Cagatay Turkay
Professor of Data Visualisation
Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies, University of Warwick
I work in human-computer and human-AI interaction, with a particular focus on data visualisation. I try to understand how people make decisions together with algorithms, investigate the role of interactive visual computing in this process, and design and build techniques and systems grounded in that understanding. More recently, I have been looking at how interactive visualisation and generative AI can be combined into systems that understand and adapt to their users — towards explainable and accountable decision-making wherever people work alongside algorithms.
I have been at Warwick’s Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies since 2019, as Associate Professor and, since 2022, Professor. Before that I was a Lecturer and Senior Lecturer in Computer Science at City, University of London (2014–2019), working with the giCentre. I received my PhD in Visualisation from the University of Bergen in 2014, was a visiting research fellow at Harvard University in 2013, and hold an MSc and BSc in Computer Science from Sabanci University and Middle East Technical University.
I am currently the Director for CIM (2025 - 2027) and I co-direct, and lead at Warwick, the EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Diverse Data Visualisation (DIVERSE CDT).
I received the EuroVis Young Researcher Award and was named a Eurographics Junior Fellow in 2019, and was a Turing Fellow at the Alan Turing Institute (2021–2024).
News
- Our TVCG paper LEVA has been named Runner-up for the 2025 Best Paper Award for the Visualization and Visual Analytics area of IEEE TVCG (news item).
- Fully-funded PhD scholarships in data visualisation through the DIVERSE CDT — rolling deadlines. Details.
- The EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Diverse Data Visualisation (DIVERSE CDT) starts, with Warwick as one of three partners.
- Appointed Turing Fellow at the Alan Turing Institute (2021–2024).
- Received the EuroVis Young Researcher Award and named a Eurographics Junior Fellow.
Selected publications
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