Bilal Alsallakh

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Favoritenstraße 9-11, A-1040 Vienna, Austria

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Twitter ID: @bilalalsallakh

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News

15.18.2015: Started new job as a Research Scientist with Bosch Research and Technology Center in Palo Alto, USA.
31.01.2015: Extended set visualization survey, has been accepted to CGF with minor revision
22.11.2014: Started a research visit to Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
03.09.2014: Passed my PhD defense
09.12.2013: Invited to give a seminar at the University of Kent - School of Computing
01.10.2013: Finished mentoring a project at Google Summer of Code 2013
01.09.2012: Received an honorable mention @VAST 2012
15.08.2012: Selected for doctoral colloquium @VisWeek 2012

 

Research

 

PhD Thesis

Visual Analytics of Large Homogeneous Data - Categorical, Set-typed, and Classification Data

The thesis was evaluated by
Prof. Silvia Miksch (Vienna University of Technology) as main advisor,
Prof. Helwig Hauser (University of Bergen) as external advisor, and
Prof. John Stasko (Georgia Institute of Technology) as external reviewer.

 

Awards and Honors

 

Professional Services

 

Conference Talks

 

Students

Are you seeking a topic for your Bachelor's or Master's thesis? Or want to do a project or seminar courses?
I can offer you exciting topics in the area of visualization!

 

Interests

  • Visual Analytics
  • Set Visualization
  • Pattern Recognition
  • Software Visualization
  • Computational Geometry

 

Hobbies

Publications

Hendrik Strobelt, Bilal Alsallakh, Joseph Botros, Peterson Brant, Mark Borowsky, Hanspeter Pfister, Alexander Lex, "Vials: Visualizing Alternative Splicing of Genes", IEEE Transactions of Visualization and Computer Graphics , vol. 22, pp. 399-408, 2016. paper Problem description
Bilal Alsallakh, Luana Micallef, Wolfgang Aigner, Helwig Hauser, Silvia Miksch, Peter Rodgers, "The State-of-the-Art of Set Visualization", Computer Graphics Forum, vol. 35, pp. 234–260, 2016.
Peter Bodesinsky, Bilal Alsallakh, Theresia Gschwandtner, Silvia Miksch, "Exploration and Assessment of Event Data", Sixth International EuroVis Workshop on Visual Analytics (EuroVA) 2015, pp. 5, 2015. paper
Theresia Gschwandtner, Heidrun Schumann, Jürgen Bernard, Thorsten May, Markus Bögl, Silvia Miksch, Jörn Kohlhammer, Martin Röhlig, Bilal Alsallakh, "Enhancing Time Series Segmentation and Labeling Through the Knowledge Generation Model", Poster Proceedings of the Eurographics Conference on Visualization (EuroVis 2015), pp. 3, 2015.
Martin Röhlig, Martin Luboschik, Markus Bögl, Frank Krüger, Bilal Alsallakh, Silvia Miksch, Thomas Kirste, Heidrun Schumann, "Supporting Activity Recognition by Visual Analytics", Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Visual Analytics Science and Technology, 2015. Teaser
Margit Pohl, Florian Scholz, Simone Kriglstein, Bilal Alsallakh, Silvia Miksch, "Evaluating the Dot-Based Contingency Wheel: Results from a Usability and Utility Study", HCI International, pp. 76--86, 2014.
Martin Röhlig, Martin Luboschik, Heidrun Schumann, Markus Bögl, Bilal Alsallakh, Silvia Miksch, "Analyzing Parameter Influence on Time-Series Segmentation and Labeling", Poster Proceedings of the IEEE Visualization Conference (VIS), 2014. Preview
Bilal Alsallakh, Markus Bögl, Theresia Gschwandtner, Silvia Miksch, Bilal Esmael, Arghad Arnaout, Gerhard Thonhauser, Philipp Zöllner, "A Visual Analytics Approach to Segmenting and Labeling Multivariate Time Series Data", EuroVis Workshop on Visual Analytics (EuroVA), pp. 31-35, 2014.
Bilal Alsallakh, Luana Micallef, Wolfgang Aigner, Helwig Hauser, Silvia Miksch, Peter Rodgers, "Visualizing Sets and Set-typed Data: State-of-the-Art and Future Challenges", Eurographics conference on Visualization (EuroVis)– State of The Art Reports, pp. 1-21, 2014. Survey Browser
Bilal Alsallakh, Allan Hanbury, Helwig Hauser, Silvia Miksch, Andreas Rauber, "Visual Methods for Analyzing Probabilistic Classification Data", IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, vol. 20, pp. 1703--1712, 2014. Examples with public classification datasets The visual and interaction metaphors
Bilal Alsallakh, Silvia Miksch, Andreas Rauber, "Towards a Visualization of Multi-faceted Search Results", Workshop on Knowledge Maps and Information Retrieval (KMIR), vol. 1311, pp. 4, 2014.
Bilal Alsallakh, "Visual Analytics of Large Homogeneous Data - Categorical, Set-typed, and Classification Data", Institute of Software Technology & Interactive Systems, vol. PhD in Computer Science, pp. 165, 2014.
Peter Bodesinsky, Bilal Alsallakh, Theresia Gschwandtner, Silvia Miksch, "Visual Process Mining: Event Data Exploration and Analysis", Poster Proceedings of the IEEE Visualization Conference (VIS), 2014.
Alexander Rind, Tim Lammarsch, Wolfgang Aigner, Bilal Alsallakh, Silvia Miksch, "TimeBench: A Data Model and Software Library for Visual Analytics of Time-Oriented Data", IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, Special Issue "VIS 2013", vol. 19, pp. 2247-2256, 2013. Project page Introduction and Basic Features
Bilal Alsallakh, Wolfgang Aigner, Silvia Miksch, Helwig Hauser, "Radial Sets: Interactive Visual Analysis of Large Overlapping Sets", IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (Proceedings of InfoVis), vol. 19, pp. 2496-2505, 2013. More details and online demos The visual and interaction metaphors
Bilal Alsallakh, Peter Bodesinsky, Silvia Miksch, Dorna Nasseri, "Visualizing Arrays in the Eclipse Java IDE", 16th European Conference on Software Maintenance and Reengineering, pp. 541-544, 2012. http://youtu.be/7gTv9yUtFBc
Bilal Alsallakh, Peter Bodesinsky, Alexander Gruber, Silvia Miksch, "Visual Tracing for the Eclipse Java Debugger", 16th European Conference on Software Maintenance and Reengineering, pp. 545-548, 2012. Screencast
Bilal Alsallakh, Wolfgang Aigner, Silvia Miksch, Eduard Gröller, "Reinventing the Contingency Wheel: Scalable Visual Analytics of Large Categorical Data", IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (Proceedings of IEEE VAST 2012), vol. 18, pp. 2849-2858, 2012. Visual and interaction metaphors of Contingency Wheel++ (5 min)
Bilal Alsallakh, "Visual Analytics of Large Multivariate Matrix Data", Poster: IEEE VisWeek Doctoral Colloquium, 2012. Fast Forward @ VisWeek 2012
Arghad Arnaout, Bilal Alsallakh, Rudolf Fruhwirth, Gerhard Thonhauser, Bilal Esmael, Michael Prohaska, "Diagnosing Drilling Problems Using Visual Analytics of Sensors Measurements", Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference (I2MTC), IEEE International, pp. 1750 -1753, 2012.
Simone Kriglstein, Florian Scholz, Margit Pohl, Bilal Alsallakh, Silvia Miksch, "Evaluating the Dot-Based Contingency Wheel: Results from an Interview Study", Technical Report, pp. 10, 2012.
Bilal Alsallakh, Eduard Gröller, Silvia Miksch, Martin Suntinger, "Contingency Wheel: Visual Analysis of Large Contingency Tables", Proceedings of the International Workshop on Visual Analytics (EuroVA), pp. 53-56, 2011. Visual Metaphor
Raphael Fuchs, Ronald Peikert, Filip Sadlo, Bilal Alsallakh, Eduard Gröller, "Delocalized Unsteady Vortex Region Detectors", Proceedings of the 13th International Workshop on Vision Modeling and Visualization (VMV), pp. 81–90, 2008. paper
Bilal Alsallakh, Hani Safadi, "AraPen: An Arabic Online Handwriting Recognition System", Information and Communication Technologies, ICTTA '06. 2nd, vol. 1, pp. 1844 -1849, 2006.