Professor Min Chen receives VGTC Visualization Lifetime Achievement Award

Professor Min Chen has been presented with the 2024 VGTC Visualization Lifetime Achievement Award. The prestigious award recognises Min’s contributions to the theoretical foundations of visualization as well as outstanding work on novel and impactful applications. The awarding body IEEE Visualization and Graphics Technical Committee (VGTC) is a subcommunity of the Technical Activities Board of the IEEE Computer Society.

Min developed his academic career at Swansea University between 1984 and 2011, where he held various research and faculty positions and became a full professor in 2001. He is currently Professor of Scientific Visualization at the University of Oxford and a fellow of Pembroke College. Min’s research interests include data visualization, data science, computer graphics, computer vision, and human-computer interaction. He has co-authored over 250 publications, including his recent contributions in areas such as theory of visualization, video visualization, visual analytics, VIS4ML, and perception and cognition in visualization. He has worked on a broad spectrum of interdisciplinary research topics, ranging from the sciences to sports, and from digital humanities to cybersecurity.

Min and his colleagues received a best paper award (EuroVis 2008) for the work on ontology-assisted visualization creation, a best paper award (IEEE VAST 2017) for the work on information-theoretical analysis of visualization-assisted machine learning, and a Test-of-Time award (IEEE VIS 2023) for the work on the information-theoretic framework for visualization.

Min’s services to the research community include papers co-chair of IEEE Visualization 2007 & 2008, Eurographics 2011, IEEE VAST 2014 & 2015; co-chair of Volume Graphics 1999 & 2006, EuroVis 2014; associate-EIC of IEEE TVCG; and EIC of CGF; co-di-rector of Wales Research Institute of Visual Computing; and coordinator of the RAMPVIS activities for supporting epidemiological modelling. He is a fellow of British Computer Society, European Computer Graphics Association, and Learned Society of Wales. He was inducted into the IEEE VGTC Visualization Academy in 2023.

Watch Min Chen's virtual acceptance speech from the IEEE Visualization Conference

The IEEE Visualization Conference (VIS) is an annual conference on scientific visualization, information visualization, and visual analytics administrated by the IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Visualization and Graphics. It is considered the premier forum for advances in visualization and visual analytics. VIS 2024 was due to be held in Tampa, United States from October 13 to 18, however due to the developing emergency around Hurricane Milton, the decision was made to make the event fully virtual.