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Matt Larsen is a Ph.D. Candidate in Computer Science at the University of Oregon. He also holds a full-time staff computer scientist position at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Matt started the Ph.D. program in September 2013, and began his concurrent role at LLNL in January 2016. His research interests include computer graphics, GPU computing, portable performance, and scientific visualization. At LLNL, Matt’s is a member of the VisIt development team and his projects focus on in situ visualization research, volume rendering, and simulated radiography. Flyer
Patricia Crossno is a Principal Member of Technical Staff in the Scalable Analysis and Visualization group at Sandia National Laboratories. Her research interests include visual representations for abstract data, time series analysis and visualization, visualizing ensembles of simulations, and model comparison and evaluation. Flyer
Kenny Gruchalla is a senior scientist at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory and an adjunct assistant professor at the University of Colorado at Boulder. He leads the scientific visualization efforts in the Computational Science Center at NREL. Kenny has more than 20 years of applied professional experience in scientific programming and scientific visualization, spanning several scientific disciplines, including: energy, aerospace, geophysics, molecular biology, and environmental engineering. His work has primarily focused on developing interactive scientific visualization techniques that provide tools for finding meaning in increasingly large and complex data. He holds a Ph.D. and M.S. in computer science from the University of Colorado at Boulder and a B.S. in computer science from New Mexico Tech. Flyer
Klaus Mueller received a Ph.D. in computer science from the Ohio State University. He is currently a professor in the Computer Science Department at Stony Brook University and is also an adjunct scientist in the Computational Science Initiative at Brookhaven National Labs. His current research interests are visualization, visual analytics, data science, medical imaging, and high performance computing, He won the US National Science Foundation CAREER award in 2001 and the SUNY Chancellor Award in 2011. Mueller has authored more than 170 peer-reviewed journal and conference papers, which have been cited more than 6,500 times. He is a frequent speaker at international conferences, has participated in numerous tutorials on various topics, and was until recently the chair of the IEEE Technical Committee on Visualization and Computer Graphics. He is also back on the editorial board of IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics and he is a senior member of the IEEE. Flyer
Ariane Middel's primary research interests are directed toward understanding the dynamics of urban climate to develop climate adaptation and heat mitigation strategies, specifically addressing the challenges of sustainable urban form, design, and landscapes in the face of climatic uncertainty in rapidly urbanizing regions. For the past five years, she has advanced the field of urban climatology through applied and solutions-oriented research employing urban, local, and microscale climate modeling and monitoring to investigate sustainability challenges related to Urban Heat Islands, thermal comfort, water use and quality, energy use, and human-climate interactions in cities. Dr. Middel is currently an Assistant Research Professor in the School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning. She received her Ph.D. in Computer Science (visualization) from University of Kaiserslautern, Germany and holds a M.Sc./B.Sc. in Geodetic Engineering from the University of Bonn, Germany. Flyer
Ross Maciejewski (PhD, Purdue University) is an Assistant Professor in the School of Computing, Informatics and Decision Systems Engineering at Arizona State University. Prior to joining Arizona State University Dr. Maciejewski served as a visiting faculty member at Purdue as a member of the Department of Homeland Security's Center of Excellence focusing on visual analytics (VACCINE). His work at Purdue's VACCINE Center was honored by the United States Coast Guard with a Meritorious Team Commendation as part of his work on the Port Resilience for Operational Tactical Enforcement to Combat Terrorism (PROTECT) Team. Dr. Maciejewski’s recent work has actively explored the extraction and linking of disparate data sources exploring combinations of structured geographic data to unstructured social media data to enhance situational awareness. His primary research interests are in the areas of geographical visualization and visual analytics focusing on public health, dietary analysis, social media, and criminal incident reports. He has served on the organizing committee for the IEEE Conference on Visual Analytics Science and Technology (2012-2013, 2015) and the IEEE/VGTC EuroVis Conference (2014-2016) and has been involved in award winning submissions to the IEEE Visual Analytics Contest (2010, 2013 and 2015). He is a Fellow of the Global Security Initiative at ASU and the recipient of an NSF CAREER Award (2014). For more information on his current work visit vader.lab.asu.edu. Flyer
Roxana Bujack graduated in mathematics and computer science and received her Ph.D. in the Image and Signal Processing group at Leipzig University in Germany. Currently, she is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Institute for Data Analysis and Visualization (IDAV) at the University of California, Davis with Prof. Kenneth I. Joy. Her research interests include flow visualization, pattern recognition in vector fields, moment invariants, and Clifford Analysis. Flyer
Vladimir Braverman is an Assistant Professor with the Department of Computer Science at the Johns Hopkins University. His main research interests are randomized and streaming algorithms. Vladimir obtained his B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel, and his Ph.D. from UCLA in 2011. Prior to attending UCLA, Braverman has led a research team at HyperRoll, a startup company that has been acquired by Oracle in 2009. Flyer
Jasper van de Gronde is a postdoc at the Scientific Visualization and Computer Graphics group of the Johann Bernoulli Institute for Mathematics and Computer Science in Groningen. His Ph.D. thesis was on the topic of non-scalar mathematical morphology. Apart from mathematical morphology, his interests include certain kinds of linear filters, compressed sensing, and deep learning, typically with a particular emphasis on large/high-dimensional and/or non-scalar data. Flyer
Satoshi Matsuoka received his Ph. D. from the University of Tokyo in 1993. He became a full Professor at the Global Scientific Information and Computing Center (GSIC) of Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech / Titech) in April 2001, leading the Research Infrastructure Division Solving Environment Group of the Titech campus. He has pioneered grid computing research in Japan the mid 90s along with his collaborators, and currently serves as sub-leader of the Japanese National Research Grid Initiative (NAREGI) project, that aim to create middleware for next-generation CyberScience Infrastructure. He was also the technical leader in the construction of the TSUBAME supercomputer, which has become the fast supercomputer in Asia-Pacific in June, 2006 at 85 Teraflops (peak, now 111 Teraflops as of March 2009) and 38.18 Teraflops (Linpack, 7th on the June 2006 list) and also serves as the core grid resource in the Titech Campus Grid. He has been (co-) program and general chairs of several international conferences including ACM OOPSLA'2002, IEEE CCGrid 2003, HPCAsia 2004, Grid 2006, CCGrid 2006/2007/2008, as well as countless program committee positions, in particular numerous ACM/IEEE Supercomputing Conference (SC) technical papers committee duties including serving as the network area chair for SC2004, SC2008, and was the technical papers chair for SC2009, and will be the Communities Program Chair for SC2011. He served as a Steering Group member and an Area Director of the Global Grid Forum during 1999-2005, and recently became the steering group member of the Supercomputing Conference. He has won several awards including the Sakai award for research excellence from the Information Processing Society of Japan in 1999, and recently received the JSPS Prize from the Japan Society for Promotion of Science in 2006 from his Royal Highness Prince Akishinomiya. Flyer