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)
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
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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)