Title
Associate Professor
Education
B.Eng, Department of Thermal Engineering, TsingHua University, China
M.Sc, School of Interactive Arts and Technology, Simon Fraser University, Canada
Ph.D., School of Interactive Arts and Technology, Simon Fraser University, Canada
Research Areas
Dr. Chen’s research covers interdisciplinary domains of Information Visualization, Visual Analytics, Digital Media, and Human Computer Interaction. He seeks to design, model, and construct new forms of interaction in visualization and system design, by which the system can minimize its influence on design and analysis, and become a true free extension of human’s brain and hand.
Dr. Chen conducts basic and applied research with an emphasis on implementation. He believes that high quality prototype implementations of designed mechanisms are essential to future theoretical progress in the field and to its application outside of academia. Certainly evaluation is equally important as the implementation. His research mixes theory, analysis, design, implementation, and review. The methodology executes iterative loops of problem awareness, suggestion, development, and evaluation.
Key Areas
Interactive systems, Visual Analytics, Interactive information visualization, visual provenance
Notable Awards
IEEE VAST Challenge 2020 Award: Effective Transformation of Task Decomposition into Conceptual Design ConstellationBuilder: High Level Situation Awareness and Team Assembly for Cyber Security Events
2019 Outstanding Paper, International Journal of Web Information Systems, for the paper: Personal Web Library: Organizing and Visualizing Web Browsing History
IEEE VAST Challenge 2019 Award: Honerable mention for Visualization of Uncertainty
IEEE VAST Challenge 2019 Award: Honorable Mention for Clear Articulation of Methodology
IEEE VAST Challenge 2017 Awards: Multi-Challenge Award for Aesthetic Design
IEEE VAST Challenge 2016 Award: Honorable Mention - Good Aesthetics.
IEEE VAST Challenge 2014 Award: Sponsor's Award for Noval Visualization, in 2013 IEEE Conference on Visual Analytics Sciences and Technology, Paris, France
Chang, J.S., Lei, W., Wei, S., Promann, M., Ma, Y., Chen, Y.V., and Qian, C.Z.,
IEEE VAST Challenge 2013 Award: Outstanding Creative Design, in 2013 IEEE Conference on Visual Analytics Sciences and Technology, atlanta, GA, USA
Promann, M., Ma, Y., Wei, S., Lei, W., Chang, J.S., Qian, C.Z., and Chen, Y. V.,
IEEE VAST Challenge 2013 Award: Outstanding Creative Design, in 2013 IEEE Conference on Visual Analytics Sciences and Technology, atlanta, GA, USA
Chen, V.Y., Razip, A.M., Ko, S., Qian, C.Z., and Ebert, D.S. (2012),
IEEE VAST Challenge 2012 Award: Outstanding Integrated Analysis and Visualization, in 2012 IEEE Conference on Visual Analytics Sciences and Technology, Seattle, WA, USA
Chen, V.Y., Qian, C.Z., and Zhang, L. (2011),
IEEE VAST Challenge 2011 Award: Novel Extension of Visual Analytics to Mobile Devices, in 2011 IEEE Conference on Visual Analytics Sciences and Technology, Oct 23- 28, Providence, RI, USA.
Chen, V.Y., Dunsmuir, D., Alimadadi, S., Lee, E., Guenther, J., Dill, J., Qian, C., Shaw, C., Stone, and R. Woodbury, (2010)
IEEE VAST Challenge 2010 Award: Outstanding Interaction Model, in 2010 IEEE Conference on Visual Analytics Sciences and Technology, Oct 24-29, Salt ake City, Utah, USA.Zhao, J., Liu, X., Chen, G., Qian, Z. Y., & Chen, Y. V. (2020). Phoenixmap: An Abstract Approach to Visualize 2D Spatial Distributions. Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics.
Publications
Employing a Parametric Model for Analytic Provenance, ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems (2014)
Multi-aspect visual analytics on large-scale high-dimensional cyber security data, Information Visualization (2013)
From when and what to where: Linking spatio-temporal visualizations in visual analytics, IEEE Conference on Intelligence and Security Informatics (ISI) (2013)
Biography
Dr. Chen received his Ph.D. degree in the areas of human-computer interaction, information visualization, and visual analytics from the School of Interactive Arts and Technology at Simon Fraser University (SFU) in Canada. He earned Bachelor degree of Engineering from the Tsinghua University (China), and a Master of Science degree in Information Technology from SFU.
Dr. Chen have been working in multi-disciplinary domains for two decades, starting from an engineer, a 3D illustrator and animator, then a web designer and Internet system developer, finally an academic researcher and educator. In early 90s He pioneered in China to bring 3D modeling, rendering and animation into architecture design. Dr. Chen started to develop Internet-based applications in Canada since 2000, ranging from website design, mobile phone SMS platforms, information management systems, Flash online games, E-commerce, to social network applications, collaborated with professionals in different domains and communicated with different kinds of clients.
His research covers interdisciplinary domains of Information Visualization, Visual Analytics, Digital Media, and Human Computer Interaction. He seeks to design, model, and construct new forms of interaction in visualization and system design, by which the system can minimize its influence on design and analysis, and become a true free extension of human’s brain and hand.
Dr. Chen conducts basic and applied research with an emphasis on implementation. He believes that high quality prototype implementations of designed mechanisms are essential to future theoretical progress in the field and to its application outside of academia. Certainly evaluation is equally important as the implementation. His research mixes theory, analysis, design, implementation, and review. The methodology executes iterative loops of problem awareness, suggestion, development, and evaluation.
