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1 Last update: Jul 2015 Jian Zhao, PhD Postdoctoral Researcher +1 (647) Environment & Ergonomics Research Group, Autodesk Research King Street East #500, Toronto, ON, M5A 1J7 Canada Citizenship: China; Permanent Resident of Canada. RESEARCH INTERESTS Information Visualization time-oriented data, text analytics, multi-faceted data, multidimensional networks, social media, information seeking Human Computer Interaction direct manipulation, multi-touch interface, mobile interaction, user performance modeling EDUCATION Ph.D in Computer Science 2015 University of Toronto, Canada Thesis Topic: Interactive Visual Data Exploration A Multi-Focus Approach Supervisor: Dr. Ravin Balakrishnan Coursework Average: A B.Eng in Computer Science (with honor) 2009 Zhejiang University, China Thesis: Image Invariant Features Extraction Supervisor: Dr. Yizhou Yu GPA: 3.9/4.0 (Rank top 3%) RESEARCH EXPERIENCE Autodesk Research, Toronto Postdoctoral Researcher Designing Highly Interactive Visualizations for Real-World Applications Conducting the design, development, and evaluation of highly interactive visualization techniques that empower data enthusiasts to effectively discover and communicate insights in many application domains such as time-series browsing, computational biology, and dynamic communication network analysis. DGP Lab, University of Toronto Research Assistant Supervisor: Ravin Balakrishnan Visual Data Exploration with Multi-Focus Interactive Visualizations Conducted the design, development, and evaluation of novel data exploration techniques by leveraging multi-focus interaction and visualization. Culminated a number of publications, such as [C1, C5, J1-3, J5].

2 CURRICULUM VITA JIAN ZHAO 2 / 7 Modeling User Performance with Touch-Sensitive Devices Developed theoretical models to fundamentally understand user interactions with touch displays, designing controlled experiments to validate the models. Culminated a number of publications, such as [C2, J4, J6]. Microsoft Research, Redmond Mentor: Saleema Amershi Interactive Classifier Building with Visualization Worked with visualization and machine learning researchers, designed and implemented a webbased visualization tool to facilitate data labelling and exploration process in building customized classifiers for very large text corpus. Adobe Research, San Francisco Mentors: Mira Dontcheva, Zhicheng Liu Visual Comparison of User Clickstream Data for Websites Worked with researchers and analysts to design and develop a visual analytics tool for interactive exploration and comparison of user traffic data on websites, culminated a publication [C11] and a patent [P3] based on the innovation. IBM Almaden Research Center, San Jose Mentors: Fei Wang, Michelle Zhou Visual Analytics of User Emotions from Online Social Media Designed and developed a timeline-based visualization for summarizing and analyzing personal emotion profiles estimated from tweets, worked with engineers to build the technique into the IBM SystemU, culminated a publication [C8] and a patent [P2] based on the innovation. Microsoft Research, Redmond Mentors: Steven Drucker, Donald Brinkman Faceted Browsing of Timeline Data Worked with researchers and the product team, designed and developed a web application for exploring multi-faceted temporal events data, culminated a publication [S2] and a patent [P1] based on the innovation. Knowledge Discovery Lab, North Carolina State University Undergraduate Research Assistant Mentor: Christopher Healey Facebook User Profile Visualization Developed a visualization system for summarizing patterns and relationships of user profiles on social networks. Zhejiang U & Microsoft Joint Lab, Zhejiang University Undergraduate Research Assistant Supervisors: Yizhou Yu, Jiajun Bu Image Invariant Features Extraction Proposed a new image feature matching algorithm based on the SIFT feature vector, global image context information, and the graduated assignment algorithm. Non-photorealistic Rendering in Generating Cartoon-like Images Developed a non-photorealistic image rendering pipeline including noise reduction, edge detection, image clustering, outlines drawing, and region smoothing.

3 CURRICULUM VITA JIAN ZHAO 3 / 7 PUBLICATIONS Refereed Journal Articles [J7/C12] Y. Wu, N. Pitipornvivat, J. Zhao, S. Yang, G. Huang, and H. Qu. egoslider: Visual Analysis of Egocentric Network Evolution. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (Proceedings of VAST 15), 21(12), Acceptance rate: 22% (33/149) [J6] J. Zhao, W. Soukoreff, and R. Balakrishnan. Exploring and Modeling Unimanual Object Manipulation on Multi-Touch Displays. International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, 78(0), pp , year impact factor: [J5/C9] J. Zhao, N. Cao, Z. Wen, Y. Song, Y.-R. Lin, and C. Collins. #FluxFlow: Visual Analysis of Anomalous Information Spreading on Social Media. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (Proceedings of VAST 14), 20(12), pp , 2014 ( Best Paper Honorable Mention). Acceptance rate: 23% (33/146) [J4] J. Zhao, W. Soukoreff, X. Ren, and R. Balakrishnan. A Model of Scrolling on Touch- Sensitive Displays. International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, 72(12), pp , year impact factor: [J3/C6] J. Zhao, C. Collins, F. Chevalier, and R. Balakrishnan. Interactive Exploration of Implicit and Explicit Relations in Faceted Datasets. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (Proceedings of VAST 13), 19(12), pp , Acceptance rate: 26% (32/125) [J2/C4] J. Zhao, F. Chevalier, C. Collins, and R. Balakrishnan. Facilitating Discourse Analysis with Interactive Visualization. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (Proceedings of InfoVis 12), 18(12), pp , Acceptance rate: 24% (44/178) [J1/C3] J. Zhao, F. Chevalier, E. Pietriga, and R. Balakrishnan. Exploratory Analysis of Timeseries with ChronoLenses. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (Proceedings of InfoVis 11), 17(12), pp , Acceptance rate: 26% (44/172) Refereed Full-Length Conference Papers [C11] J. Zhao, Z. Liu, M. Dontcheva, A. Hertzmann, and A. Wilson. MatrixWave: Visual Comparison of Event Sequence Data. CHI'15: Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, pp , 2015 ( Best Paper Honorable Mention). [C10] [C8] [C7] Acceptance rate: 25% (379/1520) F. Du, N. Cao, J. Zhao, and Y.-R. Lin. Trajectory Bundling for Animated Transitions. CHI'15: Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, pp , Acceptance rate: 25% (379/1520) J. Zhao, L. Gou, F. Wang, and M. Zhou. PEARL: An Interactive Visual Analytic Tool for Understanding Personal Emotion Style Derived from Social Media. VAST'14: Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Visual Analytics Science and Technology, pp , Acceptance rate: 37% (54/146) J. Wang, J. Zhao, S. Guo, C. North, and N. Ramakrishnan. ReCloud: Semantics-Based Word Cloud Visualization of User Reviews. GI 14: Proceedings of the Graphics Interface Conference, pp , 2014.

4 CURRICULUM VITA JIAN ZHAO 4 / 7 [C5] [C2] [C1] Acceptance rate: 37% (28/76) J. Zhao, D. Wigdor, and R. Balakrishnan. TrailMap: Facilitating Information Seeking in a Multi-Scale Digital Map via Implicit Bookmarking. CHI'13: Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, pp , Acceptance rate: 20% (392/1963) R. W. Soukoreff, J. Zhao, and X. Ren. The Entropy of a Rapid Aimed Movement: Fitts Index of Difficulty versus Shannon s Entropy. INTERACT'11: 13th IFIP TC13 International Conference on Human Computer Interaction, Part 4, LNCS 6949, pp , Acceptance rate: 27% (111/402) J. Zhao, F. Chevalier, and R. Balakrishnan. KronoMiner: Using Multi-Foci Navigation for the Visual Exploration of Time-Series Data. CHI'11: Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, pp , Acceptance rate: 26% (400/1540) Refereed Short-Length Conference Papers [S2] J. Zhao, S. Drucker, D. Fisher, and D. Brinkman. TimeSlice: Interactive Faceted Browsing of Timeline Data. AVI 12: Proceedings of the International Working Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces, pp , [S1] J. Zhao, R. W. Soukoreff, and R. Balakrishnan. A Model of Multi-touch Manipulation. GRAND 11: Proceedings of the 2 nd annual Grand Conference, Posters, Work-in-Progress, and others [O2] J. Wang, J. Zhao, S. Guo, and C. North. Clustered Layout Word Cloud for User Generated Review. Yelp Dataset Challenge (Grand Prize Winner), [O1] J. Zhao. A Particle Filter Based Approach of Visualizing Time-varying Volume. LDAV 12: IEEE Symposium on Large-Scale Data Analysis and Visualization, PATENTS [P3] [P2] [P1] M. Dontcheva, J. Zhao, A. Hertzmann, A. Wilson, and Z. Liu. Providing Visualizations of Event Sequence Data. Filed in L. Gou, F. Wang, J. Zhao, and M. Zhou. Personal Emotion State Monitoring from Social Media. Filed in J. Zhao, S. Drucker, D. Fisher, and D. Brinkman. Relational Rendering of Multi-Faceted Data. US Patent A1, MAJOR SCHOLARSHIPS & AWARDS Robert E. Lansdale/Okino Computer Graphics Graduate Fellowship, $ Yelp Dataset Challenge Grand Prize Winner, $5, Wolfond Fellowship, University of Toronto, $10, Wolfond Scholarship, University of Toronto, $5,000/year 2010, 2011 University of Toronto Art & Science Fellowship, $30,000/year st class Zhejiang University Academic Scholarship, 5,000/year Chinese National Scholarship, 8,000/year 2006, 2008 Excellent Leader as the Class President at Zhejiang University 2007, 2008 PUBLIC TALKS [T18] Supporting Data Analytics with Interactive Visualization. CaseWare International Inc., Toronto, ON,

5 CURRICULUM VITA JIAN ZHAO 5 / 7 [T17] Bridging Data and User with Interactive Visualization. Peking University, Bejing, China [T16] Visual Comparison of Event Sequence Data. ACM CHI, Seoul, South Korea, [T15] Bridging Data and User with Interactive Visualization. Autodesk Research, Toronto, ON, [T14] #FluxFlow: Visual Analysis of Anomalous Information Spreading on Social Media. IEEE VIS, Paris, France, [T13] PEARL: An Interactive Visual Analytic Tool for Understanding Personal Emotion Style Derived from Social Media. IEEE VIS, Paris, France, [T12] Visual Comparison of Event Sequence Data. Adobe Research, San Francisco, CA, [T11] Visual Data Exploration: A Multi-Focus Approach. UOIT, Oshawa, ON, [T10] Visual Analytics of Online Social Media with PEARL. IBM Almaden Research Center, San Jose, CA, [T9] TrailMap: Facilitating Information Seeking in a Multi-Scale Digital Map via Implicit Bookmarking. ACM CHI, Paris, France, [T8] TrailMap: Facilitating Information Seeking in a Multi-Scale Digital Map via Implicit Bookmarking. ToRCHI Seminar, Toronto, ON, [T7] Facilitating Discourse Analysis with Interactive Visualization. IEEE VisWeek, Seattle, WA, [T6] Exploratory Analysis of Time-series with ChronoLenses. IEEE VisWeek, Providence, RI, [T5] TimeSlice: Interactive Faceted Browsing of Timeline Data. Microsoft Research, Redmond, WA, [T4] KronoMiner: Using Multi-Foci Navigation for the Visual Exploration of Time-Series Data. ACM CHI, Vancouver, BC, [T3] A Model of Multi-touch Manipulation. GRAND, Vancouver, BC, [T2] Modeling Scrolling Interactions on Touch Screens. Jilin University, China, [T1] KronoMiner: Using Multi-Foci Navigation for the Visual Exploration of Time-Series Data. KMDI seminar, University of Toronto, STUDENT SUPERVISION Research collaboration with HK University of Science and Technology In collaboration with Dr. Huamin Qu, provided guidance to Yanhong Wu, a 2 nd year PhD student, on a project about dynamic egocentric network visualization. Culminated a publication [J7/C12] based on the outcome of the project. Research collaboration with IBM T. J. Watson Research Center In collaboration with Dr. Nan Cao, provided guidance to Fan Du, a 1 st year PhD student from University of Maryland, during his internship at IBM, on a project about object movement trajectory bundling techniques in animated transitions. Culminated a publication [C10] based on the result of the project. Undergraduate summer research at University of Toronto Co-supervised Phoebe Xinyi Chang, a 2 nd year undergraduate student, on visualizing nutritional content in food with mobile phones.

6 CURRICULUM VITA JIAN ZHAO 6 / 7 Research collaboration with Virginia Tech Collaborated with and provided advice to Ji Wang, a Master s student, on the design and evaluation of visualization techniques for online user reviews. Culminated a publication [C7] and a data challenge award [O2]. TEACHING ASSISTANTSHIPS CSC108 - Introduction to Computer Programming Fall 09, Spring 10, Fall 11 1 st year undergraduate course. Lead tutorials, conducted lab sessions, and graded assignments on introductory Python programing. CSC148 - Introduction to Computer Science Fall 10, Spring 13 1 st year undergraduate course. Lead tutorials, conducted lab sessions, and graded assignments on objected-oriented programing (in Python), basic data structures, and fundamental algorithms. CSC318 - Design of Interactive Computational Media Spring 11, Spring 12, Fall 13 3 rd year undergraduate course. Lead tutorials, graded assignments, and advised students group projects. CSC309 - Programming on the Web Fall 12 3 rd year undergraduate course. Lead tutorials and graded assignments in Java, Javascript, jquery, CSS and other webrelated technologies. CSC428/ Human Computer Interaction Spring 14 Cross-listed graduate/4 th year undergraduate course. Lead tutorials, graded assignments, advised students group projects, and guided students write HCI research reports. COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT Program Committee International Symposium on Visual Computing (ISVC), International Symposium of Chinese CHI (Chinese CHI), 2016 IEEE Pacific Visualization Symposium (PacificVis), 2016 Student Volunteer ACM Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), 2014 IEEE VisWeek (VAST, InfoVis, SciVis), Reviewer IEEE VIS (VAST, InfoVis, SciVis), IEEE Pacific Visualization Symposium (PacificVis), 2014 IEEE Eurographics/VGTC Symposium on Visualization (EuroVis), 2015 IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG), 2013 ACM Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), ACM User Interface Software and Technology (UIST), ACM Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services (MobileHCI), 2014 ACM Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (NordiCHI), 2014 ACM Asia Pacific Conference on Computer Human Interaction (APCHI), 2012

7 CURRICULUM VITA JIAN ZHAO 7 / 7 ACM World Wide Web (WWW), 2015 ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems (TiiS), 2015 Human-Centric Computing and Information Sciences, 2015 TECHNICAL SKILLS Programming Languages C, C++, C#, Java, Python, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, MATLAB, Objective-C, SQL SDKs and Toolkits WPF, Silverlight, D3, ios SDK, Microsoft Surface SDK, QT, OpenGL, OpenCV, VTK Software and Systems Photoshop, Premiere, Illustrator, SPSS, 3DMAX, Vicon MoCap System REFERENCES Available upon request

Haodong Yang, Ph.D. Candidate

Haodong Yang, Ph.D. Candidate College of Computing and Informatics Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA 19104 Cell: +1(215)-858-8879 Email: haodong.yang@drexel.edu EDUCATION Ph.D., Information Studies Drexel