Wolfgang Aigner

Wolfgang Aigner is a Professor and Deputy Head of the Faculty of Engineering and Business at the University of Applied Sciences St. Pölten. He leads the Institute of Creative Media Technologies and is affiliated with the Department of Media and Digital Technologies. His expertise spans Information Visualization, Visual Analytics, and Human-Computer Interaction, with a focus on time-oriented data. He holds a PhD from TU Wien and a Habilitation in Practical Computer Science.

Education:

• PhD (Dr. techn.) in Computer Science, TU Wien (2006)
• Habilitation (Priv.-Doz.), TU Wien (2013)
• MSc (Dipl.-Ing.) in Computer Science, Johannes Kepler University Linz and TU Wien (1997-2003)

Research: Aigner's work emphasizes visual analytics for time-series data and data journalism. Key projects include VALiD (Visual Analytics in Data-Driven Journalism) and VisOnFire (workflow visualization). He authored over 125 peer-reviewed articles and the book Visualization of Time-Oriented Data (Springer, 2011).

Projects & Labs: Active in initiatives like KAVA-Time, IoT4LAC, and Trust AI. He leads research groups in Media Computing, focusing on areas like Data Science, Health Informatics, and Machine Learning.