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Huamin Qu

Dean of the Academy of Interdisciplinary Studies; Chair Professor · Computer Science and Engineering

Biography

Huamin Qu is the founding dean of the Academy of Interdisciplinary Studies (AIS), the founding head of the Division of Emerging Interdisciplinary Areas (EMIA), and a chair professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), and was the founding acting head of the Computational Media and Arts Thrust Areas (CMA) at HKUST(GZ). He obtained a BS in Mathematics from Xi'an Jiaotong University, China, an MS and a PhD in Computer Science from the Stony Brook University. He is the director of the VisLab and also serves as the coordinator of the Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) group at the CSE department. His main research interests are in visualization and human-computer interaction, with focuses on urban informatics, social network analysis, E-learning, text visualization, and explainable artificial intelligence (XAI). He has co-authored about 300 refereed papers and more than 100 papers have been published in the IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG), making him one of the most productive researchers in this journal. He was an associate editor of Computer Graphics Forum (CGF) and IEEE TVCG, a paper co-chair for IEEE VIS'14, VIS'15 and VIS'18, a program co-chair for IEEE PacificVis'11 and IEEE PacificVis'12, a conference co-chair for VINCI'11 and VINCI'12, and a program vice chair for ChinaGraph 2014. He was inducted to IEEE Visualization Academy in 2020.

His research has been recognized by many awards including the IEEE VGTC Technical Achievement Award, 31 best paper/honorable mention/test of time awards, 2009 IBM Faculty Award, 2014 Higher Education Scientific and Technological Progress Award (Second Class) from the Ministry of Education of China, 2015 HKICT Best Innovation (Innovative Technology) Silver Award from the Hong Kong Institution of Engineers, 2015 APICTA Merit Award in E-Learning from the Asia Pacific ICT Alliance, 2016 Distinguished Collaborator Award from Huawei Noah's Ark Lab, 2018 Yelp Dataset Challenge Round 10 Grand Prize Award, and 2019 AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Award. The technologies developed by his group have been adopted by Microsoft, IBM, Huawei, Tencent, Bosch, etc. His teaching and research have received more than 30 media coverages, including NHK TV, IEEE spectrum, MIT News, Tech in Asia, Southern China Morning Post, Ming Pao, Wenhui Pao, etc.

He has acted as Principal Investigator or Co-Investigator for multiple large-scale research projects such as ITF projects on E-learning, RGC theme-based projects on digital citizenship and air pollution monitoring, UGC AoE project on slope safety, and National Basic Research Program of China (973 Program) project on big data.

He has graduated 59 PhDs and supervised many Postdocs and visiting students. More than 40 of them are now faculty members at major universities like UC Davis, University of Minnesota at Twin Cities, Texas A&M University, Newcastle University, Nanyang Technological University, Zhejiang University, Nanjing University, Tongji University, Sun Yat-Sen University, etc. His students won awards like IEEE VGTC VIS Dissertation Award, IEEE VGTC VIS Significant New Researcher Award, IBM PhD Fellowship, Google Anita Borg Memorial Scholarship, Microsoft Research Asia PhD Fellowship, HKICT Best Innovation and Research (College & Undergraduates) Silver Award, Best Paper awards of IEEE VAST, IEEE VIS, ACM CHI and ACM IUI, Honorable Mention Awards of ACM CHI, IEEE VIS and IEEE PacificVis, HKUST SENG PhD Research Excellence Award and HKUST Overseas Research Awards.

Research Interests

  • Visualization
  • Human–computer interaction
  • Explainable artificial intelligence

Publications and Working Papers

  1. Conglei Shi, Yingcai Wu, Shixia Liu, Hong Zhou, Huamin Qu: LoyalTracker: Visualizing Loyalty Dynamics in Search Engines. IEEE Trans. Vis. Comput. Graph. 20(12): 1733-1742 (2014)
  2. Zuchao Wang, Tangzhi Ye, Min Lu, Xiaoru Yuan, Huamin Qu, Jacky Yuan, Qianliang Wu: Visual Exploration of Sparse Traffic Trajectory Data. IEEE Trans. Vis. Comput. Graph. 20(12): 1813-1822 (2014)
  3. Wei Zeng, Chi-Wing Fu, Stefan Mьller Arisona, Alexander Erath, Huamin Qu: Visualizing Mobility of Public Transportation System. IEEE Trans. Vis. Comput. Graph. 20(12): 1833-1842 (2014)
  4. Zhen Wang, Liqiang Zhang, Tian Fang, P. Takis Mathiopoulos, Huamin Qu, Dong Chen, Yuebin Wang: A Structure-Aware Global Optimization Method for Reconstructing 3-D Tree Models From Terrestrial Laser Scanning Data. IEEE T. Geoscience and Remote Sensing 52(9): 5653-5669 (2014)
  5. Jiansu Pu, Siyuan Liu, Panpan Xu, Huamin Qu, Lionel M. Ni: MViewer: mobile phone spatiotemporal data viewer. Frontiers of Computer Science 8(2): 298-315 (2014)
  6. Guodao Sun, Yang Liu, Wenbin Wu, Ronghua Liang, Huamin Qu: Embedding Temporal Display into Maps for Occlusion-Free Visualization of Spatio-temporal Data. PacificVis 2014: 185-192
  7. Yik-Wai Ng, Huamin Qu: TrendFocus: Visualization of trends in financial news with indicator sets. BigComp 2014: 7-12
  8. Lu Lu, Nan Cao, Siyuan Liu, Lionel M. Ni, Xiaoru Yuan, Huamin Qu: Visual Analysis of Uncertainty in Trajectories. PAKDD (1) 2014: 509-520
  9. Hong Zhou, Panpan Xu, Zhong Ming, Huamin Qu: Parallel Coordinates with Data Labels. VINCI 2014: 49
  10. Panpan Xu, Yingcai Wu, Enxun Wei, Tai-Quan Peng, Shixia Liu, Jonathan J. H. Zhu, Huamin Qu: Visual Analysis of Topic Competition on Social Media. IEEE Trans. Vis. Comput. Graph. 19(12): 2012-2021 (2013)
  11. Siyuan Liu, Jiansu Pu, Qiong Luo, Huamin Qu, Lionel M. Ni, Ramayya Krishnan: VAIT: A Visual Analytics System for Metropolitan Transportation. IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems 14(4): 1586-1596 (2013)
  12. Yu-Xin Ma, Jia-Yi Xu, Dichao Peng, Ting Zhang, Cheng-Zhe Jin, Huamin Qu, Wei Chen, Qunsheng Peng: A Visual Analysis Approach for Community Detection of Multi-Context Mobile Social Networks. J. Comput. Sci. Technol. 28(5): 797-809 (2013)
  13. Guodao Sun, Ronghua Liang, Fuli Wu, Huamin Qu: A Web-based visual analytics system for real estate data. SCIENCE CHINA Information Sciences 56(5): 1-13 (2013).
  14. Quan Li, Huamin Qu, Li Chen, Robert Wang, Jun-Hai Yong, Detan Si: Visual analysis of retweeting propagation network in a microblogging platform. VINCI 2013: 44-53
  15. Jiansu Pu, Siyuan Liu, Ye Ding, Huamin Qu, Lionel M. Ni: T-Watcher: A New Visual Analytic System for Effective Traffic Surveillance. MDM (1) 2013: 127-136
  16. Conglei Shi, Weiwei Cui, Shixia Liu, Panpan Xu, Wei Chen, Huamin Qu: RankExplorer: Visualization of Ranking Changes in Large Time Series Data. IEEE Trans. Vis. Comput. Graph. 18(12): 2669-2678 (2012)
  17. Nan Cao, Yu-Ru Lin, Xiaohua Sun, David Lazer, Shixia Liu, Huamin Qu: Whisper: Tracing the Spatiotemporal Process of Information Diffusion in Real Time. IEEE Trans. Vis. Comput. Graph. 18(12): 2649-2658 (2012)
  18. Weiwei Cui, Huamin Qu, Hong Zhou, Wenbin Zhang, Steven Skiena: Watch the Story Unfold with TextWheel: Visualization of Large-Scale News Streams. ACM TIST 3(2): 20 (2012)
  19. Yuan Gao, Panpan Xu, Lu Lu, He Liu, Siyuan Liu, Huamin Qu: Visualization of Taxi Drivers' Income and Mobility Intelligence. ISVC (2) 2012: 275-284
  20. Jiansu Pu, Siyuan Liu, Huamin Qu, Lionel M. Ni: Visual Fingerprinting: A New Visual Mining Approach for Large-Scale Spatio-temporal Evolving Data. ADMA 2012: 502-515
  21. Huamin Qu, Haomian Wang, Weiwei Cui, Yingcai Wu, Ming-Yuen Chan. "Focus+Context Route Zooming and Information Overlay in 3D Urban Environments",
  22. Ming-Yuen Chan, Yingcai Wu, Wai-Ho Mak, Wei Chen, Huamin Qu. "Perception-Based Transparency Optimization for Direct Volume Rendering",
  23. Yingcai Wu, Ka-Kei Chung, Huamin Qu, Xiaoru Yuan, S.C. Cheung. "Interactive Visual Optimization and Analysis for RFID Benchmarking",
  24. Xiaoru Yuan, Peihong Guo, He Xiao, Hong Zhou, Huamin Qu. "Scattering Points in Parallel Coordinates",
  25. Wei Chen, Zi'ang Ding, Song Zhang, Anna MacKay-Brandt, Stephen Correia, Huamin Qu, John Allen Crow, David F. Tate, Zhicheng Yan, Qunsheng Peng.
  26. Haomian Wang, Weiwei Cui, Hong Zhou, Yingcai Wu, Huamin Qu. "Integrated Tourist Navigation System",
  27. Wai-Ho Mak, Yingcai Wu, Ming-Yuen Chan, Huamin Qu. "Visibility-Aware Direct Volume Rendering with Animations".
  28. Wai-Ho Mak, Ming-Yuen Chan, Yingcai Wu, Ka-Kei Chung, Huamin Qu: VoxelBars: An Informative Interface for Volume Visualization.
  29. Ming-Yuen Chan, Wai-Ho Mak, Huamin Qu: An Efficient Quality-Based Camera Path Planning Method for Volume Exploration.
  30. Ming-Yuen Chan, Yingcai Wu, and Huamin Qu. "Quality Enhancement of Direct Volume Rendered Images",
  31. Yingcai Wu, Anbang Xu, Ming-Yuen Chan, Huamin Qu, and Ping Guo. "Palette-Style Volume Visualization",
  32. Yingcai Wu, Huamin Qu, Ka-Kei Chung, Wai-Ho Mak, and Anbang Xu . "Quantitative Effectiveness
  33. Hong Zhou, Xiaoru Yuan, Huamin Qu, and Baoquan Chen. "Visual Clustering in Parallel Coordinates". poster session
  34. Yingcai Wu, Huamin Qu, Hong Zhou, Ming-Yuen Chan. "Fusing Features in Direct Volume Rendered Images".
  35. Ming-Yuen Chan, Huamin Qu, Yingcai Wu, Hong Zhou. "Viewpoint Selection for Angiographic Volume",
  36. Nan Zhang, Xiaoru Yuan, Baoquan Chen and Huamin Qu. "Raycasting Feature-Enhanced Distance Field". Poster,
  37. Hong Zhou, Huamin Qu, Yingcai Wu, Ming-Yuen Chan. "Volume Visualization on Mobile Devices",
  38. Minh X. Nguyen, Xiaoru Yuan, Thanh V. Nguyen, Jie Chen, Baoquan Chen, Huamin Qu. "Text Splatting",
  39. Ying Tang, Huamin Qu, Yingcai Wu, Hong Zhou. "Natural Textures for Weather Data Visualization",
  40. Huamin Qu, Hong Zhou, Yingcai Wu. "PSALM: A Data Model for Pervasive Visualization", IEEE Visualization 2005, Poster.
  41. Hon-Cheng Wong, Huamin Qu, Un-Hong Wong, Zesheng Tang. "Perceptually-Based Comparisons of Direct Volume Rendered Images ", IEEE Visualization 2005, Poster.
  42. Nan Zhang, Huamin Qu, Arie Kaufman. "CSG Operations for Point Models with Implicit Connectivity"
  43. Nan Zhang, Huamin Qu, Wei Hong, Arie Kaufman. "SHIC, A View Dependent Rendering Framework for Isosurfaces", IEEE/SIGGRAPH Symposium on Volume Visualization 2004, pp. 63 - 70.
  44. Huamin Qu, Arie Kaufman. "O-Buffer: A Framework for Sample-Based Graphics". To appear in IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics 2004.
  45. Ming Wan, Nan Zhang, Huamin Qu, Arie Kaufman. "Interactive Stereoscopic Rendering of Volumetric Environments", IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, Vol. 10, No.1, pp. 15 - 28
  46. Huamin Qu, Arie Kaufman, Ran Shao, Ankush Kumar. "A Framework for Sample-Based Rendering with O-Buffers", IEEE Visualization 2003, pp. 441 - 448
  47. Huamin Qu, Feng Qiu, Nan Zhang, Arie Kaufman, Ming Wan. "Ray Tracing Height Fields", Computer Graphics International 2003, pp. 202 - 207
  48. Jianrong Dia, Yunping Zhu, Huamin Qu, Yimin Hu. "An Algorithm for Stereotactic Localization by Computed Tomography or
  49. Jiafa Qin, Ming Wan, Huamin Qu, Arie Kaufman. "Accelerating Voxel-Based Terrain Rendering with Keyframe-Free IBR", International Workshop on Volume Graphics 2001, pp. 297 - 308
  50. Ming Wan, Huamin Qu, Nan Zhang, Arie Kaufman. "Multiresolution Rendering of Large-Scale Voxel-Based Terrain", Seventh
  51. Huamin Qu, Ming Wan, Jiafa Qin, Arie Kaufman. "Image-Based Rendering with Stable Frame Rates", IEEE Visualization 2000, pp. 251 - 258
  52. Ming Wan, Nan Zhang, Arie Kaufman, Huamin Qu. "Interactive Stereoscopic Rendering of Voxel-Based Terrain", IEEE Virtual
  53. Ming Wan, Huamin Qu, Arie Kaufman. "Virtual Flythrough over a Voxel-Based Terrain", IEEE Virtual Reality, 1999, pp. 53 - 60
  54. Chewei Huang, Huamin Qu, Arie Kaufman. "Volume Rendering with Haptic Interaction", Thrid PHANTOM Users Group Workshop, 1998,