About
Dr. Kwan-Liu Ma is a professor of computer science and the chair of the Graduate Group in Computer Science (GGCS) at the University of California-Davis. He leads the VIDI (Visualization and Interface Design Innovation) research group, and directs the UC Davis Center for Visualization. His research spans the fields of visualization, computer graphics, high-performance computing, and user interface design. Professor Ma received his PhD in computer science from the University of Utah in 1993. During 1993-1999, he was with ICASE/NASA Langley Research Center as a research scientist. He joined UC Davis in 1999.
Professor Ma is presently leading a team of over 25 researchers working on projects in large data visualization, information visualization, visual analytics, artistically inspired illustrations, video processing, and volume visualization. Professor Ma has been actively serving the research community by playing leading roles in several professional activities including the 2005 NSF Workshop on Visualization for Cyber Security, the SC Workshop on Ultra-Scale Visualization, the Eurographics Symposium on Parallel Graphics and Visualization, the IEEE Visualization Conference, the IEEE Pacific Visualization Symposium, and the IEEE Symposium on Large Data Analysis and Visualization. Professor Ma was an associate editor for the IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG) during 2007-2011. He presently serves on the editorial boards of the IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications (CG&A), the Journal of Computational Science and Discovery, and the Journal of Visualization.
Honors and Awards
- 1999 NSF CAREER award
- 2000 NSF Presidential Early Career Award (PECASE)
- 2001 Schlumberger Foundation Technical Award
- 2007 UC Davis College of Engineering's Outstanding Mid-Career Research Faculty Award
- 2008 HP Labs Research Innovation Award
- 2009 HP Labs Research Innovation Award
- 2012 IEEE Fellow
- 2012 HP Labs Research Innovation Award
Portraits, Biography for Publications
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