| Keynote Speaker: Prof. Simeon Simoff, University of Western Sydney, Australia |
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| Keynote Speaker: A/Prof. Chaomei Chen, Drexel University, USA |
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Title: Visual Analysis of Scientific Discoveries and Knowledge Diffusion Abstract: Understanding the dynamics of scientific discovery and knowledge diffusion is essential to the advances of science. It is a challenging task for many reasons. An explanatory and computational theory of scientific discovery will be introduced to address some of the fundamental challenges. Guided by the theoretical perspective, novel visual analytical approaches will be demonstrated with a number of real-world examples. Implications of the theory on communication, reasoning, and visualization will be addressed. Brief Bio: Dr. Chaomei Chen is associate professor in the College of Information Science and Technology at Drexel University. He is a Chang Jiang Scholar at Dalian University of Technology, China since 2008 and has been a visiting professor at Brunel University in the United Kingdom (2002-2008). He received his bachelor degree in mathematics from Nankai University, China, his master's degree in computation from the University of Oxford and his doctorate in computer science from the University of Liverpool. His research interests include information visualization, visual analytics, knowledge domain visualization, mapping scientific frontiers, and analysis and modeling of discovery and innovation in science and technology. Dr. Chen is the author of Information Visualization: Beyond the Horizon (Springer 2004) and Mapping Scientific Frontiers: The Quest for Knowledge Visualization (Springer 2003). He is the founder and the Editor-in-Chief of the journal Information Visualization (Palgrave-Macmilan). He received the 2002 ASIST/ISI Citation Research Award. He is a member of the Thomson Scientific Strategic Advisory Board. He is the principal investigator of research grants from the National Science Foundation (NSF) and other sponsors. His earlier research was funded by the European Union, the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (UK), and the Library and Information Commission (UK). Dr. Chen created the widely used software CiteSpace for visualizing and analyzing emerging trends in scientific literature. Homepage: http://www.pages.drexel.edu/~cc345 |
