Ph.D. Graduate Follows Footsteps of Advisor in Receiving Dissertation Award

When Arpit Narechania received the 2025 IEEE Visualization and Graphics Technical Community (VGTC) Doctoral Dissertation Award, he also earned a unique distinction for himself and his faculty advisor, Alex Endert.

Narechania and Endert are the first advisee-advisor pair to win the VGTC award, one of the highest honors in data visualization research.

Narechania earned his Ph.D. in computer science in 2024 and received the 2025 award for his dissertation, Designing, Developing, and Democratizing Guidance for Visual Analytics.

Endert, an associate professor in Georgia Tech’s School of Interactive Computing, won the same award 12 years earlier as a Ph.D. student at Virginia Tech.