Archived News
05/09/09: Two VisCenter Ph.D. Students Win Prestigious DHS Fellowships!
Lane Harrison and Roman Pyzh of the Computer Science Department have been awarded DHS Fellowships that will give them 2½ years of support with a stipend of $2300 per month and $1500 per year of travel support for 3 years. Fellowship holders will have summer internships at Pacific Northwest National Lab or another laboratory conducting relevant research. The purpose of the fellowships is to build a cadre of future research and development leaders in science areas relevant to homeland security. The fellowship program is administered by James Foley of Georgia Tech and William Tolone of UNC Charlotte.
03/19/09: Bill Ribarsky named to the Steering Committee of new DHS Center of Excellence
Bill Ribarsky has been named to the Steering Committee of the DHS Center of Excellence for Natural Disasters, Coastal Infrastructure, and Emergency Management (DIEM). He will oversee efforts in Advanced Information Systems. Ribarsky and his colleagues Aidong Lu and Zachary Wartell will lead research in applying visualization and visual analysis to hurricane wind and rain fields, storm surge on coastal terrain, and the resilience of urban infrastructures in coastal cities.
11/11/08: Large SRVAC Contingent at IEEE VisWeek!
At IEEE VisWeek, October 18-24 (which included the Visualization, InfoVis, and VAST Conferences),SRVAC was represented by 15 Ph.D. students and 6 faculty, one of the largest contingents from any organization. This group presented the following papers and posters. (The papers are linked to our Publications page.)
Scott Barlowe, Tianyi Zhang, Yujie Liu, Jing Yang, and Donald Jacobs. Multivariate Visual Explanation for High Dimensional Datasets. Accepted for publication, IEEE VAST 2008.
Thomas Butkiewicz, Wenwen Dou, Zachary Wartell, William Ribarsky, and Remco Chang. Multi-Focused Geospatial Analysis Using Probes. Accepted for publication, IEEE InfoVis 2008.
Dong Hyun Jeong, Wenwen Dou, Felesia Stukes, William Ribarsky, Heather Richter Lipford, and Remco Chang. Evaluating the Relationship Between User Interaction and Financial Visual Analysis. Accepted for publication, IEEE VAST 2008.
Tera Green, William Ribarsky, and Brian Fisher. Visual Analytics for Complex Concepts Using a Human Cognition Model. Accepted for publication, IEEE VAST 2008.
Caroline Ziemkiewicz and Robert Kosara. The Shaping of Information by Visual Metaphors. Accepted for publication, IEEE InfoVis 2008.
Alex Godwin, Remco Chang, Robert Kosara, William Ribarsky. Interactive Poster: Visual Data Mining of Unevenly-Spaced Event Sequences. Accepted for publication, IEEE VAST 2008.
Dong Hyun Jeong, Remco Chang, William Ribarsky. An Alternative Definition and Model for Knowledge Visualization. IEEE Visualization 2008 Workshop on Knowledge Assisted Visualization.
Xiaoyu Wang, Wenwen Dou, Seok-won Lee, William Ribarsky, Remco Chang. Integrating Visual Analysis with Ontological Knowledge Structure. IEEE Visualization 2008 Workshop on Knowledge Assisted Visualization.
Zhicheng Liu, Nancy J. Nersessian, John T. Stasko. Distributed Cognition as a Theoretical Framework for Information Visualization. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, (Paper presented at InfoVis '08), Vol. 14, No. 6. To appear.
08/06/07: John Stasko and his team wins first prize in the university competition of the IEEE VAST 2007 Contest
08/03/07: Ed Clarkson's PhD research using ResultMaps accepted for the InfoVis Doctoral Colloquium
07/01/07: SRVAC members have 5 accepted to the IEEE VAST andInfoVis Conferences
03/26/07: Hangzai Luo wins DHS Director of Research Award
10/10/06: The Visual Analytics Digital Library is now available!