Christopher W. Muelder

Contact Information

Kemper Hall 2136 Voice: (530) 752-9143University of California, Davis Fax: (530) 752-47671 Shields Ave. E-mail: muelder@cs.ucdavis.eduDavis, CA 95616 USA WWW: http://vidi.cs.ucdavis.edu/People/muelder.php

EducationPh.D. Computer Science, University of California, Davis, Sep. 2011

B.S. Computer Science, University of California, Davis, Jun. 2004

A.S. Computer Science (emph. Math), Las Positas College, Jun. 2002

A.S. Physics, Las Positas College, Jun. 2002

EmploymentPost-Doctoral Researcher 2011 to presentKwan-Liu Ma University of California, DavisDescription: Research on numerous topics primarily within the fields of information visualizationand visual analytics, including visualization of large/dynamic graphs, novel multidimensional datavisualization methods, visual analysis of supercomputer performance, computer security visualiza-tions, signal processing and time series analyses, and more. Topics included:

• Large, time-varying, and/or multivariate graph visualization.

• Supercomputer application and I/O tuning through visual analysis.

• Visual analysis of audio and music libraries.

• Visual recommendation systems

• High dimensional data visualization methods.

Graduate Research Assistant 2004 to 2011Kwan-Liu Ma University of California, DavisDescription: Research on numerous topics primarily within the fields of information visualization,including visualization of large/dynamic graphs, visualization of supercomputer performance, com-puter security visualizations, signal processing and time series analyses, and more. Topics included:

• Graph clustering and layout.

• Time varying graph analysis.

• Visual analysis of email logs at the system level for spam detection.

• Application of information visualization techniques to network counterintelligence throughvisual analysis of network scan timing information.

• Visualization of port based computer security related data for intrusion detection and analysis.

• Visual analysis of movement traces

• Volumetric feature extraction and tracking

• Supercomputer application peformance analysis through visualization

• Visual analysis of audio and music libraries.

Intern Summer 2004Marvin Christensen Lawrence Livermore National LabDescription: Visualization of port based computer security related data for intrusion detection andanalysis.

Intern 2001-2004Fred Cohen Sandia National LabDescription: Computer security engineering. Topics included:

• Computer system vulnerability analysis.

• Low level network programming in C.

• Design and implementation of resilient systems using redundant servers with encrypted com-munication

• Encryption engineering

• Easily configurable bootable Linux CD-ROM development.

Committee Service

• Program committee member, IEEE InfoVis: 2010, 2011, 2012, 2015

• Program committee member, IEEE EuroVis: 2011, 2012

• Program committee member, IEEE PacificVis: 2015

• Program committee member, IEEE VizSec: 2013, 2014

• Program committee member, IEEE BigDataVis: 2013

• Program committee member, IEEE VisSoft: 2014

• Program committee member, ACM VINCI: 2014, 2015

• Program committee member, IEEE BigDataVisualAnalytics (BDVA): 2015

Honors and Awards

• Best paper award, LSAP 2011

• VAST Challenge award, 2008

• E. A. Gordon Scholorship, 2003

• 2nd place in the 2001-02 AMATYC Math Competition at Las Positas College

• 3rd place in the 2000-01 AMATYC Math Competition at Las Positas College

• National Merit Finalist

Publications

“Spherical Layout and Rendering Methods for Immersive Graph Visualization” Oh-Hyun Kwon, Chris W. Muelder, Kyungwon Lee, and Kwan-Liu Ma, In proceedingsof IEEE PacificVis Visualization Notes, 2015 (to appear)

“A System for Visual Analysis of Radio Signal Data” Tarik Crnovrsanin, Chris W.Muelder, and Kwan-Liu Ma, In VAST 2014, 2014

“A Moving Least Squares Based Approach for Contour Visualization of Multi-Dimensional Data” Chris W. Muelder, Nick Leaf, Carmen Sigovan, and Kwan-LiuMa, In CoRR, 2014 (arXiv:1408.0677)

“Visualization Techniques for Categorical Analysis of Social Networks with MultipleEdge Sets” Tarik Crnovrsanin, Chris W. Muelder, Robert Faris, Diane Felmlee, andKwan-Liu Ma, In Social Networks, 2014, p56-64

“Temporal Multivariate Networks” James Abello, Daniel Archambault, JessieKennedy, Stephen Kobourov, Kwan-Liu Ma, Silvia Miksch, Chris W. Muelder, andAlexandru Telea, Chapter 8 in Multivariate Network Visualization. Lecture Notesin Computer Science, 8380. Springer-Verlag, 2014

“Multivariate Social Network Visual Analytics” Chris W. Muelder, Liang Gou,Kwan-Liu Ma, and Michelle X. Zhou, Chapter 3 in Multivariate Network Visu-alization. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 8380. Springer-Verlag, 2014

“Egocentric Storylines for Visual Analysis of Large Dynamic Graphs” Chris W.Muelder, Tarik Crnovrsanin, and Kwan-Liu Ma, In proceedings of 1st IEEE Work-shop on Big Data Visualization (BigDataVis), 2013, p56-62

“Large-Scale Graph Visualization and Analytics” Kwan-Liu Ma, and Chris W.Muelder, In IEEE Computer 46(7), 2013, p39-46

“Visualizing Large-scale Parallel Communication Traces Using a Particle Anima-tion Technique” Carmen Sigovan, Chris W. Muelder, and Kwan-Liu Ma, In Com-puter Graphics Forum 32(3), 2013, p141-150 (EuroVis 2013)

“A Visual Network Analysis Method for Large Scale Parallel I/O Systems ” CarmenSigovan, Chris W. Muelder, Kwan-Liu Ma, Jason Cope, Kamil Iskra, and RobertRoss, In proceedings of 27th IEEE International Parallel and Distributed ProcessingSymposium (IPDPS), 2013, p308-319

“Improved Cluster Tracking for Visualization of Large Dynamic Graphs” Chris W.Muelder, Arnaud Sallaberry, and Kwan-Liu Ma, In proceedings of 13e ConfrenceFrancophone sur l’Extraction et la Gestion des Connaissances, 2013, p21-32

“Crucial Nodes Centric Visual Monitoring and Analysis of Computer Networks”Hanchen Song, Chris W. Muelder, and Kwan-Liu Ma, In proceedings of Interna-tional Conference on Cyber Security, 2012, p16-23

“Clustering, Visualizing, and Navigating for Large Dynamic Graphs” Arnaud Sal-laberry, Chris W. Muelder, and Kwan-Liu Ma, In proceedings of the 20th Interna-tional Conference on Graph Drawing, 2012, p487-498

“IFDT Intelligent In-Situ Feature Detection, Extraction, Tracking and Visualiza-tion for Turbulent Flow Simulations” Earl P.N. Duque, Daniel Hiepler, ChristopherP. Stone, Steve M Legensky, Kwan-Liu Ma, Chris W. Muelder, and Jishang Wei, Inproceedings of Seventh International Conference on Computational Fluid Dynamics(ICCFD7), 2012

“TVi: A Visual Querying System for Network Monitoring and Anomaly Detec-tion” Alberto Boschetti, Luca Salgarelli, Chris W. Muelder, and Kwan-Liu Ma, Inproceedings of Workshop on Visualization for Computer Security (VizSec), 2011

“Visual Analysis of I/O System Behavior for High-End Computing” Chris W.Muelder, Carmen Sigovan, Kwan-Liu Ma, Jason Cope, Sam Lang, Kamil Iskra,Pete Beckman, and Robert Ross, In proceedings of 3rd Workshop on Large-ScaleSystem and Application Performance (LSAP), 2011, p19-26 (Best Paper Award)

“Content Based Graph Visualization of Audio Data for Music Library Navigation”Chris W. Muelder, Thomas Provan, and Kwan-Liu Ma, In proceedings of IEEEInternational Symposium on Multimedia (ISM), 2010, p129-136

“Proximity-based Visualization of Movement Trace Data” Tarik Crnovrsanin, CarlosD. Correa, Chris W. Muelder, and Kwan-Liu Ma, In proceedings of IEEE Sympo-sium on Visual Analytics Science and Technology (VAST), 2009

“Visual Analysis of Inter-Process Communication for Large-Scale Parallel Comput-ing” Chris W. Muelder, Francois Gygi, and Kwan-Liu Ma, In IEEE Transactionson Visualization and Computer Graphics 15(6), 2009, p1129-1136 (InfoVis 2009)

“Flow Visualization in Science and Mathematics” Nelson Max, Carlos D. Correa,Chris W. Muelder, Shi Yan, Cheng-Kai Chen, and Kwan-Liu Ma, In Journal ofPhysics Conference Series 180(1), 2009, p12-87

“A Hybrid Space-Filling and Force-Directed Layout Method for Visualizing Multiple-Category Graphs” Takayuki Itoh, Chris W. Muelder, Kwan-Liu Ma, and Jun Sese,In proceedings of IEEE Pacific Visualization Symposium, 2009, p121-128

“Interactive Feature Extraction and Tracking by Utilizing Region Coherency” ChrisW. Muelder, and Kwan-Liu Ma, In proceedings of IEEE Pacific Visualization Sym-posium, 2009

“Rapid Graph Layout Using Space Filling Curves” Chris W. Muelder, and Kwan-Liu Ma, In proceedings of IEEE Conference on Information Visualization (InfoVis),2008, p1301-1308

“A Treemap Based Method for Rapid Layout of Large Graphs” Chris W. Muelder,and Kwan-Liu Ma, In proceedings of IEEE Pacific Visualization Symposium, 2008

“Intelligent Classification and Visualization of Network Scans” Chris W. Muelder,Lei Chen, Russel Thomason, Kwan-Liu Ma, and Tony Bartoletti, In proceedings ofWorkshop on Visualization for Computer Security (VizSec), 2007

“Visualization of Sanitized Email Logs for Spam Analysis” Chris W. Muelder, andKwan-Liu Ma, In proceedings of Asia-Pacific Symposium on Visualization, 2007,p9-16

“A Visualization Methodology for Characterization of Network Scans ” Chris W.Muelder, Kwan-Liu Ma, and Tony Bartoletti, In proceedings of Workshop on Visu-alization for Computer Security (VizSEC), 2005, p29-38

“Interactive Visualization for Network and Port Scan Detection” Chris W. Muelder,Kwan-Liu Ma, and Tony Bartoletti, In proceedings of the Eighth InternationalSymposium on Recent Advances in Intrusion Detection (RAID), 2005, p265-283