Jian's Publications Page

Journal Publications

  1. Tanner Hobson, James Hammer, Paul Preston Provins, and Jian Huang, "Interactive Visualization of Large Turbulent Flow as a Cloud Service", IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing, 2021 (DOI: 10.1109/TCC.2021.3091387). pdf
  2. Mohammad Raji, Jeremiah Duncan, Tanner Hobson, and Jian Huang, "Dataless Sharing of Interactive Visualization", IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 2020 (DOI: 10.1109/TVCG.2020.2984708). pdf
  3. Alok Hota and Jian Huang, "Embedding Meta Information into Visualizations", IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 2019 (DOI: 10.1109/TVCG.2019.2916098). pdf
  4. Mohammad Raji, Alok Hota, Tanner Hobson, and Jian Huang, "Scientific Visualization as a Microservice", IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 2018 (DOI: 10.1109/TVCG.2018.2879672). pdf
  5. Mohammad Raji, John Duggan, Blaise DeCotes, Jian Huang, and Brad Vander Zanden, "Modeling and Visualizing Student Flow", IEEE Transactions on Big Data, 2018 (DOI: 10.1109/TBDATA.2018.2840986). pdf
  6. Hanqi Guo, Jiang Zhang, Richen Liu, Lu Liu, Xiaoru Yuan, Jian Huang, Xiangfei Meng, and Jingshan Pan, “Advection-based Sparse Data Management for Visualizing Unsteady Flow”, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 20(12), pp. 2555-2564, 2014.
  7. Hanqi Guo, Xiaoru Yuan, Jian Huang and Xiaomin Zhu, "Coupled Ensemble Flow Line Advection and Analysis", IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 19(12), pp. 2733-2742, 2013.
  8. Robert Sisneros, Jian Huang, George Ostrouchov, Sean Ahern and David Semeraro, "Contrasting Climate Ensembles: A Model-Based Visualization Approach for Analyzing Extreme Events", Procedia Computer Science, vol. 18, pp. 2347-2356, 2013.
  9. Scott Simmerman, James Osborne and Jian Huang, "Eden: Simiplified Management of Atypical HPC Jobs", IEEE Computing in Science and Engineering (CiSE), 15(6), pp 46-54, 2013.
  10. Amy Szczepanski, Troy Baer, Yashema Mack, Jian Huang and Sean Ahern, "Data Analysis and Visualization in High-Performance Computing", IEEE Computer, 46(5), pp. 84-92, 2013. url
  11. Wesley Kendall, Jian Huang and Tom Peterka, "Geometric Quantification of Features in Large Flow Fields", IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications (Special Issue on Extreme Scale Analytics), 32(4), pp. 50-59, 2012. pdf
  12. Wesley Kendall, Jian Huang, Tom Peterka, Rob Latham and Robert Ross, "Visualization Viewpoints: Towards a General I/O Layer for Parallel Visualization Applications", IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, 31(6), pp. 6-10, 2011. pdf
  13. Robert Sisneros, Jian Huang, George Ostrouchov and Forrest Hoffman, "Visualizing Life Zone Boundary Sensitivities Across Climate Models and Temporal Spans", Procedia Computer Science, vol. 4, pp. 1582-1591.
  14. Xiaoru Yuan, Xiao He, Hanqi Guo, Peihong Guo, Wesley Kendall, Jian Huang, Yongxian Zhang, "Scalable Multi-variate Analytics of Seismic and Satellite-based Observational Data", IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 16(6), pp. 1413-1420, 2010. pdf
  15. C. Ryan Johnson and Jian Huang, "Distribution Driven Visualization of Volume Data", accepted (in press), IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 15(5), pp. 734-746, 2009. pdf
  16. C. Ryan Johnson, Markus Glatter, Wesley Kendall, Jian Huang and Forrest Hoffman, "Querying for Feature Extraction and Visualization in Climate Modeling", Geo Computation (ICCS'09), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, LNCS 5545, pp. 416-425, Springer-Verlag, 2009.
  17. Markus Glatter, Jian Huang, Sean Ahern, Jamison Daniel and Aidong Lu, "Visualizing Temporal Patterns in Large Multivariate Data using Modified Globbing", IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 14(6), pp. 1467-1474, 2008. pdf
  18. Joshua New, Wesley Kendall, Jian Huang, Elissa Chesler, "Dynamic Visualization of Gene Coexpression in Systems Genetics Data", IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 14(5), pp. 1081-1094, 2008. pdf
  19. Robert Sisneros, C. Ryan Johnson and Jian Huang, "Concurrent Viewing of Multiple Attribute-Specific Subspaces", Computer Graphics Forum (special issue for EuroVis'08), 27(3), pp. 783-790, 2008. pdf
  20. Qishi Wu, Jinzhu Gao, Mengxia Zhu, Nageswara Rao, Jian Huang and S. Sitharama Iyengar,"Self-Adaptive Configuration of Visualization Pipeline over Wide-Area Networks", IEEE Transactions on Computers, 57(1), pp. 55-68, 2008. pdf
  21. Robert Sisneros, Chad Jones, Jian Huang, Jinzhu Gao, Byung-Hoon Park and Nagiza Samatova,"A Multi-Level Cache Model for Run-Time Optimization of Remote Visualization", IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 13(5), pp. 991-1003, 2007. pdf
  22. Jian Huang, Huadong Liu, Jinzhu Gao, Andrew Gaston, Micah Beck and Terry Moore,"Visualization Viewpoints: Dynamic Sharing of Large-Scale Visualization", IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, 27(1), pp. 20-25, 2007. pdf
  23. Markus Glatter, Colin Mollenhour, Jian Huang and Jinzhu Gao, "Scalable Data Servers for Large Multivariate Volume Visualization", IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 12(5), pp. 1291-1299, 2006. pdf
  24. Klaus Mueller, Naeem Shareef, Jian Huang, Roger Crawfis, "High-Quality Splatting on Rectilinear Grids with Efficient Culling of Occluded Voxels", IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 5(2), pp. 116-135, 1999. pdf

Conference Publications

  1. Willis Fulmer, Tahir Mahmood, Zhongyu Li, Shaoting Zhang, Jian Huang, Aidong Lu, “ImWeb: Cross-Platform Immersive Web Browsing for Online 3D Neuron Database Exploration”, Proc. of ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI’19), Los Angeles, March, 2019.
  2. Tahir Mahmood, Erik Butler, Nicholas Davis, Jian Huang, Aidong Lu, “Building Multiple Coordinated Spaces for Effective Immersive Analytics through Distributed Cognition”, Proc. of Intl. Symp. on Big Data Visual and Immersive Analytics (BDVA’18), Konstanz, Germany, October, 2018.
  3. Sally McMillan, Courtney Childers, Stuart Brotman, Jinhee Lee, Natalie Bogda, and Jian Huang, “Political Campaigning Meets Digital Engagement: Old Failures and New Triumphs”, Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) Annual Conference, Washington DC, August, 2018.
  4. Sally McMillan, Courtney Childers, Stuart Brotman, Jinhee Lee, Natalie Bogda, and Jian Huang, “Spending, Spinning, and Polling vs. Posting Positively and Often: How the 2016 U.S. Presidential Campaign Changed the Rules”, 40th Annual CCI Research Symposium, Knoxville TN, Feb, 2018.
  5. Courtney Childers, Sally McMillan, Stuart Brotman, Jinhee Lee, Natalie Bogda, and Jian Huang, “Visualizing Agenda Setting 2.0 in the Hive Mind: Exploring Political Digital Engagement through Social Media”, 40th Annual CCI Research Symposium, Knoxville TN, Feb, 2018.
  6. Fan Hong, Siming Chen, Hanqi Guo, Xiaoru Yuan, Jian Huang, and Yongxian Zhang, “Visual Exploration of Ionosphere Disturbances for Earthquake Research”, Proc. of ACM Siggraph Asia Symp. on Visualization, pp. 2:1-2:8, Bangkok, Thailand, November, 2017.
  7. Mohammad Raji, Alok Hota, and Jian Huang, "Scalable Web-Embedded Volume Rendering", Proc. of IEEE Symp. on Large Data Analysis and Visualization, Phoenix, AZ, October, 2017. pdf
  8. Mohammad Raji, John Duggan, Blaise DeCotes, Jian Huang, and Bradley Vander Zanden, "Visual Progression Analysis of Student Records Data", Proc. of Workshop on Visualization in Data Science (VDS), Phoenix, AZ, October, 2017. pdf
  9. Mohammad Raji, Alok Hota, Robert Sisneros, Peter Messmer, and Jian Huang, "Photo-Guided Exploration of Volume Data Features", Proc. of Eurographics Symp. on Parallel Graphics and Visualization, pp. 31-40, Barcelona, Spain, June 2017. pdf
  10. Alok Hota, Mohammad Raji, Tanner Hobson, and Jian Huang, "A Space-Efficient Method for Navigable Ensemble Analysis and Visualization", Proc. of Eurographics Symp. on Parallel Graphics and Visualization, pp. 41-52, Barcelona, Spain, June 2017. pdf
  11. Aidong Lu, Jian Huang, Shaoting Zhang, Chuang Wang, and Weichao Wang, "Towards Mobile Immersive Analysis: A Study of Applications", Proc. of 2016 Workshop on Immersive Analytics (IA), pp. 19-24, Greenville, SC, March 2016. pdf
  12. Hanqi Guo, Fan Hong, Qinya Shu, Jiang Zhang, Jian Huang, and Xiaoru Yuan, “Scalable Lagrangian-based Attribute Space Projection for Multivariate Unsteady Flow Data”, Proc. of IEEE Pacific Visualization Symposium, pp. 33-40, Yokohama, Japan, March, 2014.
  13. Jingyuan Wang, Roberto Sisneros and Jian Huang, "Interactive Selection of Multivariate Features in Large Spatiotemporal Data", Proc. of IEEE Pacific Visualization Symposium, pp. 145-152, Sydney, Australia, Feb, 2013. pdf
  14. Scott Simmerman, Jingyuan Wang, James Osborne, Kimberly Shook, Jian Huang, William Godsoe and Theodore Simons, "Exploring Similarities Among Many Species Distributions", Proc. of the Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment Conference (XSEDE’12), pp. 38:1–38:9, Chicago, IL, 2012. pdf
  15. Amy Szczepanski, Jian Huang, Sean Ahern, and Mark Fahey, "A Tale of Two Systems: Flexibility of Usage of Kraken and Nautilus at the National Institute for Computational Sciences", Proc. of the Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment Conference (XSEDE’12), pp. 6:1–6:8, Chicago, IL, 2012. pdf
  16. Wesley Kendall, Jingyuan Wang, Melissa Allen, Tom Peterka, Jian Huang, and David Erickson, "Simplified Parallel Domain Traversal", Proc. of SC'11, November 2011, pp. 10:1-10:11, Seattle, WA. pdf
  17. Ken Moreland, Wesley Kendall, Tom Peterka, Jian Huang, "An Image Compositing Solution at Scale", Proc. of SC'11, pp. 25:1-25:10, November 2011, Seattle, WA. pdf
  18. Tom Peterka, Robert Ross, B. Nouanesengsey, Teng-Yok Lee, Han-Wei Shen, Wesley Kendall, Jian Huang, "A Study of Parallel Particle Tracing for Steady-State and Time-Varying Flow Fields", IEEE Intl Parallel & Distributed Processing Symp (IPDPS), pp. 577-588, May 2011, Anchorage, AK.
  19. Wesley Kendall, Tom Peterka, Jian Huang, Han-Wei Shen, Robert Ross, "Accelerating and Benchmarking Radix-k Image Compositing at Large Scale", Proc. of Eurographics Symp. on Parallel Graphics and Visualization, pp. 101-110, May 2010, Norrkoping, Sweden. pdf
  20. Wesley Kendall, Markus Glatter, Jian Huang, Tom Peterka, Robert Latham and Robert Ross, "Terascale Data Organization for Discovering Multivariate Climatic Trends", SC'09, November 2009, Portland, OR. pdf
  21. Jinzhu Gao, Huadong Liu, Jian Huang, Micah Beck, Qishi Wu, Terry Moore and James Kohl, "Time-Critical Distributed Visualization with Fault Tolerance", Proc. of Eurographics Symp. on Parallel Graphics and Visualization", pp. 65-72, Crete, Greece, April 2008. pdf
  22. Micah Beck, Huadong Liu, Jian Huang and Terry Moore, "Scalable Distributed Execution Environment for Large Data Visualization", IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS), pp. 1-6, March 2007, Long Beach, CA.
  23. Huadong Liu, Micah Beck and Jian Huang, "Dynamic Co-Scheduling of Distributed Computation and Replication", Proc. of IEEE/ACM Symp. on Cluster Computing and the Grid (CCGrid), pp. 592-600, May 2006, Singapore. pdf
  24. Jinzhu Gao, Jian Huang, C. Ryan Johnson, Scott Atchley and James Kohl, "Distributed Data Management for Large Volume Visualization", Proc. of IEEE Visualization Conference, pp. 183-189, October 2005, Minneapolis, MN. pdf
  25. Nathaniel Fout, Jian Huang and Zhaohua Ding, "Visualization of Neuronal Fiber Connections from DT-MRI with Global Optimization", Proc. ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, pp. 1200-1206, March 2005, Santa Fe, NM. pdf
  26. Jinzhu Gao, Han-Wei Shen, Jian Huang and James Kohl, "Visibility Culling for Time-Varying Volume Rendering using Temporal Occlusion Coherence", Proc. of IEEE Visualization Conference, pp. 147-154, October 2004, Austin, TX. pdf
  27. Jin Ding, Jian Huang, Micah Beck, Shaotao Liu, Terry Moore, Stephen Soltesz, "Remote Visualization by Browsing Image-Based Databases with Logistical Networking", Proc. of SC Conference, Nov. 2003, Pheonix, AZ. pdf
  28. Jinzhu Gao, Jian Huang, Han-Wei Shen and James Kohl, "Visibility Culling Using Plenoptic Opacity Functions for Large Volume Visualization", Proc. of IEEE Visualization Conference, pp. 341-348, October 2003, Seattle, WA. pdf
  29. Jian Huang, Yan Li, Roger Crawfis, Shao-chiun Lu, Shu Liou, "A Complete Distance Field Representation", Proc. of IEEE Visualization Conference, pp. 247-254, October 2001, San Diego, CA. pdf
  30. Jian Huang, Klaus Mueller, Naeem Shareef, Roger Crawfis, "FastSplats: Optimized Splatting on Rectilinear Grid", Proc. of IEEE Visualization Conference, pp. 219-226, October 2000, Salt Lake City, UT. pdf
  31. Jian Huang, Naeem Shareef, Roger Crawfis, Ponnuswamy Sadayappan, Klaus Mueller, "A Parallel Splatting Algorithm with Occlusion Culling", Proc. of 3rd Eurographics Workshop of Parallel Graphics and Visualization, pp. 125-132, September 2000, Girona, Spain. pdf
  32. Michael Meissner, Jian Huang, Dirk Bartz, Klaus Mueller, Roger Crawfis, "A Practical Evaluation of the Four Most Popular Volume Rendering Algorithms", Proc. of IEEE/ACM Symposium on Volume Visualization, pp. 81-90, October 2000, Salt Lake City, UT. pdf
  33. Jian Huang, Klaus Mueller, Naeem Shareef, Roger Crawfis, "VOXBLT: An Efficient and High Quality Splat Primitive", IEEE Visualization Conference, Late Breaking Hot Topics, pp. 1-4, October 1999, San Francisco, CA.
  34. Klaus Mueller, Naeem Shareef, Jian Huang, Roger Crawfis, "IBR Assisted Volume Rendering", IEEE Visualization Conference, Late Breaking Hot Topics, pp. 5-8, October 1999, San Francisco, CA. (Winner of Best Hot Topics Paper Award of the conference)
  35. Jian Huang, Roger Crawfis and Don Stredney, "Edge Preservation in Volume Rendering Using Splatting", IEEE/ACM Symposium on Volume Visualization, pp. 63-69, October 1998, Chapel Hill, NC. pdf
  36. Jian Huang, Roni Yagel, Vasily Fillipov and Yair Kurzion, "An Accurate Method to Voxelize Polygonal Meshes", IEEE/ACM Symposium on Volume Visualization, pp. 119-126, October, 1998, Chapel Hill, NC. pdf

Invited Papers

  1. Wesley Kendall, Markus Glatter, Jian Huang, Tom Peterka, Robert Latham, and Robert Ross, "Expressive Feature Characterization for Ultrascale Data Visualization", Journal of Physics: Conference Series (SciDAC10), July 2010.
  2. Tom Peterka, Wesley Kendall, David Goodell, B. Nouanesengsey, Han-Wei Shen, Jian Huang, Rajeev Thakur, Kenneth Moreland, and Robert Ross, "Performance of Communication Patterns for Extreme-Scale Analysis and Visualization", Journal of Physics: Conference Series (SciDAC10), July 2010.
  3. Stephen D. Miller, Al Geist, Peter F. Peterson, Michael A. Reuter, Shelly Ren, Jean-Christophe Bilheux, Stuart I. Campbell, James A. Kohl, Sudharshan S. Vazhkudai, John W. Cobb, Vickie E. Lynch, Meili Chen, James R. Trater, Bradford C. Smith, Tom Swain, Jian Huang, Ruth Mikkelson, Dennis Mikkelson and Mark L. Green, "The SNS/HFIR Web Portal System - How Can it Help Me?", Intl Conference on Neutron Scattering, Knoxville, Tennessee, May 2009.
  4. Kwan-Liu Ma, Chaoli Wang, Hongfeng Yu, Kenneth Moreland, Jian Huang and Rob Ross, "Next-Generation Visualization Technologies: Enabling Discoveries at Extreme Scale", SciDAC Review, 12, pp. 12 - 21 , Spring 2009.
  5. Tom Peterka, Robert Ross, Hongfeng Yu, Kwan-Liu Ma, Wesley Kendall and Jian Huang, "Assessing Improvements to the Parallel Volume Rendering Pipeline at Large Scale", Ultrascale Visualization Workshop'08 (colocated with IEEE/ACM SC conference'08), Austin, Texas, November 2008.
  6. Robert Sisneros, Markus Glatter, Brandon Langley, Jian Huang, Forrest Hoffman, David Erickson III, Time-Varying Multivariate Visualization for Understanding Terrestrial Biogeochemistry, Journal of Physics: Conference Series (SciDAC 08), July 2008. pdf
  7. Wesley Kendall, Markus Glatter, Jian Huang, Forrest Hoffman, David E. Bernholdt, "Web Enabled Collaborative Climate Visualization in the Earth System Grid", Proc. of International Symposium on Collaborative Technologies and Systems (CTS 2008), Irvine, CA, May 2008. pdf
  8. Kwan-Liu Ma, Robert Ross, Jian Huang, Greg Humphreys, Nelson Max, Kenneth Moreland, John D. Owens and Han-Wei Shen, "Ultra-Scale Visualization: Research and Education", Journal of Physics: Conference Series 78 (SciDAC 07), 012088 (6pp), July 2007.
  9. Jian Huang, Huadong Liu, Micah Beck, Jinzhu Gao, Terry Moore, "A Distributed Execution Environment for Large Data Visualization", Journal of Physics: Conference Series 46 (SciDAC 06), pp. 570-576, July 2006.

Book Chapters

  1. Huadong Liu, Jinzhu Gao, Jian Huang, Micah Beck and Terry Moore, "On-Demand Visualization on Scalable Shared Infrastructure", Data Intensive Distributed Computing - Challenges and Solutions for Large-scale Information Management, Editor: Tevfik Kosar, Information Science Publishing (IGI Global), August 2010, ISBN 1-615-20971-9.
  2. Jian Huang, Roger Crawfis, "Adaptively Sampled Complete Distance Field Representation", in Geometric Modeling for Scientific Visualization, Co-Editors: Guido Brunnett, Bernd Hamann, Heinrich Mueller and Lars Linsen, Springer-Verlag, Germany, 2004, ISBN 3-540-40116-4.
  3. Roger Crawfis, Jian Huang, "High Quality Splatting and Volume Synthesis", in "Data Visualization: the State of the Art", Co-Editors: Gregory Neilson, Georges-Pierre Bonneau, Frits Post, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Netherlands, 2002, ISBN: 1-4020-7259-7.