The VIDI research group at UC Davis has become a member of the Intel Graphics and Visualization Institute and established a oneAPI academic Center of Excellence focusing on the innovation of extreme-scale data visualization. More information (10/26/2021).
Continue reading...Professor Ma gave a Keynote speech at ACM Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI) 2021.
Continue reading...Interactive navigation of complex network data in immersive space.
Continue reading...VIDI students made a total of eight technical paper presentations at the IEEE VIS 2020 Conference.
Continue reading...Professor Ma gave a lecture on Data Driven Discovery and Storytelling using Visualization at the 2020 Statistical Science Camp in Taiwan.
Continue reading...We hosted a group of elementary school girls to show them how our research connects to their STEM education.
Continue reading...Ninety fourth graders visited the Center for Visualization to see advanced computer science research results. VIDI students prepared diverse visualization and interface demonstrations for these kids.
Continue reading...VIDI students presented multiple papers at IEEE VIS 2019 and also won a Best Paper Honorable Mention award.
Continue reading...Professor Ma gave a keynote speech at the Data Science, Statistics & Visualization Conference (DSSV 2019).
Continue reading...VIDI had a strong presence at IEEE PacificVis held in Japan and won multiple awards.
Continue reading...A huge crowd came to the Center for Visualization on the UC Davis Picnic Day to see the latest and greatest visualization and interface designs and demonstrations. Undergrad Gregory Guterman was showing his work.
Continue reading...Dean Curtis came to the Center of Visualization to see our visualization work. Professor Ma explained one of the projects.
Continue reading...VIDI student Oh-Hyun Kwon won the Visual Storytelling Contest at the 10th IEEE Pacific Visualization Symposium (PacificVis 2017). The story told is about school bullying.
Continue reading...Scientists from Chan Zuckerberg Initiative visited Center for Visualization.
Continue reading...VIDI researchers, Shimin Wang, Yuzuru Tanahashi, and Nick Leaf introduce a personal visualization design based on a flower metaphor for one to review his/her Facebook activities. The paper on this work will appear in IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications.
Continue reading...Check out Scholar Tree: http://vidi.cs.ucdavis.edu/ScholarTree a personal visualization design portraying one’s career with the pubs found in DBLP
Continue reading...VIDI students, Yuzuru Tanahashi and Yang Wang, presented their papers at CHI 2015. Yuzuru’s paper won the Best of CHI Honorable Mention Award.
Continue reading...The 9th Workshop on Ultrascale Visualization is held in conjunction with SC14 in New Orleans, LA on November 16, 2014. Professor Kwan-Liu Ma co-chairs this Workshop.
Continue reading...The VIS 2014 Conference was held in Paris over November 9-14. VIDI students made a strong presence in the technical program.
Continue reading...UC Davis and the Exploratorium in San Francisco have formally partnered to incorporate the latest scientific innovations into the museum’s exhibits and programs. Jennifer Frazier (left) of the Exploratorium and professor Kwan-Liu Ma (right) tell Chancellor Linda P.B. Katehi (center) how the partnership worked to build the plankton table during […]
Continue reading...President of the Los Angeles local SAG-AFTRA (Screen Actors Guild and the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists) and veteran character actor, Clyde Kusatsu, poses with the Stories of Solidarity team at the national AFL-CIO 2013 Convention. The UC Davis undergraduate students were invited by the AFL-CIO to exhibit […]
Continue reading...Lieutenant Governor of California, Gavin Newsome, played with the Plankton Table, an interactive exhibit using multi-touch visualization developed through a collaboration between the Exploratorium, the VIDI team of the UC Davis Center for Visualization, and the Darwin Project at MIT.
Continue reading...The First Workshop on Big-Data Visualization, organized by Professor Kwan-Liu Ma, will be held in conjunction with the IEEE Big Data Conference in Santa Clara, CA on October 6, 2013.
Continue reading...Christine Tao, a student of Design, has completed her MFA thesis under the supervision of Professor Susan Verba through a collaborative interdisciplinary research facilitated by the Center of Visualization.
Continue reading...Chris Bryan, a PhD student of VIDI, has been working on a project in collaboration with sociologists at the Academia Sinica in Taiwan. A paper reporting his work so far has been accepted by ASONAM 2013.
Continue reading...Yelena Wu, a MS student of VIDI, has worked on a project in collaboration with Professor Robert Faris of Sociology at UC Davis for her thesis. A paper reporting her work has been accepted by ASONAM 2013.
Continue reading...Carmen Sigovan and Jinrong Xie, PhD students of VIDI Research Group, will present their research works at EuroVis 2013. Carmen’s work was done in collaboration with scientists at the Argonne National Laboratory to visualize supercomputing while Jinrong’s was with climate scientists to visualize geodesic grid volume data from simulations using […]
Continue reading...VizSec 2013 will be held in conjunction with the IEEE VIS Conference on October 14, 2013 in Atlanta, GA. Professor Kwan-Liu Ma is the Program Chair.
Continue reading...A new tiled display is installed at the Center for Visualization. The display at a resolution of 7680×4320 pixels is excellent for a variety of research studies, collaborative work, and training.
Continue reading...The UC Davis Center for Visualization was established on October 1, 2012. The Center is sponsored by the UC Davis RISE (Research Investments in Science and Engineering) program.
Continue reading...Living Liquid is a collaboration with the Exploratorium in San Francisco to create an interactive exhibit showing the growth of phytoplankton in the world’s oceans. Phytoplankton are microscopic autotrophs, responsible for half of the world’s oxygen production. Visualizations of the ECCO 2 ocean climate and circulation model and phytoplankton simulation […]
Continue reading...Living Liquid is a collaboration with the VIDI Research Group and the Exploratorium in San Francisco to create an interactive exhibit showing the growth of phytoplankton in the world’s oceans.
Continue reading...The 7th Ultrascale Visualization Workshop will be held on November 12th in conjunction with the annual Supercomputing Conference in Salt Lake City, Utah.
Continue reading...The second IEEE Symposium on Large Data Analysis and Visualization (LDAV 2012) will be held during October 14-15 in conjunction with VisWeek in Seattle, WA.
Continue reading...IEEE Computer Graphics & Applications will feature a theme issue on Big Data Visualization. Professor Kwan-Liu Ma will be a guest editor.
Continue reading...Professor Kwan-Liu Ma received the 2012 HP Labs Research Innovation Award.
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