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周亮

Liang Zhou, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor
Email: zhoulng at pku dot edu dot cn

My research interests include scientific and information visualization, visual analysis of health data, and mixed reality.

Work Experience

National Institute of Health Data Science, Peking University - Assistant Professor

2020 - Now

SCI Institute, University of Utah - Research Associate

2019 - 2020

VISUS, University of Stuttgart - Research Associate

2015 - 2018

SCI Institute, University of Utah - Postdoc Researcher

2014 - 2015

Education

University of Utah - Ph.D. in Computing

2008 - 2014 Advisor: Dr. Charles D. Hansen

Teaching
Introduction to Health Data Science -- Medical Visualization and Visual Analytics

Fall semesters

Course slides

Visualization of Health Data

Fall semesters

Publications

Journal and Conference Publications
Visual analysis of multi-outcome causal graphs
Mengjie Fan, Jinlu Yu, Daniel Weiskopf, Nan Cao, Huai-Yu Wang, Liang Zhou*
(*: corresponding author)
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (VIS 2024).

Visualization of Traditional Chinese Medicine Formulas: Development and Usability Study
Zhiyue Wu^, Suyuan Peng^, Liang Zhou*(^: joint first authors, *: corresponding author)
JMIR Formative Research, 2023.

Transcriptomic heterogeneity of skin across different anatomic sites
Yicen Yan, Jie Tian, Yang Wang, Yurong Li, Chong Zhang, Shenxi Zhang, Pingping Lin, Rui Peng, Chunxia Zhao, Le Zhuang, Binbin Lai*, Liang Zhou*, Guohong Zhang*, Hang Li* (*: joint corresponding authors)
Journal of Investigative Dermatology, 2023.

Angle-Uniform Parallel Coordinates
Kaiyi Zhang^, Liang Zhou^*, Lu Chen, Shitong He, Daniel Weiskopf, Yunhai Wang (^: joint first authors, *: corresponding author)
Computational Visual Media, 2023.

Automatic Assessment of Adverse Drug Reaction Reports with Interactive Visual Exploration
Zongyang Gao^, Yu Yang^, Ruogu Meng, Jinyang Yu, Liang Zhou* (^: joint first authors, *: corresponding author)
Scientific Reports, vol. 12, Article number: 6777 (2022).

A Review of Three-Dimensional Medical Image Visualization
Liang Zhou^*, Mengjie Fan^, Charles Hansen, Chris R. Johnson, and Daniel Weiskopf (^: joint first authors, *: corresponding author)
Health Data Science, vol. 2022, Article ID 9840519.

F2-Bubbles: Faithful Bubble Set Construction and Flexible Editing
Yunhai Wang, Da Cheng, Zhirui Wang, Jian Zhang, Liang Zhou, Gaoqi He, and Oliver Deussen
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (VisWeek 2021), vol. 28, no. 1, pp. 422-432.

中医病案可视分析
胡晓璇, 彭苏元, 侯海晶, 杨霓芝, 吕永杰, 周亮*（通讯作者）
计算机辅助设计与图形学学报, 33 ( 12 ): 1866-1875.

面向复杂多流形高维数据的t-SNE降维方法
边荣正, 张鉴, 周亮, 蒋鹏, 陈宝权, 汪云海
计算机辅助设计与图形学学报, 33 ( 11 ): 1746-1754.

Data-Driven Space-Filling Curves
Liang Zhou, Chris Johnson, and Daniel Weiskopf
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (SciVis 2020), vol. 27, no. 2, pp. 1591-1600.

Implicit Multidimensional Projection of Local Subspaces
Rongzheng Bian, Yumeng Xue, Liang Zhou*, Jian Zhang, Baoquan Chen, Daniel Weiskopf, and Yunhai Wang* (joint corresponding authors)
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (InfoVis 2020), vol. 27, no. 2, pp. 1558-1568.

Photographic High-Dynamic-Range Scalar Visualization
Liang Zhou, Marc Rivinius, Chris Johnson, and Daniel Weiskopf
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, Vol. 26, No. 6, pp. 2156-2167.

Spectral Visualization Sharpening
Liang Zhou, Rudolf Netzel, Daniel Weiskopf, and Chris Johnson
ACM Symposium on Applied Perception 2019 (SAP '19), Paper 18.

 
Perceptually Guided Contrast Enhancement Based on Viewing Distance
Liang Zhou, Daniel Weiskopf, and Chris Johnson
Journal of Computer Languages, Vol 55, 100911.

 
Multivariate Visualization of Particle Data
Liang Zhou and Daniel Weiskopf
The European Journal of Physics Special Topics, Vol. 227, No. 14, pp. 1741-1755.

 
Contrast Enhancement Based on Viewing Distance
Liang Zhou and Daniel Weiskopf
VINCI '18 Proceedings of the 11th International Symposium on Visual Information Communication and Interaction, Pages 25-32 (Best Paper Award).

 
Indexed-Points Parallel Coordinates Visualization of Multivariate Correlations
Liang Zhou and Daniel Weiskopf
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, Vol. 24, No. 6, pp. 1997-2010 (Spotlight Article).

 
A Survey of Colormaps in Visualization
Liang Zhou and Charles Hansen
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, Vol. 22, No. 8, pp. 2051-2069 (Spotlight Article).

 
Magnetotelluric investigation of the geothermal anomaly in Hailin, Mudanjiang, northeastern China
Lili Zhang, Tianyao Hao, Qibin Xiao, Jie Wang, Liang Zhou, Min Qi, Xiangpan Cui, Ningxiao Cai
Journal of Applied Geophysics, Volume 118, July 2015, pp. 47-65.

 
GuideME: Slice-guided Semiautomatic Multivariate Exploration of Volumes
Liang Zhou and Charles Hansen
Computer Graphics Forum (EuroVis2014), Vol. 33, No. 3, pp. 151 - 160.

 
Transfer Function Design based on User Selected Samples for Intuitive Multivariate Volume Exploration
Liang Zhou and Charles Hansen
Proceedings of the 2013 IEEE Pacific Visualization Symposium (PacificVis), pp. 73--80. 2013. Sydney, Australia.

 
Transfer Function Combinations
Liang Zhou, Mathias Schott and Charles Hansen
Computers and Graphics, Vol. 36, No. 6, pp. 596--606. October, 2012.

 

Extended Abstracts/Posters

 Virtual Reality Training for Nosocomial Infections Prevention
Mengjie Fan, Shaoxing Zhang, Xintian Zhao, Xingyao Yu, and Liang Zhou*
Poster in VIS 2023. Oct, 2023. Melbourne, Australia.
Interactive Rendering and Efficient Querying for Large Multivariate Seismic Volumes on Consumer Level PCs
Liang Zhou and Charles Hansen
Poster in Proceedings of the 2013 IEEE Symposium on Large-Scale Data Analysis and Visualization (LDAV). Oct, 2013. Atlanta, GA.
A System for More Intuitive Multivariate Volume Exploration and Visualization (Honorable Mention)
Liang Zhou and Charles Hansen
Poster in Proceedings of the 2012 IEEE Symposium on Large-Scale Data Analysis and Visualization (LDAV). Oct, 2012. Seattle, WA.

Professional Services

Reviewer

  • IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG)
  • IEEE InfoVis (Special Issue of TVCG)
  • IEEE SciVis (Special Issue of TVCG)
  • EuroVis (Special Issue of Computer Graphics Forum)
  • Computer Graphics Forum
  • IEEE PacificVis Symposium
  • IEEE Transactions on Multimedia
  • IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications (CG&A)
  • Computers and Graphics
  • ChinaVis
  • The Visual Computer
  • Journal of Visual Languages and Computing
  • Journal of Visualization
  • The Eurographics Symposium on Parallel Graphics and Visualization (EGPGV)
  • 《计算机辅助设计与图形学学报》