PhD Student Won the Best Paper Honorable Mention Award at IEEE VAST 2014

PhD student Conglei SHI has received the Honorable Mention for Best Paper Award at the IEEE Visual Analytics Science and Technology 2014 (IEEE VAST 2014) held during 9-14 November 2014 in Paris with his paper "LoyalTrakcer: Visualizing Loyalty Dynamics in Search Engines".

IEEE VAST is the leading international conference dedicated to the advances in the science and technology of visual analytics. IEEE VAST and two other conferences, IEEE InfoVis and IEEE SciVis, form IEEE VIS (http://ieeevis.org), are premier forums in the visualization field. This paper is co-authored by Dr Yingcai WU and Dr Shixia LIU from MSRA, Dr Hong ZHOU from Shen Zhen University, and Prof Huamin QU. Dr Wu and Dr Zhou graduated from CSE with a PhD degree in 2009 under the supervision of Prof Qu.

(from left to right) Conglei and Prof Jonathan ROBERTS, the Chair of the Best Paper Award Committee