Kwan-Liu Ma, an IEEE Fellow,  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 research 
group and directs the UC Davis Center for Visualization. 
Professor Ma received his PhD degree in computer science from 
the University of Utah in 1993. He was a recipient of the PECASE award 
in 2000. His research interests include visualization, high-performance 
computing, computer graphics, and user interface design. Professor Ma 
was a paper chair of the IEEE Visualization Conference in 2008 and 2009, 
and an associate editor of IEEE TVCG (2007-2011). He is a founding member
of the IEEE Pacific Visualization Symposium and the IEEE Symposium on 
Large Data Analysis and Visualization. Professor Ma presently serves
on the editorial boards of the IEEE CG&A, the Journal of Computational 
Science and Discoveries, and the Journal of Visualization. 
Contact him via email: ma@cs.ucdavis.edu.