Publications

Journal and Conference Papers

• GAN Lab: Understanding Complex Deep Generative Models using Interactive Visual Experimentation.
  Minsuk Kahng, Nikhil Thorat, Duen Horng (Polo) Chau, Fernanda Viégas, Martin Wattenberg.
  IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 25(1) (VAST 2018) (To appear).
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• Visual Analytics in Deep Learning: An Interrogative Survey for the Next Frontiers.
  Fred Hohman, Minsuk Kahng, Robert Pienta, Duen Horng (Polo) Chau.
  IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (To appear).
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• ActiVis: Visual Exploration of Industry-Scale Deep Neural Network Models.
  Minsuk Kahng, Pierre Y. Andrews, Aditya Kalro, Duen Horng (Polo) Chau.
  IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 24(1) (VAST 2017), pp. 88-97, 2018.
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• Chronodes: Interactive Multifocus Exploration of Event Sequences.
  Peter J. Polack Jr., Shang-Tse Chen, Minsuk Kahng, Kaya De Barbaro, Rahul Basole, Moushumi Sharmin, Duen Horng (Polo) Chau.
  ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems (TiiS), 8(1), pp. 2:1-21, 2018.
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• FACETS: Adaptive Local Exploration of Large Graphs.
  Robert Pienta, Minsuk Kahng, Zhiyuan Lin, Jilles Vreeken, Partha Talukdar, James Abello, Ganesh Parameswaran, Duen Horng (Polo) Chau.
  SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (SDM 2017), 2017.
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• Interactive Browsing and Navigation in Relational Databases.
  Minsuk Kahng, Shamkant B. Navathe, John T. Stasko, Duen Horng (Polo) Chau.
  Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment, 9(12) (VLDB 2016), pp. 1017-1028, 2016.
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• M-Flash: Fast Billion-scale Graph Computation Using a Bimodal Block Processing Model.
  Hugo Gualdron, Robson Cordeiro, Jose Rodrigues Jr., Duen Horng (Polo) Chau, Minsuk Kahng, U Kang.
  Proceedings of the 15th European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (ECML-PKDD 2016), pp. 623-640, 2016.
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• Scalable Graph Exploration and Visualization: Sensemaking Challenges and Opportunities.
  Robert Pienta, James Abello, Minsuk Kahng, Duen Horng (Polo) Chau.
  Proceedings of the 2015 International Conference on Big Data and Smart Computing (Invited), 2015.
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• Understanding Variations in Pediatric Asthma Care Processes in the Emergency Department using Visual Analytics.
  Rahul C. Basole, Mark Braunstein, Vikas Kumar, Hyunwoo Park, Minsuk Kahng, Duen Horng (Polo) Chau, Acar Tamersoy, Daniel A. Hirsh, Nicoleta Serban, James Bost, Burton Lesnick, Beth L. Schissel, Michael Thompson.
  Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, 22(2) (Special Issue on Visual Analytics in Healthcare), pp. 318-323, 2015.
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• Constructing Compact and Effective Graphs for Recommender Systems via Node and Edge Aggregations.
  Sangkeun Lee, Minsuk Kahng, and Sang-goo Lee.
  Expert Systems with Applications, 42(7), pp. 3396-3409, 2015.
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• GLO-STIX: Graph-Level Operations for Specifying Techniques and Interactive eXploration.
  Charles D. Stolper, Minsuk Kahng, Zhiyuan Lin, Florian Foerster, Aakash Goel, John Stasko, and Duen Horng (Polo) Chau.
  IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 20(12) (InfoVis 2014), pp. 2320-2328, IEEE, 2014.
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• MMap: Fast Billion-Scale Graph Computation on a PC via Memory Mappping.
  Zhiyuan Lin, Minsuk Kahng, Kaeser Md. Sabrin, Duen Horng (Polo) Chau, Ho Lee, U Kang.
  Proceedings of the 2014 IEEE International Conference on Big Data, 2014.
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• PathRank: Ranking nodes on a heterogeneous graph for flexible hybrid recommender systems.
  Sangkeun Lee, Sungchan Park, Minsuk Kahng, Sang-goo Lee.
  Expert Systems with Applications, 40(2), pp. 684-697, 2013.
  An extended version of the paper presented at CIKM 2012 listed below.
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• PathRank: A Novel Node Ranking Measure on a Heterogeneous Graph for Recommender Systems.
  Sangkeun Lee, Sungchan Park, Minsuk Kahng, Sang-goo Lee.
  Proceedings of the 21st ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2012), pp. 1637-1641, ACM, 2012.
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• Random Walk based Entity Ranking on Graph for Multidimensional Recommendation.
  Sangkeun Lee, Sang-il Song, Minsuk Kahng, Dongjoo Lee, Sang-goo Lee.
  Proceedings of the 5th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys 2011), pp. 93-100, ACM, 2011.
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• Exploiting Contextual Information from Event Logs for Personalized Recommendation.
  Dongjoo Lee, Sung Eun Park, Minsuk Kahng, Sangkeun Lee, Sang-goo Lee.
  Computer and Information Science 2010, Studies in Computational Intelligence, pp. 121-139, Springer, 2010.
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Workshop, Poster, and Demo Papers

• Designing a Visual Analytic System for Industry-Scale Deep Neural Network Models.
  Minsuk Kahng, Pierre Y. Andrews, Aditya Kalro, Duen Horng (Polo) Chau.
  Workshop on Visual Analytics for Deep Learning (VADL at IEEE VIS 2017), 2017.
  A summary version of the paper presented at VAST 2017 listed above.
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• mHealth Visual Discovery Dashboard.
  Dezhi Fang, Fred Hohman, Peter Polack, Hillol Sarker, Minsuk Kahng, Moushumi Sharmin, Mustafa al'Absi, Duen Horng (Polo) Chau.
  ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp 2017) (Demo), 2017.
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• Visual Exploration of Machine Learning Results using Data Cube Analysis.
  Minsuk Kahng, Dezhi Fang, Duen Horng (Polo) Chau.
  Workshop on Human-In-the-Loop Data Analytics (HILDA at SIGMOD 2016), 2016.
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• STEPS: A Spatio-temporal Electric Power Systems Visualization.
  Robert Pienta, Leilei Xiong, Santiago Grijalva, Duen Horng (Polo) Chau, Minsuk Kahng.
  21st ACM International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2016) (Poster), 2016.
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• AdaptiveNav: Adaptive Discovery of Interesting and Surprising Nodes in Large Graphs.
  Robert Pienta, Zhiyuan Lin, Minsuk Kahng, Jilles Vreeken, Partha P. Talukdar, James Abello, Ganesh Parameswaran, Duen Horng (Polo) Chau.
  IEEE VIS Conference (VIS 2015) (Poster), 2015.
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• TimeStitch: Interactive Multi-focus Cohort Discovery and Comparison.
  Peter Polack, Shang-Tse Chen, Minsuk Kahng, Moushumi Sharmin, Duen Horng (Polo) Chau.
  IEEE Conference on Visual Analytics Science and Technology (VAST 2015) (Poster), pp. 209-210, IEEE, 2015.
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• A Visual Analytics Approach to Understanding Care Process Variation and Conformance.
  Rahul C. Basole, Hyunwoo Park, Mayank Gupta, Mark Braunstein, Duen Horng (Polo) Chau, Michael Thompson, Vikas Kumar, Robert Pienta, Minsuk Kahng.
  Proceedings of the 2015 Workshop on Visual Analytics in Healthcare (at VIS 2015), 2015.
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• GLOs: Graph-Level Operations for Exploratory Network Visualization.
  Charles D. Stolper, Florian Foerster, Minsuk Kahng, Zhiyuan Lin, Aakash Goel, John Stasko, and Duen Horng (Polo) Chau.
  Proceedings of the 32nd ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2014 Extended Abstracts), pp. 1375-1380, ACM, 2014.
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• Towards Scalable Graph Computation on Mobile Devices.
  Yiqi Chen, Zhiyuan Lin, Robert Pienta, Minsuk Kahng, Duen Horng (Polo) Chau.
  IEEE BigData 2014 Workshop on Scalable Machine Learning (at BigData 2014), 2014.
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• Exploring Clinical Care Processes Using Visual and Data Analytics: Challenges and Opportunities.
  Vikas Kumar, Hyunwoo Park, Rahul C. Basole, Mark Braunstein, Minsuk Kahng, Duen Horng (Polo) Chau, Acar Tamersoy, Daniel A. Hirsh, Nicoleta Serban, James Bost, Burton Lesnick, Beth Schissel, Michael Thompson.
  KDD Workshop on Data Science for Social Good (at KDD 2014), 2014.
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• Bicentric Visualization of Pediatric Asthma Care Process Activities.
  Rahul C. Basole, Hyunwoo Park, Vikas Kumar, Mark Braunstein, James Bost, Duen Horng (Polo) Chau, Minsuk Kahng.
  IEEE VIS 2014 Workshop on EHR Data (at VIS 2014), 2014.
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• Exploiting Paths for Entity Search in RDF Graphs.
  Minsuk Kahng, Sang-goo Lee.
  Proceedings of the 35th ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2012) (Poster), pp. 1027-1028, ACM, 2012.
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• Ranking Objects by Following Paths in Entity-Relationship Graphs. (Best Paper Award)
  Minsuk Kahng, Sangkeun Lee, Sang-goo Lee.
  Proceedings of the 4th ACM Workshop for Ph.D. Students in Information and Knowledge Management (Ph.D. Workshop at CIKM 2011), pp. 11-18, ACM, 2011.
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• Ranking in Context-Aware Recommender Systems.
  Minsuk Kahng, Sangkeun Lee, Sang-goo Lee.
  Proceedings of the 20th International Conference Companion on World Wide Web (WWW 2011) (Poster), pp. 65-66, ACM, 2011.
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• Si-Fi: Interactive Similar Item Finder.
  Inbeom Hwang, Minsuk Kahng, Sung Eun Park, Jinwook Seo, Sang-goo Lee.
  Proceedings of the 33rd International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2010) (Demo), p. 704, ACM, 2010.
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Last updated: September 9, 2018