Kwan-Liu Ma UC Davis

Kwan-Liu Ma is a professor of computer science at the University of California-Davis, where he directs VIDI Labs and UC Davis Center of Excellence for Visualization. His research spans the fields of visualization, computer graphics, high-performance computing, and user interface design.

Hans-Christian Hege Zuse Institute Berlin

Hans-Christian Hege is head of the Visualization and Data Analysis Department at Zuse Institute Berlin (ZIB). He taught as a guest professor at Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona. His research interests include visual computing as well as applications in life sciences, natural sciences and engineering.

James D. Foley Georgia Institute of Technology

Foley is a professor in the College of Computing at Georgia Tech. He co-authored four computer graphics texts. He received ACM/SIGGRAPH's Lifetime Achievement Award for contributions to computer graphics in 1997 and ACM/SIGCHI’s Lifetime Achievement Award in 2007. From 2001 to 2005 he was chair of the Computing Research Association - an organization of over 250 computer science and computer engineering university departments, professional societies and research labs.

Jean-Daniel Fekete INRIA

Jean-Daniel Fekete is Senior Research Scientist (DR1) at INRIA, Scientific Leader of the INRIA Project Team AVIZ that he founded in 2007.His main Research areas are Visual Analytics, Information Visualization and Human Computer Interaction. He published more than 150 articles in multiple conferences and journals, including the most prestigious in visualization and Human-Computer Interaction. He is the chair of the IEEE Information Visualization Conference Steering Committee.

Baoquan Chen Shandong University

Baoquan Chen is a Professor of Shandong University, where he is also the Dean of School of Computer Science and Technology. Prior to the current post, he was the founding director of the Visual Computing Research Center, Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology (SIAT), Chinese Academy of Sciences. His research interests generally lie in computer graphics, visualization, and human-computer interaction, focusing specifically on large-scale city modeling, simulation and visualization.

Oliver Deussen University of Konstanz

Prof. Deussen graduated at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology and is professor at University of Konstanz (Germany) and visiting professor at SIAT (Chinese Academy of Science) Shenzhen. 2012-2015 he served as Co-Editor in Chief of Computer Graphics Forum, currently he is Vice-President of Eurographics Association. His areas of interest are modeling and rendering of complex biological systems, non-photorealistic rendering as well as Information Visualization.

Wei Chen Zhejiang University

Wei Chen is a professor in State Key Lab of CAD&CG at Zhejiang University, P.R.China.  He has published more than 30 IEEE/ACM Transactions and IEEE VIS papers. His current research interests include visualization, visual analytics and bio-medical image computing.

Xiaoru Yuan Peking University

Xiaoru Yuan is a tenured faculty member in the School of Electronics Engineering and Computer Science. He serviced as the vice director of Information Science Center, at Peking University. His primary research interests are in the field of scientific visualization, information visualization and visual analytics.

Shixia Liu Tsinghua University

Shixia Liu is an associate professor at Tsinghua University. Her research interests include visual text analytics, visual social analytics, visual behavior analytics, graph visualization, and tree visualization. Before joining Tsinghua University, she worked as a lead researcher at Microsoft Research Asia and a research staff member at IBM China Research Lab.

Jiawan Zhang Tianjin University

Jiawan Zhang, full professor, Vice Dean, school of computer software. Prof. Zhang is also the director of Visual Computing Lab, director of Data Science Institute, Tianjin University. Prof. Zhang is also now leading the Key Lab of Chinese Cultural Heritage Conservation and Promotion, the State Administration of Cultural Heritage. His research interests include visualization, computer graphics and e-heritage.

Wencheng Wang Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Wencheng Wang is now a professor and a deputy director of the State Key Laboratory of Computer Science at ISCAS. His interests include scientific visualization, virtual reality, image editing and computational geometry, and with focus on fast rendering and object understanding.

Yingcai Wu Zhejiang University

Yingcai Wu is a National Youth-1000 scholar and a ZJU100 Young Professor at the State Key Lab of CAD & CG, Zhejiang University. His main research interests are in visual analytics, information visualization, and human-computer interaction, with focuses on urban computing, social media analysis, text visualization, and behavior analysis.

Nan Cao Tongji University

Nan Cao is a national 1000 young talent expert and a professor at TongJi University, China. He is the founder and the director of the Intelligent Big Data Visualization Lab. Before joining Tongji University, Nan Cao was a research staff member at IBM T.J. Watson Research Center. His research interests are information visualization and visual analysis.

Lei Shi Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Lei Shi is an associate professor in the State Key Laboratory of Computer Science, Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences. His current research interests are Visual Analytics and Data Mining, with more than 70 papers published in top-tier venues, such as IEEE TVCG, TKDE, TC, VIS, ICDE, ICDM, Infocom, ACM Sigcomm and CSCW.

Yunhai Wang Shandong University

Yunhai Wang is an associate professor in School of Computer Science and Technology at Shandong University. His interests include scientific visualization, information visualization and 3d shape analysis, focusing specifically on automated data visualization.

Steffen Frey University of Stuttgart

Steffen Frey is a Postdoc in Thomas Ertl's lab at the Visualization Research Center of the University of Stuttgart. His research primarily focuses on performance-related aspects in scientific visualization. He has made research contributions in situ visualization, (dynamic) parameter tuning and performance prediction, the analysis of time-dependent data, and image-based visualization.