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I just returned from the 2016 ACM Intelligent User Interfaces conference which was held in Sonoma, California.  As I’ve previously written, we at the VACLab had a paper published as part of the proceedings which described our work on Adaptive Contextualization (AC).  The core theory behind …

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I’m happy to announce that a new article, written collaboratively with co-author David Borland at RENCI, has been accepted for publication in IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications (CG&A).  The article, titled “Data-Driven Healthcare: Challenges and Opportunities for Interactive Visualization,” is scheduled to appear …

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I’m happy to announce that I’ll be part of a panel at the AMIA 2016 Joint Summits on Translational Science together with Zhaohui Cai, Aaron Kamauu, and Gerasimos Petratos.  The extended abstract we submitted was accepted to appear in the proceedings, and the …

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I’m excited to announce that my paper about Adaptive Contextualization, written collaboratively with Shun Sun (an MSIS student here at at SILS/UNC-Chapel Hill) and Nan Cao (NYU Shanghai), has been accepted for publication at ACM Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI) 2016.  What we propose in the …

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I’ve recently returned from IEEE VIS 2015, which was held in Chicago October 25-30.  VACLab research was visible in multiple ways during the conference.  First, a poster authored by David Gotz and Shun Sun was presented at the 2015 Visual Analytics in Healthcare …

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I’m excited to share that my collaborative proposal to the NSF to study “Interactive Ensemble clustering for mixed data with application to mood disorders” has been funded.  The project officially began September 15, 2015 with funding for one year.  This …

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  The American Medical Informatics Association, AMIA, announced in July the creating of a new Working Group focused on the topic of Visual Analytics. To quote AMIA, “AMIA Working Groups serve as networks in which current members can exchange information …

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VAHC 2015 will return to IEEE VIS, the conference that hosted the very first workshop back in 2010.  The workshop will take place in late October in Chicago, Illinois. The 6th Annual VAHC marks the start of what we hope …

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My team at UNC has won a T32 grant  from NIH in the first round of BD2K Training Grant Award program.  The five year grant, with Michael Kosorok and Gregory Forest as PIs, will fund predoctoral students focusing on biomedical Big Data challenges. …

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My latest article, in IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (IEEE TVCG), has been published online and is available via the IEEE Xplore Digital Library.  The paper was written with collaborators Nan Cao (IBM Research) and Yu-Ru Lin (Pittsburgh) and describes the …

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