Professor Min Chen

Professor of Scientific Visualization, University of Oxford

Email: min<#dot#>chen<#at#>oerc<#dot#>ox<#dot#>ac<#dot#>uk
Telephone: +44(0)1865 610633
Address: Oxford e-Research Centre (OeRC), Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford, 7 Keble Road, Oxford OX1 3QG, UK
Maps: Walking from the train/bus stations to OeRC, and Parking near OeRC
College: Pembroke (Fellow)
ORCID: 0000-0001-5320-5729
Other web pages: Old-style Google site, Departmental page, Google Scholar, ResearchGate.

Is Information Loss Good or Bad? BCS Oxford, Nov. 2022. Video.
Visualization is where Information Theory Meets Psychology. EuroVis 2021, Zurich (virtual), June 2021. Videos: Prerecorded or Live-recording.

M. Chen and H. Jaenicke. An Information-theoretic Framework for Visualization. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 16(6):1206-1215, 2010. (Presented in IEEE VisWeek 2010.) DOI, VisWeek slides(4.6M).
M. Chen and A. Golan, What may visualization processes optimize? IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 22(12):2619-2632, 2016. DOI.
M. Chen, M. Feixas, I. Viola, A. Bardera, H.-W. Shen, M. Sbert. Information Theory Tools for Visualization. A K Peters/CRC Press, 2016. ISBN: 9781498740937 - CAT# K26715.
G. K. L. Tam, V. Kothari, and M. Chen. An analysis of machine- and human-analytics in classification. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 23(1):71-80, 2017. DOI. (Presented in IEEE VIS 2016, VAST2016 Best Paper Award.)
M. Chen and D. S. Ebert. An ontological framework for supporting the design and evaluation of visual analytics systems. Computer Graphics Forum, 38(3):131-144, 2019. DOI. (presented at EuroVis 2019.) Web site: IVAS (Improving Visual Analytics Systems).
M. Chen, A. Abdul-Rahman, D. Archambault, J. Dykes, A. Slingsby, P. D. Ritsos, T. Torsney-Weir, C. Turkay, B. Bach, A. Brett, H. Fang, R. Jianu, S. Khan, R. S. Laramee, L. Matthews, P. H. Nguyen, R. Reeve, J. C. Roberts, F. Vidal, Q. Wang, J. Wood, and K. Xu. RAMPVIS: answering the challenges of building visualisation capabilities for large-scale emergency responses. Epidemics, 39:100569, 2022. DOI.

At Oxford (2011-present): Visual Analytics (Computer Science), Data Visualization (Computer Science, Social Data Science, Digital Scholarships), Human and Data Intelligence (Social Data Science), Mathematical Techniques: Optimisation (Engineering Science), and 3YP#10 Design of a Multiagent Aerial Robotic System (Engineering Science)
At Swansea (1991-2011): Computer Graphics II, Computer Graphics Laboratory, Volume Graphics, State of the Art in Visual Computing, Operating Systems, Data Communications and Computer Networks, Computer Graphics Algorithms, and Introduction to Algorithms (Computer Science)

Co-editor-in-chief of Wiley Computer Graphics Forum (2016-2019);
Associate editor-in-chief of IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (2011-2014) and associate editor (2007-2010);
Associate editor of Elsevier Computers & Graphics (2008-2015);
Papers co-chair of IEEE Visualization 2007 and 2008, Eurographics 2011, IEEE VAST 2014 and IEEE VAST 2015;
Conference co-chair of WSCG2009, EuroVis 2014;
Workshop co-chair of Volume Graphics 2006, Philosophy of Information and Information Processing 2015;
Program co-chair of Volume Graphics 1999, High Performance Computation for Graphics and Visualisation 1995;
Workshop Advisory Board of Knowledge-assisted Visualization (KAV) 2007, KAV 2008, KAV 2010; Creation, Curation, Critique and Conditioning of Principles and Guidelines in Visualization (C4PGV) 2016, VisGuides-C4PGV 2018, VisGuides 2020, VisGuides 2022; Visualization Psychology (VisPsych) 2020;
Committee member of EuroVis (2012-2017), Eurographics EXC (2015-2019), IEEE VAST Steering Committee (2015-2020), IEEE reVISe (2018/19, 2019/20), IEEE VIS EXC (VEC) (2019-present);
Co-director of Wales Research Institute of Visual Computing (RIVIC) (2009-2011);
Co-director of Centre for Communication and Software Technologies (CAST), one of the 18 CETICs in Wales (2002-2009);
Deputy head and acting head of Swansea Computer Science (2009/10, 2010/11).