| Title | Making Sense of Data through Visualization |
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Dr. Alex Aravind |
Abstract
“Our generation is overwhelmed with data. The accumulation of data seems to only increase, day-by-day, due to ubiquitous nature of computing, communication, and sensor technologies. This unprecedented trend brings extraordinary opportunity for us to explore answers to questions that are unimaginable in the past. At the same time, this trend also brings several challenges related to data - storage, management, and use. This talk is about one aspect of data which is how to make sense of huge data. Particularly, the talk will focus on making sense of data through visualization.
When properly designed, visualization can be a powerful means of understanding data. It is an effective technique that can make even complicated patterns and trends easy to understand. Often, the clarity acquired through properly designed visualization will not only engage the users but also can increase their interest to investigate the questions and challenges further and understand the data deeper. In this talk, we first will look at some important interactive dynamics for visualization and then demonstrate some of the visualization tools that we have developed for different applications.”
Biography
Dr. Alex Aravind is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Northern British Columbia (UNBC), Canada. Alex received his Ph.D in Computer Science from Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore, and M.Tech. in Computer Science from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur, India. After a brief stint at the Supercomputer Education and Research Center (SERC), IISc, he was a Post-doctoral fellow at the Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John’s, Canada.
Alex’s areas of research interest include operating systems, concurrent and distributed computing, mobile ad hoc and wireless networks, and modeling and simulation of complex systems. He has published more than 40 research articles in leading journals and conferences. Alex has co-authored a book on Operating System, published by Pearson Education. He is a member of ACM, IEEE, and SCS, and served as a program technical committee member for many international conferences, and a reviewer for several leading journals and conferences. Alex has chaired a number of conference sessions and organized several workshops.
