Bilal Alsallakh

Function

Former

Address

Favoritenstraße 9-11, A-1040 Vienna, Austria

Bilal Alsallakh is no longer employed at our department. Some of this information might be out of date.

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

Visualizing Sets
(in collaboration with Luana Micallef)
- SetViz.net: A survey of set visualization techniques
- Visualizing grouped network data
- Visualizing Large Overlapping Sets
- Scalable set visualization
- Dynamic set visualization

Analyzing and steering machine learning algorithms
- Analyzing Probabilistic Classification Data
- Time-series Segmentation and Labeling
  (sometimes called time-series classification)
Time-oriented data quality analysis and visualization

Infrastructure for Visual Analytics of Time-Oriented Data
(project lead by Alexander Rind, Tim Lammarsch and Wolfgang Aigner)
Visual Debugging Aids for Eclipse
(in collaboration with Peter Bodesinsky)
- Eclipse Array Explorer
- EclipseTracer

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

Honorable Mention at IEEE VAST 2012
(conference on Visual Analytics Science and Technology)
PRIP Master Prize, 2008
(awarded by the Pattern Recognition and Image Processing group @ TU Vienna)
Best Graduate Award at Damascus University, Faculty of Information Technology, 2006

Professional Services

PC member of EuroVA 2015, the Intl. EuroVis Workshop on Visual Analytics.
PC member of BioVis 2015, ISCB Symposium on Biological Data Visualization
PC member of IUI 2015, ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces
PC member of VLC 2015, the Intl. Workshop on Visual Languages and Computing
PC member of NIER and Tool Demos at VISSOFT 2013-2015, the IEEE Working Conference on Software Visualization
Fast forward co-chair of IEEE VIS 2014
Reviewer for the following conferences:
ACM CHI, EuroVA, EuroVis, HICSS, IEEE InfoVis, IEEE ICDM,
IEEE PacificVis, IEEE VAST, ISVC, IVAPP, VAST Challenge
Reviewer for the following journals:
ADAC, C&G, PLOS ONE, The Visual Computer

Conference Talks

Nov. 8-18, 2014: VIS 2014 in Paris (slides)
Oct. 10-18, 2014: 1st MED-Dialogue meeting in Amman
Sep. 10-12, 2014: Attending KMIR 2014 and TSIO 2014 in London
Jun. 8-17, 2014: EuroVis 2014 in Swansea (slides)
Oct. 10-21, 2013: VIS 2013 in Atlanta (slides)
Oct. 11-21, 2012: VisWeek in Seattle (slides)
March 24-27, 2012: CSMR in Szeged (slides)
May 30- Jun. 3, 2011: EuroVis 2011 in Bergen
Sep. 16-27, 2010: Attending VASS 2010 Summer School in London

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!

Christian Osebitz
Project: The State of the Art in Java-based Information Visualization on Mobile Devices
Type: Bachelor's Thesis
Duration: Sept 2014 - April 2015
Thesis
Project summary
Matthias Krug

Project: State of the Art in Web-based Visualization Technologies on Mobile Devices
Type: Bachelor's Thesis
Duration: Oct 2014 - Sept 2015
Thesis
Project summary
Martin Wortschack
Project: Scalable Set Visualization
Type: Master's Thesis
Duration: July 2014 - [Sept 2015]
Benjamin Kowatsch
Project: A State-of-the-Art Report on Docking Frameworks
Type: Bachelor's Thesis
Duration: Sept 2014 - Feb 2015
Thesis
Thomas Ziegelbecker
Project: Visualizing Data Quality of Industrial Multivariate Time-series Data
Type: Master's Thesis
Duration: May 2014 - [Sept 2015]
Hansjörg Hofer
Project: State-of-the-Art of Web-based Set Visualizations
Type: Seminar Report
Duration: Apr 2014 - June 2014
Georgiy Shurkhovetskyy, Joel T. James
Project: industrial-strength implementation of Eclipe Tracer and Eclipse Array Explorer
Type: Google Summer of Code 2013
Duration: April 2013 - October 2013
Project
Philipp Omenitsch
Project: Predicting Movie Success (VAST Challenge 2013)
Type: Bachelor's Thesis
Duration: June 2013 - Jan 2014
Thesis
Molham Rajjo
Project: Evaluating the Radial Sets technique for visualizing large overlapping sets
Type: Master's Thesis
Duration: March 2013 - Sept 2014
Thesis
Bernd Landauer
Project: A web implementation of Radial Sets using D3.js
Type: Bachelor's Thesis
Duration: March 2013 - June 2013
Thesis
Georg Beischlager, Josef Tiefenbacher
Project: implementing frequency-based representations of the elements in Contingency Wheel
Type: Graduation Project at HTL Krems (HTL Diplomarbeit)
Duration: Nov 2011 - May 2012
Georg Beischlager
Project: re-implementing the backend of the Contingency Wheel using prefuse tables.
Date: July 2011
Type: Summer Internship (in cooperation with HTL Krems)
Peter Bodesinsky, Alex Gruber, and Dorna Nasseri
Project: Visual Debugging Aids for Eclipse
Type: Internship / Bachelor Project
Duration: Nov. 2010 - May 2011
Thesis

Interests

Visual Analytics
Set Visualization
Pattern Recognition
Software Visualization
Computational Geometry

Hobbies

Cycling
Table Tennis
Board and card games
Chess (ELO Rating: 1387 - improvement over time)

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. paper
	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. paper 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. paper 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. paper
	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. paper 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. paper 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. paper
	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. paper
	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. paper
	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. paper 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. paper 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. paper 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. paper 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. paper Visual and interaction metaphors of Contingency Wheel++ (5 min)
	Bilal Alsallakh, "Visual Analytics of Large Multivariate Matrix Data", Poster: IEEE VisWeek Doctoral Colloquium, 2012. paper 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. paper 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.