Big Data Visual Analytics

Speaker:        Prof. Klaus Mueller
                Department of Computer Science
                Stony Brook University
                Chair of the Computer Science Department at SUNY Korea

Title:          "Big Data Visual Analytics"

Date:           Friday, 5 December 2014

Time:           2:00pm - 3:00pm

Venue:          Room 3584 (via lifts 27/28), HKUST

Abstract:

The growth of digital data is tremendous. Any aspect of life and matter is
being recorded and stored on cheap disks, either in the cloud, in
businesses, or in research labs. We can now afford to explore very complex
relationships with many variables playing a part. But for this we need
powerful tools that allow us to be creative, to sculpt this intricate
insight formulated as models from the raw block of data. High-quality
visual feedback plays a decisive role here. In this talk I will discuss
various platforms we have developed over the years to make the exploration
of large multivariate data more intuitive and direct. I will specifically
discuss our recent software framework, called "The ND-Scope", which
incorporates various facilities for high-dimensional data exploration and
reasoning with high-dimensional data. The ND-Scope was conceived in tight
collaborations with domain experts in the fields of climate science and
computer systems.


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Biography:

Klaus Mueller received a PhD in computer science from the Ohio State
University. He is currently a professor in the Computer Science Department
at Stony Brook University and the chair of the Computer Science Department
at SUNY Korea where he also serves as VP for Academic Affairs and Finance.
His current research interests are visual analytics, medical imaging, and
high-performance computing, He won the US National Science Foundation
CAREER award in 2001 and the SUNY Chancellor Award in 2011. Mueller has
authored more than 160 peer-reviewed journal and conference papers, which
have been cited more than 5,500 times. He is currently the chair of the
IEEE Technical Committee on Visualization and Computer Graphics and is a
senior member of the IEEE. For more information, please
see http://www.cs.sunysb.edu/~mueller