1. NIU Department of Computer Science
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Maoyuan Sun

Assistant Professor

Office: PM 467
Email: smaoyuan@niu.edu
Website: http://faculty.cs.niu.edu/~smaoyuan/

Education

  • Ph.D., Virginia Tech University
  • M.Ed, Educational Technology, Peking University
  • B.E., Computer Science, China Agricultural University

Areas of Interest

  • Visual Analytics
  • Information Visualization
  • Human-Computer Interaction
  • Data Science

Representative publications

Google Scholar Profile

  • B. Kale, A. Clyde, M. Sun, A. Ramanathan, R. Stevens, and M. E. Papka. Chemo-Graph: Interactive Visual Exploration of the Chemical Space. Computer Graphics Forum, vol. 42, no. 3, pp. 13-24, 2023. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/cgf.14807.
  • B. Kale, M. Sun, and M. E. Papka. The State of the Art in Visualizing Dynamic Multivariate Networks. Computer Graphics Forum, vol. 42, no. 3, pp. 471-490, 2023. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/cgf.14856.
  • M. Sun, Y. Ma, Y. Wang, T. Li, J. Zhao, Y. Liu, and P. Zhong. Toward Systematic Considerations of Missingness in Visual Analytics. 2022 IEEE Visualization and Visual Analytics (VIS), pp. 110- 114, October 2022. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/VIS54862.2022.00031.
  • M. Sun, A. R. Shaikh, H. Alhoori, and J. Zhao. Sight Bi: Exploring Cross-View Data Relationships with Biclusters. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, vol. 28, no. 1, pp. 54-64, January 2022. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/TVCG.2021.3114801.
  • H. Wu, M. Sun, P. Mi, N. Tatti, C. North, and N. Ramakrishnan. Interactive Discovery of Coordinated Relationship Chains with Maximum Entropy Models. ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data, vol. 12, no. 1, pp. 1-34, February 2018. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3047017.
  • M. Sun, P. Mi, C. North, and N. Ramakrishnan. BiSet: Semantic Edge Bundling with Biclusters for Sensemaking. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, vol. 22, no. 1, pp. 310-319, January 2016. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/TVCG.2015.2467813.

Students

Current PhD Student

  • Joshua Boley
  • Yue Ma
  • Abdul Rahman Shaikh

Current Undergraduate Student

  • David Petrovski

Past Students

  • Bharat Kale, Ph.D, Computer Science
  • Katelyn Kozinski, M.S., Computer Science
  • Courtney Bolton, M.S., Computer Science
  • Akhil Namburi, M.S., Computer Science

Awards and patents

  • Best Paper Honorable Mention, EG Conference on Visualization (EuroVis) 2023
  • Best Paper Honorable Mention, IEEE Visualization and Visual Analytics Conference (VIS) 2022
  • Best Paper Honorable Mention, IEEE Visualization and Visual Analytics Conference (VIS) 2021
  • G. Convertino, and M. Sun. "Method, Apparatus, and Computer-Readable Medium for Visualizing Relationships between Pairs of Columns". U.S. Patent 10,977,435, issued April 2021.
  • G. Convertino, M. Detweiler, and M. Sun. "Metric Recommendations in An Event Log Analytics Environment." U.S. Patent 10,061,816, issued August 2018.
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