Dec 2025
Smarter Microscopes, Faster Maps: Lichtman Lab’s “SmartEM” Brings AI to Connectomics #research
mcb.harvard.edu/department/n… @naturemethods @hseas @MIT @harvardbrainsci @HarvardGSAS @YaronMeirovitch @corefpark @hpfister @VMurthyLab @RachelleGaudet
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22 Sep 2025
Welcome to our new PhD student, Alexandra Irger! She earned her BSc at TU Wien and her MSc at @KAUST. Her research develops visualization methods combining rendering, simulation, and interaction to explore complex data, now focusing on challenges in biology and medicine.
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22 Sep 2025
Welcome to our new PhD student, Ella Hugie! She earned her BSc from @UofT, where she studied how user characteristics affect data visualization comprehension. She’ll continue in HCI, focusing on visualization and UX. We’re thrilled to have you!
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Harvard VCG retweeted
6 May 2025
MIT Professional Education offers a three-day in-person or live online course on June 2-4, 2025, on
AI for Scientific Discovery
professional.mit.edu/course-…
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14 Apr 2025
🎉 Last week, we celebrated our VIS/UIST submissions and said farewell to our amazing visitor, Michael Shewarega. Congrats to everyone who submitted, and best of luck to Michael in his new role at the Gehlenborg Lab @ HMS! 🥳🪩
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Harvard VCG retweeted
2 Apr 2025
This summer, I’m interning at @E11BIO in SF as an ML fellow! We'll further push my previous work on automated connectome proofreading. Let’s have coffee and chat about AI & vis for bio/neuro if you're in the area! Collab w/ @srinituraga 🧠 #connectomics #AI @Convergent_FROs
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Harvard VCG retweeted
28 Jan 2025
If you're an undergrad with strong programming skills, and would like to work on LLMs Human Memory at @Harvard, drop me a message.
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2 Dec 2024
Check out cool new work led by our PhD student @jakobtroidl in collaboration with @HHMIJanelia. #connectomics #AI
2 Dec 2024
📢Our latest preprint shows that learning global neuron shapes can help to automatically proofread connectomes and predict neuron types. biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/… Work done in collaboration with @HHMIJanelia, @srinituraga & @HarvardVCG #connectomics #AI 🧵(1/n)
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Harvard VCG retweeted
30 Oct 2024
📢 Excited to share our #NeurIPS 2024 paper SocialGPT, a modular framework with greedy segment prompt optimization for social relation reasoning.
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Paper: arxiv.org/pdf/2410.21411
Code: github.com/Mengzibin/SocialG…
Website: mengzibin.github.io/SocialGP…
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14 Oct 2024
Congrats to @chunggi_lee95 for his first IEEE VIS paper. Make sure to check out his presentation on Thursday!
14 Oct 2024
@ieeevis: Excited to present my first PhD work: Sportify!
Ask to anything about basketball and chat with Stephen Curry!
Collaboration with @ticahere, @ZhutianChen, and @hpfister.
Thur, Oct 17th @ 10:27 – 10:39AM EDT!
Website: chungyi347.github.io/Sportif…
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11 Jul 2024
Welcome to our new postdoc @graceguo43. Grace got her PhD from @GeorgiaTech, where she developed visual analytics tools for human-centered explainable AI applications. She is now looking forward to extending that work to biomedical & imaging datasets. We are excited to have you!
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Harvard VCG retweeted
Interested in attending the 2024 Boston VIS Summer School on August 13-14? Sign up for the mailing list: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F…
#BostonMA #VIS #ieeevis #acmchi #DataVisualization #NewEngland @Northeastern @UMass @mitvis @HarvardVCG @WPI @BrownUniversity @Harvard @MIT @BUCSC
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Thanks @scicoalition for hosting Harvard at “The Science of Sports” event, with support from our very own Congresswoman @RepLoriTrahan !
Had a blast sharing our data vis research @sportsbuddyai for sports storytelling on behalf of @HarvardVCG to a diverse group of sports lovers🎉
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Phinally Done!✅ A picture is worth a thousand words, and a PhD journey is worth countless thank-yous.
I’m deeply grateful to my advisor @hpfister, mentors, family and friends for their love & support, leading me to go this far and be ready for next chapter!💪#harvardclassof2024
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Harvard VCG retweeted
21 May 2024
🔬🐝Excited to share our latest paper published
@IEEE_TMI: A novel benchmark for domain adaptive synapse detection, consisting of 14 electron microscopy image volumes from a biologically diverse set of Megaphragma viggianii brain regions.
Early Access Papers Just Posted: WASPSYN: A Challenge for Domain Adaptive Synapse Detection in Microwasp Brain Connectomes. Read the paper: ieeexplore.ieee.org/document…
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Harvard VCG retweeted
10 May 2024
Very nice. Congrats @stardazed0 and team 👏
This year is the 10th anniversary of the Google Research’s Connectomics team! In celebration, today with @MCB_Harvard we’re publishing a 1.4 petabyte human brain connectome with 57k cells and 150M synapses in @ScienceMagazine → goo.gle/4a8SpWT & sites.research.google/neural…
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10 May 2024
I am feeling very happy that I could contribute to this massive research study. We added community-based proofreading with CAVE to this dataset. Everyone can edit/update the AI-generated automated segmentation. ➡️bit.ly/4dAPxoB @sdorkenw @fcollman JinhanChoi
This year is the 10th anniversary of the Google Research’s Connectomics team! In celebration, today with @MCB_Harvard we’re publishing a 1.4 petabyte human brain connectome with 57k cells and 150M synapses in @ScienceMagazine → goo.gle/4a8SpWT & sites.research.google/neural…
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What if we could decode the mysteries of how we think? 🧐 New research from our Connectomics team and @Harvard University reveals surprising new insights about our human brain, using scientific imaging and our advanced AI algorithms. Learn more → goo.gle/44zxGdP
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Let’s envision the future of sports and personal analytics with XR visualizations! Anyone interested in XR and vis is encouraged to submit to our workshop held this year at VIS!
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