VGTC Visualization Awards

TVCG Visualization Award
The 2020 Visualization Career Award
Catherine Plaisant
TVCG Visualization Award
The 2020 Visualization Technical Achievement Award
Jean-Daniel Fekete

Test of Time Awards

Test of Time Award (10 Year )
Test of Time Award - IEEE VAST 2010 Paper
iVisClassifier: an Interactive Visual Analytics System for Classification Based on Supervised Dimension Reduction
Jaegul Choo, Hanseung Lee, Jaeyeon Kihm and Haesun Park
Test of Time Award (20 Year)
Test of Time Award - IEEE INFOVIS 2000 and TVCG 2002 Papers
Polaris: a System for Query, Analysis and Visualization of Multi-dimensional Relational Databases
Chris Stolte, Diane Tang and Pat Hanrahan
Test of Time Award (10 Year )
Test of Time Award - IEEE INFOVIS 2010 Paper
Narrative Visualization: Telling Stories with Data
Edward Segel and Jeffrey Heer
Test of Time Award (25 Year)
Test of Time Award - IEEE Vis 1995 Paper
High Dimensional Brushing for Interactive Exploration of Multivariate Data
Allen Martin and Matthew Ward
Test of Time Award (15 Year )
Test of Time Award - IEEE Vis 2005 Paper
The Value of Visualization
Jarke J. van Wijk

Best Papers Awards

Paper Award
VAST Best Paper Award
VATLD: A Visual Analytics System to Assess, Understand and Improve Traffic Light Detection
Liang Gou, Lincan Zou, Nanxiang Li, Michael Hofmann, Shekar Arvind Kumar, Axel Wendt, and Liu Ren
Paper Award
VAST Best Paper Honorable Mention
In Search of Patient Zero: Visual Analytics of Pathogen Transmission Pathways in Hospitals
Tom Baumgartl, Markus Petzold_, Marcel Wunderlich, Markus Höhn, Daniel Archambault, Michael Lieser, Alexander Dalpke, Simone Scheithauer, Michael Marschollek, Vanessa M. Eichel, Nico T. Mutters, and Tatiana von Landesberger
Paper Award
VAST Best Paper Honorable Mention
Preserving Minority Structures in Graph Sampling
Ying Zhao, Haojin Jiang, Qi’an Chen, Yaqi Qin, Huixuan Xie, Yitao Wu, Shixia Liu, Zhiguang Zhou, Jiazhi Xia, and Fangfang Zhou
Paper Award
InfoVis Best Paper Award
Visual Reasoning Strategies and Satisficing: How Uncertainty Visualization Design Impacts Effect Size Judgments and Decisions
Alex Kale, Matthew Kay, and Jessica Hullman
Paper Award
InfoVis Best Paper Honorable Mention
A Design Space of Vision Science Methods for Visualization Research
Madison Elliott, Christine Nothelfer Nielsen, Cindy Xiong, and Danielle Albers Szafir
Paper Award
InfoVis Best Paper Honorable Mention
A Simple Pipeline for Coherent Grid Maps
Wouter Meulemans, Max Sondag, and Bettina Speckmann
Paper Award
InfoVis Best Paper Honorable Mention
A Generic Framework and Library for Exploration of Small Multiples through Interactive Piling
Fritz Lekschas, Xinyi Zhou, Wei Chen, Nils Gehlenborg, Benjamin Bach, and Hanspeter Pfister
Paper Award
InfoVis Best Paper Honorable Mention
Data Visceralization: Enabling Deeper Understanding of Data Using Virtual Reality
Benjamin Lee, David Brown, Bongshin Lee, Christophe Hurter, Steven Drucker, and Tim Dwyer
Paper Award
SciVis Best Paper Award
Objective Observer-Relative Flow Visualization in Curved Spaces for Unsteady 2D Geophysical Flows
Peter Rautek, Matej Mlejnek, Johanna Beyer, Jakob Troidl, Hanspeter Pfister, Thomas Theussl, Markus Hadwiger
Paper Award
SciVis Best Paper Honorable Mention
Interactive Black Hole Visualization
Annemieke Verbraeck, Elmar Eisemann
Paper Award
Best Short Paper Award
The Anatomical Edutainer
Marwin Schindler, Hsiang-Yun, Renata Georgia Raidou
Paper Award
Best Short Paper Honorable Mention
Encodable: Configurable Grammar for Visualization Components
Krist Wongsuphasawat
Paper Award
Best Short Paper Honorable Mention
PRAGMA: Interactively Constructing Functional Brain Parcellations
Roza Gunes Bayrak, Nhung Hoang, Colin Blake Hansen, Catie Chang, Matthew Berger
Paper Award
LDAV 2020 Best Paper
Foveated Encoding for Large High-Resolution Displays
Florian Frieß, Matthias Braun, Steffen Frey, Guido Reina, Thomas Ertl
Paper Award
LDAV 2020 Best Paper Honorable Mention
Interactive Visualization of Terascale Data in the Browser: Fact or Fiction?
Will Usher, Valerio Pascucci
Paper Award
VizSec 2020 Best Paper Award
A Visualization Interface to Improve the Transparency of Collected Personal Data on the Internet
Marija Schufrin, Steven Lamarr Reynolds, Arjan Kuijper, Jörn Kohlhammer
Paper Award
VizSec 2020 Best Poster Award
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Paper Award
VAST Best Poster Research Award
Visual Exploration of Network Meta-Analysis Data
Huan He, Irbaz Bin Riaz, Syed Arsalan Ahmed Naqvi, Rabbia Siddiqi, M. Hassan Murad, Hongfang Liu
Paper Award
VAST Honorable Mention Poster Research Award
Mapping Researchers with PeopleMap
Jon Saad-Falcon, Omar Shaikh, Zijie J. Wang, Austin P Wright, Sasha Richardson, Duen Horng Chau
Paper Award
InfoVis Best Poster Research Award
Towards a Knowledge-Based Recommendation System for Genomics Visualization
Aditeya Pandey, Sehi L’Yi, Nils Gehlenborg
Paper Award
InfoVis Honorable Mention Poster Research Award
Generating Seizure-Inducing Sequences with Interactive Visualizations
Laura South, Michelle A. Borkin
Paper Award
InfoVis Honorable Mention Poster Research Award
A Minimally Constrained Optimization Algorithm for Table Cartograms
Andrew M McNutt, Gordon L Kindlmann
Paper Award
SciVis Best Poster Research Award
Automatic Generation of Data Legends for 3D Multi-Variate Artist Driven Visualizations
Claire E Weissman, Bridger Herman, Stephanie Zeller, Francesca Samsel, Daniel F. Keefe
Paper Award
VAST Best Poster Design Award
Plotworkspace: An Interactive Visual Analytics Tool for Field Phenotyping Data
Aristides Mairena, Carl Gutwin
Paper Award
InfoVis Best Poster Design Award
Black and White Textures for Visualization on E-ink Displays
Yuanyang Zhong, Tobias Isenberg, Petra Isenberg
Paper Award
SciVis Best Poster Design Award
Subjective Views in Co-Located Augmented Reality–Initial Design
Mickael Sereno, Tobias Isenberg
Paper Award
SciVis Contest 2020 Winner
Interactive Visual Analysis of Oceanographic Simulation Ensemble Data
Hennes Rave, Johannes Fincke, Steffen Averkamp, Lehmensiek H. N. Tague, Beate Tangerding, Luca Wehrenberg, Tim Gerrits, Karim Huesmann, Simon Leistikow, Lars Linsen
Paper Award
SciVis Contest 2020 Honorable Mention
The Use of 3D Optical Flow, Feature-Tracking and Token-Tracking Petri Nets to Analyze and Visualize Multiple Scales of Ocean Eddies
Sedat Ozer, Karen Bemis, Weiping Hua, Arda Goktogan, Melike Aydoğan, Kevin Guo, Dujuan Kang, Li Liu, Deborah Silver
Paper Award
VGTC Outstanding Dissertation Award
Interactive Systems for Scalable Visualization and Analysis
Dominik Moritz
Paper Award
VGTC Outstanding Dissertation Honorable Mention
Detecting and Mitigating Human Bias in Visual Analytics
Emily Wall
Paper Award
VGTC Outstanding Dissertation Honorable Mention
Visualizing Multivariate Networks
Carolina Nobre
Paper Award
Visualization in Astrophysics: Data Challenge Certificate
Volumetric Reconstruction for Interactive Analysis of the Cosmic Web
Joseph N. Burchett, David Abramov, Oskar Elek, and Angus G. Forbes
Paper Award
VAST Challenge Certificate
Mini-Challenge 1 Award: Outstanding Comprehensive Mini-Challenge 1 Solution
Natkamon Tovanich, Alexis Pister, Gaëlle Richer, Paola Valdivia, Jean-Daniel Fekete, Christophe Prieur, and Petra Isenberg
Paper Award
VAST Challenge Certificate
Mini-Challenge 1 Honorable Mention: Clear Articulation of Analytical Process
Falko Schulz, Matthew Galati, Steven Harenberg, Don Chapman, Rajiv Ramarajan, and Jordan Riley Benson
Paper Award
VAST Challenge Certificate
Mini-Challenge 1 Honorable Mention: Custom Tool Supporting Visual Comparison
David Englert, Pablo Martinez Blasco, Eren Cakmak, Udo Schlegel, Juri Buchmüller, and Prof. Dr. Daniel A. Keim
Paper Award
VAST Challenge Certificate
Mini-Challenge 1 Honorable Mention: Streamlined Analysis Process
Luyu Cheng, Bairui Su, Yumeng Xue, Xiaoyu Liu, and Yunhai Wang
Paper Award
VAST Challenge Certificate
Mini-Challenge 2 Award: Strong Visual Design to Support Classification and Task-Focused Filtering
Shichao Jia, Zeyu Li, and Jiawan Zhang
Paper Award
VAST Challenge Certificate
Mini-Challenge 2 Honorable Mention: Detailed Analysis of Patterns of Misclassification
Huyen N. Nguyen, Jake Gonzalez, Jian Guo, Ngan V.T. Nguyen, and Tommy Dang
Paper Award
VAST Challenge Certificate
Mini-Challenge 2 Honorable Mention: Effective Use of Visual Encodings for Correcting Classification Errors
Jinbin Huang, Aditi Mishra, Anjana Arunkumar, and Dr. Chris Bryan
Paper Award
VAST Challenge Certificate
Mini-Challenge 3 Award: Effective Transformation of Task Decomposition into Conceptual Design
Prince Owusu Attah, Lu Ding, Xiaolei Guo, Tianyi Zhang, Weiyue Deng, Xuan Thao Nguyen, Yunran Ju, Dr. Jieqiong Zhao, Dr. Chen Guo, Dr. Zhenyu Cheryl Qian, and Dr. Yingjie Victor Chen

Academy Inductees

VIS Academy
IEEE Visualization Academy
Leila De Floriani
VIS Academy
IEEE Visualization Academy
Jean-Daniel Fekete
VIS Academy
IEEE Visualization Academy
Jessie Kennedy
VIS Academy
IEEE Visualization Academy
Bongshin Lee
VIS Academy
IEEE Visualization Academy
Shixia Liu
VIS Academy
IEEE Visualization Academy
Silvia Miksch
VIS Academy
IEEE Visualization Academy
Catherine Plaisant
VIS Academy
IEEE Visualization Academy
Huamin Qu
VIS Academy
IEEE Visualization Academy
Penny Rheingans
VIS Academy
IEEE Visualization Academy
Heidrun Schumann
VIS Academy
IEEE Visualization Academy
Han-Wei Shen
VIS Academy
IEEE Visualization Academy
Deborah Silver
VIS Academy
IEEE Visualization Academy
Bob Spence
VIS Academy
IEEE Visualization Academy
Maureen Stone
VIS Academy
IEEE Visualization Academy
Colin Ware