Theses

PhD Dissertations

  1. Kylie Davidson, “Sensemaking in Immersive Space to Think: Exploring Evolution, Expertise, Familiarity, and Organizational Strategies“, August 2024 (co-advised with Doug Bowman).
    Research Scientist, Department of Defense.
  2. Brian Keith Norambuena, “Narrative Maps: A Computational Model to Support Analysts in Narrative Sensemaking“, July 2023 (co-advised with Tanu Mitra).
    Assistant Professor, Universidad Católica del Norte, Chile.
  3. Yali Bian, “Human-AI Sensemaking with Semantic Interaction and Deep Learning“, Feb 2022.
    Research Scientist, Intel Labs.
  4. Mai Dahshan, “Visual Analytics for High Dimensional Simulation Ensembles“, May 2021 (co-advised with Nicholas Polys).
    Assistant Professor, University of Virginia.
  5. Tianyi Li, “Solving Mysteries with Crowds: Supporting Crowdsourced Sensemaking with a Modularized Pipeline and Context Slices“, June 2020 (co-advised with Kurt Luther).
    Assistant Professor, Department of Computer and Information Technology, Purdue University.
  6. Moeti Masiane, “Insight Driven Sampling for Interactive Data Intensive Computing“, May 2020.
    Technical Analyst, Department of Defense.
  7. Michelle Dowling, “Semantic Interaction for Symmetrical Analysis and Automated Foraging of Documents and Terms“, May 2020.
    Research Scientist, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.
  8. John Wenskovitch, “Dimension Reduction and Clustering for Interactive Visual Analytics“, August 2019.
    Research Scientist, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.
  9. Caleb Reach, “Smooth Interactive Visualization“, July 2017. 
    Google.
  10. Maoyuan Sun, “Visual Analytics with Biclusters: Exploring Coordinated Relationships in Context“, August 2016.
    Assistant Professor, Northern Illinois University.
  11. Jessica Zeitz Self, “Designing and Evaluating Object-Level Interaction to Support Human-Model Communication in Data Analysis“, May 2016.
    Associate Professor, University of Mary Washington.
  12. Lauren Bradel, “Multi-Model Semantic Interaction for Scalable Text Analytics“, May 2015.
    Research Scientist, Department of Defense.
  13. Haeyong Chung, “Designing Display Ecologies for Visual Analysis“, May 2015.
    Associate Professor, University of Alabama in Huntsville.
  14. Alex Endert, “Semantic Interaction for Visual Analytics: Inferring Analytical Reasoning for Model Steering“, July 2012. [IEEE VGTC Dissertation Award 2013].
    Associate Professor, School of Interactive Computing, Georgia Tech.
  15. Christopher Andrews, “Space to Think: Sensemaking and Large, High-Resolution Displays”, August 2011.
    Associate Professor, Middlebury College.
  16. Tao Ni, “A Framework of Freehand Gesture Interaction: Techniques, Guidelines, and Applications”, August 2011 (co-advised with Doug Bowman).
    Founder, Sproutup.co.
  17. Beth Yost, “The Visual Scalability of Integrated and Multiple View Visualizations for Large, High Resolution Displays”, May 2007.
    Lead Human Factors Engineer, MITRE Corporation.
  18. Robert Ball, “Effects of Large, High-Resolution Displays for Geospatial Information Visualization”, August 2006.
    Associate Professor, Weber State University.
  19. Glenn Fink, “Visual Correlation of Network Traffic and Host Processes for Computer Security”, August 2006. 
    Cyber Strategy Director, Savannah River National Laboratory.
  20. Nicholas Polys, “Display Techniques in Information-Rich Virtual Environments”, August 2006, (co-advised with Doug Bowman).
    Director of Visual Computing, Virginia Tech.
  21. Purvi Saraiya, “Insight-Based Studies for Pathway and Microarray Visualization Tools”, August 2006.
    Sr Principal Technical Program Manager, Oracle.

Details available at: https://hdl.handle.net/10919/11041

MS Theses

  1. Lemara Williams, “TimeLink: Visualizing Diachronic Word Embeddings and Topics“, May 2024.
  2. Jiayue Lin, “ImageSI: Interactive Deep Learning for Image Semantic Interaction“, May 2024.
  3. Daniel Palamarchuk, “Temporal Topic Embeddings with a Compass“, May 2024.
  4. Elizabeth Christman, “2D Jupyter: Design and Evaluation of 2D Computational Notebooks“, May 2023.
  5. Sahil Hamal, “Interpreting Dimension Reductions through Gradient Visualization“, April 2023.
  6. Huimin Han, “Explainable Interactive Projections for Image Data“, December 2022.
  7. Mia Taylor, “Andromeda in Education: Studies on Student Collaboration and Insight Generation with Interactive Dimensionality Reduction“, October 2022.
  8. Han Liu, “Comparison of Computational Notebook Platforms for Interactive Visual Analytics: Case Study of Andromeda Implementations“, October 2022.
  9. Payel Bandyopadhyay, “Immersive Space to Think: the Role of 3D Immersive Space in Sensemaking of Textual Data“, July 2020.
  10. Ming Wang, “Bridging Cognitive Gaps Between User and Model in Interactive Dimension Reduction”, May 2020.
  11. Sidney Holman, “Entropy and Insight: Exploring how information theory can quantify sensemaking in visual analytics”, June 2018.
  12. Adam Binford, “A Bidirectional Pipeline for Semantic Interaction in Visual Analytics”, August 2016.
  13. Xin Chen, “Be the Data: Embodied Visual Analytics”, August 2016. (Co-advised with Leanna House)
  14. Peng Mi, “GPU Based Methods for Interactive Information Visualization of Big Data”, December 2015. (Co-advised with Yong Cao)
  15. Andre Esakia, “Large Display Interaction via Multiple Acceleration Curves on a Touchpad”, December 2013.
  16. Kevin Logan, “SpatialHistory: Using Spatial Memory to Recall Information“, Dec 2012.
  17. Ji Wang, “Clustered Layout Word Cloud for User Generated Online Reviews”, May 2012.
  18. Patrick Fiaux, “Solving Intelligence Analysis Problems using Biclusters”, Jan 2012.
  19. David Machaj, “Co-Located Many-Player Gaming on Large High-Resolution Displays”, May 2009.
  20. Sarah Peck, “A Multiscale Interaction Technique for Large, High-Resolution Displays”, May 2008.
  21. Mehmet Celal Dasiyici, “Multi-Scale Cursor : Optimizing Mouse Interaction for Large Personal Workspaces”, May 2008.
  22. Lauren Shupp, “The Effects of Curving Large, High-Resolution Displays on User Performance”, August 2006. [Outstanding Master’s Thesis Award by the VT Computer Science Department, May 2007] [nominated by Virginia Tech for the Conference of Southern Graduate Schools 2007 Innovative Application of Technology in a Master’s Thesis Award.]
  23. Sujatha Krishnamoorthy, “Designing Interactive Visualizations for First-time Novice Users”, December 2005.
  24. Chris Catanzaro, “Vizability: Visualizing Usability Evaluation Data Based on the User Action Framework”, Spring 2005.
  25. Kiran Indukuri, “Fusion: A Visualization Framework for Interactive Rule Mining with Applications to Bioinformatics”, Fall 2004.
  26. John Costigan, “Applying Information Visualization Techniques to Visual Debugging”, Spring 2003.
  27. Varun Saini, “Visualization Schemas: A User Interface Extending Relational Data Schemas for Flexible, Multiple-View Visualization of Diverse Databases”, Spring 2003.
  28. Sanjini Jayaraman, “PolarEyez: A Radial Focus+Context Visualization for Multidimensional Functions”, Fall 2002.
  29. Nathan Conklin, “A web-based, run-time extensible architecture for interactive visualization and exploration of diverse data”, Fall 2002. [Received the “Outstanding Graduate Research” award from the Computer Science Department, 2002.]

Details available at: https://hdl.handle.net/10919/9291