William Ribarsky
Bank of America Endowed Chair in Information Technology
Chair, Computer Science Department
Director, Charlotte Visualization Center
College of Computing and Informatics
University of North Carolina at Charlotte

For more information please contact Dr. Haesun Park at hpark@cc.gatech.edu

"Developing a Visual Analytics Approach to Analytic Problem-Solving"

Abstract:

Visual analytics attacks large scale, complex, often incomplete data. What has become clear is that not only are the data complex, but the application problems are complex as well, often involving reasoning, insight discovery, hypothesis-building, evidence gathering, and actionable problem-solving. A major challenge of visual analytics is to offer a new integration of interactive visualization and analytic methods so that large scale, complex data and the complex problems from which they arise can be attacked together successfully. In this talk, I will present our approach to this challenge. I will illustrate this approach with some applications.

Bio:

William Ribarsky is the Bank of America Endowed Chair in Information Technology at UNC Charlotte and the founding director of the Charlotte Visualization Center. He is currently Chair of the Computer Science Department. Dr. Ribarsky is Principal Investigator for the DHS SouthEast Regional Visualization and Analytics Center. He received a Ph.D. in physics from the University of Cincinnati. His research interests include visual analytics; 3D multimodal interaction; bioinformatics visualization; virtual environments; visual reasoning; and interactive visualization of large-scale information spaces. Dr. Ribarsky is the former Chair and a current Director of the IEEE Visualization and Graphics Technical Committee. He is also a member of the Steering Committees for the IEEE Visualization Conference and the IEEE Virtual Reality Conference, the leading international conferences in their fields. He was an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics and is currently an Editorial Board member for IEEE Computer Graphics & Applications. Dr. Ribarsky co-founded the Eurographics/IEEE visualization conference series (now called EG/IEEE EuroVis) and led the effort to establish the current Virtual Reality Conference series. For the above efforts on behalf of IEEE, Dr. Ribarsky won the IEEE Meritorious Service Award in 2004. In 2007, he was general co-chair of the IEEE Visual Analytics Science and Technology (VAST) Symposium.

Dr. Ribarsky has published over 130 scholarly papers, book chapters, and books. He has received competitive research grants and contracts from NSF, ARL, ARO, DHS, ONR, EPA, AFOSR, DARPA, NASA, NIMA, US DOT, National Institute of Justice, and several companies.

You are cordially invited to attend a reception in the lounge next to Klaus 1324 before the seminar to chat informally with faculty and students. PIZZA will be provided.

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