Research Projects

Here are some research projects that I worked throughout my academic career. Associated papers, presentations, or videos are also available for certain projects. For a more complete list of all works, please see my resume.

	Spatio-temporal Feature Exploration in Combined Particle/Volume Reference Frames Franz Sauer and Kwan-Liu Ma IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (IEEE PacificVis '17) Accepted Paper, Oral Presentation, and Best Paper Award Winner [Paper] - [Presentation] (June 2017)
	Scalable Visualization of Time-varying Multi-parameter Distributions Using Spatially Organized Histograms Tyson Neuroth, Franz Sauer, Weixing Wang, Stephane Ethier, Choong-Seock Chang, and Kwan-Liu Ma IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics Accepted Paper [Paper] (Dec. 2016)
	A Combined Eulerian-Lagrangian Data Representation for Large-scale Applications Franz Sauer, Jinrong Xie, and Kwan-Liu Ma IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics Accepted Paper and Oral Presentation [Paper] - [Presentation] - [Preview Video] (Oct. 2016)
	In Situ Generated Probability Distribution Functions for Interactive Post Hoc Visualization and Analysis Yucong Ye, Tyson Neuroth, Franz Sauer, Kwan-Liu Ma, Giulio Borghesi, Aditya Konduri, Hemanth Kolla, and Jacqueline Chen Large Data Analysis and Visualization Symposium co-located with IEEE VIS Accepted Paper and Oral Presentation [Paper] - [Presentation] (Oct. 2016)
	An Integrated Visualization System for Interactive Analysis of Large, Heterogeneous Cosmology Data Annie Preston, Ramyar Ghods, Jinrong Xie, Franz Sauer, Nick Leaf, Kwan-Liu Ma, Esteban Rangel, Eve Kovacs, Katrin Heitmann, Salman Habib IEEE Pacific Visualization Symposium Accepted Paper and Oral Presentation [Paper] (Apr. 2016)
	Fast Uncertainty-driven Large-scale Volume Feature Extraction on Desktop PCs Jinrong Xie, Franz Sauer, and Kwan-Liu Ma Large Data Analysis and Visualization Symposium co-located with IEEE VIS Accepted Paper, Oral Presentation, and Best Paper Honorable Mention Award [Paper] - [Presentation] (Oct. 2015)
	Scalable Visualization of Discrete Velocity Decompositions Using Spatially Organized Histograms Tyson Neuroth, Franz Sauer, Weixing Wang, Stephane Ethier, and Kwan-Liu Ma Large Data Analysis and Visualization Symposium co-located with IEEE VIS Accepted Paper, Oral Presentation, and Best Paper Honorable Mention Award [Paper] (Oct. 2015)
	Trajectory-based Flow Feature Tracking in Joint Particle/Volume Datasets Franz Sauer, Hongfeng Yu, and Kwan-Liu Ma IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (IEEE SciVis '14) Accepted Paper and Oral Presentation [Paper] - [Presentation] - [Preview Video] (Nov. 2014)
	An Analytical Framework for Particle and Volume Data of Large-Scale Combustion Simulations Franz Sauer, Hongfeng Yu, and Kwan-Liu Ma Ultrascale Visualization Workshop co-located with IEEE/ACM Supercomputing Conference Accepted Paper and Oral Presentation [Paper] - [Presentation] (Nov. 2013)
	Visualization Techniques for Studying Large-Scale Flow Fields from Fusion Simulations Franz Sauer, Yubo Zhang, Weixing Wang, Stephane Ethier, and Kwan-Liu Ma International Conference on Numerical Simulation of Plasmas Oral Presentation and Recipient of the Oscar Buneman Award for Visualization of Plasmas [Magazine Article] - [Presentation] (Sep. 2013)
	The MICA Experiment: Astrophysics in Virtual Worlds S. G. Djorgovski, Piet Hut, Rob Knop, Giuseppe Longo, Steve McMillan, Enrico Vesperini, Ciro Donalek, Matthew Graham, Asish Mahabal, Franz Sauer, Charles White, and Crista Lopes SLACTIONS International Research Conference on Virtual Worlds Accepted Paper [Paper] (Nov. 2012)