Mennatallah El-Assady is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at ETH Zürich, where she leads the Interactive Visualization and Intelligence Augmentation (IVIA) lab. Prior to her current role, she was a postdoctoral research fellow at the ETH AI Center and held research associate positions in Germany and Canada. Her doctoral research on human-AI collaboration earned the prestigious joint dissertation award of the German, Austrian, and Swiss Informatics Societies, along with an honorable mention for the VGTC VIS Doctoral Dissertation Award.

El-Assady’s interdisciplinary work spans data analysis, visualization, computational linguistics, and explainable artificial intelligence, with a focus on designing interactive human-AI collaboration interfaces to enhance problem-solving and decision-making. Her work is driven by a passion for empowering individuals through co-adaptive processes between humans and AI agents.

With extensive experience collaborating with political science and linguistics scholars, El-Assady led the creation of the LingVis.io platform and is currently developing the novel human-AI.io communication framework. She is also a co-founder and co-organizer of several influential workshop series, including Vis4DH and VISxAI.

In recognition of her pioneering contributions, El-Assady was named a Eurographics Junior Fellow in 2023. Her groundbreaking work at the intersection of visualization and machine learning has also earned her the 2024 VGTC Significant New Researcher Award and the 2023 EuroVis Early Career Award.

IVIA Lab Website: https://ivia.ch/

Personal Website: https://el-assady.com/