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The SAMSI-FODAVA Workshop on Interactive Visualization and Analysis of Massive Data will be held on December 10-12, 2012.
Posted: October 02, 2012
The FODAVA Annual Meeting will immediately follow (Dec 12-13) the SAMSI/FODAVA joint workshop at the same location.
Posted: September 05, 2012
Many of the modern data sets such as text and image data can be represented in high-dimensional vector spaces and have benefited from computational methods that utilize advanced techniques from num
Posted: June 30, 2012

Visual Analytics and Knowledge Fusion in Multidisciplinary Scientific Discovery

Speaker: 
Pak Chung Wong
Abstract: 

We discuss how we use visual analytics as a collaborative means to bring multidisciplinary expertise together and fuse cross-cutting knowledge into one scientific discovery environment. The discussion draws on our R&D experience in applying visual analytics to model and predict the impact of global climate change on the U.S. power grids and its wider implications on society and its critical infrastructure at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. The presentation focuses on the technical challenges and lessons learned from the collaboration that involves scientists from physical, social, and computation sciences.

Bio: 
Pak Chung Wong is a project manager and chief scientist in information analytics at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL). His research background is in visualization and visual analytics with focuses on extreme scale data analytics, graph analytics, multimedia analytics, and national security analytics. Currently, he serves on the IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications (CG&A) editorial board. In 2012, he will co-chair the IEEE VisWeek Conference in Seattle, WA and the SPIE Visual Data Analysis (VDA) Conference in San Francisco, CA. In the past, he has served as a conference chair, program chair, and papers chair at visualization conferences from IEEE Visualization (Vis), IEEE Information Visualization Conference (InfoVis), and IEEE Symposium on Visual Analytics Science and Technology (VAST). He received a PhD in computer science from the University of New Hampshire in 1997.