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At the HDC Lab, we study how computer science interacts with human experiences, at all levels. We specialize in novel algorithms for interactive visualization and exploratory data analysis. This ranges from creating mathematical foundations for the evaluation of visualization designs, to novel data structures and systems for interactive data analysis at scale, to novel ways to characterize data-driven discrimination, to topological analysis in visualization.

When human concerns and our modern technological society overlap, we strive to advance computer science in order to help people lead better lives.

We are part of the Department of Computer Science at the University of Arizona’s College of Science.

News

• 2019-07-29: Congratulations to Zhe Wang, who successfully defended his PhD and is now a Senior Design Engineer at ASML!

• Congrats to 2018-2019 Department Award winners Kate and Josh (who received the Outstanding Faculty Research Award) as well as Becca (who received the Graduate Student Research Award) and Jixian (who received Galileo Circle Scholarship)!!

• Congratulations to Kate for being awarded and NSF CAREER!

• We’re thrilled to share with you that Josh was one of the 2018 DOE Early Career awardees. Congratulations, Josh!

• Congratulations to Sabin and Becca, who received the Galileo Circle Scholarship 2018!

• Congratulations to Becca, who was selected for a NIST Graduate Student fellowship!

• Congratulations to Matt, who has decided to accept a faculty position at Vanderbilt University’s Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science in Nashville, TN!

• Welcome new Fall 2017 students Jixian, Kairong, Katy!

• TTK was awarded the Best Paper Honorable Mention Award at IEEE VIS 2017!

• Congrats to Sabrina Nusrat, who successfully defended her PhD in Summer 2017!

• We’re excited to share the news that Prof. Joshua Levine and Benafsh Husain will be joining the Department of Computer Science and HDC Lab in the Fall 2016 semester!

• Congratulations to Laura, who accepted a PhD position at University of Washington’s Computer Science and Engineering department starting in the fall of 2016!

• Congratulations to Youhao and Sean, who won two categories in Hack Arizona 2016, the biggest hackathon in the Southwest. Together with collaborators Ben Gaska and Nick DeJaco, they took both the “Data Science and Visualization” and the “Best Transportation Hack” categories!

Funding and Projects

Our group is funded through the gracious support of many sponsors, including the Arizona Board of Regents, AT&T, LLNL, DTIC, NSF, and DOE:

• NSF IIS-2006710: Neural Volume Visualization. PI: Prof. Joshua Levine.

• NSF TRIPOKER: CAREER: Comprehensive Techniques and Design for Flexible Graph Visualization of Software and Systems. PI: Prof. Katherine Isaacs.

• NSF III-1815238: III: Small: An end-to-end pipeline for interactive visual analysis of big data. PI: Prof. Carlos Scheidegger.

• DOE DE-SC0019039: gate.io. PI: Prof. Joshua Levine.

• DTIC: Phylanx Engine Enhancement and Visualization Development. PI: Prof. Katherine Isaacs.

• LLNL: CFGExplorer Focus on Visualizing Compiler Optimization). PI: Prof. Katherine Isaacs.

• NSF III-1656958: CRII: III: Scalable and Interactive Dependency Visualization to Accelerate Parallel Program Analysis. PI: Prof. Katherine Isaacs.

• NSF III-1513651: III: Medium: Collaborative Research: Topological Data Analysis for Large Network Visualization. PI: Prof. Carlos Scheidegger.

Software

We host our software at our GitHub organization page.

Logistics

You can find more information about how we run our group here.