Won the US National Science Foundation Early Career award in 2001, the SUNY Chancellor Award for Excellence in Scholarship and Creative Activity in 2011, and the Meritorious Service Certificate and the Golden Core Award of the IEEE Computer Society in 2016. Inducted into the US National Academy of Inventors in 2018. Authored more than 300 peer-reviewed journal and conference papers, which have been cited more than 15,000 times. A Fellow of the IEEE.
Research Experience
Currently a professor in the Computer Science Department at Stony Brook University, a senior scientist at the Computational Science Initiative at Brookhaven National Lab, and the acting chair of the Department of Tech and Society. Served as the founding chair of the Computer Science Department at SUNY Korea and VP for Academic Affairs and Finance at SUNY Korea for two years. Organized or participated in 18 tutorials on various topics and chaired the IEEE Visualization Conference in 2009. Elected chair of the IEEE Technical Committee on Visualization and Computer Graphics (VGTC) from 2012-2015.
Education
Received a PhD in computer science from The Ohio State University in 1998.
Background
Research interests include visual analytics, explainable AI, machine learning and data science, human-centered responsible AI, fairness, belief modeling and personalized communication, virtual and augmented reality, computational and medical imaging. Currently a professor in the Computer Science Department at Stony Brook University.
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