Shusen Liu

Staff Scientist,
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Email: shusenl AT sci.utah.edu or liu42 AT llnl.gov

[CV] (last updated April 11, 2019)
[Resume] (last updated April 11, 2019)
[Google Scholar] [ResearchGate]

Education:

Ph.D. Computing, Graphics Track, University of Utah, 2016, [Dissertation]
B.E. Biomedical Engineering, Huazhong Unversity of Science and Technology, 2009
B.S. Computer Science, Huazhong Unversity of Science and Technology, 2009

Research Interests:

My research interests lie primarily in data visualization, particularly for data that is high-dimensional in nature.
I am also interested in the applications of high-dimensional space exploration techniques for visualizing multivariate volumetric data and understanding machine learning algorithms


Journal Publications:
Scalable Topological Data Analysis and Visualization for Evaluating Data-Driven Models in Scientific Applications
Shusen Liu, Di Wang, Dan Maljovec, Rushil Anirudh, Jayaraman J. Thiagarajan, Sam Ade Jacobs, Brian C. Van Essen, David Hysom, Jae-Seung Yeom, Jim Gaffney, Luc Peterson, Peter B. Robinson, Harsh Bhatia, Valerio Pascucci, Brian K. Spears and Peer-Timo Bremer,
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (VAST 2019), to appear
[paper]
NLIZE: A Perturbation-Driven Visual Interrogation Tool for Analyzing and Interpreting Natural Language Inference Model
Shusen Liu, Zhimin Li, Tao Li, Vivek Srikumar, Valerio Pascucci and Peer-Timo Bremer,
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (InfoVis 2018), to appear
[paper]
Exploring High-Dimensional Structure via Axis-Aligned Decomposition of Linear Projections
Jayaraman J. Thiagarajan, Shusen Liu, Karthikeyan Natesan Ramamurthy and Peer-Timo Bremer,
Computer Graphics Forum (EuroVis 2018), to appear
[paper]
Visual Exploration of Semantic Relationships in Neural Word Embeddings
Shusen Liu, Peer-Timo Bremer, Jayaraman J. Thiagarajan, Vivek Srikumar, Bei Wang, Yarden Livnat and Valerio Pascucci.
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (InfoVis 2017), 24(1), 553-562, 2018
[paper]
Visualizing High-Dimensional Data: Advances in the Past Decade.
Shusen Liu, Dan Maljovec, Bei Wang, Peer-Timo Bremer and Valerio Pascucci.
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 23(3), 1077-2626, 2017
[paper]
Grassmannian Atlas: A General Framework for Exploring Linear Projections of High-Dimensional Data.
Shusen Liu, Peer-Timo Bremer, Jayaraman J. Thiagarajan, Bei Wang, Brian Summa, and Valerio Pascucci.
Computer Graphics Forum (CGF), 35(3), 1-10, 2016
[paper]
Visual Exploration of High-Dimensional Data through Subspace Analysis and Dynamic Projections.
Shusen Liu, Bei Wang, Jayaraman J. Thiagarajan, Peer-Timo Bremer and Valerio Pascucci.
Computer Graphics Forum (CGF), 34(3), 271-280, 2015
[paper] [video]
Analyzing Simulation-Based PRA Data Through Traditional and Topological Clustering: A BWR Station Blackout Case Study.
Dan Maljovec, Shusen Liu, Bei Wang, Valerio Pascucci, Peer-Timo Bremer, Diego Mandelli and Curtis Smith.
Reliability Engineering & System Safety (RESS), 2015.
[paper]
Distortion-Guided Structure-Driven Interactive Exploration of High-Dimensional Data.
Shusen Liu, Bei Wang, Peer-Timo Bremer and Valerio Pascucci.
Computer Graphics Forum (CGF), 33(3), 101-110, 2014
[paper] [video]
CT Based Computerized Identification and Analysis of Human Airways: A Review.
Jiantao Pu, Suicheng Gu, Shusen Liu, Shaocheng Zhu, David Wilson, Jill M. Siegfried and David Gur.
Medical physics, 39(5), 2603-2616, 2012.
[paper]
Feature-Based Statistical Analysis of Combustion Simulation Data.
Janine C. Bennett, Vaidyanathan Krishnamoorthy, Shusen Liu, Ray W. Grout, Evatt R. Hawkes, Jacqueline H. Chen, Jason Shepherd, Valerio Pascucci and Peer-Timo Bremer.
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 17(12), 1822-1831, 2011.
[paper]
Fast Blood Flow Visualization of High-Resolution Laser Speckle Imaging Data Using Graphics Processing Unit.
Shusen Liu, Pengcheng Li and Qingming Luo.
Optics express, 16(19), 14321-14329, 2008.
[paper]

Peer-Reviewed Conference Proceedings:
Visual Interrogation of Attention-Based Models for Natural Language Inference and Machine Comprehension
Shusen Liu, Tao, Li, Zhimin Li, Vivek Srikumar, Valerio Pascucci, and Peer-Timo Bremer .
Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) Demonstration Track, 2018.
[paper]
Embedded Domain-Specific Language and Runtime System for Progressive Spatiotemporal Data Analysis and Visualization
Cameron Christensen, Shusen Liu, Giorgio Scorzelli, Ji-Woo Lee, Peer-Timo Bremer and Valerio Pascucci.
IEEE Symposium on Large Data Analysis and Visualization (LDAV), 2016.
[paper]
Visualizing High-Dimensional Data: Advances in the Past Decade.
Shusen Liu, Dan Maljovec, Bei Wang, Peer-Timo Bremer and Valerio Pascucci.
The Eurographics Conference on Visualization (EuroVis15), State-of-The-Art Reports (STARS), 2015.
[paper] [survey website]
Multivariate Volume Visualization through Dynamic Projections.
Shusen Liu, Bei Wang, Jayaraman J. Thiagarajan, Peer-Timo Bremer and Valerio Pascucci.
IEEE Symposium on Large Data Analysis and Visualization (LDAV), 35-42, 2014.
[paper] [video]
Analyzing Simulation-Based PRA Data Through Clustering: a BWR Station Blackout Case Study.
Dan Maljovec, Shusen Liu, Bei Wang, Valerio Pascucci, Peer-Timo Bremer, Diego Mandelli and Curtis Smith.
International Conference on Probabilistic Safety Assessment and Management (PSAM), 2014.
[paper]
Gaussian Mixture Model Based Volume Visualization.
Shusen Liu, Joshua A. Levine, Peer-Timo Bremer and Valerio Pascucci.
IEEE Symposium on Large Data Analysis and Visualization (LDAV), 73-77, 2012.
Best Paper Award!
[paper]

Peer-Reviewed Extended Abstracts:
A Static Load Balancing Scheme for Parallel Volume Rendering on Multi-GPU Clusters.
Shusen Liu, Venkatram Vishwanath, Joseph Insley, Mark Hereld, Michael E. Papka, and Valerio Pascucci.
IEEE Symposium on Large Data Analysis anisualization (LDAV), 2012.
[poster]
Evaluating Graph Coloring on GPUs.
A.V. Pascal Grosset, Peihong Zhu, Shusen Liu, Suresh Venkatasubramanian and Mary Hall.
ACM SIGPLAN Notices,46 (8), 297-298, 2011.
[poster]

Softwares:

DataExplorerHD
DataExplorerHD is a high-dimensional data analysis and visualization tool. It design to be extensible for future extensions. Current release version include distortion guided interaction for exploring dimension reduction results (EuroVis 2014 work).
Documents

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Word Embedding Explorer
Word Embedding Explorer is a web-based visualization tool design for studying various word embedding algorithms, such as word2Vec and Glove.
Code
NLPVis
NLPVis is designed to provide a dynamic exploration environment to explore and interrogate model behavior for neural network based natural language models.
Code

Other Code:

Procedural Shatter Effects
Simple glsl Volume Renderer


Resources:

High-Dimensional Data Analysis and Visualization Survey: Library

Locations of Site Visitors

Last updated, April, 2019