--- Mario Costa Sousa Associate Professor Department of Computer Science Welcome to my webpage! I am leading the illustrares research group, a multi-disciplinary team working on fundamental and applied research of Interactive Visual Computing technologies (Computer Graphics, Visualization, Visual Analytics, and Human-Data & Computer Interaction) applied to problems and data from multi-disciplines in science, engineering, medicine, and the field of scientific illustration. latin://to illustrate to explain, to expound, to make clear or intelligible.The ability to see the unseen, communicate the intangible and bring clarity to the unclear.