IEEE VGTC VPG Doctoral dissertation award 2016

"This dissertation addresses a challenging problem in information and visual analytics, i.e., analyzing, visualizing and exploring temporal and multivariate networks. It describes innovative solutions with both technical rigor and high quality thesis presentation. Its outstanding contributions have been widely acknowledged by the visualization community."

IEEE Visualization and Graphics Technical Committee (VGTC) sponsors the annual Best Doctoral Dissertation Award program to recognize outstanding academic research and development in visualization and visual analytics. The dissertations must address a topic relevant to visualization or visual analytics. The competition will be administered by the IEEE Visualization Pioneers Group (VPG) under the auspices of IEEE VGTC. The IEEE VGTC VPG Doctoral Dissertation Award is presented annually at the IEEE VPG Reception held at the IEEE VIS conference.