Current Members

Dr. Jun Tao, Postdoctoral Researcher (Co-advised with Dr. Nitesh Chawla)

PhD, Michigan Technological University

Martin Imre, PhD Student

MS, Vienna University of Technology

BS, Vienna University of Technology

Hao Zheng, PhD Student (Co-advised with Dr. Danny Chen) 

BE, University of Science and Technology of China

Man Wang, Michigan Tech PhD Student (Co-advised with Dr. Jean Mayo)

Post-Qualifying

Honor: House Fellowship, 2012-2013

Samuel Bailey, MS Student

BS, Miami University

Visiting Scholars

Dr. Lei Shi, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Jan-Jul 2016

Dr. Denis Parra, Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, Jan-Feb 2016

Graduated Students

Yi Gu, PhD, May 2016

Dissertation: Big Data Visualization Using Graph-Based Representations [PDF]

Honors: IEEE VisWeek Travel Grant, 2011 and 2015; CSE Outstanding RA Award, 2015-2016

Yifei Li, PhD, Michigan Tech, Nov 2015 (Co-advised with Dr. Ching-Kuang Shene)

Dissertation: Extracting Flow Features Using Bag-of-Features and Supervised Learning Techniques [PDF]

Jun Tao, PhD, Michigan Tech, Oct 2015 (Co-advised with Dr. Ching-Kuang Shene)

Dissertation: Enabling Techniques for Expressive Flow Field Visualization and Exploration [PDF]

Honors: Dean’s Award for Outstanding Scholarship, Spring 2015; Finishing Fellowship, Summer 2015

Jun Ma, PhD, Michigan Tech, Dec 2014 (Co-advised with Dr. Ching-Kuang Shene)

Dissertation: Analysis and Visualization of Flow Fields Using Information-Theoretic Techniques and Graph-Based Representations [PDF]

Honor: Finishing Fellowship, Spring 2014

Huan Zhang, MS, Michigan Tech, Apr 2012

Thesis: Animated Transition in Similarity-Based Tiled Image Layout [PDF]

Other Former Members

Yike Ma, REU Student, University of Science and Technology of China, 2016

Xin’an Zhou, iSURE Student, Fudan University, 2016

Ian Turk, NSF REU Student, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, 2016

Lucas Barbosa, Undergraduate Exchange Student, 2016

Yang Shen, PhD Student, 2014-2015

Can Li, Michigan Tech PhD Student, 2013-2014

Fan Shen, Michigan Tech MS Student, 2012

Fang Ruan, Michigan Tech MS Student, 2011

Scott Bos, Michigan Tech Undergraduate Student, 2011

Stephen Goetz, Michigan Tech Undergraduate Student, 2011

Yanliang Gu, Michigan Tech Undergraduate Student, 2011

John Reese, Michigan Tech Undergraduate Student, 2010-2011

GuFeng Pan, Michigan Tech Undergraduate Student, 2010

News

05.03.2016. Congratulations to Yi Gu for his successful PhD dissertation defense.

04.28.2016. Congratulations to Yi Gu for winning an outstanding RA award from the CSE department.

11.17.2015. Congratulations to Yifei Li for his successful PhD dissertation defense. 10.25.2015. Congratulations to Yi Gu for his student volunteer position at IEEE VIS 2015.

10.19.2015. Congratulations to Jun Tao for his successful PhD dissertation defense.

03.23.2015. Congratulations to Jun Tao for winning a Finishing Fellowship for the Summer 2015 semester from Michigan Tech Graduate School.

02.06.2015. Congratulations to Jun Tao for winning a Dean’s Award for Outstanding Scholarship from Michigan Tech Graduate School.

12.12.2014. Congratulations to Jun Ma for his successful PhD dissertation defense.

12.10.2014. Congratulations to Yi Gu and Jun Ma for winning a best paper award at IS&T/SPIE VDA Conference 2015.

05.06.2014. Congratulations to Yi Gu for his summer intern position at Argonne National Laboratory.

12.13.2013. Congratulations to Yi Gu for passing his PhD candidacy exam.

11.15.2013. Congratulations to Jun Tao for passing his PhD candidacy exam.

11.13.2013. Congratulations to Jun Ma for winning a Finishing Fellowship for the Spring 2014 semester from Michigan Tech Graduate School.

05.06.2013. Congratulations to Yi Gu for his summer intern position at Argonne National Laboratory, and to Jun Tao for his summer intern position at Siemens Cooperate Research.

05.03.2013. Congratulations to Jun Ma for passing his PhD candidacy exam.

03.01.2013. Congratulations to Jun Ma for receiving an honorable mention of the FlowGraph paper at IEEE PacificVis 2013.

12.21.2012. Congratulations to John Reese, Huan Zhang, and Jun Tao for winning a best paper award at IS&T/SPIE VDA Conference 2013.

09.04.2012. Congratulations to Man Wang for her House Fellow award for the 2012-2013 academic year.

05.07.2012. Congratulations to Yifei Li and Jun Tao for their summer intern positions at Siemens Cooperate Research.

04.20.2012. Congratulations to Huan Zhang for her successful MS thesis defense.

10.23.2011. Congratulations to Yi Gu for his student volunteer position at IEEE VisWeek 2011.