Alexandra Irger

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Hi! I am a first-year PhD student in Computer Science at Harvard University. I am advised by Prof. Hanspeter Pfister in the Visual Computing Group. My research interests lie in scientific visualization, specifically in methods that combine rendering, modeling, simulation, and interaction to help scientists explore, analyze, and disseminate large and complex data.

I recently had the opportunity to work with Prof. Nils Gehlenborg and Eric Mörth at the HIDIVE lab in Harvard Medical School. Before joining Harvard University, I received my Masters in Computer Science at KAUST under the supervision of Prof. Ivan Viola in the Nanovisualization group. I earned my Bachelors with honors at TU Wien with Prof. Eduard Gröller as my mentor.

I was born and raised in Austria, where I have been skiing all my life. I also enjoy watersports and have a background in graphic design.

airger [at] g [dot] harvard [dot] edu | LinkedIn

news

12/2025
I presented our Technical Communications paper at SIGGRAPH Asia 2025 in Hong Kong.
10/2025
Our Technical Communications paper on coral growth reconstruction was accepted to SIGGRAPH Asia 2025.
09/2025
I started my PhD in Computer Science at Harvard University advised by Prof. Hanspeter Pfister.
06/2025
Our paper on Conversational Visualization was accepted to TVCG and will be presented at IEEE VIS 2025 in Vienna.
02/2025
I started my internship at Harvard Medical School in the HIDIVE Lab with Prof. Nils Gehlenborg and Eric Mörth.
01/2025
I successfully defended my Thesis and graduated from KAUST with my Masters in Computer Science!

publications

2025
SIGGRAPH ASIA

Biologically Driven Coral Growth Reconstruction
Alexandra Irger and Ivan Viola.
Technical Communications proceedings.

2025
IEEE TVCG

VOICE: Visual Oracle for Interaction, Conversation, and Explanation
Donggang Jia†, Alexandra Irger†, Lonni Besançon, Ondřej Strnad, Deng Luo, Johanna Björklund, Alexandre Kouyoumdjian, Anders Ynnerman, and Ivan Viola. † denotes equal contribution